And as for the question you asked, Yinka, if Fulani herders approach the Benue State government to acquire land for ranching and they secure a loan from the FG or a bank to finance it, of course I would support it, and so would the Benue people. That is precisely the point of the Benue anti-open grazing and ranching law. It seeks to promote ranching. For passing that law, Miyetti threatened and then attacked several parts of the state and killed hundreds and destroyed several communities, with the security services doing nothing to protect Benue people, with Buhari telling the Benue people to "go and live in peace with your neighbors (the killer herdsmen)" and the minister of defense and IGP saying that the Benue ranching law and the "blocking of grazing routes" were responsible for the armed herdsmen massacres in the state..
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 5:16 PM Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
Yinka,Please read what I have been writing on this list and what others before me have been saying: the North is the not the South. Ethnicity has little or no political purchase in the North. The primary, consequential idiom of political identity is religion.And it is not true that Hausa people in the north do not oppose Buhari. If your assertion is right then why did Buhari and his people have to rig the 2019 election in many Hausa-dominated states of the Northwest?And, as I stated in my earlier post, the distinction between the Hausa and Fulani was not sharp and was muted until the Fulani banditry and kidnapping in Zamfara, Katsina, and other states brought it to the open. This is a recent phenomenon, and I've been saying that it is one of the most profound, if largely ignored, legacies of the Fulani ethnic preponderance in kidnapping and banditry.And your comment on Hausa not allowing Northern minorities to rule Nigeria is ignorant. It is also the usual majoritarian, imperialist, supremacist posturing of the big three ethnic groups. Who told you that the Hausa allowed Northern minorities to rule? What the heck does that even mean? Are you talking about the military era when leaders were not elected? I don't know of any Northern minorities that have have been elected to "rule" Nigeria in the "democratic" era.At any rate, your post left me very confused. I am not even sure I fully understand your drift. Are you suggesting that Northern minorities are the problem of Nigeria and that Hausas are their imperial lords who should keep them in check for the sake of Nigeria's stability? If that is your point, then I'd like to thank you for exposing yourself as a hater of Northern minorities, and a closetted supporter of ethnic cleansing and ethnic political exclusion. What exactly is your problem with Northern minorities? Are you so enamored with Buhari that you hate whoever does not support him?You alluded to Kajuru. Has the Ruga in Kajuru not earned the Fulani an emirate, thanks to Nasir el-Rufai? Do you know about an emirate called Wase in Plateau state. Do you know how it started? There are are examples of Rugas or Fulani settlements in precolonial and colonial Northern Nigeria that have morphed, rather forcefully, into emirates with backing from the powerful Northern Hausa-Fulani establishment. Is that not one of the reasons that people in both the Middle Belt and the South are suspicious of the Ruga idea?Anyway, You left me scratching my head with your post.On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:57 PM OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:--What I find troubling is that it is not the northern majority the Hausa that are mainly at loggerheads with Buhari and the Fulani; its the northern minorities who are minorities just like the Fulani. The Hausa are so accommodating of their minorities. Its like the southern minorities giving Johnathan a hard tim in office instead of the situation in which many southerners of diverse situation embracing him but for party affiliation.
If I were a Hausa man and in politics I would work with others to ensure no northern minority rules Nigerian again in view of the bickerings with which they threaten the very fabric and foundations of the country. You can hate the Hausa for this stance but you cant outvote them to put an alternative northern minority in power. I think this last resort to bock ethnic as an interim measure will sanitise northern politics and restore stability to the country.
OAA
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Gulf Between Nigeria'sMuslimNorth and Largely Christian South : Debate on Plan by Muslim North LedFedGovt to Settle Fulani Herdsmen on Lands Across the NationFarooq:Nigerian categories don't define Salone politics—majoritarian vs minoritarian duality is not an issue in Salone politics.--
Sent from my iPhone--As someone who takes exception to his name being spelled in any variant other than "Farooq," I understand where you're coming from. Most people have an emotional investment in how their names are spelled. My apologies. It won't happen again.
But how can you not be a "minority" in Sierra Leone when you don't come from any of the major ethnic groups from there?
To Professor Jibrin "Jibo" Ibrahim, I got the information about the murderous religious persecution of your dad from a friend of yours in Kano in the 1990s. Someone else shared the same information with me many years later. My apologies if this information is false. But many people in your erstwhile radical Marxist constituency repeat this falsehood. (I say "erstwhile" because you are now an unapologetic, out-and-out, reactionary status quo defender, except that you do such an astonishingly poor job of being one.)
Maybe you're being mistaken for someone else. Or it's the unusualness of your being a Hausa Christian from Kano that inspired the falsehood. Nevertheless, accept my sincere apologies.
Now, let me piggyback on Professor Abdullah and also say to you that my name is not "Farouk"; it's Farooq. Thank you.
Farooq
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 6:19 PM Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Farooq:My name is Abdullah, not Abdullahi. Moses has this extreme idea of labeling-he sees ethnicity everywhere! He is on record to have invented me as an Igbira and a minority in Sierra Leone. Truth is that am not Igbira nor a minority in Sierra Leone. I was never raised in an ethnic context even though my dad is Hausa—Keffin Hausa—-and my mom Fulbe—her dad is from Senegal but born in Sierra Leone. I was born in Sierra Leone and I speak Yoruba and Hausa.
