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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Iceberg3: 6:04pm On Jan 16, 2018
iamJ:
ipob was against federal government, benue crisis is cultural, govt will use a hard hand on anybody against the republic, nothing bias there biko


Is that the problem of your life?
Is the thread about ipob?


Better go and find cure to your sickness.

grin

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Bizibi(m): 6:11pm On Jan 16, 2018
iamJ:
ipob was against federal government, benue crisis is cultural, govt will use a hard hand on anybody against the republic, nothing bias there biko
Benue crisis is cultural!!!!
Olekuku!!!

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by ken2baba(m): 6:12pm On Jan 16, 2018
iamJ:
ipob was against federal government, benue crisis is cultural, govt will use a hard hand on anybody against the republic, nothing bias there biko
so the republic to you is more important than the lives of the people that make up the republic?


Bro examine your life because an unexamined life is not worth living

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by baralatie(m): 6:21pm On Jan 16, 2018
grin
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Nobody: 6:23pm On Jan 16, 2018
aybabz101:
This is the right definition of buharis administration. ......nepotism and tribalism are his administration blueprint

If TRUTH must be said. NEPOTISM and TRIBALISM and many other EVILS are the STRUCTURES upon which Nigeria has been standing right from the days of OLD.

Awolowo had this to say On The Nigerian Civil War
"It appears to me that the causes of the last
Civil War lie embedded in the nether realms
of such degrading and depraving evils as
unemployment; mass ignorance; endemic
and debilitating diseases; low productivity;
abuse and misuse of power, bribery and
corruption; favouritism and NEPOTISM;
ETHNOCENTRICITY and TRIBALISM; much poverty and MUCH DISCONTENT."
- Address to The Nigerian Trade Union
Congress (1970): In Voice of Courage, 1981.

That is as far back as 1970. To be HONEST the Nigerian psyche is UP-SIDE-DOWN. The real battle is an INDIVIDUAL BATTLE. We need to learn to do the right things our own selves. Its has always been a game of blaming others while most are as guilty of the same crime. The answer is in YOU! Let everyone work on their mentality to become upright. Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil any where we find ourselves.

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Guyman02: 6:26pm On Jan 16, 2018
The slang idiotic pigs of Biafra has refused to catch on despite all your efforts at repeating it daily, the reason being that when it comes dirtiness as pigs only one region comes to mind in Nigeria and you know it grin grin

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by ACE1010: 6:30pm On Jan 16, 2018
Truth be told!! The cartoon has said it all!!
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Guyman02: 6:38pm On Jan 16, 2018
South East and South South leaders should establish ranches for the mass production of Muturu cattle breed and reduce dependence on Fulani for meat to stem the ongoing genocide
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by fatymore(f): 6:48pm On Jan 16, 2018
Read it at the office was even thinking of way to upload.. mess bubu
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by madjune(m): 7:05pm On Jan 16, 2018
Policeman armed with catapult.
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by zendy: 7:16pm On Jan 16, 2018
Coldfeets:
The logic is quite simple.

Herdsmen are not threatening to create their own country.

Ipob wants to create their own country.

Really? So Britain should have sent the British Army after the Scots when they had 2014 referendum on independence?

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by zendy: 7:18pm On Jan 16, 2018
WORDWORLD:


If TRUTH must be said. NEPOTISM and TRIBALISM and many other EVILS are the STRUCTURES upon which Nigeria has been standing right from the days of OLD.

Awolowo had this to say On The Nigerian Civil War
"It appears to me that the causes of the last
Civil War lie embedded in the nether realms
of such degrading and depraving evils as
unemployment; mass ignorance; endemic
and debilitating diseases; low productivity;
abuse and misuse of power, bribery and
corruption; favouritism and NEPOTISM;
ETHNOCENTRICITY and TRIBALISM; much poverty and MUCH DISCONTENT."
- Address to The Nigerian Trade Union
Congress (1970): In Voice of Courage, 1981.

That is as far back as 1970. To be HONEST the Nigerian psyche is UP-SIDE-DOWN. The real battle is an INDIVIDUAL BATTLE. We need to learn to do the right things our own selves. Its has always been a game of blaming others while most are as guilty of the same crime. The answer is in YOU! Let everyone work on their mentality to become upright. Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil any where we find ourselves.

The answer is fir us to break up and go our different ways
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Nobody: 7:27pm On Jan 16, 2018
iamJ:
ipob was against federal government, benue crisis is cultural, govt will use a hard hand on anybody against the republic, nothing bias there biko
Go back to romance section and sniff anuses. Politics is not for you and your kind

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by tarano: 7:28pm On Jan 16, 2018
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Nuesbab: 7:39pm On Jan 16, 2018
the carton is apt. a very biased, nepotistic and bigoted fellow. cancer and bane of this country.

