Nigeria playing with its food survival -Ogebe
An International Human Rights Lawyer, Emmanuel Ogebe, on Wednesday said Nigeria is playing with its food survival occasioned by the large number of people living in different displaced camps across the country. Ogebe made the observation when he led other foreign partners to visit some of the Benue indigenes taking refuge at the Abagana Internally […]
An International Human Rights Lawyer, Emmanuel Ogebe, on Wednesday said Nigeria is playing with its food survival occasioned by the large number of people living in different displaced camps across the country.
Ogebe made the observation when he led other foreign partners to visit some of the Benue indigenes taking refuge at the Abagana Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDPs) camp, near Makurdi along Lafia road in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
"Nigeria is playing with its food security and food survival. It is our desire that our people be rehabilitated and allow to go back home to their farming so that they can feed the nation," he said.
The legal practitioner who hails from Benue State but based in Washington of the United States of America, also worried that a food security council was recently created by the federal government without the input of Benue people.
According to him, if the food security of the country meant anything to the federal government, such council headquarters should have been located in Benue state.
He further called on communities in all parts of the country which have come under consistent threats of rampaging killer-bandits to heed the advice of General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) by defending themselves, stressing that such defence is the position of the law of the country.
"It is no longer sustainable for us to be loosing life on such a large scale. Nigeria must transcend the atrocity and terrorism, not only Boko haram but every other entity that is killing Nigeria. What we are seeing now is equivalent of genocide," Ogebe added.