Echoes of Mailafia
Armed group planning to attack Ekiti soon, Police warn
By Ojo Adelugba
Armed groups are infiltrating Ekiti State with the hope of attacking the communities, the Ekiti State Police Command said in a Wednesday statement made available to Irohonoodua.
What scenario from recent Nigerian history does this scenario from the report above suggest-
''It said that intelligence gathered has it that the first set of the armed and criminally minded hoodlums will arrive the State with the pretence of settling peacefully with their host Communities while the other set will come later to lunch an attack and cause havoc.''
Vigilance is the price of liberty.
toyin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 22:58, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
Editedhelpful analysis, till you had to slip in your APC politics-''I have also used this to explain how this same feeling propelled a person with lofty academic credentials as Mailafia to give the potentially explosive interview on the imminent invasion of the South by Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen, and false accounts of plane loads of arms already shipped to the South.''OAAthe evidence suggests the invasion is already underway and the arms have already arrived.years before Mailafia, Soyinka made a similar claim of arms being dropped on Fulani cattle routes, well before the explosion of the Fulani herdsmen militia on Buhari's 2015 ascension, the massacre by them in Nimbo in the SE, their taking over forests in the SW and engaging in kidnapping and robbery, leading to monarchs in the SW to cry out, and the founding of a SW self defense unit, Amotekun, all after the regular rivers of blood Fulani herdsmen militia unleashed in the Middle Belt.Within all this no one is so much as arrested as Miyetti Allah, representing the Fulani herdsmen militia and led by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, justifies massacres of Nigerians.Mailafia is simply specifying details of the Fulanisation and Islamisation vision of the present govt that OBJ and Danjuma have pointed out.So, sir, dont isolate Mailafia as if he is alone amidst actors from various contexts saying similar things and as if his utterances are not reinforced by evidence in plain sight.The DSS is not deceiving Nigerians by harassing Mailafia. The same DSS that behaves as if it is not aware that Miyetti Allah is the equivalent of a terrorist group and that the Fulani militia have been rightly described by international terrorist watch agencies as one of the world's three deadliest terror groups.toyinOn Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 22:57, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:helpful analysis, till you had to slip in your APC politics-''I have also used this to explain how this same feeling propelled a person with lofty academic credentials as Mailafia to give the potentially explosive interview on the imminent invasion of the South by Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen, and false accounts of plane loads of arms already shipped to the South.''OAAthe evidence suggests the invasion is already underway and the arms have already arrived.years before Mailafia, Soyinka made a similar claim of arms being dropped on Fulani cattle routes, well before the explosion of the Fulani herdsmen militia on Buhari's 2015 ascension, the massacre by them in Nimbo in the SE, their taking over forests in the SW and engaging in kidnapping and robbery, leading to monarchs in the SW to cry out, and the founding of a SW self defense unit, Amotekun, all after the regular rivers of blood Fulani herdsmen militia unleashed in the Middle Belt.Within all this no one is so much as arrested as Miyetti Allah, representing the Fulani herdsmen militia and led by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, justifies massacres of Nigerians.Mailafia is simply specifying details of the Fulanisation and Islamisation vision of the present govt that OBJK and Danjuma have pointed out.So, sir, dont isolate Mailafia as if he is alone amidst actors from various contexts saying similar things and as if his utterances are not reinforced by evidence in plain sight.The DSS is not deceiving Nigerians by harassing Mailafia. The same DSS that behaves as if it is not aware that Miyetti Allah is the equivalent of a terrorist group and that the Fulani militia have been rightly described by international terrorist watch agencies as one of the world's three deadliest terror groups.toyinOn Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 21:37, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:--There were clearly genocidal tendencies against Igbo in the North following the January 1966 coups and it is undeniable. Danjuma has explained why: they saw some Igbo jubilating in the streets at the senseless murders of the Sardauna and other northern leaders.
Also word went round that most Igbo leaders were untouched by the coupists. These are undeniable facts. In psychoanalysis we call that the reign of mass hysteria. The first casualty is loss of reason and common sense. Its as though, to perpetrators, war had been declared unofficially against the North.
This explanation does not justify the genocidal tendencies it only demonstrates how people going through collective mourning and mass hysteria are prone to behaviour far below human standards.
I have also used this to explain how this same feeling propelled a person with lofty academic credentials as Mailafia to give the potentially explosive interview on the imminent invasion of the South by Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen, and false accounts of plane loads of arms already shipped to the South.
OAA
Mr. President you swore an oath to rule according to the Constitution. Where are the schools to promote the teaching of the country's lingua francas?
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-------- Original message --------From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>Date: 30/09/2020 21:08 (GMT+00:00)Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Complexity of Biafra
Gloria,
Genocide is always complicated. Read Achebe again on There Was a Country. Read Ekwe-Ekwe on Biafra Revisited. Read Daniel Jacobs, The Brutality of Nations. Read almost everything Soyinka has written in all genres. Read also Walter Rodney on HEUA. Then let us have the discussion about the complexity of genocide.
I am always be against genocide no matter who is targeted. Anyone who is in support of genocide or denies it because it is targeted at the Igbo has explanations to offer. There is never a justification for genocide.
Biko
--On Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 09:21:36 GMT-4, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:
"Biafra was waging a war against genocide ."
This is a simplistic, unidimensional view of events, Biko. This was also a war against secession and the machinations of foreign powers who had their eyes on oil and resources. It intersected with panafricanism, anti-colonialism, Anglo-French rivalry, the military industrial complex of arms dealers and gun runners, federalism, Ojukwu-ism, personality conflicts, regional power blocs, intraregional and geopolitical power struggles, and a hundred more issues.
Gloria Emeagwali
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