Some youths from Sankera which consists of seven local government areas in Benue North East senatorial district have condemned former Governor Gabriel Suswam, now senator, for mourning the death of a terrorist popularly called Gana
The youths under the aegis of the Sankera Youth Forum (SYF) urged the senator to withdraw his statement on the killing of the state’s notorious militia leader.
A statement by SYF’s interim president, Mark Orshi, said Suswam’s remarks mourning Gana pierced their hearts with a poisonous arrow and desecrated the graves of innocent souls the militia leader gunned down.
Orshi also said Sankera was the worst hit by Gana’s terror and criminal activities in the state. Expressing his disappointment over the former governor’s remarks, Orshi said the group finds it unbelievable that Suswam would ignore the blood of the innocent souls whose lives were brutally cut short by Gana to mourn his death.
“For Suswam to dare publicly mourn the death of Gana in the hands of Soldiers in the jungle; fault the manner of his death and attempt to question security agents on procedural errors of law, undermines his status as leader and comes as a slap on the faces of the people,” Orshi said.
He also said that Gana’s life is not more important than the troops whom he engaged before he was killed.
“The families of innocent citizens in Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue states whose blood was used as wine and their bodies as bread by Gana and his armed foot soldiers would be appalled that anybody would show uncommon sympathy to their worst tormentor,” he added.
The group further urged the lawmaker to retract the “obnoxious public statement with an apology.”
The most popular gang leader, Gana, was killed by some troops of the Nigerian military on September 8 allegedly while in a Benue state government’s convoy on his way to accept an amnesty deal.