Your govt says they support terrorism.
-- You are asking governors to fight the same govt through courts in the same country ?
A qs for you-
Gani Fawehimni was not as educated as yourself but he fought govt injustices single handed.
What prevents you, specifically, who believes so much in due process and rule of law helping us by doing same?
You might not be a lawyer like Gani but the Pound Sterling from your
UK academic salary will go a long way in employing lawyers to help seek justice in Nigeria.
If Gani can do it, why not you, since you are asking others to legally challenge a terrorist govt?
As for justification of vendetta killings I was explaining, not justifying the recent killings of Northern origin people in the SW, a particularly terrible development beceause the Yoruba are normally very accommodating, suggesting issues are reaching or have reached a breaking point.
Thanks
Toyin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 16:39 OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
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My dear Toyin Adepoju.
We cannot go on like this in circularity of arguments in claims and counterclaim for who said what as a result of what and how vendetta killings are justified on either sides.
If anybody feels violated in any state they should crank the wheels for justice through their state government even if the federal government would not act.
Does the federal government control the machinery of government in Benue state? So if the federal government did not censure perceived criminals in Benue state why would the state Director of Public Prosecution in the state not set the ball rolling?
And this is the beauty of democracy over and above dictatorships. Media justice through sensationalisms cannot be a substitute! We are not practising village democracy in Nigeria.
OAA
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Are Miyetti Allah illiterate?
The Sultan of Sokoto and ex CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi are heads of Miyetti Allah.
Has anyone ever read these eminent people contrdicting or challenging the Fulani supremacist declarations of other Miyetti Allah leaders?
As Miyetti Allah justified massacre after massacre of Nigerians, these figures kept mute.
Same with Buhari, who only spoke up after a huge outcry and even then chastised the victims, with his security chiefs on another occasion blaming the victims in Benue for the massacre orchestrated by Miyetti Allah and Fulani herdsmen and their militia against them.
The only time I know Sanusi to have responded to these horrors was to point to a claim on an anti-Fulani massacre elsewhere on the Middle Belt, an effort at equivalence of massacre which Middle Belt figures challenged decribing his story as non- factual.
That is the current Nigerian reality, where the Buhari govt and people like Sanusi are extensions of Miyetti Allah.
Apologists like to keep silent on these factual observations. It does not fit their reality distorting narratives.
All Fulani herdsmen should return to their Northern enclaves.
All efforts to twist these realitues are a waste of time.
Nigerians are now fully awake.
Thanks
Toyin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 09:08 OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Ojogbon Jiyeoba.
I am against land grabbing as you are. When I spoke of Southern Christian majority and northern Christian minority I was only referring to the driving force of the argument just as the driving force for German antisemitism were the Nazis, but by no means the only catchment populace for antisemitism ( otherwise the Holocaust would not have happened.)
I have said several times on this forum that many Fulani who made incendiary statements about land ownership are either total illiterates or half literate about constitutional provisions.
They understand that all Nigerians have the right to live and work anywhere in the country but they dont understand the small letters and conditions attached to such constitutional provisions. This is why I stated that illiteracy is a disease.
If I wanted the Fulani to be grabbing lands, why would I be at the fore front of immediate commencement of ranching and stricter enforcement of tresspass laws against nomadic herders?
What no one has the right to say is that Fulani should be sent back to the North as Tioyin Adepoju seems to be consistently arguing using Fulani herdsmen and colonisation project as pretext. As reprisal, all southerners : Edo, Igbo and Yoruba inclusive would be sent back to their enclaves and thinly disguised separatists like him would have been assisted to achieve their ultimate goal.
I know you are saying Oke Ogun is part of affected areas but are you a Muslim yourself and is your contribution here as a result that you are Christian or Muslim? ( I am decidedly animist and that affects my take.)
Yes, it is obvious illiterate Fulani thinking that since one of them is in office as president means the government belongs to them ( and proceed to act accordingly- even voicing' born to rule') But do they understand how many South West votes produced that presidency that had been denied the incumbent several times? Do they understand how many South East votes put the president in power and not just their own minority votes? This is why illiteracy is a disease. Do they realise how they by actions and utterances are making the country ungovernable for their man?
I have highlighted the most important singular weakness of Muhammadu Buhari right from his first term. Inability to communicate effectively and efficiently, ( including how to rein in the verbal and behavioural excesses of his ethnic kith and kin in a timely manner.)
As Chidi Amuta suggested, the states have the legal rights to commence litigation against the perceived criminality of herdsmen within their domain. Let us see how many of such litigation the federal government will attempt to step in and terminate and for what reasons. Getting unduly emotional solves no problems.
