On Saturday at a convocation in Taraba state, a former Minister of Defence, LTGen T. Y. Danjuma, was reported to have accused the Nigerian armed forces of lack of neutrality in the incessant farmers/herdsmen crisis, therefore if Nigerians failed to rise and defend themselves, they would soon be wiped out.
Against the backdrop of the development, here are some of the comments posted by Nigerians on social media:
Osemeke NG We can’t be acting all surprised by Gen.TY Danjuma’s comment…it is what many of us know already!.
God help us.
Moses Ochonu General TY Danjuma didn’t say anything that’s not already in the public domain; he only echoed the prevailing narrative in the Middle Belt. Questioning the neutrality of the military is a familiar narrative of the elite, moreover.
Buhari once referred to the military assault on Boko Haram as an attack on the North.
Borno elders similarly accused the military of killing innocent citizens in the state and infamously called for the withdrawal of the military from the state.
The notorious ethnic bigot, Nasir el-Rufai, called the Nigerian army a Jonathanian army and an Ijaw army.
He accused them of killing Fulani people and memorably warned that the military was taking a blood debt that the Fulani would avenge in the future.
The problem is that these political elites only seem to care about military complicity, inaction, and outright collusion when their people are the perceived victims.
For several years the people of Plateau and Southern Kaduna were crying about how military personnel stationed in those areas would watch passively as armed herdsmen killed, maimed, and burned.
Sometimes, according to numerous reported accounts, the soldiers would shadow and cover the gunmen and then block locals who mobilized to confront the killers.
Other times, the military would conveniently show up right after villages had been razed to the ground and their inhabitants killed, maimed, and displaced.
All these years, as the people of Plateau, Southern Kaduna and lately Benue and Adamawa reeled out evidence of military bias, complicity, and curious actions and inactions, TY Danjuma remained silent.
He only spoke out when the carnage got to Taraba, his home state.
The question is, how long has he been aware of the military’s bias and collusion with armed herdsmen/bandits? Why is he just speaking out now?
Zacham Bayei Northern oligarchy are angry over Gen. TY Danjuma’s comment. You know what, they do not like to be exposed.
Soneye Ochonu Yadu Maradun Bayei Osemeke Compiled by Awaal Gata
Tony Idoko IF YOU CAN’T LISTEN TO MY DANJUMA BECAUSE HE’S NOT PERFECT, WHY SHOULD I LISTEN TO YOUR PMB, IS HE PERFECT? IBB is a failure Bishop Kukah is a hypocrite OBJ has no moral right Junaid Mohammed is bitter Bill Gates is university dropped out TY Danjuma is not the right person.
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Now, what did you contribute to PMB’s campaign in 2015 that makes you more qualified to be heard beyond your religious and tribal affinity or party affiliation? All the aforementioned save Bill Gates, made significant contributions that made PMB’s success happen.
Do you know how much TY Danjuma contributed to PMB’s success? Danjuma was PMB’s boss and they have mutual respect for each other.
Danjuma is over 80 and has nothing to lose.. As Ex Army Chief he has about 6 to 9 solders attached to him for life and will get more if he demands for them.. In the spirit of espirit de corps and as his former boy Danjuma wants PMB to succeed more than many of us. You are the one who is looking at 2019 sentiments and elections.. Danjuma is looking beyond that.
He’s concerned about the safety of Nigeria and Nigerians.. His immediate family is far from any form of harm physically and financially.. He is contented as a man.
That’s why he’s not pushing any of his children forward for elective or appointive offices.. Or do you know anyone one? Any president, would happily appoint his children.. But this man is different.
Angels won’t come down to speak (though you would still find fault if they did) only men will speak and every man sure has a past, including you.. And if you have anything against him, take it to the relevant authorities and let us hear word.
! Let’s all go and ruminate over Gen. Danjuma’s comments. We want peace, not war.
Everybody in Nigeria can’t be bad save one man.
Haba.! Jalaludeen Maradun We are disappointed in TY Danjuma.
He is a bigot! Sani Yadu Why the noise about what T.Y Danjuma said? Is this the fi rst time such kind of obnoxious and inflammatory stir is coming from a statesman? Is this regionalism, religious sentiments or clannish affiliation that makes us see the evil in the words of T.Y Danjuma but couldn’t see the inflammatory words of the current No-1 citizen before the 2011 elections? Didn’t those words bring deaths upon innocent Nigerians some of whom were not even politically partisan? Come on…
Stop this show of nepotism, intolerance and fanaticism.
At least we saw the repercussions of the 2011pre elections comments made by the “INFALLIBLE” but we haven’t seen the repercussions of the Danjuma’s comment; and God willing we will not see any of such again.
Every evil is evil, no matter who the manufacturer is.
So be human enough to identify with the truth….not identify with personality.
Yemi Soneye Shortly after President Jonathan lost his reelection bid and conceded defeat to President Buhari, Theophilus Danjuma would say on TV that if only Odimegwu Ojukwu had similarly conceded defeat there would not have been the civil war.
So he is not that high in my consideration.
But wise people listens.
He has offered an important information about the sorry state of the army which cannot be faulted, considering Mr Buhari’s earlier information about how he— despite being the president—has since lost control of the Inspector General of Police and the police itself.
Evidently, Mr Buhari’s presidency is a miserable one.
The solution to the problems it has been creating is to take away from Mr Buhari the Seal of the President, and by voting him out of office.
