Benue State is a State known as the "FOOD BASKET OF THE NATION" has turn over night to something I know nothing of, our pride and priority is been tempered with and our basket fell.
This is not Benue I know.
In less than five decades
My dear state is disintegrating just like the eruption of a volcano.
Created by a khaki guru, Gen. Murtala Mohammed on 3rd February, 1976.
My state
with three children of alphabeta
Call them A, B, C Zones.
With Tiv, Idoma, Igede, Etulo and Orokam.
Unity in diversity.
Progressing in retrogressive way!
Benue I knew has drastically transmogrified from good to ugly.
Benue I knew was
A land of peace and purity
Now the land of violence and misery.
The land of development and construction
Now the land of demolition and destruction
the land with leaders who were public servants to Benue people.
Who fed the sheep.
Now with leaders who want us to worship them like idols.
Busy feeding on the sheep.
My Benue
A state dubbed and despised by the execu-thieves and pen-robbers
Day by day, in my state heroes are slain
Pure souls roll.
The air is stenched with blood
Causing bloody rivers to flow
While vultures rejoice our madness.
Our food basket of the nation
Metamorphosed into blood basket of Africa.
The basket swallowed
Rev. Adoor
Charles Ayede disappeared
Pharm. Labe was hitted by the mega hammer
Greatest Atoza Hindan is no more
My amiable Igbana Denen's memory was dispatched to oblivion
Even the repented Gana was butchered!
My eyes filled with tears when
My uncle Dr Adyorough was shot dead by unidentified assassins, that is years ago.
My Benue
Has normalised the abnormalities
And abnormalized the normalities.
More work, no pay
who can differentiate between laziness and hardwork?
Labourers deserve no wages?
Who can save my state?
If it is not you... Who?
If it is not now... When?
If it is not here... Where?
Who are the troublemakers?
Those doing the bad?
Or those keeping quiet?
Who are the Ayatutu?
Takuluku your children are perishing like fools
We are refugees in our father's land.
My God give us Moses in 2023
To take us to the promise Land.
Happy Benue State at 46.
CopiedAmos ZahemenAmos Zahemen Ishokua
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