As much as I appreciate this call for caution from Falola, it is vital to balance such a development as he describes in that piece of fake news with the reality.
What could have inspired such a terrible alarm?
Why is the narrative not " Niger Delta militants, about 600 of them, had overrun the city of Ifewera, close to Ilesa?"
or
" IPOB, about 600 of them, had overrun the city of Ifewera?"
There will be no such false alarm, not only bcs IPOB is non-violent and Niger Delta militants have no ambitions of conquest, talk less national conquest, the only group successfully demonstrating a nation wide terrorist drive is terrorism by right wing Fulani.
A group who are proud to identify themselves by their ethnicity in contradiction to those who claim the threat they pose demonstrates no ethnic identity or agenda.
How factual is the following judgment by Falola?-
"What people now call "Fulani" is becoming an accumulation of those they don't like—Yoruba thieves, Igbo kidnappers and criminals are now calling themselves Fulani."
Is this claim contradicted by Nigeria's Fulani led govt, who agreed with MACBAN, a representative of Fulani herdsmen, to give them 100B naira of the nation's money, ostensibly to tackle kidnapping and banditry by their members, while ignoring their community decimating and land grabbing terrorist campaign in the Middle Belt, their recurrent massacres in Southern Kaduna, the massacre in Nimo in the SE and their murder, rape and extortion driven land grabbing strategy in the rest of Nigeria?
Is that claim also contradicted by eye witness reports of victims from different parts of Nigeria, of kidnappers and bandits that answer to descriptions, in features and language, of Fulani people?
The development of a nation wide emergence of both systemic terrorism and dispersed kidnapping and highway robbery by right wing Fulani is real.
It can't be wished away.
This reality has been growing in scope and destructive force from the escalation of massacres by this group dating from Buhari's ascension in 2015, from Agatu to the Benue massacre in reprisal for the state's enacting of anti-open grazing law to protect itself agst Fulani herdsmen terrorism, incidents in which Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation owned up to and justified the massacres to Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano and patron of Miyetti Allah pointing to the alleged anti-Fulani massacre in Taraba disputed by the Taraba state govt, as a way of counterbalancing the massacre by Miyetti Allah militia in Benue in response to the state's anti-open grazing laws, a massacre blamed on the state and not on the predators by Nigerians Minister of Defense and the Inspector General of Police, both, like Nigeria's President and practically all his security chiefs, ethno/religious affiliates of the powers behind this terror group, declarations supporting territorial ambitions in Benue graphically dramatized by Fulani professor Umar Lambo's declaration that Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest, to further developments reinforcing the relentless rolling out of a militarily and politically, well coordinated, terrorist campaign.
Faced by this progression, Southern Nigerians, awakening to this threat from right wing Fulani, ethnic supremacists and violent radicals, have had to acknowledge Miyetti Allah, the public face of this nation wide campaign, as a terrorist organisation.
In the name of self preservation, while acknowledging the possibility of fake news in connection with this phenomenon, we must not dilute the reality of systematic terrorism directed by right wing Fulani and dispersed lawlessness by Fulani criminals.
We need to acknowledge the possibility of fake news in connection with this phenomenon while contextualising such news by decisively addressing the reality that inspires it.
Refusing to acknowledge the danger one is in leads to being consumed by that danger.
The Nigerian elite is largely silent in the face of this hideous vision being executed by some megalomaniacs.
That is how many were silent as Hitler rose to power.
thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 00:57, segun ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
TF,Sorry for being 'scammed' to believing the invasion of Yoruba land by the Fulani mauraders and kidnappers.I dont believe some of the stories. We have to be more vigilant because we never know when the Fulani herdesmen are actually on the rampage.Good evening.Segun Ogungbemi.--On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 3:21 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:--At 1 am, someone woke me up (as if I sleep!) that the Fulani, about 600 of them, had overrun the city of Ifewera, close to Ilesa. and I should wake up call some state governors. I took it seriously, trying to reach Pastor Adeboye who is from there. I was told that the churches are full of people. I could not sleep.
It turns out not to be true.
All of us must exercise caution. If something is not true, we should not be party to it. What people now call "Fulani" is becoming an accumulation of those they don't like—Yoruba thieves, Igbo kidnappers and criminals are now calling themselves Fulani.
Now, Falola is APC!!!!!!
TF
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