Femi Fani-Kayode has again slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for saying Nigerian soldiers were soft on Biafrans during the civil war.
The former minister, who took to his Twitter account to contradict the president’s claim, described the statement as a lie from the pit of hell.
Read his tweets below,
One of the most wicked and despicable lies that @MBuhari has ever told is that the Nig. Army was restrained when fighting the Biafrans during the civil war. This is a lie from the pit of hell and it is insulting and deeply offensive. We must learn from our history and never repeat its mistakes.
Was the Asaba massacre in which thousands of young boys and old men were slaughtered an act of restraint? Or was the killing of 2 million innocent Biafran civilians and the starving to death of 1 million Biafran children an act of restraint?
For God sake where is our humanity? Must we lie even about our history and try to revise it? No wonder they banned the teaching of history in our schools. Too much to hide! The truth is that if not for the fact that the same group of people have called the shots in our country since 1966 every single commander of the Nig. Army during the civil war, including @MBuhari ,would have been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Int. Court of Justice at the Hague by now for the atrocities they commited against the Igbo race and the Biafrans during the civil war.
I don’t need to be an Igbo to admit that. I just need to be an honest and objective historian and a God-fearing citizen of the world. We must ask God to forgive us for what we did to the civilian population in Biafra and we must NEVER allow such a thing to happen again.
Until that is done Nig. will neither know peace or meaningful progress. War is one thing but the targetting of innocent and defenceless civilians, including women and childen, for ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass murder and is another!
1. One of the most wicked and despicable lies that @MBuhari has ever told is that the Nig. Army was restrained when fighting the Biafrans during the civil war. This is a lie from the pit of hell and it is insulting and deeply offensive. We must learn from our history and…1/2
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
2. …never repeat its mistakes.Was the Asaba massacre in which thousands of young boys and old men were slaughtered an act of restraint?Or was the killing of 2 million innocent Biafran civilians and the starving to death of 1 million Biafran children an act of restraint?…2/3
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
3. For God sake where is our humanity? Must we lie even about our history and try to revise it? No wonder they banned the teaching of history in our schools. Too much to hide! The truth is that if not for the fact that the same group of people have called the shots in our…3/4
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
4. country since 1966 every single commander of the Nig. Army during the civil war,including @MBuhari ,would have been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Int. Court of Justice at the Hague by now for the atrocities they commited against the Igbo race..4/5
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
5…and the Biafrans during the civil war.I don’t need to be an Igbo to admit that.I just need to be an honest and objective historian and a God-fearing citizen of the world.We must ask God to forgive us for what we did to the civilian population in Biafra and we must NEVER..5/6
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
6. …allow such a thing to happen again. Until that is done Nig. will neither know peace or meaningful progress.War is one thing but the targetting of innocent and defenceless civilians, including women and childen, for ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass murder and is another!
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) June 4, 2018