OAA
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We thank God for those who say it as it is.
In the name of being detribalised and intellectually refined, some people struggle to deny reality in the name of protecting ethnocentrists who simply keep on doing their thing.
I'm puzzled by this strange kind of reality denying politics, which is possible only among Southern Nigerian intelligentsia, proud of their education, yet using it against not only their own interests, but also contorting reality in the name of a mirage of multi-ethnic humanity while the perpetrators on the other end have no regard for such fantasies.
God have mercy.
Toyin
--On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 15:27 'tunde jaiyeoba' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--Dear OAA Sir,
Your first statement here is not entirely true
"The Nazis came from the German majority group ( this is my own graduate specialisation with adequate research work completed) and that was why they could oppress the minority Jewish victim group; the Fulani constitute a minority group in Nigeria spread thinly across the country who are now in danger of being a victim of genocide orchestrated by both the Christian minority in the North and the Christian majorities in the South".
It is not true that it is the Christian minority and the Christian majorities in the South that is against land grabbing, destruction of farmland, kidnapping amongst other evils being perpetrated by i must say Fulani herdsmen so i am not pretending because we know!!! The Oke Ogun area of Oyo State where the evil is most prominent in Oyo State is populated by mostly moslems. Please let's stop giving religious colourations to this analysis. Other Nigerians are against the devilish tendencies of theses 'herders' who are no longer herdsmen but criminals that are seemingly above the law since even if they are arrested they get freed by unknown powerful and connected people. Yes, how many of them have been arrested and convicted?? Then the Federal Government is implicated by not deploying the full force of the armed forces to confront them and many State Governments being aware that our Federalism is the type with all resources aggregated at the centre also refuse to act appropriately to defend their people.
In Yorubaland where there is a balance of both Christians and Moslems nobody wants to get killed by people claiming to own your land for historical and ethnic superiority reasons. An elected governor- the governor of Bauchi State- who i imagine everyone will want to take seriously said that much. So why do we want to keep pretending??? This government had better wake up and start performing up to expectations !!! Honestly, they have lost ground even with ardent supporters whether Christian or otherwise !!!
Also, the Nigerian context is peculiar. You kept emphasising "Minority Fulani" yet they have dominated and continue to dominate wherever they have inhabited and continue to inhabit and continues to threaten about future domination by fire and by force. How do you think other Nigerians will feel irrespective of religious affiliation?
I think that this is actually the time for restructuring to take place if the Senators and the Representatives can be forced to present the wishes of the people they represent. The Executive Arm of government says the ball is now in the courts of the Legislature to restructure Nigerian. If the Representatives of the people in the South West, South East, South South, North East and the Middle belt actually represent their people, it will have been an open and close case. However, we know they only represent themselves !!! Among the political class there is no religion or ethnicity, they are united in enriching themselves and protecting personal and family interests.
Please let us analyse the problems as Nigerians and proffer solutions with little or no bias.
Babatunde JAIYEOBA
Prof. E. Babatunde JAIYEOBA PhDHead, department of ArchitectureFaculty of Environmental design and ManagementObafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeriaebjaiye@oauife.edu.ng; tundejaiyeoba@yahoo.co.uk; +234 8037880023On Monday, 15 February 2021, 12:31:31 GMT+1, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Toyin Adepoju
Your comparisons as usual are inadequate and as usual you lump too many issues together in your normal tirade.
The Nazis came from the German majority group ( this is my own graduate specialisation with adequate research work completed) and that was why they could oppress the minority Jewish victim group; the Fulani constitute a minority group in Nigeria spread thinly across the country who are now in danger of being a victim of genocide orchestrated by both the Christian minority in the North and the Christian majorities in the South.
Only the Fulani sharing of the same faith, Islam with the majority in the North has prevented this genocide. So the situation in Nigeria is more complicated than the German situation which you cite.
If Nigeria were made up of only the former southern protectorate, I have no doubt that a genocide against the Fulani would have occurred.
In the event, the complexity of the Nigerian society is our collective armour. It is in that, that our collective resolution lie against the criminals in our midst who will in the long run be brought to justice.
The Muslims on this listserv could not jump to the conclusions you jump to because there is inadequate evidence just as yours truly cannot? Not all Fulani are equally intelligent as not all Edo or Yoruba are. That some Fulani in position of influence make costly gaffes does not mean retribution should follow towards millions of innocent Fulani. You cant force people to engage you if they feel your terms are heavily prejudiced.
If evidence that there are Yoruba ( and other ethnicity 'Miyetti Allah') cattle owners is presented, your prejudice makes you ignore or reject the evidence
OAA
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OAA,
Why do you like to argue at times as if there is no historical or political context to the issues you are addressing, as if they are asocial, purely intellectual abstractions?
