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Sorry, Ortom, no one is going to arrest leaders of Miyetti Allah, for the reasons you know very well. Just imagine what would have happened if they were IPOB members or any insurgent group from the South East or South South?

An innocuous threat by unarmed IPOB to disrupt Ohaneze restructuring summit was met with armada of security forces but when Miyetti Allah leaders threatened to attack the people of Benue last January which led to the death of the 73 no security was provided despite all the warnings.

Achebe was right after all when he concluded that the only issue Nigerians quickly reach consensus on was the one concerning the Igbos. Operation Python dance was celebrated with relish as if Buhari had just recovered Bakassi peninsular from Cameroon or annexed part of Benin Republic.

But one had thought that they will protect their co-conspirators and collaborators, at least, for helping them 'annex' Eastern Region oil. That the people of Benue were ignominiously allowed to perish at the hands of the caliphate inspired jihadist Fulani herdsmen only shows that truly some people are expendable lackeys.

I remember the aftermaths of Dimka and Orka coups! I remember the tragic of the yam-town, Zaki Ibiam. I remember the continued massacres on the Plateaus. How ironic that the people of Middle Belt who were the main protagonists in the futile bid to keep Nigeria one are now at the receiving end of the brutal savages they meted out to others.

That the largely Christian population of the Middle Belt who partook in the genocidal civil war that saw the wiping out of over 3 million Igbos, mainly Christians, are now harvesting their own tragedies, even in peace times, is a cruel irony and should serve a lesson for all.

The people of Middle Belt are not hopeless, though. The choice is theirs whether to continue playing the role of expendable cannon fodders or liberate themselves from the shackles of the hegemonic Islamist caliphate?