If President Buhari refuses to do something about the wanton killing of women and children in the middle belt by evil Fulani herdsmen, <<snip>>

Cattle rustling is the excuse and reason giving for the killings. However, majority of those involve in cow rustling are the fulanis themselves. We all heard reports of cow rustlings in places like Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina, Kebbi and others. Do google search and you see. All of these places are fulani states except for southern Kaduna. Cow rustlings are rampant even in Niger Republic. If the fulanis can rustle cows in their own states, they can do it anywhere in Nigeria.

The issue of the middle belt is different because the whole thing is planned. Cow rustling is deliberately executed to give way for fulani wind of terror on innocent people going about their normal businesses. The killings are well organised and coordinated to wipe out minorities in the middle belt of Nigeria. It is genocide!

It has never been worse like this before. Enough is enough.

If federal government does not do something about the issue of fulani and their primitive way of life, _

Cc: seun, Barcanista, lalasticlala, Sincere9gerian, Bishopmagic, all4naija, Biafraqeen,
Pls help spread the news. People are being killed as I write by fulani herds men!

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Tell them!

Says who? .....NONSENSE

jakiedudu:
If President Buhari refuses to do something about the wanton killing of women and children in the middle belt by evil Fulani herdsmen, this country will go up in flames. This is the plain truth.
Cattle rustling is the excuse and reason for the killings. However, majority of those involve in cow rustling are the fulanis themselves. We all heard reports of cow rustlings in places like Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina, Kebbi and others. Do google search and you see. All of these places are fulani states except for southern Kaduna. If the fulanis can rustle cows in their own states, they can do it anywhere in Nigeria.
The issue of the middle belt is different because the whole thing is planned. Cow rustling is deliberately executed to give way for fulani wind of terror on innocent people going about their normal businessess. The killings are well organised and coordinated to wipe out minorities in the middle belt of Nigeria. It is genocide!
It has never been worse like this before. Enough is enough.
If federal government does not do something about the issue of fulani and their primitive way of life, the people will take laws into their hands to defend themselves.

Cc: seun, Barcanista, lalasticlala, Sincere9gerian, Bishopmagic, all4naija, Biafraqeen,
Pls help spread the news. People are being killed as I write by fulani herds men!

In describing the Nigerian Middle Belt, Wallace (1902) observe:

"In Nassarawa country, a once fertile and populous province, one can only view the remains and ruins of large and totally deserted towns, bearing witness to the desolation wrought by 100 years of internecine strife and slave-raiding by the Fulani."
(W. Wallace [1902] quoted in Sciortino 1920:5)

Today, nothing has changed!

Online Reference: http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology/Africa/The%20present%20in%20the%20past.pdf (pg: 6)

Wilson-Haffenden (1930:45), commenting on the impact of slaving on plains settlements in Nassarawa Province, says;

"The remaining inhabitants of such towns fled to the hills in all directions; those who approached the eastern and north-eastern confines of the Province, until they learned how to defend themselves, were further raided by the Headhunting tribes who inhabit these hilly localities. … Such was the state of the Province when the arrival of Sir Frederick Lugard put a stop to the slave-raiding, and evolved law and
order out of chaos and ruin".

(Sciortino 1920:5)

I hear a lot of people accuse the ibos of being filled with hate toward other tribe, of being the problem of Nigeria. But, I have never heard of Ibos attacking other tribes in their land or outside their land. The ibo land is one of the most peaceful part of Nigeria, they pay their taxes and rents where ever they finds themselves, they relate well with their host. I see no reason why ibos should be seen as a problem in Nigeria.
The real problem are the fulanis , they look for problem where ever they go, they attack their host unprovoked, destroy farmlands and threaten any community they enters with death. They move around freely with guns. Nobody is talking about this herdsmen bloodsucking demons, their leaders are not condemning them, the press are silent toward their evil action.
Every focus and energy are been channeled on the ibos. The Ibos are hardworking pple who value life, they are not a threat, the threat are the fulanis. The fulanis are the real blood thirsty bigots . This set of pple value cow more than a human life

It must stop

BishopMagic:
Open country made a permanent relocation to the hills more difficult, and many peoples had to resort to hiding in caves to escape the mounted raiders. In 1979, the Gbari peoples west of modern-day Suleja (previously Abuja and a notorious slaving centre) were still able to identify the caves formerly used a refuges in the slaving era.

The Berom of the Jos Plateau, for example, built compounds entered by passing through a maze of narrow tunnels, with blind alleys and misleading passages, enabling the inhabitants to attack horsemen.

