Thursday, May 23, 2019

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fears of Colonization and Genocidal Plans as Nigerian Fulani President Signs Order revoking Gun Licenses Even as Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists Are Enabled by Govt: Nigerians Debate

Temi Dayo  (Facebook)
4 hrs · 

1.
Boko Haram detainees released and absorbed into the Nigerian Army.

2.
100m$ to be paid to Fulani Herdsmen to end violence in the north.

3.
Buhari issues executive order to withdraw all private gun licences and NSCDC firearms.

4.
FG to establish Fulani radio station for herdsmen.

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Mazino Obaro Ikime  ( Facebook )
18 hrs · 

Gun control is good. The key word here is CONTROL!

However I think that the right to bear properly licensed arms is just that. A right that should not be taken away on a whim. Especially not in the Nigeria we live in today!

In a country where insecurity is rife and practically no where is safe? I hear that the President has signed into law a bill that aims to revoke ALL arms from those who own them,even if legally. I guess this is in response to the raging violence in the land. But I need to ask...how many legally licensed gun owners have been involved in crimes or needless violence in Nigeria? What percentage of licensed arms have been used in violent crime? Let's even take it back to as far as independence!

I am sure that the figure would be extremely infinitesimal. Is this truly our Presidents response to insecurity? To my mind it is misplaced and it is an overkill. The problem is not with the licensed arms! It is with the small and light weapons in the hands of brigands across the length and breadth of the country.

What is to be done about that? I really want to see what the next step will be! I want to see how compliance will be effected. Is there a register of licensed gun owners in Nigeria? Given our aversion to record keeping ,I seriously doubt it.

What happens to people who have built up businesses around the procurement and sale of hunting rifles, double,single as well as pump action shot guns? Their livelihoods are shut down just like that? They have committed no crimes, but are inadvertently punished because we have failed to put security issues in proper perspective and tackle the root causes of the wanton violence that presently manifests across the land!

Knee jerk is what I say. We wait and watch to see how it all unfolds.