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by DedeNkem: 7:48pm On Jan 16, 2018
iamJ:
na ethic mata na, ipob wanted to destroy the republic, thats treason, them suppose shoot all the agitators self, buhari is nice self, ask ojukwu family what happened to his partners during civil war, try it in turkey and see what they will do to una, biafra is illegal, kanu is illegal, talking abt it alone self na treason

You are clueless! There no where in the Constitution that it says "don't agitate or protest"

What IPOB is doing is not illegal. They don't kill or armed or force any citizen to do anything or destroy public property!!

In fact, it is the useless corrupt buhari government that actually committed crimes and murders!

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by degamemaster(m): 7:51pm On Jan 16, 2018
May God punish buhari and his generations and any person supporting him.

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by joegigs(m): 8:05pm On Jan 16, 2018
Coldfeet Don't support evil becos it doesn't affect you.remember that over 100 of people killed have a brother like you.just imagine yourself in their position and the govt is doing nothing abt it.
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by emechi: 8:07pm On Jan 16, 2018
Those taking the killing in Benue lightly are doing so because none of their relatives is involved. Imagine you and your family preparing for a joyful celebration and you receive news about the death of your loved ones. We need justice!
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by Iseoluwani: 8:10pm On Jan 16, 2018
angry sad

Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by emechi: 8:15pm On Jan 16, 2018
Coldfeets:
The logic is quite simple.

Herdsmen are not threatening to create their own country.

Ipob wants to create their own country.
Pray the killing won't get to your relatives. You take it lightly because it doesn't you.
Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by MONITZ: 8:18pm On Jan 16, 2018
zendy:


Benue crisis is cultural? Over 100 prople killed including 2 policemen is cultural?

But the governmrnt will use hard hand on IPOB that didnt kill anybody but use soft hand on Fulani that are slaughtering prople everywhere?

Lol


Abegi forget that unrepentant sycophant that would do anything just to justify his pay check,how absurd can it get comparing IPOB with Fulani herdsmen,the former is fighting to break away from this country that they claim has not favored them and to the best of my knowledge have gone about their campaigns and sensitization without recourse to violence while the latter has no clear cut definition of what they want,all we know them for that they leave carnage and destruction of farmlands in their trails wherever they go bt because they re a special breed of humans who have people in the top echelon of government so they re free to do run amok and do as it pleases them.

Muhammadu Buhari even tried to make the international community label IPOB a terrorists group,a request that was flatly turned down simply because IPOB doesn't qualify and satisfy the criteria used in defining a terrorist group,the long and short of this epistle is that Muhammadu Buhari is a bigot who doesn't even care to hide it,he rubs it in our face all of the time daring us to do our worst or go to blazes,he even went a notch further by labeling some 5 and 97 percenters.