Sent from my iPhoneYou beat me to it, Professor Abdullahi! I was going to point that out. Because of his name, a lot of people mistake Jibrin "Jibo" Ibrahim for a "Hausa-Fulani Muslim." He is not. He is a Hausa Christian from Kano. Nothing in his physical features, for those of us who know him, suggests the presence of even the remotest tincture of Fulani blood in him. His father converted to Christianity and paid the ultimate price for it. Jibo used to be critical of the traditional institutions in the North because his father was a direct victim of its inhumane viciousness. Today he sings the praises of the same institution that murdered his father in cold blood for exercising his liberty of conscience. He has also become a knee-jerk, pro-regime conservative ideologue, even if he does it without any intellectual stamina. He wants to be accepted by the mainstream and strains hard, mostly too hard, to "belong." I call this the paradox of the extremism of the margins. People who are on the gaunt fringes if an identity tend to go to ridiculous extremes to justify being admitted to the mainstream--much like the zeal of the convert. Or maybe it's just protective mimicry, that is, blending in with one's immediate surrounding so as not to stand out like a sore thumb. I don't know. But it's distressing nonetheless.
Farooq
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Sent from my phone. Please forgive typos and omissions.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 1:53 PM Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Jibo is NOT a Fulani. He is Hausa from Kabo, Kanu ; a Christian Hausa by upbringing not a Muslim.
I had no idea that Jibo was one of the propagandists for the now suspended Ruga Fulani settlement scheme. Thanks for posting this, Toyin. Oh well, what is new--he's always been the chief propagandist for his Fulani kinsmen--killer herdsmen he considers victims and endangered, an alternate narrative removed from our terrestrial reality.
They say they want to solve "herders-farmers" crisis but why the clear land grab on behalf of Fulani herders? Why is there nothing in the plan to resettle the hundreds of thousands of people in IDP camps in many Middle Belt states and communities destroyed by the killer herdsmen who have now forcefully taken over these communities and converted them to their own conquered Ruga? Why is there nothing in the plan for farmers and for keepers of other domesticated animals? If you're truly interested in solving the crisis, why is there nothing in the plan to disarm the heavily armed, roving Fulani militias who have left a trail of death and destruction and have already confiscated and cleansed vast swathes of land in the Middle Belt for their herding kinsmen?
This disastrous administration consistently infantilizes Nigerians. First cattle colonies. It didn't fly. Then Ruga. Now it's rejected and suspended. Will they come to their senses and embrace the consensus on ranching or will they revise, rebrand, and resubmit their Ruga/cattle colonies?
And by the way, why not simply commandeer the vast, "empty" landmass in the Northwest and parts of the Northeast that Northerners are always bragging about, lands where the Fulani herdsmen have ancestral and natal roots, to implement Ruga, if you must have Ruga? With technology the state of Israel turned their deserts into fertile, cultivable land, so spare us the excuse that these regions are arid. Let the North put its money where its interests are and invest in modern land regeneration technology for their Ruga Fulani settlement scheme. There, they'll be among their kinsmen, with no tension or complaints of land grab.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:36 AM OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
But we heard from the Kperogi analysis on this forum that not all Fulani pastoralists are Muslims. Was he lying? He listed at least 8 Fulani identities which are now being homogenized and lumped together in a knee- jerk reaction of fear. If that claim is true how could there be a threat of emirates all over the country?
Could a specific event in the Kaduna hotbed be generalised for the country?
OAA
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Still on this issue. Please let all informed minds read and digest this post. In the Social Sciences, we call it participant observation.How Fulani converted Ruga settlements in my community to emirate —Obasanjo's ex-aide
File copyEniola Akinkuotu, Abuja
A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Jonathan Asake, has said the new move to create Ruga settlements in some parts of the country is nothing but an attempt to 'Fulanise' the country.
Asake, who was a member of the seventh House of Representatives between 2011 and 2015, said this during an interview on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily on Friday.
He said the term 'Ruga' was a Fulani word and it was thus hypocritical of anyone to say when it is implemented across the nation, it would not be exclusive to Fulani.
Asake, who is from southern Kaduna, said in 1987, the then government of Kaduna State approved Ruga settlements in the old Kachia Local Government Area which now comprises Zangon Kataf, Chikun, Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas.
He, however, said over time, the Fulani began to expand these settlements and today, some of them are being converted to Emirates.
Asake, who is a leader of the Middle Belt Forum, said, "I'm from Zangon Kataf Local Government Area in Kaduna State. We have what was established in 1987 as the Kachia grazing reserve in the then old Kachia LG which comprises Zangon Kataf, Chikun and Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas of today.
"That grazing reserve has been changed to Laduga. Laduga is actually a Fulani word and no indigene is there. The land has been taken over from the indigenes. And that place is now a big town, with big hospitals and roads.
"In fact, the last voter registration exercise there, two registration machines were put there. Today, they have a district head and they are asking for an emirate. It is just a model of what will happen tomorrow in this country when these settlements are established. You will have state constituencies in the state assembly established all over the country strictly for Fulani."
Asake said the Ruga initiative must be rejected because government's ultimate plan is to take over ancestral land from indigenous owners and give it to a particular people.
He hailed socio-cultural groups in the South, especially Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo for rejecting the idea
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:55 AM Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
The poster of the Facebook update represents views likely to be encountered from the Muslim North, in my view, while most of the commentators represent views likely to come from the South.
There has been a sustained & largely uninformed campaign against pastoralism. In response, the government decided to initiate the Ruga Settlement programme to settle them. Now there is a new campaign to frustrate stop it. So what do they want?
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