Agboola Musa
By the stroke of the pen, Abacha made TY a billionaire in dollars.
When Odi happened TY was minister of defense.
When Zaki Biam happened TY was minister of defense.
When the tribes on the Jos plateau aided and abetted by the state government attacked and murdered in thousands their Muslim neighbours including the herdsmen and in the process igniting the now trending farmers-herders conflict in 2001, TY was minister of defense.
TY was strongly rumored to be the sole financier of the tribal wars that raged for almost a decade in the late 1990s and early 2000s between the Jukuns and Kutebs in his own state of Taraba. He is also fingered as the Jukun don in their continuing ethnic war with the Tivs.
In 2015, TY nominated and ensured that Darius Ishakua became the Governor of Taraba state inspite of rumours of massive vote rigging.
TY was there when over 800 peaceful, unarmed, innocent Fulani herders along thousands of their cattle were massacred in cold blood in their ranches on the Mambilla plateau with active connivance, encouragement and support of his boy Darius Ishaku the governor of Taraba state.
He was also there when the governor wrote a letter to the state commissioner of police and ordered the release of the few murderers earlier arrested for the crimes on the Mambilla Plateau.
TY was there again when the mambilla tribal militia returned on at least 3 more occasions to the herders’ ranches to kill, maim, steal, burn and destroy lives and livelihoods.
In all these, TY had nothing to say.
The hundreds of herders and others killed in his own state got neither his words of condolences, sympathy or relief from the billions of dollars he creamed off from the Nigerian state.
There’s something very peculiar about the elite from the minority ethnic groups in northern Nigeria. It seems the only value they add to their states and people is hate, violence, intolerance and unending strife.
How can a normal old man ask his children to take up arms?…
Where are his biological kids as we speak?
All in abroad.
Nonsense
Yet he’s an elder statesman.
