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.Adds being alive is better than ancestral attachment to land
•History will judge us harshly if killings persist — Dogara
•Insecurity threatens 2019 elections — CAN
ABUJA—The Presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts.


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Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in response to a question on ancestral attachments to land said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?

The exhortation from the Presidency came on a day Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said that history would be harsh on the present administration if it failed to stop the mass killing of innocent Nigerians.

This is even as the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the 17 Southern states yesterday said the insecurity pervading the country, particularly in the North Central zone, poses grave danger to the conduct of next year’s general elections.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, gave the admonishment as he alleged a conspiracy by alleged critics of the administration to frustrate moves towards resolving the crises in the country.

Adesina, who spoke on AIT morning programme, said it was wrong to describe the attacks against farmers as one directed against Christians.

He said: “Hundreds have been killed in Zamfara, are they Christians? People have been killed in Birnin Gwari, are they Christians?

“What is happening is criminality, pure and simple, and it must be brought to an end. Government has a big role to play in this but the people themselves have a role to play.”

Noting what he described as a campaign to stop the implementation of the administration’s plans to check the farmers-herders conflict, Adesina said: “Some people are saying don’t use government money to build ranches. If truly they don’t have lands, that is fine, but remember that Kogi State offered 15,000 hectares of land for cattle colony and in the midst of that offer vicious attacks were unleashed.

“In Plateau State, where we had the recent orgy of killings, the government has offered land for ranches and I tell you that some people are interested in this thing not being resolved.”

Better alive than a dead land owner —Adesina

Asked about the ancestral attachment by the people of those states to their lands, he said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?

“The National Economic Council that recommended ranching didn’t just legislate it, there were recommendations.

“So, if your state genuinely does not have land for ranching, it is understandable; not every state will have land for ranches. But where you have land and you can do something, please do for peace. What will the land be used for if those who own it are dead at the end of the day?”

Adesina further said the administration is doing its best to ensure peace throughout the country.

“There are different theatres of crises in the country and you may look at each theatre with its peculiarities. In the Middle Belt, it has its own peculiarities and what is the peculiarity of that, Farmers-Herders conflict. What has the government done?

“It has sent in security agencies starting with the police, later troops, later different operations by the military,” he said.

History will judge us harshly if…— Dogara

Meanwhile, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said yesterday that history will be hash on the present administration if it failed to stop the mass killing of innocent Nigerians.

Dogara, who stated this while welcoming members back from the Eid- El- Fitr holiday, said the killing of innocent Nigerians should be stopped immediately.

He said: “History will have a harsh verdict for us as a government if we fail to live up to this responsibility and it will not matter if we succeed in other areas.

“Unfortunately, the stark reality now is that our citizens are fast losing confidence in our security system.

“This must not be the case. Before we ebb to the realm of anarchy, we must rise as true representatives of the Nigerian people to salvage the situation and defend our hard won democracy.”

Dogara said the unresolved issue of rampant killings of defenseless people, including innocent and vulnerable children and women, in various parts of the country, called for sober reflection.

He added that there must be more concerted efforts by the National Assembly to exploit all its constitutional powers and privileges to ensure the protection of lives and property in the country by security agencies.

Insecurity threatening 2019 polls — CAN

Also yesterday Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the 17 southern states said the rise in insecurity pervading the country, particularly in the North Central zone, posed grave danger to the conduct of next year’s general elections.

CAN in the region did not only bemoan the menace but also said it was a sign of total collapse of the security architecture in Nigeria.

It said with such situation, the conduct of the 2019 election was under serious jeopardy.

CAN spoke as reactions continued to trail the killing of over 100 residents of Plateau State by suspected herdsmen.

Secretary of the group, Dr. Joseph Ajujungwa, who spoke to newsmen in Enugu, said the Christian body was worried that several days after the attack, no concrete effort had been made towards arresting the perpetrators.

