at that time ranks as one if the most
so did chapters of African history
and it
must never be allowed to happen
anywhere again on our continent.
Sadly we do not appear to have learnt
the lessons of Kigali in our country
probably because most Nigerians have
no knowledge of history because it is not
taught in our schools.
That single failing and lack of
understanding and knowledge may well
lead to our final undoing as a nation
because the parallels and signs of what
led to the butchery and tragedy that
occurred in Rwanda are slowly unfolding
here today. The dark clouds of blood are
gathering but sadly most of our people
cannot even see them.
They seem wholly incapable of
discerning the season and the times.
This is my greatest concern. Our people
are behaving like turkeys that are
celebrating the approach of Christmas
and like rams that are rejoicing on the
day before Sallah.
That in itself is a tragedy of monumental
proportions and the implications and
consequences of our collective
indifference, amnesia and naivety are
calamitous and far-reaching.
The title of this essay owes an
intellectual debt of gratitude to my
friend and brother Chief Dele Momodu
who happens to be one of the most
engaging writers and columnists in
Nigeria today.
“Bob Dee”, as Dele is better known to his
numerous fans and close friends, was a
strong supporter of the June 12 struggle
and something of a protegee of the late
and great Chief MKO Abiola, the winner
of the June 12 presidential election in
1993.
He wrote an essay at that time and
during the heady and dangerous days of
NADECO and General Sani Abacha, in
which he used this title. It was a brilliant
essay and the title has stuck with me
ever since because it really captured the
moment.
I believe that we are back on the road to
Kigali again in Nigeria and I pray that
Dele will forgive me for using the same
title as he did approximately twenty
years ago. Now to the point.
The number of Igbos slaughtered by
Fulani militants in Enugu on April 25,
2016 has gone up to 100.
Many churches and homes have been
burnt to the ground. When will President
Muhammadu Buhari appreciate the fact
that NON-FULANI LIVES MATTER?
In reaction to this horrific situation, Mr.
Babatunde O. Gbadamosi, a highly
respected Lagos-based businessman,
wrote the following on Facebook:
“Scores slaughtered by #FulaniTerrorists in
Enugu, but the Fulani President,
Muhammadu Buhari, his Fulani senior
security commanders and government
functionaries are more interested in
pipeline vandals that are killing no one!
Nigerians, if you don’t arm yourselves
and fight back, na una sabi.
Those of you Yoruba APC zombies that
think you are special, when they finish
with the Middle Belt, the South-South
and the South East, you will be next, and
there will be no one left to defend you.
I am referring to you, my Muslim uncles
and aunties, who think the Fulanis will
see you as kindred spirits and spare you.
They will not.
Just as they are fake Muslims in the
eyes of the Arabs, you are also fake
Muslims in their eyes, only useful to help
subjugate your people under their rule,
then you will see pepper.
Kill Afonjaism now, and stand for
something, or your children will one day
curse the day you were born”.
Mr. Gbadamosi’s insight and
understanding of the situation is second
to none. His counsel is as priceless as it
is timely. Let us hope that someone is
listening.
In his own contribution to the debate on
Facebook, Mr. Lere Olayinka added the
following:
“In this April alone, Buhari’s Fulani
herdsmen killed almost 200 Nigerians, but
Buhari’s headache is Niger Delta” .
On his part, Mr. Charles Ogbu, an
obviously intelligent and gifted young
man, wrote the following on his
Facebook wall.
“The Fulani vampires are at it again.
Today, Enugu, my state is their target.
Dozens of people have been reportedly
killed and hundreds displaced with
buildings including a catholic church
burnt.
This murderous group killed hundreds in
#Agatu and occupied their land. The
Fulani president did nothing. The Fulani
headed DSS did nothing.
They went to Anioma in Delta state,
abducted and killed their king. The Fulani
president did nothing. The Fulani headed
DSS did nothing.
They went to Awgu community in Enugu
State, killed dozens and abducted
dozens. The Fulani president did nothing.
The Fulani headed DSS did nothing.
Only the police and the army did
something this time: they arrested 78
indigenes of Awgu who are the victims
and dumped them in prison and denied
them bail on the allegation that they
planned on attacking the Fulanis.
Meanwhile, the perpetrators were
allowed to roam freely.
It took a #hashtag campaign on social
media for the #Awgu78 to be released.
Today, these vultures are back again,
visiting death and destruction on
defenceless Uzo-uwani people of Enugu
State for no just cause.
