Following President Bola Tinubu’s visit to the state on Thursday to offer condolences to the victims of the Palm Sunday attack in Gari Yawaye, a community in Angwan Rukuba of Jos North Local Government Area where over thirty people were killed and numerous others were injured, some Plateau State residents chastised Tinubu.
However, the President’s post-violence visit to the state ended up at the Yakubu Gowon Airport in Heipang, some 100 kilometres away from the attack location, where he delivered a speech before leaving the state.
However, the President’s visit did not sit well with many residents, who felt the occasion lacked the empathy expected of a leader.
Many said he should have either visited the affected city or gone to see the victims in the hospital.
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The aggrieved residents, who shared their minds on social media, wonder why Tinubu would address the people at the airport when the real victims were far from the spot.
First to fire the salvo was Kacholom Luka with this post on Facebook:
“Welcome to Heipang Airport of Plateau State, Mr. President. Are the injured victims of the attack, currently receiving treatment in the hospital, being transported there for your viewing? Should you not be visiting the victims in the hospital? It is well with all of us in this country.”
“I don’t know our crimes and offenses, but surely I believe God is punishing us with these kinds of leaders we have at the moment. A leader sympathizing and addressing victims in an armored truck, a president sitting and welcoming high dignitaries and stakeholders at the airport.” – Comrade Bright Gyang
“This is the most insensitive, callous, unfeeling, uncaring, thoughtless, and tactless act ever exhibited by a leader whose people have suffered untold hardship. Why did he even come to Plateau in the first place? He could have given his speech in Abuja instead of coming in the first place. The victims were not invited to the airport instead politicians, traditional and religious leaders, and party supporters were the ones invited. What sort of leaders do we have in this country? ” – Joel Poret