He said: “CAN is saddened that many days after that avoidable massacre of innocent Nigerians in Plateau State, government is still telling the same old-fashioned stories.

“For every murderous act of these marauders, the Federal Government and the security agencies reel out words of assurance that never yield any fruit.

“We restate once again that the incessant, senseless and wicked killings going on in the Middle Belt and South-East is totally unacceptable to us.”

Ajujungwa said it was more lamentable that whereas government had never prosecuted any of the AK-47 wielding-herdsmen, who had murdered hundreds of Nigerians, it rushed to convict to death, five Christians for allegedly killing one of the attackers.

“There is grave injustice in this country and they are not even pretending about it. These people are using AK 47, killing everybody; almost 200 were killed in Jos but the police never arrested any, army never arrested any, and we are saying there is security? There is no security in Nigeria,

“We are calling on the Federal Government; if we have security, let them rise to the challenge. This is not good for this democracy, especially at a time we are preparing for election and such thing is happening, I don’t think it is in the best interest of Nigeria. It is putting the election in jeopardy.”

So the only choice open to Nigerians is either give up their lands or loss their lives?

Is this a country? or a caliphate?

I said it before, presidency is very much aware of the activity of Fulani herdsmen
I call on all southern states to resist this evil plans of the buhari led administration.
Note: if buhari i use public fund to build Ranchers he must be impeached.

that is exactly what terrorism is.... u either give in to their demands or face death.................. do these government officials hear the rubbish they are even saying

slimjohn2k5:
Is this a country? or a caliphate?

They have over powered the government....
And nobody can do anything about it
It's either you give them lands or they continue killing

Nigeria is going to buy land for them
All they need to do is point out where ever
There is Niger delta oil money to do the needful

It's okay to call the country a caliphate

I refuse to believe that Femi Adesina actually made that statement

If he did, it must be a callous and insensitive thing to say.

His ancestral land (if he has any) should be used to appease the marauders.

BUHARI'S TERRORIST GOVT TACTICS;
MASSACRE CHRISTIANS THROUGH MIYETTI ALLAH TERRORIST, THEN OFFER DECEPTIVE REMEDY LIKE GIVING YOUR LAND TO LIBYAN HERDSMEN AS THE FINAL SOLUTION TO STOP THE GENOCIDE.
BUHARI'S TERRORIST GOVT NOW USING THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED TO COARSE NIGERIANS TO SUBMIT TO MIYETTI ALLAH.
KNOW YOU KNOW WHO ARE BEHIND THE GENOCIDE IN MIDDLE BELT.
If you have been in doubt about this terrorist govt's complicity in the genocide against middle belt Christians, here is your EMPIRICAL PROOF!
Remember what Miyetti Allah terrorist said? All land in Nigeria belongs to them and unless Nigerians give them a piece of their land, the genocide will not stop. [b]Basically speaking, they are saying unless you give them your land for their cow rearing business, you will be visited with violence and bloodshed in your homes.
I said this several times and I will say it again, Middle belt people must organize themselves and drag buhari and Miyetti Allah terrorist to ICC for genocide against Christians in middle belt.

You don't need a special brain to know that buhari's govt and Miyetti Allah are the culprits behind plateau genocide!

Lol,
For people supporting colony, and ranching, once you release your land, Fulani herdsmen chased out of Ghana and other west African country are heading to Nigeria. If you think Nigerian Fulani are violent, then wait till you meet their west African cousins, the Mbororo and the uneducated others

Now I understand why babangida had to jail Buhari for close to 3 years without any conviction and his first wife had to divorce him.

Femi the Yorubastard idiot, you're so useless and idiotic.

Why join and support the Islamic JIHADIST terrorists against your people?

May you die the death of other people attacked by those terrorists

Wat did I just read?

SadiqBabaSani:
Wat did I just read?

Of course you read it right, we all must perish with the grave we dug thinking we were spiting the people of the East.