Mr Femi Segun,
I am not defending anything. As the Yoruba aphorism says : ENI MA RI IRE GBA, ETO NIPE KO SE RERE - roughly translated to if you want justice for yourself, you must practise justice. The unjust society created by academic bandits and thieves in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Nigeria are the root causes of the herder-farmer clashes in Nigeria. We cannot in the 21st century leave leprosy and be chasing ringworm. That the herdsmen are still roaming across the country in the 21st century is a crime which the intellectual thieves in Nigeria's MDAs should be accused of. The intellectual thieves in the MDAs are incapable of planning for a day not to talk of tomorrow and the future. Nomadic pastoralism is as primitive as farming with hoes and cutlasses but when solutions to the problems of cattle breeding and crops farming were proposed and financed the thieves in the MDAs hijacked the project stole a large part of the funds and abandoned the project and left the poor herders and crop farmers to fight/kill one another. While we are talking about herder-farmer clashes, in Abuja people fisticuff with one another over space to defecate in a city planned and built by our over-educated Christian Muslim intellectuals from all the so-called tribes.
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You averred : No one says all Fulani are kidnappers, but from all available lived evidence, they are in the forests of the Southwest, kidnapping and collecting ransoms. In the same vein, most kidnappers in Nigeria are not Fulani and no Fulani herdsman has ever been caught and arrested for kidnapping for ransoms.
You narrated : ..... just this afternoon, I read in an online news outlet that three farmers were kidnapped by the same herdsmen in Iju Akure North Local Government, Ondo State. I called my father in-law who is from the town and he confirmed that the Fulani herdsmen did not only kidnap the three farmers but killed a young boy who had gone with others in search of the missing people. My in-law told me the kidnappers are demanding 50 million naira.
The above heart wrenching narratives began with the Fulani herdsmen driving their cows into your brother in-law's and six others' farm to eat up their crops. I now appeal to your sense of reasoning and not emotion. You averred that the same herdsmen who drove their cows into your brother in-law's farm and six others to eat up their plants went further to kidnap three farmers in Iju, Akure North Local Government Area, Ondo State. That means that the criminal herders were not far away from the scenes of destroyed farms and it was possible to identify and associate them not only with the destruction of the seven farms, but with the kidnapping of three farmers. How many were the herdsmen and how large was their flock? Where could the herdsmen hide the three abducted farmers in an open farmland? How many people were in the search group containing the young boy that was allegedly killed by the Fulani herdsmen? Were the searchers unarmed while searching for the three missing farmers? Were the searchers for the three missing farmers together with the young boy when he was killed? If not, how was it confirmed that Fulani herdsmen killed him? If yes, what was the reaction of the rest in the search group of the missing three farmers? Was the demand for a ransom of 50 million naira made after the killing of the young boy or before? In what language was the demand for ransom communicated? To whom was the sum of ransom payment addressed and how was the ransom money to be delivered? Were the Fulani herdsmen with their cows when they demanded for ransom? Answers to these questions cast doubts on the truthfulness of the story of Fulani herdsmen as kidnappers.
S. Kadiri
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Femi Segun <soloruntoba@gmail.com>
Sent: 04 February 2021 22:40
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Special adviser AfDB interview with PUNCH
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Alagba Salimonu Kadiri,
I thought we have gone past this unnecessary defense of the indefensible. Please what other evidence are you looking for other than to read the Nigerian dailies everyday or call home once in a while to know what your people are suffering from the hands of the armed fulani herdsmen. No one says all Fulanis are kidnappers, but from all available lived evidence, they are in the forests of the Southwest kidnapping and collecting ransoms. Let me give you two latest instances. My brother is into farming in Ondo State, He called last week to say, Fulani herdsmen drove their cows into his farm and those of other 6 farmers and ate up the crops. They reported the case to the Police but nothing came out of it. Why?, They said the culprits are highly connected . Secondly, just this afternoon I read in an online news outlet that three farmers were kidnapped by the same herdsmen in Iju Akure North Local Government, Ondo State. . I called my father inlaw who is from that town and he confirmed that the Fulani herdsmen did not only kidnap the three farmers but killed a young boy who had gone with others in search of the missing people. My inlaw told me the kidnappers are demanding 50million naira. Sir, we are in an emergency and I fear if nothing is done by the authorities at the state and national levels the resultant conflagration will be difficult to manage when non-state actors resort to self-help. The Garba Shehu, the IGP and regime apologists on this forum who can ask Sunday Igboho to be arrested for having the courage to defend his people are sleeping everyday and have nothing to say to the AK-47 marauders who are destroying farms, and kidnapping travellers at will.
