Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What has gone wrong in the land

People on this forum have not been silent. Toyin Adepoju is not. You are not. Farooq Kperogi is not. Moses Ochonu is not  Victor Okafor is not. The moderator is not and I am not.  So who are ' people on the forum?'  Not all of us post on every issue.

OAA

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From: 'Kenneth Kalu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>

Date: 28/06/2018 12:23 (GMT+00:00)

To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com, Victor Okafor <vokafor@emich.edu>, usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What has gone wrong in the land

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Sir:

The biggest worry to me really is the dead silence of our people, especially people on this forum. I remember during the IPOB drama and Operation Python Dance, many commentators here who claim to be the ONLY ones interested in a UNITED Nigeria, were falling over themselves to justify the unjustifiable - declaring a largely peaceful self-determination group as terrorists. Some even went so far as to make the disingenous claim that IPOB's rhetoric was "violent", more violent than the killing of thousands of Nigerians by the infamous "cattle herders".

Today, it is dead silence all around. No "Save Nigeria Group" activities. Nobody is occupying Ojota. Nothing. What a country? What a people? Perhaps this is why they say a country ends up with the kind of leadership it deserves. Sad. Very Sad!

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Victor Okafor

<vokafor@emich.edu> wrote:

Dear All:

Can someone help me understand why Buhari's presidency has not declared killer herdsmen terrorists (or has it?), despite the killer herdsmen's apparently unstoppable track record of killing and maiming hundreds (is it only hundreds?) of Niger​ians across the land. I find it an inescapable historical irony that about a year ago or so, this same presidency was quick to label IPOB (which did not have any known record of killing people) a terrorist organization, but, to date, is demonstrably unable or unwilling to declare killer herdsmen public enemy number 1.

Why must Nigeria, in this 21st century, tolerate or permit an archaic practice of cows being herded across public space? Who are the owners of the cows being herded across the land? Why has Buhari's Gestapo not arrested any of those owners of those cows but found it politically expedient to humiliatingly whisk away Honorable Senator Abaribe (a vocal critic of the administration) to detention for demonstrably laughable allegations? Has Buhari lost his mind? Who can stop this apparent reign of tyranny in the Federal Republic of Nigeria?

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