That kind of intellectualism is deeply disturbing.
Ife is the spiritual centre of the world, where the world began and through which all souls pass in their journey to the beyond, as is claimed in Yoruba mythology.
Yet, has any group of Yoruba people used this ethnic supremacist myth as an ideology of imperial conquest, or terrorism, as is being done by Miyetti Allah in pursuing an internal colonisation strategy in Nigeria as they consistently articulate a Fulani supremacist ideology dramatised in recurrent justification of massacres of peaceful Nigerians?
If the formerly militant, OPC, Odua Peoples Congress, were to try that impossibility, impossible beceause it is unthinkabke in the Yoruba ethos, as reflected in the accommodationist culture of Yorubaland in the peaceful co-existence of Islam, ATR, Christianity and other religions, do you expect support for such an abomination from Afenifere or any Yoruba correlate of Miyetti Allah headed by Nigeria's most elite Fulani such as the Sultan of Sokoto and the former Emir of Kano and former CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi?
Would the chorus of condemnation from Yoruba intelligentsia not be deafening?
What is the level of response of Muslim Northerners and Fulani, on this group, for example, your fellow scholars and academics, to this crisis?
What is the general scope of response of this demographic, such as the urbane Sanusi, to this crisis?
We all know the answer.
What are the implications of the answer?
Germany was taken into war by the racial supremacist theories of Adolf Hitler at the heart of the Nazi party.
As Nazism evolved, some Germans spoke up and were vilified, such as the priest Martin Niemuller.
Some died in the process, such as the priest Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Most were silent, even as the Nazi massacre of 6 million Jews was in process.
Some supported the Nazis, such as the famous philosopher Martin Heidegger.
The eventual war is known as instigated by Germany and it's allies against the world, a responsibility not localised to the Nazi party.
We have a Fulani leadership, composed of a civil society pressure group led by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, backed by such prominent Fulani as Professor Lambdo who claims Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest and the Fulani President of Nigeria and his cabinet, most from his ethno-religious demographic , the latter operating through public pronouncements, policy intiatives and the use of the Nigerian armed forces, led by this same demographic, as instruments of protection and assistance to the terrorists, employing Fulani herdsmen and militia in a terrorist internal colonisation scheme and most Fulani and their Northern Muslim brethren are pretending not to notice, are claiming there is no ethically orchestrated military initiative to this brigandage, or are openly siding the killers.
We can't ignore this reality even if we differ on the scope of terrorist intentionality.
The Fulani leadership need to move from Usman Dan Fodio fantasies, move from a jihad mentality to the equitable existence represented by healthy human civilization.
The Fulani majority need to cry out against those making the Fulani name anathema across Nigeria.
Those who claim to represent you can't be ravaging me and mine while you pretend it's not happening or are tacitly or openly support the predators or falsely claiming this terrorist horror is a clash between my unarmed self and unarmed people and those who claim to represent you as they employ sophisticated weapons clearly bought by their ethnic supremacist Fulani backers running a private army, the Fulani militia.
We need to entre the 21st century of information technology, electric cars and space travel, not regress to this atavism.
We, Southern Kaduna, the Middle Belt and the South, shall not accept Fulani supremacism in any form and will not be ceding our land and freedom for any reason.
Build ranches in the Northern Muslim centres of your demographic and we shall come there to buy from you.
Fertilize those places as Israel and those in the Middle East do with their land.
Invest in technology and education rather than in the current focus on AK47s and military training.
Educate Fulani herdsmen on the need to modify the centuries old culture of cattle nomadism.
It has little or no place in the 21st century.
A painful truth, given the cultural wealth of this lifestyle but the stubborn insistence on nomadism or on having the lands of others for Fulani settlements in exchange for leaving nomadism is looking increasingly bad for the Fulani.
thanks
toyin
Thanks
Toyin
--On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 10:14, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
OAA,
Why do you like to argue as if there is no historical or political context to the issues you are addressing, as if they are asocial, purely intellectual abstractions?
Dis your kind of intellectualism is deeply disturbing.
Ife is the spiritual centre of the world, where the world began and through which all souls pass in their journey to the beyond, as is claimed in Yoruba mythology.
Yet, has any group of Yoruba people used this ethnic supremacist myth as an ideology of imperial conquest, or terrorism, as is being done by Miyetti Allah in pursuing an internal colonisation strategy in Nigeria as they consistently articulate a Fulani supremacist ideology dramatised in recurrent justification of massacres of peaceful Nigerians?
