“I am shocked beyond words at the extent of destruction I have seen here in Agatu today. This is unbelievable. It is unimaginable.
“Nothing whatsoever justifies this brazen act of destruction meted out on the people of Agatu. My heart bleeds.”..... David Mark (Fmr. Senate President)
My take.....
This statement made by David Mark was nothing but hypocritical, and just a mere media sensational news. Why must we wait in this country for calamities to happen before we start to lament, and bemoan the consequences and implications that follows. The killings in Agatu has been on for years even at the time this hypocritical senator David Mark was the Senate President but the difference was the rate and proportion of the wastages and carnage we witnessed now.
David Mark just need to give us a break and find a way of returning back to the purposeful legislation his people elected/selected him for at the upper chamber in Abuja.
Before the carnage that took place in Agatu, Benue State, during and after, David Mark was busy campaigning and organising people and money so as to win the re run parliamentary elections. It was people like us who were not the indigene but cannot be quiet and not comfortable about the killings and wastages, that kept on alerting the government, state Governors and lawmakers about the killings, social implications and the potential danger the herdsmen are already creating.
The Agatu people must not allow themselves to be carried away by this media sensational news. David Mark has been representing his constituency since 1999, we need to ask him the change, what development, growth and legislation that he brought to his people that have any positive and meaningful impact on the entire people?
The gullible and ignoramus will think governance and legislation is about regret, lamentations and condemnation, no that is the language of the slaves, busybody, and the barbarians.
Most politicians don't know and never bother to follow up the happenings in their constituencies, the people are only important at the dawn of a new electioneering campaigns. Except and until we place a premium value on human lives, their welfare and their economic survival, we are just wasting our time, playing to the gallery and have no business representing the people.
Security of lives and properties is primary responsibility of any serious government. Let us stop admiring, lamenting, bemoaning and regretting our problems, predicament and evils in our land. Its time to act and end it headlong. No more excuses and no more lamentations because problems are not solve that way. Nations are also not built by lamentations, wailing and regretting.
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