Rolling out the red carpet to welcome a man who tacitly abated the killings of our wives and children with his “eerie silence” is pardonable.

Wearing our well ironed  “baban rigas” and “agbadas” to shake hands and  warmly embrace him is good.

Organising Jarawa dancers and the Plateau cultural troop and celebrate a man who has consistently overlooked Plateau in many federal appointments is OK.

However bestowing on to such a one, the honour of being named after Plateau’s most prominent road is at best ill-advised, insensitive and an insult to the memory of the victims of the killings which the president tacitly abated through his silence.

For Maman Bitrus in Dong village, who will be watching PRTVC tonight and see that the very man who was totally silent over the killings of 4 of her children is bestowed an enviable honour in the land he failed to protect –this must bring tears to her eyes.

For Baban Agwom, whose wife was raped to death by herdsmen as she fetched water from the stream –the news must break his heart.

For Maren and Macham in Daffo district –which yesterday 7^th March 2018 and today 8^th March 2018 (as Buhari arrived) was under sustained onslaught for hours –with over 9 people murdered, they must be dumbfounded that the man who failed to protect the constitution he swore to uphold is being honoured by the very people he failed to protect.

See the pictures of the children (casualties in Miango district of Bassa LGA). The attack happened on Thursday 8th March 2018 attack (i.e., the day of his visit). Several others are currently hospitalised in Plateau Specialist Hospital Jos.

What really has happened to us on the Plateau? Why are we so cheap, so quick to please, so beggarly, so low in self-esteem, so timid? Why are we so subservient and lacking in confidence? What really has happened to Plateau?

I challenge you to go back and review the speech President Buhari delivered at the Little Rayfield Government House today. Not once did he mention the killings in our villages. Not once did he sympathise with the victims of the carnage. See the full text of the speech here:

https://viewpointnigeria.com/president-buhari-speech-occasion-official-visit-plateau-state/

Essentially, Buhari remains defiant and aligned with his kinsmen about the narrative of the conflict on the Plateau. I say this, because in Taraba –he did mention the troubles –albeit in an unusual way, see:

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/260790-updated-herdsmen-farmers-clashes-more-people-killed-in-taraba-zamfara-than-benue-buhari.html

The Government of Taraba didn’t find him worthy of such recognition and we in Plateau do? What is the basis for such recognition? Naming such a prominent project after such a fellow is a costly mistake.

Many Plateau citizens are starting to see through the consistent actions to woo and curry favour at the expenses on general opinion and that can prove tough.

Many will dismiss this as a political point or simply as “hate-speech” -which is the new term. But frankly that is the least of my worry in as long as the message is translated. A man who blatantly picks a side in a conflict and fails to do his basic duty should not be awarded such an honour by the victims – this is a classic case of what is referred to as the “STOCKHOLM SYNDROME” (check its meaning).

Additionally, find another set of pictures of other people killed on 8th March in Dantanko village of Miango – Bassa LGA (again on the night of the visit)

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The mistake of naming that road in Jos after a President who has failed to protect