If OPC were to try that impossibility, impossible beceause it is unthinkabke in the Yoruba ethos, as refflected in the supremely accommodationist culture of Yorubaland in the peaceful co-existence of Islam, ATR, Christianity and other religions, do you expect support for such an abomination from Afenifere or any Yoruba correlate of Miyetti Allah headed by Nigeria's most elite Fulani such as the Sultan of Sokoto and the former Emir of Kano and former CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi?
Would the chorus of condemnation s from Yoruba intelligentsia not be deafening?
What is the level of response of Muslim Northerners and Fulani, your fellow scholars and academics, on this group, for example, to this crisis?
What is the general scope of response of this demographic, such as the urbane Sanusi, to this crisis?
We all know the answer.
What are the implications of the answer?
Germany was taken into war by the racial supremacist theories of Adolf Hitler at the heart of the Nazi party.
As Nazism evolved, some Germans spoke up and were vilified.
Some died in the process.
Most were silent, even as the massacre of 6 million Jews was in process.
The eventual war is known as instigated by Germany and it's allies against the world, a responsibility not localised to the Nazi party.
We have a Fulani leadership, composed of a civil society pressure group led by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, backed by such prominent Fulani as Professor Lambdo who claims Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest and the Fulani President of Nigeria employing Fulani herdsmen and militia in a terrorist internal colonisation scheme and most Fulani and their Northern Muslim brethren are pretending not to notice, are claiming there is no ethically orchestrated military initiative to this brigandage, or are openly siding the killers.
We can't ignore this reality even if we differ on the scope of terrorist intentionality.
The Fulani leadership need to move from Usman Dan Fodio fantasies and move from a jihad mentality to the equitable existence represented by healthy human civilisation.
The Fulani majority need to cry out against those making the Fulani name anathema across Nigeria.
Those who claim to represent you can't be ravaging what is mine while you pretend it's not happening.
Thanks
Toyin
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 01:05 OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
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If the Yoruba say the WHOLE WORLD was created in Ile- Ife or the Rabbi wrote that the WHOLE WORLD started from the Garden of Eden or some Igbo says its the destiny of the Igbo to rule the whole of Africa, are such claims the basis for which you hate either the Jews or the Yoruba or the Igbo?
It is known that the population of Fulani in the WHOLE WORLD is not more than FIFTEEN MILLION. More than 90% of this is in West Africa. How can any knowledgeable person take seriously the claim that the Fulani own the whole of Africa?
Most people have myths of origin. They are written in aporetic codes to galvanise them to limitless achievements. They cannot be scientifically proven. The Fulani are no different. No learned person takes them too seriously.
OAA
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Alagba Salimonu Kadiri,So because Yoruba or Igbo own cows, that gives a license to the Fulani herders to terrorise and kill people? Abi? At least in this instance, the identity of the herders was not in question. You have forever stridently argued that the allegation against the Fulani herders who kill and maim are speculative. Now when they are caught red-handed, the argument has shifted. No one is surprised at the cold feet and muted tongues of our political leaders and traditional rulers. who on account of their stakes in this business and the elusive dream of presidency in 2023 have remained indifferent to the plight of the people they claim to be representing. It is so shameful. The point remains that Bororo people have been carrying out their grazing in the Southwest for as long as I have known. related with them on friendly terms when I was growing up. They rarely eat up crops, and when they did, they apologised. What we are against at this point is the brazen arrogance, callousness and savagery, which is manifested in killing, wanton destruction of lives, crops and livelihood, the worst being the claim that all lands in Africa belong to the Fulanis. What insolence! I even read today that a sitting Governor in Bauchi state made such nonsensical claims. This help to validate the argument that there is a Fulanisation agenda that people like you simply refuse to accept. I mean, if a Governor can make such claim, what do you expect people who dont have any education to say. Is that not a tacit political support for rte. carnage that is currently going on in the Southern part of the country? Did you read that they the herders opened fire on Amotekun yesterday and not a word from Shehu Garba or his Principal? Did you read that the same people burnt up an Amotekun vehicle today and yet you are justifying such aggression? Please let's think about the implications of these in the long run. We may be safe where we are but not many people have that privilege.
