By Emmanuel Aziken
Former army intelligence officer, Colonel Tony Nyiam, Rtd. has flayed the Federal Government’s refusal to send soldiers after the Fulani herdsmen involved in the Benue killings as an act of double standard.
Noting that soldiers were deployed against agents of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Niger Delta militants among others, he said the hesitation to send soldiers after the heavily armed herdsmen stood truth in its head.
Nyiam spoke in a Channels Television interview on Monday.
Nyiam who compared the situation in Rivers State as comparable to that in Benue State even given that more people have died in Benue than in Rivers of recent, said that the deployment of soldiers helped in the tracking down and killing of the Rivers State kidnap kingpin, Johnson Igwedibia, who was known as Don Waney.
“There are double standards that we see here. Today, the…
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