Senator Barnabas Gemade has accused President Muhammadu Buharis government of cleansing of his ethnic group, Tiv.
A former minister of Defense, Theophilus Danjuma had accused the Nigerian Army of complicity in the Taraba killings, a development that made the retired general to call on Nigerians to defend themselves against their attackers.
Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly On Tuesday, Mr Gemade said: “This country is becoming a state without control. It is a state in which we have seen ethnic cleansing.
“It is a shame that a sitting government could watch criminality go to the level that we have seen it today.
“Rather than rise up and take very decisive steps against it, we embark on denials and shield this evil by just explaining, with flimsy excuses, that these are communal clashes between communities.
“The carnage in Nasarawa-South affects mainly people of my ethnic group, who are in large population in Nasarawa-South. It is the same kind of killing that is going on in the Goma, Logo and Gwer West local government areas of Benue State.
“And it is the same kind of killing we are witnessing in Wukari and Takum LGAs. It is targeted at a particular ethnic nationality – my own people.
“I don’t understand why responsible people elected to control the government of Nigeria will simply turn away from the reality of this matter.
“Yet, there are people who are armed and are killing people as they like. And the Inspector-General of Police would fly by helicopter to a town, land in the market square and be asking people whether there was any militia in the town or not.
“And nobody seems to caution anybody. This is very sad. We have done enough of a minute silence for innocent Nigerians being killed.”
