This piece describes the terrible propaganda going on in Ekiti. The road passage through Orin Ekiti is not up to 8 kilometers. Let us imagine that it was the farm lands. The farm lands that have been set aside for the former booming agrarian activities are visible from the onset.
A case can be made against foreign invasion by not necessarily nor mischievously stigmatizing any race. The degree of illiteracy in our society is so high that the word "suspected" does not ring any bell. It is also tragic that responsible journalism has taken flight for speculative analysis. The reg rag that was seen hanging on branch of a wild tree was the flag that any sane person would cite as a sovereign flag of the suspected Fulani group!!!
What saddens an average person is the futile attempts at presenting the hard working Governor of Ekiti as a catalyst in this mischievous opera. Ekiti did not attract any attention from the media marauders in those 4 locust years of misrule and executive brigandry under a supposed governor. Today, our lands have been reclaimed and values are being restored. Whatever political permeations that might be loosely going around should not be harvested to stigmatize the Governor of Ekiti State.
As the Chief security of the State, Governor Fayemi has made his presence and the activities of governance felt in all the LGs in Ekiti. He may be quiet and not easily drawn out by political shenanigans, he is nevertheless focused and well aware of these endless political manipulations by political speculators. In any case, most of the herds of cows in Ekiti are owned by rich individuals who employed Fulani or local herders to pasture their herds. No Fulani has migrated into Ekiti with hundreds of herds, crossing any adjoining Ekiti borders as autonomous bodies of cow merchants. It will therefore be a worthwhile intellectual venture to investigate events properly before they are consigned into the arena of Yoruba irredentism. Those alleged Yoruba sons who were in collaboration with Jonathan for six years during which the Yoruba nation was unprecedentedly marginalised by the Igbo and the Ijaw collaboration, cannot possess any atom of morality to begin any fake Yoruba cause. Some of them shared from the Dasuki arms' fund conversion for personal vanities, while all of them shared in the central banks' dollars that were looted for an overnight mobilization by the Jonathan group on the eve of the 2015 presidential elections. Were it not for the ailing judiciary in Nigeria, some of them who are on bail would have been in jail for long. Thus, we are not in the mood for any manipulations on fake and opportunistic ethnic and or religious irredentism.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 4:16 AM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--The other time when I deployed the words, stupidity quotient (SQ) to rate the illogicality of a certain pronouncement on this forum, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju smartly, but not cleverly, erased the word quotient and uplifted only stupidity to make it look as if I was being abusive. Every human being has a degree of stupidity quotient in him or her but unlike IQ, the lower the rate of SQ, the better for the person and his/her neighbour. The report written by one Rasaq Ibrahim from Ado Ekiti exhibits highest rate of SQ that, even if the Nation's newspaper published it for sensational and commercial reasons, it ought not to be published on a forum where people who do not regard the human head only as a hat-shelf but as a thinking faculty. Consider the following assertions.
Some suspected herdsmen have reportedly taken over some areas covering about 8km in Orin-Ekiti, Ido/Osi local government area of Ekiti near Governor Kayode Fayemi's hometown, Isan-Ekiti -Reporter, Rasaq Ibrahim. If herdsmen had actually taken over the said land area, they would physically be identified in the occupied land area. As reported by Rasaq Ibrahim, it would appear as if the land occupiers in Orin-Ekiti are (ghosts) invincible) herdsmen which is why they are only only suspected as herdsmen. The reporter stated that the areas taken over in Orin-Ekiti by the invincible herdsmen cover about 8 kilometres. Land area is always measured in square metres or kilometres. If we assume that the reporters intention was to say that 8 square kilometres land area was forcibly occupied by herdsmen in Orin-Ekiti, then, we need to know the numerical strength of alien forces needed to accomplish the annexation. Only a person with a very high rate of stupidity quotient will believe that some ghost-herdsmen are capable of occupying 8 square kilometres of land at Orin-Ekiti.
…. the herders hoisted a red flag at the 'annexed farmlands' where they warned farmers to keep off or face death - Rasaq Ibrahim. A picture of a red rag hanging on top of a branch of a wild-growing tree was shown but no single herder was present and the warning notice to farmers to keep off or face death was nowhere to be seen.
