“Our state is bleeding,”: Benue Business Mogul raises alarm, slams Tinubu over Benue massacre

In the wake of one of the bloodiest attacks in Benue State’s recent history, Dr. Benjamin Orduen, CEO of Nuvate Group, has issued a powerful condemnation of the Tinubu administration’s handling of security in Nigeria, accusing the President of abandoning his duty to protect live, especially in the nation’s Middle Belt.

Over 200 people, including children, women, security personnel, and internally displaced persons, were killed in a horrific raid on the Yelewata and Daudu communities in Guma Local Government Area.

Survivors described scenes of unimaginable horror: entire households sl@ughtered, babies butchered, and communities razed, all while military personnel reportedly stationed nearby failed to intervene.

Reacting to the carnage, Dr. Orduen questioned the President's silence in the face of such suffering.

“Mr. President, how do you sleep at night? Our people are not just dying; they are being hunted, exterminated. And yet, your silence screams louder than the gunfire that rains down on Benue every night,” he said.

Dr. Orduen disclosed that Nuvate Group, through its subsidiary Frontline Smart Farms Ltd, had recently invested millions of naira in cultivating over 100 hectares of rice farmland in Benue State.

He added that the goal was to boost national food security and create local jobs.

“However, due to the worsening insecurity, the entire project has now been abandoned,” he added.

“Benue, once known as the food basket of the nation, has become a field of blood.

“We came to farm; now we are fleeing to survive. Our farms are overrun. Our workers are in hiding. Our tractors are silent because the sound of gunfire has drowned out the sound of progress,” he lamented.

In his emotional address, Orduen accused President Tinubu of prioritizing politics over people’s lives.

He said the President has yet to visit Benue, issue a public statement, or even express condolences for the victims.

Instead, he claimed, Tinubu appears more focused on his 2027 re-election bid than on addressing a growing humanitarian crisis.

“If the President cannot protect Benue, he cannot protect Nigeria.

“If you are too afraid to step on toes to end this bloodbath, then you have stepped out of your mandate. Your silence is betrayal. Your inaction is bloodstained,” he said.

He went on to demand that the President take concrete action to address the killings in Benue.

Among his calls were a national address specifically on the attacks, the classification of Fulani militia groups as terrorist organizations, the immediate deployment of special forces to at-risk communities, the legal and financial support of state and community policing, and the investigation—and possible dismissal, of any military commanders found to be complicit through inaction.

He warned that continued political apathy in the face of mass murder would further fracture the nation’s unity and trust in leadership.

“If this administration continues to play politics with innocent lives, the flames of anger and sorrow may consume what is left of our unity,” he warned.

His message ended with a passionate plea: “We are not animals. We are not votes to be counted in 2027. We are human beings. Our children cry, our women wail, our land bleeds – and you, Mr. President, look away? We will not be silent. Benue is not a sacrifice for your political peace.”

Highlighting the geographical proximity of the killings to the state capital, Orduen cautioned that if massacres can happen just 40 minutes from Makurdi without intervention, no Nigerian is safe.

“Yelewata is only 40 minutes from Makurdi. If these people can be butchered there, then no Nigerian is safe anywhere.

“If India’s plane crash can shake the world, how much louder should the cries of Benue be, where lives are not lost by accident but by evil design?” he said.

Source: Legit.ng