I have said it before, and I will say it again: 'Political correctness' is 98% hypocrisy. I have just read a post now pushed to the first page of this forum where the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese Matthew Hassan Kukah is strongly cautioning against what he calls anti-Fulani campaign:

The Catholic bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has warned against blanket demonisation of herdsmen, especially of the Fulani stock, warning that such actions could be preamble to a breakout of violent confrontation against the Fulani.


The bishop said hate speech often precede any genocide experienced in history.

Mr Kukah spoke Tuesday at a colloquium on fake news and hate speech organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Centre for African Studies, an arm of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

He said Nigerians “have to be very careful” before the situation degenerates beyond control.

He likened the uproar and profiling of the Fulani to what happened to the Igbo leading up to the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970.


“If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos,” he said.

A commenter also mentioned that Professor Pat Utomi has said a similar thing a few days back.

Then, you begin to see comments like:

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I believe we still have so many reasonable Nigerians who are concerned about the ongoing politically motivated hate speech against a particular set of people. This is the time to speak up. We don’t want another 1966 pogrom or Rwandan kind of genocide in our country. This is the time to put our humanity above ethnic sentiments.

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Kukah is making a lot of sense to me. I have noticed lately a consistent, well-orchestrated and deliberate effort of a segment of online users to stereotype and typecast all fulani herdsmen as criminals. This is already assuming a very dangerous dimension and can create some serious problems going by the level of hate the campaign is engendering against herders, especially here in the South. The situation could boil over at any time at this rate if care is not taken.

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Well said..itss getting to a stage where father will murder his son and he will accuse Fulani herdsmen

watch how kidnappers and arm robbers will increase in southern Nigeria and they will use Fulani herdsmen as cover up

You can see that Kukah is already swaying many Nigerians to forget the brazen injustice of the Fulani against the rest of Nigerians in a great hurry. Tell me what is more unjust than a tribe getting noted for going into people's homes in their own locality to destroy their means of livelihood and kill them in their numbers? Tell me what is more unjust than members of that tribe in government, using state resources to protect these killers (for example, IPOB became terrorists by talking, while Fulani herdsmen get radio station, N100 billion and free landed property for killing)? Kukah and Utomi, tell me what is more unjust than a particular tribe brazenly intimidating others to part with their landed property in large volumes for absolutely free?

Why haven't Kukah and Utomi condemned these brazen injustices as noticeably as we have seen them condemn what they call hate speech against the Fulani? You are condemning hate SPEECH against the Fulani but not hate ACTIONS by the Fulani. This is too hypocritical for any reasonable and conscientious fellow to bear.

This is not about tribalism. We have seen the Fulani working consistently against the rest of us over centuries. They have been sacking people from their ancestral homes (ask Hausa, Tiv, Berom, etc); they have been killing people in their droves and more.

Those insinuating that people are stereotyping and incriminating the Fulani, I ask you, 'why can't the Fulani stay off other people's concerns so that people would have no ground to accuse them falsely if at all anyone is accusing them falsely? For example, why must the Fulani herders insist on going around with their cattle instead of ranching them as obtained in other countries of the world? This is clearly against the trespass laws which are enshrined in our legal system. Besides, they are using that to trample on our most sacred human right, the right to live. Is Nigeria the only place people eat beef? So, why must we pay with our lives and livelihoods in order to eat beef and keep the Fulani in business? Yet, instead of condemning this highest level of injustice by one tribe against the rest in totally unmitigated and uncompromising terms, people have the gut to talk about hate speech against them, thereby making them feel more right in their unjust ways.


Bishop Kukah, there is God oh. By the way, I am a Catholic, lest someone begins to play a religious card.

It still beats my imagination how someone who claims to be reasonable would describe the current outrage against the Fulani as 'politically motivated' or 'hate speech' rather than as justified anger. People are being killed and they are crying, and you dare call that 'politically motivated'? May the blood of those killed unjustly by the Fulani terrorists be on your head.

Kukah has been speaking out against injustice

North is big enough to accommodate them. Fulani must-go

Sadly, for those Fulani who have tasted the returns of kidnapping, it will be harder for them to give up. Even if they are chased, some will stay behind and lure others back to join them for the shameful act.

Federal government alone can't curb this act, governors are very much in the best way to control this as much as they can.

I just hate how this is slowly progressing into a civil war between innocent citizens and Militia groups all in the name of domination.

Like Prof. Pat Utomi, The Bishop, who is also very well read fell for the Fulani red herring that they are being demonised and racially profiled a la Kadaria Ahmed. The Fulani has succeeded in changing the narrative and now have his likes on the defensive. The discerning are not taken! It is against all that is fair to appropriate land belonging to others to the Fulani who roam cattle destroying farmlands and killing the farmers in the process without being prosecuted and duly punished only to turn round and cry “blue murder”! The notoriety of the Fulani speaks for itself and cannot be substituted for “demonisation” and “racial profiling”. The publication herein speaks for itself far back 2015.

Is it the killing by the Fulanis that's politically motivated or the condemnation of their killing that is politically motivated?

What do you expect from a pastor living in Sokoto?

When Nigerian Christians are conquered by the Fulani jihadists, they will move 'CAN' to Sokoto and use it to control Nigerian Christians just like they are doing to all Nigerian Muslims.

Yoruba muslims should be independent on Fulani(Sokoto caliphate)

zoedew:
Like Prof. Pat Utomi, The Bishop, who is also very well read also fell for the Fulani red herring that they are being demonised and racially profiled a la Kadaria Ahmed. The Fulani has succeeded in changing the narrative and now have his likes on the defensive. The discerning are not taken! It is against all that is fair to appropriate land belonging to others to the Fulani who roam cattle destroying farmlands and killing the farmers in the process without being prosecuted and duly punished only to turn round and cry “blue murder”! The notoriety of the Fulani speaks for itself and cannot be substituted for “demonisation” and “racial profiling”. The publication herein speaks for itself far back 2015.

You've got world-class stuff buried inside you. Please go ahead and make history with your brain to the glory of God.

aolawale025:
Kukah has been speaking out against injustice

But when it comes to speaking out against the highest-level injustice, he is found giving complicit consent instead.

Why is it that lalasticlala and mynd44 don't push very important posts like this to fp? If they pushed where someone was defending the herdsmen and tens of thousands have read and bought into the idea, it's only just that they also push a post that is comprehensively contesting that position. Let people also read it. After all, this is about our lives as individuals and as a Nation.

Political correctness is the bane of terrorism worldwide. Cowards who call themselves leaders like Utomi will rather dance around the problem than tackle it headlong.
Fulanis are non Nigerians, the earlier Nigerians know this the better. Any community that habours them are hiding alien terrorist.
Fulanis need to be kicked out!