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Femi Fani-kayode: The Carnage Of The Cattle Rearers by Episteme2(m): 8:43am On Oct 04, 2015 |
support the call by Afenifere that all Fulani herdsmen
should be banned from the south-west. Actually I believe
that they should be banned from the entire south and not
just the south west. I also stand by every word that I wrote
in my widely published essay titled ”The Herdsmen From
Hell”. This contribution serves as a follow up to that essay.
The bottom line is this: we do not want those that slaughter
innocent people, including women and children, in our
midst.Those that say that we must remain silent when aliens
and vandals invade our land, rape our women and kill our
people are, at best, misinformed and misuguided and, at
worse, insensitive and wicked.
How can they expect us to remain silent when our elders
and leaders are being terrorised and brutalised on a regular
basis. Those that harbor such views and that have such
misgivings are suffering from a callous and diseased state of
mind and they shall be put to shame. No matter what they
say we will continue to expose and resist this barbarity and
we shall continue to call it precisely what it is: pure and
unadulterated evil. We shall not be intimidated by those that
seek to silence us and neither shall we cowered into silence.
I have no regrets for describing those murderous Fulani
herdsmen as tsetse flies. Actually they are worse than that
because, like Satan, they only come to kill, steal and destroy.
It is obvious to any discerning mind that this categorization
is limited to those Fulani herdsmen that indulge in barbaric
and criminal activities and not the entire Fulani race.
Like any other ethnic group there are good Fulanis and there
are bad ones. For someone to suggest that we ought to
spare the bad ones simply because we are scared of
offending the sensibilities of the good ones makes no sense
to me. I have many Fulani friends and the last thing on my
mind would be to demonise an entire ethnic group. For
anyone to suggest that a literary attack and a verbal assault
on a bunch murderers and killers who happen to be of
Fulani extraction is an attack on the entire Fulani race is
absurd. Worse still to describe such an attack as ”hate
speech against the Fulani tribe” is simply asinine: it is
nothing more than the gross manifestation of a
subterranean slave mentality and an attempt at sucking up
to those that believe that they own Nigeria.
Those that have voiced such puerile nonsense ought to
provide an answer to the following question: should we
remain silent when we see some wicked and uneducated
cattle rearers committing atrocities which may, if not
properly checked, result in a full scale ethnic war. If the
herdsmen had been Yoruba or Igbo I would have
condemned them in similar terms and labelled them in
precisely the same way. I may even have gone further
because I would have expected far better from my own
people.
I also happen to know that if Yoruba or Igbo traders or
farmers went to the core north and singled-out the elders,
leaders, traditional rulers and women and children of the
Fulani tribe for murder, pillage, torture and rape all hell
would have broken loose by now and their reaction would
not have been limited to harsh words, strongly-worded
essays and uncomplimentary categorizations.
The bottom line is this: the days of us keeping quite and
suffering in silence in the name of political correctness are
long over. If we don’t want trouble and we don’t want
matters to escalate we must speak out against evil very
clearly and very quickly and we must condemn and correctly
label those that like to shed human blood at the drop of a
hat. This is especially so when they prey on the weak, the
elderly and the more vulnerable in our society.
It is the gutless cowards that live amongst us that seek to
play down the pillage, murder and rape of others that are
guilty of hate crimes and collusion with genocidal maniacs
and not those of us that have the courage to call a spade a
spade.
Those that support the atrocities of the herdsmen are
insensitive to the feelings and sufferings of others and that is
the biggest crime of all. They hate the victims of these
terrible atrocities and they love and make excuses for the
perpetrators. They are completely incapable of any form of
empathy with those that have been violated and slaughtered
and in their heart of hearts they relish the atrocities and
they consider them fair game and fair sport.
A good example of such people is the individual who leads
an organisaton which is supposed to protect the rights of the
less fortunate in our society. This individual apparently does
not deem it appropriate to stand up against the evil that the
herdsmen have been indulging in for the last few years and
he prefers to pamper them. Why am I not surprised?
Instead of speaking up for the human rights and civil
liberties of those that have been maimed, killed and
persecuted as he has been charged to do, the man is busy
trying to say things that are politically correct. Whilst he is
attempting to please and impress his new paymasters
people are being killed by his cattle-rearing friends on a
daily basis. I say shame on him and those that think like him
and I honestly believe that the blood of those innocent
people that have been maimed and slaughtered by the
herdsman are partly on his hands because he has
encouraged them with his complicit silence and his veiled
support.
