17/06/2025
🕊️ A Heavy Heart for Benue 🕊️
Our hearts are broken. (Aôndo, ungwa mliam ma ior Benue chii. Ior Benue mba vaan. Zungwe se mhonum. Tar chii ngu kenger idyeregh yase a iwyasen chio. Ya wase vihi. Ijjir i zan kpa ngi ga.)
A lot of lives were lost days ago in Benue State. Fathers, mothers, children, generations wiped out in the community. They didn’t deserve it and yet they are gone too soon. This isn’t just about numbers . These were people with dreams, families, and stories that will never be fully told.
This crisis has gone on for too long, and the pain it continues to bring is unbearable. My thoughts and prayers are with every family grieving right now. 💔
Benue is the Food Basket of the Nation. rich in culture, land, and resilience. We deserve peace and not crises. We deserve safety and not homelessness. We deserve to eat the fruit our labour and not hunger. We deserve to live without fear.
May the tears of the harmless and hopeless little souls be heard, may the cries of the youth and the old never echo in vein.
Let us stand together for peace, for healing, and for an end to the violence that has plagued our mother land for far too long.
To everyone reading this, Please, say a prayer for Benue. Speak up. Share the story. Do not let silence bury this tragedy.
This isn’t just a Tiv tragedy, It is also an Idoma tragedy, an Igede, Etilo, and Jukun and every Nigerian ethnic group’s tragedy. It is not just Benue. It is Nasarawa. It is every community and state that calls Nigeria home.
Pain does not speak one language. Loss knows no tribe. And so, we must rise, not divided but united to protect one another.