The Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria (MEN) stands firmly with the Nigerian people in this season of profound national grief and escalating insecurity. Over the past few days, our nation has endured a chain of horrific tragedies that have shaken our collective conscience and further exposed the fragility of the Nigerian state.
Brigadier General Musa Uba, a gallant officer of the Nigerian Army, survived an ISWAP ambush through exceptional courage and tactical ingenuity, only to be fatally betrayed by the very system mandated to protect him. At the moment he sought rescue, his location was reportedly compromised. He was recaptured and brutally executed. Nigeria has once again abandoned a hero in the line of duty.
In Kebbi State, over 25 schoolgirls of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area, were abducted. The Principal and Vice Principal were executed in cold blood by monstrous gunmen, despite earlier intelligence reports that were negligently ignored. In Plateau State, 27 innocent citizens were slaughtered in their sleep by jihadist terrorists. In Eruku community of Kwara State, worshippers of the CAC Church were subjected to unimaginable brutality, women, children, and the elderly dragged into captivity under terrifying circumstances.
While communities mourn and the nation bleeds, the response of the APC-led Federal Government remains disturbingly detached from the suffering of citizens. Instead of tackling the worsening security crisis, the government appears more invested in orchestrated political defections, dispatching high-profile delegations abroad, and aggressively pursuing loans. This alarming posture raises urgent national questions:
Who truly are the terrorists destabilizing Nigeria?
Why is the government more focused on political optics while massacres, kidnappings, and sexual violence continue unabated?
Why has there been no national mourning or recognition for Brigadier General Musa Uba and his colleagues slain in the Damboa ambush?
Why is there no plan for even a symbolic state funeral for these patriots?
How long will Nigerians endure a government that refuses to answer the cries of its people?
In light of these tragedies and the government’s deafening silence, MEN hereby declares a 3-Day National Mourning, beginning tomorrow, in honour of the fallen heroes, the victims of the attacks in Plateau and Kwara States, and all Nigerians living under the shadow of terror.
We call on all Nigerians, wherever they are, to observe one minute of silence at exactly 12:00 noon each day throughout the mourning period. We urge citizens to pray for God’s intervention and the safe rescue of the abducted Kebbi schoolgirls and all others languishing in captivity.
MEN prays that God, in His justice, will destroy all terrorist networks, together with their sponsors, financiers, collaborators, enablers, and beneficiaries. May every person entrusted with the responsibility to protect Nigerians, but who instead chose complicity, indifference, or silence, be exposed, disgraced, and face divine judgement.
Nigerians must remain vigilant, united, and prepared to defend themselves and their communities against imminent threats. We urge our people to reject religious, ethnic, and sectional divisions, tools employed by corrupt elites to weaken the oppressed and sustain a failing state.
To the Nigerian Government, we reiterate a timeless truth: there must be Nigerians before there can be Nigeria.
The struggle for justice, dignity, and national salvation continues even beyond the grave.
E-Signed:
Solomon Dalung, Esq.
Comrade General
Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria (MEN)
