Moses Ochonu!
Why are you determined to refuse to grant agency to a person whose brutish clannishness you have yourself catalogued?
You keep referring to people advising Buhari wrongly.
Yet you have yourself described his mindset in a way that is consistent with this behaviour, meaning that he has advised himself and is at the heart of this plan.
Na wa.
A highly coordinated terrorist ethnic agenda, from the top of the political pyramid to the security agencies, is playing out before you but you are determined not to admit it until what?
By the time a good no of Jews admitted to themselves the Nazi party meant their eradication, it was too late for them.
We dont have to agree but is it fair on yourself to insist on ignoring the evidence of your own analyses, all bcs perhaps it took you so long to grasp the hell being unleashed on Nigerians?
Is the memory of Bashir of Sudan and his jajaweed not relevant here?
Farooq,to give another example of a person who refuses to adequately correlate the data he has himself catalogued, is determined to see the unfolding horror as the work of some vagrant bororo and the culpability of Buhari as nothing more than a person seeing a national crisis through clannish eyes, yet the same Farooq has described Buhari's Arewaisation of Nigerian govt, central to which is his beginning his rule by filling practically all security leaderships of the nation with his ethno/religious kin.
Yet the determination persists not to link the dots and at least grant the implications of various casualties at play here.
Education and being civilised are good but they should not lead one to refuse to recognise the systematic evil human beings are capable of.
We Southern Nigerians need to be more politically mature. Its great that you are working hard in unmasking this fiendish mentality dramatised by Buhari's govt but you need to ask yourself some serious qs about Buhari's mindset based on the evidence before you.
toyin
On 26 January 2018 at 10:45, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Moses:Greetings from Nigeria. I think Abuja is misreading the level of anger in the land. There is a level of callousness, too, in dealing with thousands of displaced people who rely on their land for survival.
Can the govt. not:1. Disarm citizens who carry AK47 around? Herders used to carry sticks.2. Apply the full force of law to anyone with guns without license.3. Appeal to sedentary farmers to cultivate grass and sell them in inter-regional trade. This becomes a win-win situation.
The nuclear optionBoycott beef.
Sent from my iPhone--"Since Independence, we know there used to be a route whereby these cattle rearers use. Cattle rearers are all over the nation, you go to Bayelsa, you see them, you go to Ogun, you see them. If those routes are blocked, what happens? These people are Nigerians, it's just like you going to block river or shoreline, does that make sense to you? These are the remote causes. But what are the immediate causes? It is the grazing law. These people are Nigerians, we must learn to live together with each other, that is basic. Communities and other people must learn how to accept foreigners within their enclave, finish!"
--Defense Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, January 25, 2018.
Take a moment to digest this. This is Nigeria's defense minister, speaking to reporters today after the security council meeting, not the spokesman of Miyetti Allah. He is echoing the official position of the government on the herdsmen issue, a position indistinguishable from that of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the genocidal herdsmen body that regularly admits to, and threatens communities with, mass murder.
The highlights of his rant are, 1) the remote cause of the problem is the "blocking" of grazing routes by farming communities, and 2) the immediate cause is the anti-open grazing laws passed by three states, never mind that the Agatu massacre of 500 villagers by armed herdsmen preceded the Benue law and that the anti-open grazing laws passed by three states were a response to the violence of herdsmen, not the other way round.
The minister apportioned absolutely no blame whatsoever on the armed herdsmen militia. They are the victims, the wronged side, according to Defense Minister Dan-Ali. There is no pretense of balance and even-handedness. The solution, for him, is not to mobilize the military might of the state to go after the armed herdsmen mass murderers. The solution for him and the president is to urge to farming communities to grant the herdsmen unfettered access to grazing lands in their communities because according to him, "these people (herdsmen) are Nigerians."
These are the people advising Buhari and shaping his attitude and response (or lack thereof) to the herdsmen violence. No wonder, Buhari told the Benue delegation that visited him to "in the name of God accommodate your countrymen." That is what he and his inner circle and security team believe to be the problem: the failure of Benue and other states to accommodate the herdsmen. Herdsmen must be "accommodated" for peace to reign.
This is what clannishness can do to a leader. It traps him in a bubble of provincialism, in which he gets only skewed counsel. It creates an incestuous, provincial world that reinforces the leader's own preexisting parochialism and hubris. Clannishness blinds the leader to a broader reality, causing him to remain completely out of touch with what is really going on. It causes him to value above all else the deceptive but comforting narrative of kinsmen advisers who are moored to ethnic loyalty and given to navel gazing.
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