From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, appealled to Nigerians to be tolerant of one another and embrace peace.
A statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said he spoke after he visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, toured the exhibitions and laid a wreath at the mass graves where more than 250,000 victims of the genocide were buried.
He also paid tributes to the memory of the victims and prayed for healing for survivors.
Buhari told journalists that the lessons from his visit were the need for Nigerians to continue to be tolerant of one another, and for the nation to also preserve its own historical antecedents from the Nigeria Civil War (1967-1970).
‘‘I went through all the experiences from 15 January 1966 to date. I was a Governor, Minister, and Head of State and went through detention. I returned to partisan politics and will finish my two-terms as constitutionally allowed. We fought a 30-month bitter civil war and we killed about a million of each other. Nigeria went through this kind of terrible development process,’’ he said.
Before departing, the President also wrote in the visitors’ book: “Remembering the victims of this dark history of the Rwanda Genocide, we pray that humanity will never experience this kind of hatred, wickedness and violence to others because of their ethnic background, religion and beliefs. Nigeria is strongly committed to the prevention of mass atrocity anywhere in the world and believes that perpetrators of such crimes; and their enablers, anywhere in the world must be held accountable.”
President Buhari is in Kigali, Rwanda to participate in the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
He will hold bilateral talks with the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson on Thursday and attend the official opening of CHOGM on Friday, followed by high-level meetings of Heads of State and Government.
On his visit to the Kigila Genocide Memorial in
Rwanda,President Buhari opined that,quote,
”Perpetrators of such crimes and their enablers
anywhere in the world must be held accountable,”
unquote.
The above Buhari’s opinion is indeed a damning
self-indictment by Buhari against himself.
Of course, in Article 29 of the Rome Statute of
the ICC,crimes against humanity,war crimes and
genocide must not be subject to any Statute of
Limitations.
But there is the same Army General(Retd),
Muhhammdu Buhari,who during the pogrom of
1966, the War of Genocide from 1967 to 1970
against Ndigbo, and as a Military Despot from
1983 to 1985 actively committed crimes against
humanity and war crimes with genocidal intents,
there in Rwanda callously gloating over the current Hobbessian State of Nature here at home.
Since that Igbophobe,who loves to hate us Ndigbo
with passion, took over the Presidency in 2015,
he seems to have started from where he left off
with us Ndigbo during the Biafran-Nigerian War
of 1967 to 1970.
Thus,with his ongoing gobbledygook Golden
Dawn Military Operations in our South East, the
Nigerian Army and Police are teaching our Igbo
children the lessons, General Buhari and his
cohorts of the Nigerian Army taught us their
parents during the Biafran – Nigerian War.
”Ndigbo biko chenu echiche.
Kpum bu ogu. Iwu!
Ndi efi – nama na acho anyi Ndigbo ife.
Ofo jide ha!”
All Hail Biafra,our God’s Own Land of the Rising Sun!!