From: "Oluwatoyin Adepoju" <oluwakaidara1@gmail.com>
To: "USAAfricaDialogue" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - NIGERIA GRAZING RESERVE BILL HAS HIDDEN AGENDA FOR FULANI LAND GRAB [ Fulani Herdsmen Terrorism in Nigeria]
Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2016 00:26
From: 'Okenwa R. Nwosu, M.D.' okenwanwosu@yahoo.com [NaijaPolitics] <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:02 PM
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] NIGERIA GRAZING RESERVE BILL HAS HIDDEN AGENDA FOR FULANI LAND GRAB
Land Use Decree of 1978 put all lands in the country and its resources in hands of Nigeria's central government which has been usurped by the Hausa/Fulani for the past 50 years. As if to mop up all the remnants of indigenous ownership and control, the so-called National Grazing Reserve Bill is being rammed through the National Assembly so as to summarily strip all indigenous peoples, particularly in Middle Belt Nigeria, of their agricultural lands which they have inhabited and farmed for millennia. The object of this Bill is to create exclusive grazing reserves throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria for the teeming Islamic Fulani herdsmen and their Kalashnikov rifle-toting foot soldiers.
Not too fast, Jose........ As terrible as the Land Use Decree, which is included in the 1999 Constitution, has already proven to be, these nomadic schemers now wish to have the choice agricultural lands of today's Nigeria constitutionally set aside for their cattle herdsmen and their cohorts. Good enough, knowledgeable individuals are speaking up so as to enlighten the rest who still remain in the dark and obviously have no clue as to why their country has never worked in the past 50 years as it used to do before 1966. Militarization of herdsmen is the last straw. These nomads wield the world's most lethal weapons, not for herding their livestock, but for the sole purpose of wiping out any potential resistance that they might encounter on their path. And some "Senators" of the Nigerian National Assembly are bursting theor guts to create exclusive grazing reserve for them throughout the country?
Nigeria Grazing Reserve Bill Has Hidden Agenda for Fulani Land Grab
Dissecting the National Grazing Reserve Bill - by Josite
There is a Bill before the Nigerian National Assembly that has successfully scaled through second reading in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, which deserves very close scrutiny by all Nigerians. The international community should also be interested in this Bill because of the magnitude of the internal crises that the Bill could create with attendant spill-over effects if passed. All that is left in the legislative process to make it a law is 3rd Reading, that is, a clause by clause debate and then assent by the President.
As explained below, the proposed piece of legislation is full of unconstitutionalities, ethnic discriminations, fundamental human rights violations, religious tenets violations, conspicuous criminal omissions and unforgiveable legislative indiscretions. The Bill should therefore be killed immediately and not presented for the last reading. ………………….…read more
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