Given the attitude of men like that, coupled with the
apparent indifference of the Federal Government to the
whole issue, it is clear that the carnage and tyranny of the
Fulani herdsmen may not end any time soon. I say this
because barely ten days after the abduction and matcheting
(yes matcheting) of Chief Olu Falae and on October 1st 2015,
which is Nigeria’s independence day, the Fulani herdsmen
struck again. On that day they abducted a traditional ruler
from the Yoruba-speaking area of Kogi state. His name is
Oba Adebisi Obademi and they abducted him from his
palace in Apa-Bunu in the Kabba-Bunu area of his state.
They have asked the family to pay a ransom for his release.
On the same day they released a 70 year old Yoruba cleric
by the name of Pastor Japhet Obafemi who is from Ilepa,
Ikare Akoko in Ondo state. They had abducted him and kept
him in tortuous captivity for 11 grueling days. Sadly a
number of others whose homes were invaded by the
herdsmen were not so lucky. Mr. Agbaose Sowetan from
Oja-Odan, Ogun state and Mrs. Ayeshi Balogun from Asa
village, Ogun state, both of whom were farmers, were not
allowed to go home to their families but instead they were
murdered in cold blood. According to press reports Mrs.
Balogun, who was a mother of three, was gang-raped before
being hacked to death.
Can there be any greater evil than this? Who will tame these
wicked and hard-hearted herdsmen and who will clip the
wings of these bloodthirsty cattle-rearers? Who will deliver
us from these sadists and terrorists that have no sense of
restraint or remorse and that have no mercy or
compassion? Who will stand up to them boldly and say “let
my people go”?
Permit me to conclude this intervention by repeating an
interesting and relevant contribution from the famous
British historian, writer and educationalist Dr. T.R. Batten.
He wrote:
“The Fulani were at their most influential in Gobir. Then a
dispute broke out between their Imam, Usman Dan Fodiyo
and Sarkin Gobir Yunfa.The Fulani rallied behind their
leader who encouraged them to defy their Hausa Chief. He
began a jihad and fighting broke out. Thus the Fulani seized
the country by force against the will of those who lived
there. The enmity had nothing to do with religion for among
those who fought (against the Fulani) were many Muslims. It
was about the Fulani’s wish to seize power from the Hausas.”
It follows that the herdsman and those that they represent
conquer by infiltration, assimilation and guile. Those that
doubt this should find out what became of the ancient
Hausa kingdoms. They should also find out about the
terrible fate that befell the famous Yoruba general, the Aare
Ona Kakanfo of the old Oyo empire, Afonja, at the hands of
Abdulsalami, the son of his erstwhile “ally” and friend the
Fulani Salih Janta (A.K.A Shehu Alimi).
After Afonja died Abdulsalami killed his son and took over
his throne in Ilorin. Since that time a Fulani Emir, with a flag
from the Sultan of Sokoto, has ruled Ilorin whilst the Yoruba
descendants of Afonja have been denied the throne in a
predominantly Yoruba town that was founded and
established by Aare Afonja, their illustrious Yoruba
forefather. It is better to learn from the mistakes of history
rather than to allow them to be repeated.
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Re: Femi Fani-kayode: The Carnage Of The Cattle Rearers by ekafine(f): 8:49am On Oct 04, 2015 |
Yorubas are almajiri slaves so they cannot do nor say anything. Just look at how their masters are killing and kidnapping their leaders. Smh 4 Yorobaa |
Re: Femi Fani-kayode: The Carnage Of The Cattle Rearers by HolyHero: 9:02am On Oct 04, 2015 |
like if you think that the poster above me should quit smoking cheap weed..... share if u think he is delusional |
Re: Femi Fani-kayode: The Carnage Of The Cattle Rearers by deadZONE: 9:04am On Oct 04, 2015 |
I wish i can give a F...U...C..K why is my life like this nah!!!! |
Re: Femi Fani-kayode: The Carnage Of The Cattle Rearers by c33b33(m): 9:09am On Oct 04, 2015 |
Who is preaching hate now? Truth is hate to unreasonable minds. Those kids running amok on Biafra thread should stop the fire in their father's house first. The Oduduwa have just started complaining,na the beginning be this IPOB Youth 1 Like |
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