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Re: Herdsmen In Benue: Cartoon Of The Day By Punch Newspaper by bilal4riid(m): 8:24pm On Jan 16, 2018
sdindan:
grin
If you will understand tongue
There is no denying what is obvious. Herdsmen have attacked rural communities in different parts of Nigeria. The attacks are often brutal; the attackers would surround a village in the dead of night, shoot indiscriminately and set fire to huts. The killing is also indiscriminate; they kill anyone they can find, make the rest of the community to flee, then melt away into the hills and bushes almost without trace. The police almost never find the culprits.
Members of the sacked community then run to the authorities for help, telling gory tales and claiming they were attacked without the slightest provocation. Political leaders, escorted by heavily armed policemen and soldiers, then arrive at the scene, pressmen in tow. They condemn the heinous deed, inspect the damage done and promise to send help to the victims, which they hardly ever do. Armed policemen are then posted to “guard” the sacked community, a case of locking the stables after the horses had bolted. Sacked community members then languish in IDP camps, with scant food and water supplies and after many months of fruitless wait they slowly drift back to their communities to try to rebuild their lives.
Meanwhile, the politicians make much capital out of it, but only where the attacks are along the country’s ethnic, regional and religious fault lines. Even though criminal killings are going on in many parts of Nigeria, newspapers shout the loudest only when some sides of the divide carry out atrocities. Otherwise there is little media interest and there is no political capital to be derived from the killings. Where the herdsmen themselves or their ethnic, regional or religious kinsmen find themselves at the receiving end, as happened in Mambilla and Numan, the dominant news media takes little interest in happenings and sees it as either a case of just deserts or, where both combatants are from the wrong ethnic and religious divides as in Zamfara, as dog-eat-dog.
Where the herdsmen are involved, the sacked farming communities always say that the attacks were unprovoked. Most reporters do not bother to question this claim. That an attack was unprovoked could be true only in a certain context; most of the women, children and the elderly in the attacked communities did nothing to the herdsmen and probably did not even know that anyone else offended them. Yet, to the herdsmen themselves, every attack that they launch is a “reprisal” attack. That they leave thousands of villages along their routes untouched and sneak upon some specific ones suggests that somebody in that community did something; either killed a herdsman or rustled some cattle.
Part of the problem we have is that the herdsmen live in another age and they have different rules of engagement from the one most of us are used to. For example, the ugly notion that when someone offends them, every member of his village ---woman, child, aged and infirm---is fair game in a reprisal attack is deeply offensive to modern value systems, not to mention United Nations conventions. But then, the herdsmen never read any UN convention. The bad news is, herdsmen are not alone in their ignorance of UN war conventions. During this country’s frequent inter-communal clashes, tribal militiamen on all sides are brutal and indiscriminate killers and they kill more people with clubs, spears and Dane guns than Europeans and Americans can kill with tanks and fighter planes, hence the notion of “high-tech, low casualty wars” and “low tech, high casualty wars.”
Equally problematic is the lack of statute of limitations in the herdsmen’s rules of engagement. Their “reprisal” attack could be for a deed that was committed many years ago. Many villages in Southern Kaduna State came under attack in 2012, a year after the 2011 post-election violence. From all indications the herders were avenging for their kinsmen who were killed in Southern Kaduna villages in 2011 when the violence that started in the state’s northern parts spilled over into Southern Kaduna. The same thing happened in Plateau State arising from the violence that followed the November 2008 local government elections. Long after urban folks had sheathed their swords, herdsmen sneaked up on villages for revenge.
The notion promoted by politicians and the mass media that herdsmen are all out to eliminate Tivs, Southern Kaduna natives, Middle Belters or Christians is a political stretching of the fact because the herdsmen hardly know that there is a “North Central geopolitical zone,” much less aim to extinguish it. Despite their supposed ethnic affiliation to Shehu Dan Fodio, most of today’s herdsmen practice Islam only nominally and are pre-occupied with survival, not religion. Those who say that herdsmen have a “Jihadist” agenda are accusing the wrong party because the herders themselves need a second coming of Dan Fodio to revive their religious practice.
Since 2012 Fulfulde-speaking bandits have killed far more people and sacked far more villages in Zamfara State than they did in Benue State. How come no one said they were trying to wipe out Zamfara State, North West zone, Hausawa or Muslims? Exactly the same brutal methods used against Benue villages were used against many villages in Zamfara State, in southern Katsina State and in the forested areas of north-western Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari Emirate. In most cases it was “reprisal” attack because local vigilantes killed or captured some bandits.
Prof Wole Soyinka went so far as to say that the herdsmen have declared war on Nigeria. How could they do so, when most of them are hardly aware that Nigeria exists? They have probably never seen a map of Nigeria. They do not know a local, national or international boundary when they cross one. What they know of Geography is what they gleaned the hard way by marching up and down the country with the seasons. Herdsmen were out of the loop with regards to government’s health, educational, housing, water or power projects over many decades. Now the chicken are coming home to roost.
Despite the neglect, the herders that I knew when growing up in my hometown respected state authority, the traditional aspect of it. They were always a very visible presence in alkali courts, police stations and traditional rulers’ courts trying to settle disputes. They report offenders to these places and they are also regularly reported to these places. Gaunt Fulani Ardos stroll in and out of courts, looking peaceable, walking unsteadily, speaking in low tones, greeting everyone along the way, generous with their kolanuts, always asking for directions, armed only with sticks. These days it is different; too many of them have acquired firearms in response to the challenge of cattle rustlers, no thanks to our inability to police our ports and borders.
Evidence abounds in recent years that the pastoral society has undergone a physical and value-system breakdown, much like the rest of Nigerian society. When a friend first told me fifteen years ago that the armed men that robbed him on the highway were pure Fulani ethnics, I found it very hard to believe, except that every Hausa speaker knows the Fulfulde accent very well. Soon afterwards I began to hear more and more stories about Fulani youths being the robbers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways. Now there is no doubt about it; most of the kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Birnin Gwari highways are Fulani ethnics, not to mention the Zamfara bandits who are often well known to their victims.
So there is a crisis at hand in which climate change, population pressure, influx of small arms into Nigeria, the criminality of other ethnic groups as well as government’s total neglect of a large community’s needs over several decades have come together in a very combustible mixture. Among the suggested solutions already on the table is Wantaregh Paul Unongo’s idea of raising a Tiv national army.

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