The president will not say anything about
this. The DSS will not say anything. The
police will describe it as a mere
misunderstanding between farmers and
herdsmen. They will hardly confirm that
anyone was killed neither will they arrest
or prosecute any of those invading fulani
vultures.
The governor of Enugu State called
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi will neither say nor do
anything about this.
Father Mbaka …the one who swore that
Buhari is the Lord’s anointed… will not
talk.
Basically, the citizens are left with no
choice than to defend themselves by any
means necessary.
You either die fighting to defend your
honour, your family, your land and your
dignity as a human person or you die
cowering in fear like some coward.
Either way, you stand little chance.
Permit me to point out one fact here:
The Fulanis are not invincible
(undefeatable) because they posses
some kind of special fighting prowess.
No! Not at all.
These Fulanis are invincible because
they are enjoying government support/
cover/protection in their murderous
activities. The impunity with which these
guys operate is state-sponsored.
This is a fact, not just my opinion. Deep
down, you know it. I know it.
President Buhari has a constitutional
duty to protect the lives and properties
of all Nigerians. He swore to do this. He
is being paid to do this.
He has deliberately chosen not to do
this. He has chosen to place the interest
of his Fulani brethren above the lives of
innocent Nigerians.
Buhari believes that his Fulani people
are superior to other Nigerians. This is
no different from the mindset displayed
by Hitler which led to the world war. We
know how it ended.
The silence of President Buhari over the
murderous activities of his Fulani
brethren is a moral tragedy! This is the
height of man’s inhumanity to man!
Believe it or not, it will come to a time
that Nigerians will rise up in their
numbers and confront the Fulani beasts
together with their sponsors.
There is a limit to what a man can take.
Let it be on record that Buhari is the one
setting this country on the road once
travelled by Rwandans in 1994”.
#GrazingBillMustDie
#SayNoToFulaniOccupation
On her own part, again on Facebook,
Miss Santors Ugwuada Ezirigwe wrote,
“Before now, the Fulani herdsman were
generally a group of cattle herding nomads
plying their trade with every sense of
innocence.
Then his dagger and sword was primarily
for personal use and self-defence in the
wilds.
However, this narrative has changed
since the recent past, especially since
after the election of President Buhari in
2015.
The Fulani herdsmen have become
purveyors of violence, rape, kidnap,
robbery, arson and murder.
They are professional and coordinated in
their terrorist activities, an indication that
it is an organic group with possibilities of
hierarchical command structure.
Little wonder they have metamorphosed
into the fourth most vicious terrorist
group in the world.
Terrorism is the calculated use of
violence (or the threat of violence)
against civilians in order to attain goals
that are political or religious or
ideological in nature; this is done through
intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
And this has become the hallmark of
Fulani herdsmen.
Some allege that they have the backing
of top Fulani officials in government and
the security apparatus.
Others allege that they are offshoots of
Boko Haram terrorists while some others
allege that they were assembled by
some elements in the North, trained and
stationed to attack Nigerians in the
South in the event that GEJ wins the
2015 elections.
GEJ conceded the election to their
greatest surprise but the trained Fulani
terrorists were never debriefed and
disarmed, hence the surge in their terror
acts since PMB took office as president.
Whatever be the case, one common
denominator in these narratives is “the
mission to terrorise”. We seem to be at
war in Nigeria, though undeclared.
Otherwise, why are there as many
deaths from weapons of warfare?
Unfortunately, there are no signs of
abatement. And the victims of this
undeclared war have no one to run to for
safety and no hope of salvage.
Rather than create assuring facts that
will contradict the Biafra narrative,
President Buhari has more than anyone
else, through his continued silence to the
activities of his murderous brothers,
among his other body language of
contempt and abhorrence of the Igbo,
helped in creating Biafra.
His continued silence remains suspect.
Such an attitude from a supposed
national leader sends the wrong signal to
both the vanquished and the valorous.
To the vanquished victim, the leader
cares less about his plight and
predicament. This as a consequence
diminishes his confidence in such a
leadership.
To the valorous, the leader
“understands”. And this as a
consequence emboldens him to up the
ante of terror against the vanquished.
It is this loss of confidence that has led
many to advance self-help as an
immediate and strategic response to the
activities of the murderous terrorist
Fulani herdsmen.
These indeed are ominous and grave in
consequence. The Nigeria state
apparatus has failed in her primary
responsibility to protect life and property
of the victims of the terrorist Fulani
herdsmen.
