NVW Urges UN to Investigate Alleged Genocide in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna Amid Accusations Against UN Deputy-Secretary

 

Nigeria Voters Watch and Diplomacy (NVW) has called on the United Nations (UN) to set up an independent investigation into the issue of genocide against the peoples of Benue, Plateau and Southern Kaduna.

The group in a statement issued by its Chairman, Comrade Emmanuel Isaac Osagie lamented that the Nigeria state has failed to effectively tackle criminal genocide against the peoples in those areas.
They also accused Deputy- Secretary of the UN, Ambassador Amina Mohammed of spreading half-truths and unfounded narratives about ongoing genocide in Benue, Plateau and Southern Kaduna regions of Nigeria.

“We have watched with consternation the half-truths and unfounded narratives being churned out by the United Nations and some global platforms.
“These false narratives are being promoted by Mohammed, and her acolytes.
“She has consistently suppressed stories, reports, and countless complaints brought by the civil society groups and other stakeholders and has consistently dismissed genocide as farmer-herder’s crisis.
“In her naïveté, she believes that the indigenous peoples of these areas are merely hostile to climate change and are intolerant of the Fulani herdsmen. This is far from the truth and thus, a deliberate obfuscation of the issues on ground.
“We respectfully call on the United Nations and, most especially, the General Secretary to conduct an independent investigation into the situation in Benue, Plateau, and Southern Kaduna,” the group said.

The group added that the Federal government of Nigeria has allowed the security apparatus of the state to be politicised and skewed towards sectional interest that promotes ethnic and religious hegemony, bigotry, and unbridled supremacy.

According to the statement, the Nigeria state has failed to act decisively and proactively.
The group kicked against claims that the crisis in the areas was as a result of global climate change.

NVW maintained that climate change is an important subject matter that has stirred concerns not only in Nigeria but in Benue, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, adding that the indigenous people have witnessed the changing weather pattern culminating in receding rain water, dry rivers, and streams.

These, they said, have even a major source of concerns to the teeming population of Nigeria, including the suffering people of Benue, Plateau, and Southern Kaduna who are desperate for a solution to the growing global consensus on climate change.

“Therefore, it is ludicrous and preposterous to label the indigenous people of these areas as anti-climate change,” they said.

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