If there are leaders of thought in Nigeria and diaspora who are mindful of the verdict of history, this is the time to act. No one will hands off and continue to witness this daylight oppression and fold the arms until they are completely subjugated in their ancestral lands... As Martin Luther King says, In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends/
While we may be safe in our locations, let's think about the fate of our people, not only now but in the generation to come. The sentimental defense of the indefensible must stop. Let's go beyond enthic chauvinism and respond to the emergency at hand. Asking people not to talk against killers because all Nigerians have the right to live in any part of the country is hypocritical and a blatant resort to ethnic supremacy. Every life and livelihood matters, not only that of the Fulanis or their cows,
Shaking my head and disbelief at the level of apathy of leaders of thought to the existential threat to their people.
Femi
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:57 PM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--Beset with the stated idea of the German Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Paul Goebbels, that if lies are repeated very often and sufficiently, the general public will eventually accept the lies as true, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju continues to bash the Fulani people of Nigeria as ethnic supremacists and terrorists without any concrete evidence to support his assertion. Mr. Adepoju surreptitiously attributes the branding of Fulani herdsmen as one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world to unnamed International Terrorist Watch Agencies to justify his fraudulent claim and he wants us to believe him. Mr. Adepoju's aversion for the Fulani people, regardless of if they are herdsmen or not, is diagnosed by psychologists/psychiatrists as paranoia. The paranoid personality, they say, does not trust anyone and believes that he had better be on his own for other persons would betray him; he is suspicious; he fears that people would demean him, see him as not good enough; fears being belittled, humiliated, degraded, insulted and disgraced; he tends to accuse people of doing what they did not do, hence he generates quarrels with them.
What every normal human being should demand from Mr. Adepoju is to produce evidences of forcibly occupied land areas by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria and which are being defended by a private and heavily armed Fulani army. No matter how high the stupidity quotient of any person is, that person should be able to know that one cannot occupy another person's land area by force with cattle without armed personnel to defend the annexation. Subsequent fight over the annexed land area would defeat the purpose of occupation as the cattle would either be killed or run away from their herders. A gun carrying herder with a flock of about fifty cows is defensive against a rustler and is in no way offensively armed to occupy a land area by force. In the good olden days, herders were equipped with sticks to weep a digressing cow into the flock and, perhaps with, a cutlass to cut down branches of a tree for cattle to feed on the leaves. Now, a herder has to carry gun to defend his cattle against cattle rustlers but Nigeria's overnight millionaires, without owning factories, in the MDAs who live in gated quarters with high fences and security guards against armed robbers are complaining against herders carrying guns to defend themselves against cattle rustlers. What a hypocrisy is that? Nigeria's academic bandits in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) whose handiworks have created mass illiteracy, unemployment, kidnappings, armed robbers and rural banditries are diverting debates from the consequents of their own banditry to ethnicity and religion. Besides the academic bandits, there are schizophrenics suffering from hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that do not exist) and delusions (believing in things that are untrue) associating Fulani herdsmen with all crimes in Nigeria. Their hallucinations seem to have now reached psychosis level whereby they are unable to distinguish between reality and their own imagination. Where will a herder keep his herds to go and rape a woman? The psychotics will tell us that herdsmen used to surround houses with their cows, go inside to rape and come out again to guard their cows on foot without being apprehended. As many rapes herdsmen have been alleged to have committed in Nigeria, Nigerians have never received reports of high rates of rape-related abortions across the country. Are herdsmen specialists in raping menopaused and infertile women or are the sperms of raping herders very weak? Maybe Mr Adepoju and his fellow Fulani herdsmen's bashers can help to answer the compound question.
S. Kadiri
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com>
Sent: 04 February 2021 06:34
To: usaafricadialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Special adviser AfDB interview with PUNCHRanching by Fulani herdsmen outside the North is very dangerous because of the ethnic supremacist terrorist culture the herders have cultivated, sustained by a private, heavily armed army recognised by international terrorist watch agencies as one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups and sustained by the brazen advocacy of such groups as Miyetti Allah and the right wing Fulani led Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari.
The Fulani herdsmen are an internal colonisation force whose true colors have been most evident in their slash, burn, depopulate and occupy campaign in the Middle Belt.
The land in the North is much lrager than in the South.
Establish your ranches there and transport by trucks to the South.
We don't want to exchange our lives, land and security for your beef.
In fact, we are even happy to do without your beef if that will ensure out safety.
Thanks
Toyin
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 21:56 OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
The most pro- active and pragmatic way to force the hands of the federal government and the grazing cattle herders is for herder- resistant states to go into joint cooperatives and set up mega ranches across the country through credit facilities from banks such as AfDB and produce cattle at subsidized prizes that will be marketed directly to state citizens through state of the art advertising and gradually force grazing herders out of business.
The time to start such multilateral initiatives is NOW!
Im glad the bank is already working on something similar in the SAPZ projects. These should be replicated specifically for ranching so that say Ogun, Oyo ,Lagos and Ekiti can pool resources together as collateral to mega- loans for joint venture state ranches with states such Imo, Anambra, and Rivers within their states to force grazing herders to toe the line or face financial liquidation.. This goal can be achieved before the end of this administration.
They should not wait forever on the federal government exclusive leadership.
OAA
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