I write from a place of grief. A grief too deep for words. Once again, the soil of Benue State is soaked with the blood of innocent Nigerians, men, women, and children slaughtered in cold blood. These are not casualties of war. They are farmers, students, parents, infants, massacred in their own homes, in their own land.

Benue is bleeding. The Middle Belt is groaning. And Nigeria, the state that should protect her people, is treating it as business as usual.

For years, I’ve walked alongside brothers and sisters from Nigeria’s Middle Belt, resilient, unwavering in their faith, and deeply rooted in their land and nation. But while they hold fast to their convictions, it appears those in political and security leadership have neither the will nor the conscience to match that commitment. The result? A sustained, systematic annihilation of lives. I will not mince words: what is happening is ethnic cleansing, carefully orchestrated, deliberately sustained.

🧠 What kind of country normalizes such horror?
🛑 How does a nation witness the slaughter of her citizens and respond with silence?
🗣️ Why is the media so complacent, when blood is crying from the ground?

From Plateau to Benue, and other parts of the North Central region, lives are being erased. Entire communities are being wiped out. In the most recent attack, eyewitness reports say the killers came in two waves, the first to distract the police, the second to execute the ambush. Children were not spared. Pregnant women were not spared. Hope was not spared.

No blood is shed in vain. Blood speaks.

The question is: Will we give this blood a voice? Or will we allow it to soak into the earth, ignored and unaccounted for?

 

✊🏾 THE WAY FORWARD: FROM MOURNING TO MOBILIZATION

We must become leaders of ourselves. This moment must birth a new urgency for electoral reform and majority rule, a system where every voice matters, and every life counts.

We need a Nigeria where power no longer shields the wicked and silences the weak.

The apartheid system in South Africa didn’t end because the Afrikaners left, it ended because majority rule prevailed. That must be our call: political apartheid must end in Nigeria. The rule of law must not be sacrificed on the altar of ethnicity or impunity.

 

🔊 TO THE PEOPLE OF BENUE AND THE MIDDLE BELT

You have lost too much to keep silent.
Let your mourning become movement.
Let the blood that has been shed become a voice for justice.
Let every drop become a vote for change, a call for reform, a demand for accountability.

We do not need to carry arms. But we must carry truth.
We must organize, not agonize.
We must vote with conviction, not out of fear.
We must fight with our minds, not with machetes.

Let this be our unshakable resolve: Never again.