A related consequence of the slave trade was to establish outposts of Hausa traders in zongos all across the Middle Belt (James n.d.). Towns such as Keffi and Kontagora became important centres for the slavers and thus more general hubs of trade routes and so were eventually converted into chiefdoms (Hogben & Kirk-Greene 1966). In Adamawa, the Fulɓe remained dominant in the towns while even Kanuri settlements such as Lafia were retained (Sciortino 1920). These in turn became important economic centres, serving long-distance trade, increasingly foodstuffs, as the urbanisation following colonial rule increased demand from the cities. Another aspect of the transformation of the Middle Belt was the establishment of rinji or slave settlements within the territories of the indigenous populations (Hill 1976). These were inhabited by a core of Fulɓe and rumada or settled slaves (Bruce 1982). The rumada were slaves who no longer retained an ethnic identity and so were
less likely to run away. Slave settlements could not be maintained without the consent of the local populations, since such villages would be too vulnerable to attack. In the case of Gindiri, south of the Jos Plateau, the rinji became the focus of a trade between the local Fyem [=Pyem] people and the Hausa. More strikingly, an important source of the slaves was not raiding but purchases from other nearby ethnic groups.
Bruce (1982:193-194) cites examples of Ngas and Zaar [=Sayawa] men selling their daughters for cash to increase their social status. Males were not sold in this way, but the Fyem apparently engaged in the kidnapping of children on bush paths for transformation into slaves (see also Machunga n.d.).

As can be seen, your ancestors in the middle-belt brought this calamity upon your generation.

This is what awaits Odua in the near future.

BishopMagic:
Wilson-Haffenden (1930:45), commenting on the impact of slaving on plains settlements in Nassarawa Province, says;

"The remaining inhabitants of such towns fled to the hills in all directions; those who approached the eastern and north-eastern confines of the Province, until they learned how to defend themselves, were further raided by the Headhunting tribes who inhabit these hilly localities. … Such was the state of the Province when the arrival of Sir Frederick Lugard put a stop to the slave-raiding, and evolved law and
order out of chaos and ruin".

(Sciortino 1920:5)

Who are the head hunting tribes that they referred to

BishopMagic:


In describing the Nigerian Middle Belt, Wallace (1902) observe:

"In Nassarawa country, a once fertile and populous province, one can only view the remains and ruins of large and totally deserted towns, bearing witness to the desolation wrought by 100 years of internecine strife and slave-raiding by the Fulani."
(W. Wallace [1902] quoted in Sciortino 1920:5)

Today, nothing has changed!

Online Reference: http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology/Africa/The%20present%20in%20the%20past.pdf (pg: 6)

Thankyou for the link. Pls can you create a thread about this issue of fulanis to spread the word? I know this thread will not make frontpage thats why I need your help to write about the genocide going on in the middle belt.
The fulanis are becoming a terro and nightmare to peace loving people not just in middle belt but all over Nigeria. The people's way of life has been disrupted by killings and destruction. They can no longer go to their farms or the market for fear of attacks. Their homes are no longer save, and federal government is doing absolutely nothing to arrest the situation. The era of grazzing need to stop.
The fulanis must start ranging their animals or there will be trouble.

The embarrassing reality was that slavery in Nigeria underwent a ‘slow death’, to use the opportune term of Hogendorn and Lovejoy (1993). Although Lugard’s pronouncements in the early post-conquest period seemed to suggest it would no longer be tolerated, it was evidently difficult to simply halt the process in northern Nigeria in view of how deeply it was embedded (Ubah 1991).

Moreover, and this is part of the ambiguity of the colonial attitude, it was necessary to keep traditional rulers on board as part of a longer term strategy to counter real or imagined radicalism. Klein (1998) records similar problematic attitudes in the Francophone regions of West Africa. Even relative liberals such as Temple (1918) argued that the system of domestic slavery should not be summarily dismantled. Slaves whose original ethnic identity had been abolished were still working within the Hausa system in the first quarter of the twentieth century (Figure 10). A
decree finally abolishing slavery was only promulgated in 1936, although by this time, almost all those former slaves who
maintained an ethnic identity had left for their home area
(Olusanya 1966).

At the same time, colonial policy promoted the use of Hausa and Islamic courts, which had the contrary effect of cementing the power of the former slavers. Indirect rule kept the Muslim rulers of outlying settlements such as Keffi and Ibi in place. Indirect rule also maintained these islands of Hausa dominancet hrough the colonial era and preserved their authority through a court system controlled by Muslim qadis even in rather marginal Islamic areas. Fulɓe pastoralists could count on the incursions of their cattle into fields of crops being subject to only minor penalties in the courts when they were opposed to non-Muslims.

It also became advantageous for local rulers to either convert to Islam or adopt its outward form. Turaki (1993:99) observes;

It can hardly be doubted that the practice of placing large numbers of pagans under Fulani District Heads and supporting the authority of these by the powers of government when and where necessary, led to an extension of Islam. … The pagan headman tended to start wearing Muslim dress especially when they were called to meetings at the District Headquarters and this donning of the garb of the Muslim often proved the first step to Islam.

This in turn has had a direct impact on issues such as the boundaries of post-colonial Nigerian states. The original Kaduna state, for example, was a long narrow strip that stretched from Katsina on the northern border down through Zaria. Kaduna included many of the communities in Southern Zaria that were subjugated by Zazzau in the slave-raiding era. Even when the Katsina Emirate became a separate state, the remaining rump of Kaduna State persisted with this awkward conjunction, binding together resentful minority communities, generally oriented towards Christianity, with their former antagonists from further north. Historically this has often been the source of conflict and this state of affairs is likely to continue.

