In what may remind students of history of the root cause of the Rwandan genocide, the governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema has been caught on video calling the opposition “cockroaches” and urging his supporters to crush and kill them.
The amateur video, first posted on the internet on the 12th of November, has gone viral.
The video shows the governor, dressed in white agbada and brown sandals, standing on a red carpet, and addressing a crowd in Hausa language and in what looked like a political rally.
Shema, in the video, likened opposition politicians to “cockroaches” before asking the crowd what to do if they found the nocturnal insect in their apartments.
The crowd chorused “Kill them!”
“Crush them!” the governor responded, agreeing with the crowd.
DAILY POST recalls that calls similar to this triggered violence in the East African country, Rwanda, where the majority Hutus’ description of the minority Tutsis as “cockroaches”, helped fired a 100-day murderous campaign that saw over 800,000 Tutsis killed.
The governor, as the video ends, called on his supporters to reprise any attack from the opposition.
“Before now people from the opposition will humiliate us in the PDP and we will say don’t do anything about it. But now, I am telling you to fight back and ‘quote me’,” the governor emphasized.
Here is a transcript of the video courtesy of PREMIUM TIMES.
“PDP has touched the lives of every citizen of Katsina state, either as an individual or your family in general.
“If your child is sick you must take him to the hospital to receive treatment for free.
“You must use the well-built road that PDP constructed to go to your house.
“Your children have never paid a single dime for his education in this state since I became the governor in 2007 and that includes WAEC and NECO.
“We should thank Allah for this.
“If you look around, some states that I will not mention here, they keep making the headlines that PDP could not do this or that, but they should know Katsina state is PDP and we have done it.
“You should not be bothered with ‘cockroaches of politics.’
“Cockroaches are only found in the toilet even at homes.
“If you see a cockroach in your house what do you do?
Crowd responds: “You kill it!”
Gov. Shema agrees: “Crush them!
“Anyone who does anything against you we’ll retaliate, am telling you now.
“Before now people from the opposition will humiliate us in the PDP and we will say don’t do anything about it but now I am telling you to fight back and ‘quote me’”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k2sn5Eztr0
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