Beautiful thoughts from Salimonu.
It was wise of Tinubu to forget that terrorist Fulani herdsmen are Nigeria's greatest security threat, possibly at the same level as Boko Haram.
The various documentations by international terrorist watch agencies of their destruction across Nigeria, the various reports by Nigerians over the years, across Nigeria, of killings and rapes by Fulani herdsmen, was of course fiction.
Thus, since the cows were not present at the time of the murder, even though the villagers on the route where the killing took place identified Fulani herders who camp their cows and rob as the culprits, brigands who have long been operational on that road and agst whom the police behaved as if their hands were tied, Tinubu has a right to ignore well documented history and ask where the cows are, thereby absolving the most likely suspects, instead of simply urging that the police be allowed to come out with reports of an investigation.
Have the police arrived at anything conclusive on this crime?
It is claimed they have not.
Could that have to do with the same reason why some say Tinubu developed amnesia and was eager for evidence of cows?
Some are saying the killers are untouchables, being kinsmen and perhaps agents of someone in Aso Rock, the same someone who makes sure the terrorist coordinators Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation are never questioned talk less punished for their open terrorist campaign nor their foot soldiers brought to book.
Is that not why Amotekun was created, not bcs there are not enough national security agents but bcs they are compromised, as ex min of Defence Theophilus Danjuma has been crying out?
Lets keep watching. Who would have thought the SW would reach this point, a region a good no of whose residents were silent or oppositional as IPOB struggled for what some rightfully understand as the ultimate potential of Amotekun?
thanks
toyin
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 00:16, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--I have intended to take a pause from the forum for a while when my nostrils were invaded with inhalation of toxic intellectual fume from professor Farooq Kperogi's brain-farting. Too paragraphs in his brain-farting will be enough for consideration here.
Hear him, "Why didn't he exercise this sort of even temper when he asked 'where are the cows?' after Chief Reuben Fasoranti's daughter was murdered in cold blood by people alleged to be herders? Tinubu might well have been right that the woman wasn't murdered by herders, but he couldn't have known that for sure since no investigation had been carried out. And he said it when emotions were still aflame.
He wrote further, ''Plus, herders who choose to murder don't take cows to the murder scene, which made his sarcastic question at once pointless, insensitive, and un-statesmanlike."
To begin with, Tinubu was at Fasoranti's residence on condolence visit over the murder of her daughter while travelling from Lagos to Benin on a highway. Tinubu was confronted with a categorical statement that the murderers were Fulani herdsmen. Tinubu asked intelligently, *Where are the cows?* The implication of Tinubu's remark was that it was senseless and irresponsible to be so categorical about the identity or occupation of the murderers when nobody had been arrested, and off course no cattle were found within or around the scene of the murder. Tinubu was appealing to the reason of the public and not their emotion. He did not ask the question to demean the murder of Fasoranti's daughter, for which he, Tinubu, was on condolence visit.
The greatest brain-farting perpetrated by Professor Farooq Kperogi on this issue is his assertion that ''herders who choose to murder don't take cows to the scene of murder.'' Simple gumption dictates that a person is a herder only, and if only, he is driving a flock of cattle. A herder ceases to be a herder the moment there are no herds of cattle he is driving. Obviously, there is no special way by which one, except perhaps the likes of professor Farooq Kperogi, can recognize or identify herdsmen if they are not in the company of the flocks of their cattle. A herdsman without cattle around him looks like any other (Northern) Nigerian. As long as the murderers of the daughter of Chief Fasoranti are yet to be apprehended it must be stupid for anybody to attribute her murderers to herdsmen. Let us look at an illustrative example. A bank is robbed in Abuja at gunpoint, resulting in the deaths of some people. Professor Farooq Kperogi speculatively claimed that the bank robbers were medical doctors. In order to know why he is so certain that the bank robbers were medical doctors, when nobody has been arrested, someone asked professor Kperogi, "Were the robbers wearing white overall coat with their syringes hanging around the neck or stocked into the ears during the robbery?" Responding to the question, Professor Farooq Kperogi said, "Medical doctors who choose to rob a bank and kill in the process don't wear white overall coat with syringes around the neck or stocked into the ears, to the scene of robbery." How then could professor Kperogi identify the Bank robbers as medical doctors? It is sad when misinformation becomes the basis for reinforcing false opinions. Tinubu may not be my first choice as a presidential candidate in 2023, but on his question, 'where are the cows?' as well as his statement on Amotekun, he has demonstrated that he is beset with very high intelligence.S. Kadiri
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Ämne: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tinubu's Both-Sides-Of-The-Mouth Statement on Amotekun- Farooq A. Kperogi on Security and Politics in Nigeria--Tinubu's run-with-the-hare-and-hunt-with-the-hounds statement on Amotekun pretended to be statesmanlike and evenhanded but it actually only cleverly concealed its attempt to please the Aso Rock cabal.
Why didn't he exercise this sort of even temper when he asked "where are the cows?" after Chief Reuben Fasoranti's daughter was murdered in cold blood by people alleged to be herders? Tinubu might well have been right that the woman wasn't murdered by herders, but he couldn't have known that for sure since no investigation had been carried out. And he said it when emotions were still aflame.
Plus, herders who choose to murder don't take cows to the murder scene, which made his sarcastic question at once pointless, insensitive, and unstatesmanlike. Incidentally, it's the intensification of senseless, unresolved murders such as the one he taunted that inspired the formation of Amotekun.
Tinubu's neither-here-nor-there statement mirrors the duplicity and opportunism of his symbolic actions on Amotekun. For example, neither Sanwo-Olu nor his deputy, who are both beholden to him, attended the formal launch of Amotekun, and Lagos was the only Southwest state where an Amotekun solidarity rally was disrupted by the police. These actions clearly typify opposition to the security outfit.
At the same time, Tinubu's minions in the intelligentsia and his battering rams in the news media have come out strongly against the federal government's—and some northern politicians'—opposition to Amotekun.
In wanting to opportunistically appease both sides in the service of his illusive 2023 presidential bid, Tinubu will appease none in the long run.
The cold, calculating inner circle in Aso Rock is intensely aware that Tinubu's fence-sitting is an insincere, self-seeking political maneuver to appease them, and the Southwest people who were compelled to embrace Amotekun by the escalating sense of siege that unceasing mass murders by homicidal thugs have activated would be unimpressed by his ambiguity and lack of moral clarity.
People who are neither here nor there end up being nowhere, and, with time, nowhere becomes somewhere untoward.
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