I wonder what relationship there could be between what is described as new herdsmen and those whose cows are shown occupying classrooms in a school in Edo state, destroying the crops of various communities across Nigeria and attacking and maiming and raping across the nation.
Whether these people who have made themselves into a scourge at different levels of destructiveness, from raping, killing, ravaging farmlands and occupying classrooms to engaging in systemic massacre of communities and moving in to their land with their cattle, have replaced en masse the old herdsmen, or the new herdsmen have become belligerent after the old ones became sedentary or passed on, the fact is the new culture of Fulani herdsmen lawlessness and terrorism has become institutionalised in Nigeria through the blessing of the most prominent Fulani centred organisation, Miyetti Allah, whose apex leadership has never dissociated itself from any of the justifications of massacres made by its representatives, so the theory of Miyetti Allah splinter factions, admitting to and justifying fake(?!) new of killings by its agents, does not hold water here.
Whatever declaration is made on behalf of Miyetti Allah that is not disavowed by its apex leadership represents the voice of the composite corporate body, it is the voice of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and of the Sultan of Sokoto, the most prominent leaders of the organisation.
Fulani ethnicity is transnational. So, the theory of 'they are from elsewhere' is of dubious value as these murderous right wing characters are well settled in Nigeria with the help of Miyetti Allah, with the assistance overt and tacit assistance of the Fulani national ruler and his majority Hausa-Fulani heads of security agencies and there is no outcry agst the murdering colonizers from most Hausa-Fulani as the Fulani led federal govt does everything in its power to allocate Nigeria's land to these people through grazing laws and cattle colonies.
The Miyetti Allah pressure group and their politician affiliates are urban Fulani. The foot soldiers of colonization are nomadic Fulani. A neat combination as the right wing urban Fulani provide political cover and the terrorist elements among the nomadic Fulani enable or engage in penetration of various communities to wreak carnage.
All Germans were not Nazis but all Nazis were Germans fighting their own vision of a German cause as most Germans let it happen.
All Hausa-Fulani and all Fulani herdsmen are not terrorists, but the people orchestrating and executing this terrorist strategy are either outright Fulani or identifiable as Hausa-Fulani, while most people from the same demographic see no evil, hear no evil and speak of no evil as the horror unfolds, after fighting side by side with deluded Southern compatriots to remove the govt of the previous Southern President in the name of 'united nation building'.
toyin
thanks
toyin
On 5 May 2018 at 19:41, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:
Prof Jibrin, thanks for spotlighting and using the word "epidemic" to describe the drug problem in Nigeria today which cuts across all ethnic, religious, regional, class, gender, whatever other lines exist. This epidemic, in the long run, will take far more lives and futures than all Nigeria's previously fought wars— if government does not go beyond the recent ban and put in place a comprehensive action plan that is well thought out, well funded, and carefully implemented.
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