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  • Yinka Lawal
    Yinka Lawal Unfortunately there is a register of owners of legal arms as the licences are renewed yearly. A lot of hunters groups and individual owners would be affected. The cost of buying guns run into hundreds of thousands and the government would collect guns bought with their money with no hint of compensation. A biometric register was introduced a few years back. Instead of going after the criminals, the ones who have done the right thing are about to be criminalized. This is absolute madness!! Another major failure of government. And its being done when the armed Fulani herdsmen are at our doorsteps...
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    • Mazino Obaro Ikime
      Mazino Obaro Ikime Yinka,thanks for that bit of information on the gun registry. Yes you are right. Instead of going after the criminals they appear to be criminalizing the ownership of legally acquired weapons.
    • Debola Ajagunna
      Debola Ajagunna Everything is reactionary in our country. This would only take away legal guns but somehow they feel they have done something even if it does not make sense.
    • Yinka Lawal
      Yinka Lawal Debola Ajagunna, armed criminals would more emboldened while nearly 25% of the police force that should be protecting all of us are guarding the 0.5% of them. PMB and those he is listening to on this are just being draconian. One former president did a similar thing but it was a temporary recall and the guns were returned later. By the stroke of a pen all gun sellers become jobless. Businesses that have been in existence for years just go down just like that...
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    • Ayodele Shoneyin
      Ayodele Shoneyin Mazino..... they must disarm those cattle herdsmen first....right? They openly display their AK-47s in various pictures. This government (and the incoming one) is defunct on arrival.
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    • Debola Ajagunna
    Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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  • Caxton Aderemi Opere
    Caxton Aderemi Opere Really disappointed in Buhari. This integrity may be all he has but lacking the capacity to coalesce the minds of the intelligent people and collective wisdom of Nigerians to stave off the onslaught emanating from his 'people'. Is it really true that he is getting a committee together to vote and give 100 billion Naira to the same killers? Is he a silent Jihadist? I had faith he would go Nigeria some good but his silence and indirect approach bothers me. Nigeria soon to be Turkey? Mmm.
    Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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  • Dino Ogholaja
    Dino Ogholaja I am against this gun control stuff because descent people will not be able to possess firearms to protect themselves but the bad guys will be able to move around with sophisticated weapons.
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  • Lekan Latubosun
    Lekan Latubosun An executive order; not a bill. He loves decrees! An executive order can't change extant laws.
  • Akinwale Ogunkua
    Akinwale Ogunkua It is not a law but an Executive order. The true representatives of the people will never accede to passing such a bill at a tine when the nation is under siege from fulani herdsmen and boko haram terrorists and murderers. The Executive order is viewed with scepticism and needs to be replaced with a responsive and realistic one.
  • Albert Oladapo Ogunwusi
    Albert Oladapo Ogunwusi The move should be interpreted properly as a curb on the ability of citizens to legitimately defend themselves in the face of apparent government's complicity in the wave of unrest that has enveloped the nation.
    At best, the order is a piece of legal nonsense.
  • Frank EkejijaActive now
    Frank Ekejija Disarm all others except the Fulani/Hause Niger and Chadians. They are the only ones that should be armed so that the final conquest jihad will be just a cakewalk, abi nor be so?
  • Wole Oyeniyi
    Wole Oyeniyi This will render more law abiding citizens as sitting ducks to armed robbers and kidnappers who'd doubtless still continue to carry out their nefarious activities irrespective of the gun control order. 
    How about criminals that are in cahoot with unsc    rupulous policemen? There have been accusations (and reported cases) of policemen hiring out guns and ammunition to criminals.
    What is being done to address the indiscriminate use of military (like) uniforms? The Fulani criminals that waylaid and kidnapped me on the highway in April 2016,wore military fatigues, and that was the reason I slowed down.
    • Mazino Obaro Ikime
      Mazino Obaro Ikime Wole,chasing the shadows and not the substance. Such a shame.
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    • Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
      Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wow Wole Oyeniyi, how did you gain freedom from the kidnapping?
    • Wole Oyeniyi
      Wole Oyeniyi Mazino Obaro Ikime exactly. Shadow Boxing is an apt title for this piece.
    • Wole Oyeniyi
      Wole Oyeniyi Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju God's mercies, calmness and superior wit to outwit them in the 40hrs (in captivity)battle of wits. 
      1Million Naira ransom was paid nevertheless.
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    • Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
    • Mazino Obaro Ikime
      Mazino Obaro Ikime Wole what an ordeal!!!!
    • Wole Oyeniyi
      Wole Oyeniyi Terrible ordeal it was. Took a long time to overcome the trauma. I didn't drive on the route again until exactly 2years after. I resorted to public transport and air. I had to drive the route again in order to totally exorcise the ghost of that enclosed.
      The ordeal redefined my view/perspectives o about lits of stuff.
    • Mazino Obaro Ikime
      Mazino Obaro Ikime Wole, can imagine. It must be harrowing to imagine that you are at the mercy of people whom you cannot truly comprehend,whose mindsets are alien to anything you are conversant with and all the emotional turmoil of not knowing exactly what the next moment could bring.
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    • Wole Oyeniyi
      Wole Oyeniyi Exactly. 
      They were 4, and had 2 AK47, 1 pump action and 1pistol. The guns were always trained on me during the unending treks we were doing in the bush. We kept on trekking long distances with few minutes rest between and changing locations constantly.
    Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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  • YomiGiddy Omo Ghana
    YomiGiddy Omo Ghana It was when the others wanted to defend themselves that they started talking of gun control. Wasn't there need for control when herdsmen were openly carrying AK-47s which we all know they were trained to use ! 
    Notice that it's coming when marauders have taken their trade close to Abuja .
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  • Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
    Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju strategy of internal colonization through state coordinated terrorism by right wing Fulani
  • Nwabuike Chidi
    Nwabuike Chidi Mazino, this is the beginning of the next level. We aren't seen anything yet. Wait untl after May 29.
  • Wale Remys Anifowoshe
    Wale Remys Anifowoshe The guy is a dunce, he thinks every one is actually stupid. Does the bill get to pass through the NASS or is it by executive fiat?
  • Mazino Obaro Ikime
    Mazino Obaro Ikime I think it will have to pass through NASS.
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