Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the mass killings in Benue State and other parts of Nigeria have been going on for 12 years now.

In a statement, he lamented the recent attack that led to the murder of 200 innocent and defenceless Nigerians, who were "butchered by a monstrous horde of evil barbarians, bloodthirsty aliens and blood-lusting terrorists in Benue state over the last two days."

"This beggars belief & is totally & completely unacceptable. We can no longer condemn & lament about the killing of innocent civilians in other countries & remain silent about the ones being slaughtered with impunity in our own," he said..

He stated that such butchery is unconscionable and must be brought to an end, adding that those behind it must be identified, exposed and eliminated.

"War is being waged against the Nigerian state and the Nigerian people by a ruthless & relentless army of feral psychopaths, genocidal maniacs, vile beasts & verminous scum who seek to divide us on ethnic and religious lines, destabilise our country, destroy our democracy, decimate our heritage and thrust us into a self-inflicted catastrophic, cataclysmic and unending civil war!

"We must resist them with passion and power! We must be unyielding and unrelenting in our response! We must come together as one & refuse to bite their bait! We must show strength & courage! We must be bold & decisive!

"This madness has been going on for the last twelve years and it is time for it to be brought to an end.

"No more excuses, no more long talk, no more limp arrests, no more unending and fruitless due process, no more playing it by the rules, no more lengthy court appearances, no more forgiveness & no more integration of these callous beasts into our Armed Forces: we must be utterly savage & ruthless, we must hunt them down like the animals that they are, we must eliminate them, we must crush them into dust, we must burn them into ashes, we must bury them in unmarked graves, we must avenge our dead & we must make Nigeria safe & great again!

"May the souls of all our compatriots that have been cut short by these barbarians over the last 12 years in Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Kwara, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Taraba, Borno, Yobe and many other parts of our nation rest in peace," he said.

ASA