Residents told journalist on Wednesday, during a protest, that the herders occupied and destroyed crops planted on the abandoned 2,500 acres of land at Orin Farm Settlement - Nation's Reporter.The Orin Farm Settlement was created by the Western Region government of yesteryears and inherited by the present day Ekiti State government. If the land, about 2,500 acres had been abandoned, it still remains the property of Ekiti State government and no one has the right to occupy it without the approval of the government. No crops could have been planted on the abandoned Orin Farm Settlement for the occupying ghost-herders to destroy.
Whenever Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju hears the word *herdsmen* he gets wet dream with Fulani people. The report written by Rasaq Ibrahim was captioned by the Natio newspaper as, Herdsmen Hoist Flag in Orin-Ekiti, Near Fayemi's Hometown.
Nowhere in the report was Fulani mentioned but Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju in his wet dream added the following to the headline without the consent of the author of the article or the Nation Newspaper : Terrorism by Right Wing Fulani in Nigeria. That's a fraud.S. Kadiri
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Herdsmen Hoist Flag In Orin-Ekiti, Near Fayemi's Hometown
Some suspected herdsmen have reportedly taken over some areas covering about 8km in Orin-Ekiti, Ido/Osi local government area of Ekiti State near Governor Kayode Fayemi's hometown, Isan-Ekiti..
The Nation gathered that the herders hoisted a red flag at the 'annexed' farmlands where they warned farmers to keep off or face death.
Residents told journalist on Wednesday during a protest that the herders occupied and destroyed crops planted on the abandoned 2500 acres of land at Orin Farm settlement.
The protesters, comprising old and young men and women, chanted derisive songs against the invaders with placards bearing their thoughts and agitations including 'What is our sin?'; 'Enough is Enough'; 'Save Orin Ekiti from herdsmen invasion'; 'We are tired of molestation by herdsmen'; 'Government must relocate Fulani Herdsmen', among others.
While addressing journalists, the Onikare of Orin-Ekiti, Chief Bamidele Fasuyi, alleged one Emmanuel Ilori had been allegedly killed by suspected herders while the Tiv people farming in the town were chased away.
He regretted that the suspected herdsmen, had destroyed crops worth over N50million belonging to 70 farmers.
"What they wanted is to invade our land and chase us away. They even killed one of our able bodied men this year. They are imposing some curfew in this town, because our youths can't go to farm freely and government has not been doing something. Several hectares of land had been destroyed. They used to operate at night with AK 47 rifle.
"Over 70 farmers were affected in our record. Crops worth N50 million have been ravaged . They ate up their products like Coco yam, yam, cassava and others and made them to incur debts.
"We appeal to government to use the 2500 acres of land for farming. The state and federal government as well as private bodies should come to our aid. There were facilities like electricity, buildings and equipment that can aid farming if they want to invest ".
A youth leader, Mr. Omotoso Mathew Kayode, alleged that the suspected herders had hoisted a flag at the farm settlement, where they warned the farmers to keep off or face death.
"They wrote keep off with a picture of a cattle rearer on the flag. This is a serious threat. The police , NSCDC and soldiers removed the flag last year but they had hoisted another one.
"We used to do night guard to ward off attack,because the police had found it difficult to arrest them. Our graduates who have no jobs were going into farming but they are suffering losses because of destruction by cows.
"They must vacate the place. Governor Kayode Fayemi must relocate them. From our findings, they used to enter into this place from neighbouring towns like Isan, Ayede and Ido and we are suspecting conspiracy .There may be famine in the land with the way things are going .
"We are not compromising our stand on this relocation. Chief Obafemi Awolowo-led government in the old Western region acquired the land in 1958 for arable farming and not for cattle ranching".
Omotoso, however, appealed to Fayemi to assist them in getting back their farmland and compensate the farmers.
He further urged the state government to provide adequate security in the community, noting residents could no longer sleep with two eyes closed as they all live in trepidation.
The Oniwaro of Orin, Chief Mathew Oke, said Fayemi should comply with his promise to build a police station in the town and rejuvenate the farm settlement to ward off herdsmen invasion in the area.
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