 On this day in history, in 2013, it was a Friday, June 28th, and 32 people were reportedly killed in some communities in Plateau State. And that's because alleged Fulani herdsmen had invaded communities in Plateau State and killed over 30 people, burnt over 100 houses, and they say that in retaliation for about a thousand of their cattle that had been stolen. There was a bloody day in Plateau State on this day in history, and this basically was an attack on farmers of the Taruk tribe. It's a Taruk farmers who were killed in alleged reprisal attacks for cattle theft. You know, there's really not much to the story to say without just taking our minds back and then casting a fold to the present, seeing just the similarities between them and now. What has changed between 2013 and now? We're still having killings when herders are saying their cattle were stolen and then they're basically taking it all out on farmers in those states. And this attack has invaded communities including Bolanc, Karkashi, and they had rode to the communities in motorcycles trying to go after people who they see had stolen their cattle. So it's just conflict between farmers and herders over an alleged theft of cattle. That really is a story and we're still seeing that today. The issue then still talking about grazing routes. The farmers alleging that the herders had been taking their cattle for grazing and pastures through their farms. Maybe they stole those cattle. We really do not have the fact of that story in that regard, but really that's what happened. That reprisal attack and the hundreds of houses that were burnt on this day in history. I've seen people saying Nigeria is a huge crime scene because you're talking about 2013 now and now we're talking about this. We still don't know that anybody was arrested for the murder of those 32 people. The story says that security operatives were deployed and they killed over 20 people. That security forces were deployed, killed about 20 men. We don't even know those 20 men, our farmers, our herders, no profiling of those people. Same thing we're saying. We still don't know if anybody has been arrested or charged to court or justice has been served for those 32 lives that were lost and that they had a property that was destroyed. All the cows that were reportedly stolen. And it's not the first time this is maybe one out of 500 different incidents where people were killed in villages and communities and settlements by bandits, by herders, by terrorists, whoever they are. And you don't have any reports that anybody has been arrested. You don't have any report that old, a bandit leader has been sentenced to 100 years in jail or whatever it is. And so you almost cannot expect that some of these things will stop. We so much injustice, so much has taken place in the last couple of years that should never happen, not to any society, not to any country that wants to move forward. How do you tell any of these families that the people who committed those murders maybe would never be jailed or maybe would never get the justice that they deserve? It's painful, it's honestly painful and it's in different directions, including the high-handedness of our security agencies, including extra judicial killings. There's so, so, so much of lives that have just been lost recklessly because there's no control over them. Yeah, over cattle because there's no actual grip on the country. There's no control, there's no hold on anything going on in the country. So it's sad. Anyway, let's move over to Honduras in 2009. And this was what was described as the start of the Honduran constitutional crisis. It was on this day that a coup took place against the Honduran president. He, you know, a couple of days or weeks earlier, had tried to set up a constitutional amendment. And of course, set up a referendum with regards amending the Honduran constitution. And that was the reason for the coup. He was ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran constitution. It was, of course, a huge dispute over the changes that the constitution needed, according to the president at that time. Manuel Zelaya was his name, planned to hold a poll on a referendum to constituent assembly to change the constitution. The Honduran Supreme Court upheld a lower-court injunction against the 28th of June poll that was originally mentioned. However, the constitutional process for dealing with the situation was unclear as there were no clear procedures for removing or prescuting a sitting president. And that really was, you know, the reason behind the need to amend the constitution. On the morning of June 28th in 2009, approximately 100 soldiers stormed the president's residence and put him on a plane to San Jose, Costa Rica. He immediately called this a coup upon his arrival in Costa Rica. Later that day, of course, there was a letter from his office saying that he had purportedly resigned. But of course, he also said that that letter was forged. These events gathered widespread condemnation as a coup d'etat. And of course, two-thirds of Honduras citizens, of course at that time, live below the poverty line. So it was a complete mess for Manuel Zelaya, as it was popularly called. Yes, it was, it was. And there's always the U.S. angle about how Pentagon officials were involved in this whole situation. And even though Barack Obama then was calling for calm and regarding the school, you know, just thinking about the story, how that particular morning, Zelaya had been woken up from his bed, dragged out in his pajamas. His security guards were bitten. They arrested him and basically flew him out. It really was, I mean, talking about this particular coup just reminds me of the situation in Mali, how the president was arrested and all the coups and everything going on in the country. But yes, that's what happened today in history, 2009. Absolutely. Stay with us. We'll move into our first major conversation for today, where of course we're going to be starting in Anambra State, where there have been controversies concerning the governorship election primaries for different parties, from ABGA to the PDP to the APC. And we'll be having that conversation right next after the short break. Stay with us.