Who Owns Nigeria – The People or Their Predators by Ifeanyi Ejiofor
Just 48 hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited Benue State – purportedly to address the escalating insecurity plaguing the North Central – innocent blood was spilled yet again.
This time, it was the Wannune community in Tarka LGA.
The attackers came like ghosts in the night.
Homes torched. Farms destroyed. Families displaced.
Everything in sight – gone!!!
The irony? The President had barely departed, promising peace and security.
So, what changed?
Absolutely nothing.
And that is precisely the problem.
From Guma to Agatu, Makurdi to Logo, and now Tarka, Benue bleeds daily.
Yet, the conscience of those in power remains unmoved – not by the bloodshed, not by the wailing, not even by the raging fires.
But this is not just about Benue.
It is about a nation where death has become normalised, where government presence is reduced to press statements, and where the people have turned to heaven because the state has failed them on earth.
So, I ask again:
Who truly owns Nigeria?
The people who vote, pay taxes, and die in silence?
Or the political predators who surface for photo ops and disappear when blood is spilled?
Until we are led by those who fear God, value human life, and govern with conscience, Nigeria will continue to rot – not just in infrastructure, but in soul.
Benue is crying.
Plateau is bleeding.
Zamfara is burning.
Kaduna is caged.
And Nigeria is on her knees.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor is a lawyer and human rights activist.
