The Rise and Rise of Buhari’s Sacred Cows By Emmanuel Ugwu

Any way you slice it, President Muhammadu Buhari has created a caste of privileged untouchables in terrorist herdsmen. They are his sacred cows. They are free of the inhibition of law and order. They are at liberty to kill without let or hinderance.

Buhari has made celebrities out of the Myetti Allah nihilist. He adores their barbaric lifestyle. Their crimes do not count with him. The more they extend their binge killing, the more star-struck he becomes.   

In Buhari’s book, a genocide perpetrated in the name of cattle rearing is acceptable. He views the freestyle killings as essential. The serial massacres and the mass burials are a necessary trade-off that must continue for the pristine ethos of all-important Fulani nomadism to survive modernity.

Buhari has no sense of irony or shame. In the aftermath of the wanton killing of people in Plateau State by Myetti Allah, he…