In the last few years, I have consistently cried out against what I describe as Fulani terrorism, the alliance between Fulani militia and Hausa-Fulani politicians in an empire building campaign across Nigeria fueled by massacres of communities.
I was accused, by some, of ethnic baiting and sensationalisation.
Some on this group spent much passion and time arguing that these horrors were not related to an ethnically driven organisation.
It is painfully justificatory to find that all I have been stating, that we are at war, that a group is at war agst people who do not know they are at war, and that there is no fundamental difference between the Buhari govt's approach to the Fulani terrorist menace and the use of the janjaweed by Omar Bashir in Sudan, is consistently emerging into the light for all Nigerians to see.
I am writing bcs of my excitement with Moses Ochinu's increasing head on addressing of this monumental horror on his Facebook wall. He is integrating the information and responses evident across various contexts into a coherent questioning of what he has rightly called the terrorist organization that is the Miyeti Allah, the Fulani cattle rearer's organization, challenging readers to ask why this organization can openly justify its culture of massacre and get away with it.
I am gratified that Moses was able to clearly describe Miyeti Allah as terrorists and is proceeding to highlight the triangulation of this terrorist group, their foot soldiers and the attitude to them of Nigeria's national ruler, the Fulani Muhammadu Buhari.
I am inspired to compile and present the storm on Facebook about this terrorist horror that Nigerians are increasingly tracing to the government of Buhari, a deeply pained sensitivity spiking after the recent massacre in Benue by Fulani terrorists, the Miyeti Allah press conference that followed justifying the massacre and the organization's declaration that it will defy all anti-open grazing laws, from Ekiti to Benue.
Then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is forever negatively known for trying to appease Hitler. Open your eyes Nigerians, before this Fulani jihad swallows you.
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