The Federal Government, under President
Buhari’s watch, have done very little to
inspire confidence and assure security of
life and property in the face of the
prevailing harvest of kidnaps, rape,
armed robbery, violent attacks, arson and
genocidal war by his brothers against
indigenous peoples of Nigeria.
Agatu & co were the victims of the
terrorist Fulani herdsmen yesterday; it is
Nimbo, Uzo Uwani that is the victim
today.
Tomorrow will certainly produce more
victims unless urgent steps are taken to
nip this unfortunate trend.
In devising measures to counter these
marauding blood thirsty terrorists
masquerading as herdsmen, we must
look beyond Nimbo, Uzo Uwani. We must
fashion a regional strategy that will
require the collaboration of the leaders
and the peoples of the areas under
siege.
Efforts should be activated to mobilise
through churches, traditional rulers,
market and town unions and
associations, etc, to sensitise people
about the need to be vigilant. “Nkwucha
aburo ujo” (caution is not cowardice).
We need to convene a regional assembly
to articulate defensive and offensive
measures to be taken to reduce our
vulnerability to, and deter the terrorist
acts of these terrorist Fulani herdsmen.
We should also organise protest rallies
across the region to renounce the
activities of the terrorist Fulani herdsmen
and attract global attention to our
predicament lest we be fraudulently
labelled as terrorists by the sponsors of
the terrorist Fulani herdsmen if we take
to self-help before putting the world on
notice.
MASSOB and other local vigilante groups
should be mobilised to counter the
terrorist herdsmen in view of the
suspicious disposition of the
conventional security apparatus of the
federal government.
Governors of South-East states and
governors of other states (Benue, kogi,
Taraba, Delta, Edo, Ondo, Plateau) so far
affected by the activities of these
terrorist herdsmen should mobilise and
send a strong warning to the presidency
that, never again shall they sit hopelessly
and watch as the lives and property of
their subjects are destroyed by the
terrorist Fulani herdsmen.
These are short term measures for
restoration of sanity. The solution to this
security challenge if we must continue to
stay together as a united Nigeria, is to
restructure our federation and allow the
establishment of state police with full
powers to maintain law and order within
the states”.
These are powerful words and insights
from these young contributors.
As they say there is fire on the mountain
and many are concerned.
When one considers all the facts one
can only come to one conclusion: this is
Yugoslavia downloading. This is the road
to Kigali. This is Rwanda unfolding
before our very eyes.
A few months ago I wrote an essay in my
column with the New Telegraph
newspaper, The Daily Post , Pointblank
News , The Trent , The Signal , Premium
Times, Breaking Times and The Sun
newspaper about the atrocities of the
Fulani militants titled “The Herdsmen
From Hell”. In that write-up I referred to
the murderous militants as “vampires,
cockroaches and tsetse flies”.
In addition to that last week, I wrote
another essay for the same columns and
various other media houses titled “The
National Grazing Reserve Bill: The
Greatest Evil Of All”. In that contribution
I pointed out the grave dangers posed by
the diabolical activities of the Fulani
militants and the long-term expansionist
agenda of their backers and sponsors.
One week before then I wrote yet
another article on the same topic and in
the same mediums titled “The Murder Of
The Fulani: Yugoslavia Unfolding” in
which I stated clearly that Nigeria was
toying with a massive conflagration in
the not too distant future if the Buhari
government does not find the will and
cultivate the courage to stop the
activities of the Fulani militants and if
they refused to stop supporting them.
In return for these contributions I
received the usual insults from
shortsighted Nigerians who have always
believed that the best way to contain evil
is to tolerate it, bow before it, accept it
and welcome it with open arms.
It appears that I have now been
vindicated and my concerns have proved
to be legitimate.
The very same people that condemned
me and called me “a Fulani-hating
racist”, “a purveyor of hate speech”, “a
hater of muslims” and “a loud-mouthed
and paranoid alarmist” just a few months
ago are now saying that I was right.
Yet sadly it is too late. The vampires are
now in control and they have tasted
blood. The Nigerian Janjaweed are on a
roll and they are determined to conquer
new land for the Caliphate.
Worse still, they have the covert backing
and unofficial endorsement of the state.
They will not stop now and neither will
they retreat.
Yet they are in for a shocker. Unless
there is divine intervention, what lies
ahead for this country is conflict, terror,
bloodshed, war and ultimately a very
messy and violent division.
It saddens me to say so but that is the
bitter truth. That is what “chanji” has
brought upon us.
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