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Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun

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On Monday, there was another massive attack in Plateau State that ended in the death of dozens of people. The perpetrators of that massacre were unsparingly cruel and the gory images of old and young victims, which surfaced online afterward, say quite a lot about the kind of maniacs that hunted those villages and killed the people.

Like we have come to expect, the Presidency issued another lukewarm statement that said all the right things it was supposed to say, except it also expressed the fear that President Muhammadu Buhari’s opponents would take advantage of those incidents. The press release followed the same pattern of previous ones: the President condemns the act and promises that the perpetrators would face justice.

 Over time, those press releases have come to symbolise the feebleness of the bite of the government’s…



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