--On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 3:38 PM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--It is not the cows that are mad but the narratives about them. News first broke out on Tuesday, 9 February 2021, that Wole Soyinka fled to Lagos after attack on his residence at Abeokuta by Fulani herdsmen with their cows. https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/02/10/breaking-fulani-herdsmen-attack-soyinkas-home-in-abeokuta/ The same day, the first son of Wole Soyinka, Dr Olaokun Soyinka, debunked the news of the attack on Soyinka's residence, according to many Nigerian online media, including PM News Nigeria. https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/02/10/herdsmen-did-not-attack-soyinka-they-only-violated-his-compound/
The account given by Soyinka below indicates that the herdsmen fled into the bush, leaving their cows behind, when Soyinka wanted to accost them. Thereafter, he called the Police. "On arrival," Soyinka said, "the police wanted to comb the bush in search of the fugitives (herders) but I stopped them - what was the point? Keep the cows, I advised, and the owner will show up. OF COURSE, THAT OWNER EVENTUALLY DID (SHOWED UP)." Who was the owner of the cows that Soyinka claimed eventually showed up? Soyinka would appear to have deliberately omitted the ethnic identity of the actual owner of the cows that showed up in order to keep alive the myth of Fulani people as the owner of all the cows ravaging bushes and farms in Nigeria. Luckily the huge balloon of myth was deflated by Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, who revealed the following, "The cows are owned by a gentleman by the name KAZEEM SORINOLA who is a Yoruba chap, and that is the joy of everything. He, KAZEEM SORIOLA, PLACED THE COWS IN CHARGE OF A FULANI CHAP. SO, THE COWS ARE NOT OWNED BY ANY FULANI, BUT THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE COWS IS A YOUNG FULANI MAN." https://punchng.com/cows-at-soyinkas-compound-owned-by-yoruba-man-not-fulani-say-police/ There are many Kazeem Sorinola in Southern Nigeria owning cows who only employ Fulani people to herd them. It is time to expose all the Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw and Ibibio in Southern Nigeria who are the real Miyetti Allah cattle breeders who employ Fulani to help them herd their cattle in Southern Nigeria through nomadic pastoralism.S. Kadiri
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Mad cows and even madder narratives
By Wole Soyinka
The most distressful aspect of my recent interaction with cows and herders is that it has created a most unwanted distraction from the ongoing life and death Nigerian narrative. One has to take time off to deal with distortions and Fake versions, while students are being reportedly waylaid and killed and/or kidnapped in Ondo and farmers are being slaughtered in my own state. In short, the killings continue even as panels are being launched to enquire into immediate past human violations.
For those who truly seek details of the Ijegba incident, I hereby affirm that I was never physically attacked, neither did I attack any cows. The cows and herders did however attack my property – and not for the first time.
The police need to be very, very careful, learn to be straightforward with public information. Failure to adhere to that obvious, basic form of conduct means that the public will lose total confidence in security agencies and constantly bypass them in times of civic unrest, no matter how trivial or deadly. How on earth could the police claim that my property was not invaded by cattle? It was. My groundsmen knew the drill and commenced the process of expelling them. Fortunately, I was then driving out and was able to lend a hand by vehicle maneuvering. Both cattle and herdsmen were flushed out of my property.
Once they were outside the gates, I came down from the vehicle and beckoned the herdsmen to come over. At first, they pretended not to understand, then, as I approached, fled into the bush. We thereupon "arrested" the cows, confining them to the roadside, while I sent my groundsman, Taiye, to the police to come and take over. Since they took rather long in responding, I summoned a replacement and proceeded to the police station. On the way, we met a detachment, turned round, and together we returned to the scene of crime. The police wanted to commence combing the bush for the fugitives but I stopped them – what was the point? Keep the cows, I advised, and the owner will show up. Of course, that owner eventually did.
I thoroughly resent the police version which suggests that the cows never invaded my home: home is not just a building; it includes its grounds. And it was not a stray cow, or two or three. It was a herd – we have photos, so why the lie? It is so unnecessary, unprofessional and suspiciously compromised. The police suggest that I have nothing better to do than to go accosting cows on the public road – to what end? If the police demand proof, the next time such an invasion takes place, I warn that there will be no lack for cadaver affirmation and the police will be officially invited to join in the ensuing suya feast. So please, let us get serious!
Getting serious means seeking with a sense of urgency, ways of terminating mayhem, impunity, and the homicidal culture being imposed on us through some near cultic business minority who just happen to trade in cattle. It means not giving up on peaceful solutions, but also being prepared for the worst. Those of my line of thought have been working on various ways of sensitizing the nation to the very real and imminent danger issuing from this cattle aberration. The menace, I repeat, challenges us as a cohesive entity and as communities of free individuals, committed to the dignity of existence. Cattle imperialism under any guise is an obscenity to humanity. So let me serve notice that we are about to commence a process of public sensitization; we hope even the police will join hands with the agenda as it progresses.
A special practical plea: now that the railways are being resurrected, let us make cattle wagons a priority. I grew up with the regular sight of those practical conveyances. It is time to bring them back.
Prof SOYINKA writes from Kemta Housing Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State
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