Pathetic animalistic fulanis,I hate em,this killimg must stop .human lives is precious ,they value their cows more than human,so barbaric.

jakiedudu:

Thankyou for the link. Pls can you create a thread about this issue of fulanis to spread the word? I know this thread will not make frontpage thats why I need your help to write about the genocide going on in the middle belt.
The fulanis are becoming a terro and nightmare to peace loving people not just in middle belt but all over Nigeria. The people's way of life has been disrupted by killings and destruction. They can no longer go to their farms or the market for fear of attacks. Their homes are no longer save, and federal government is doing absolutely nothing to arrest the situation. The era of grazzing need to stop.
The fulanis must start ranging their animals or there will be trouble.

The Fulanis are not becoming a terror, this is what they have been doing for over 500yrs.

The Middle-Belt should do what Nations do which is to defend their lands and identity or die.

It is that simple.

The better south comprising of Niger Delta and Igbos will not be enslaved under the Caliphate.

This is what Biafra is all about.

I already have a thread on this matter since yesterday https://www.nairaland.com/2565557/1902-quote-fulani-rampage-middle

This is a long term plan to turn nigeria into islamic country. After killing all the northern christian, the next will be south west followed by south east, then their mission will be accomplished. It may take 200years to achieve. It is there long term vision to secure the life of there children.

kettykings:



Who are the head hunting tribes that they referred to

Rival minority tribes .

Maybe Eggons or Ombatse.

Don't know. The narrative never mentioned the tribe.

The fragmented state of the middle belt is testament to migratory tribes who settled in the vast, fertile and game rich plains of the Niger-Benue trough. So it might be any tribe within the current middle belt.

wisdomguy4u:
I hear a lot of people accuse the ibos of being filled
with hate toward other tribe, of being the problem
of Nigeria. But, I have never heard of Ibos attacking
other tribes in their land or outside their land. The
ibo land is one of the most peaceful part of Nigeria,
they pay their taxes and rents where ever they finds
themselves, they relate well with their host. I see no
reason why ibos should be seen as a problem in
Nigeria.

The real problem are the fulanis , they look for
problem where ever they go, they attack their host
unprovoked, destroy farmlands and threaten any
community they enters with death. They move
around freely with guns. Nobody is talking about
this herdsmen bloodsucking demons, their leaders
are not condemning them, the press are silent
toward their evil action.

Every focus and energy are been channeled on the
ibos. The Ibos are hardworking pple who value life,
they are not a threat, the threat are the fulanis. The
fulanis are the real blood thirsty bigots . This set of
pple value cow more than a human life

God bless you for this great insight. The reason why the fulanis hate igbos is because they are well informed.
Seriously if government refuses to look into these fulani problems, especially the issue of grazzing, this country will disintegrate. The situation is becoming terrible. Middle belt must defend themselves.

nabiz:
This is a long term plan to turn nigeria into islamic country. After killing all the northern christian, the next will be south west followed by south east, then their mission will be accomplished. It may take 200years to achieve. It is there long term vision to secure the life of there children.

The Fulani north plan of conquest is slow, steady and calculated and lasts generations.

It follows the same path of attrition to wear down the people with ceaseless conflicts until the capitulate for sake of peace.

The most discriminated people today in Nigeria is the middle belt christian and not the Igbos.

The north has no clue as how to reign in the Niger-Delta and Igbo tribes because we are not in any way ready to enter slavery.

Nigeria is truly a slave nation.

Lord Lugard's only reasons for adopting indirect rule in the north were:

1. The fear of a power vacuum resulting from the abolishing of the Caliphate system which most likely will usher in a revolutionary Mahdist movement against the small British forces administering a colony of 30,0000 sq miles united under an extremist Islamic ideology. Lugard thus had no option than to appoint successors to the overthrown traditional establishments and provide much needed legitimacy and backing.

2. Slavery was well entrenched in the north and the only way to make money from the region was to rely on the Hausa-Fulani merchants and Oligarchs who employed slave labor in their farms. The Hausa merchants supplied local produce to the trading board who in turn supplied imported goods back to them for distribution. This why slavery persisted in the north up till the 1930's.

The slave labor and fertile lands both came from the middle-belt.

The embarrassing reality was that slavery in Nigeria underwent a ‘slow death’, to use the opportune term of Hogendorn and Lovejoy (1993). Although Lugard’s pronouncements in the early post-conquest period seemed to suggest it would no longer be tolerated, it was evidently difficult to simply halt the process in northern Nigeria in view of how deeply it was embedded (Ubah 1991). Moreover, and this is part of the ambiguity of the colonial attitude, it was necessary to keep traditional rulers on board as part of a longer term strategy to counter real or imagined radicalism. Klein (1998) records similar problematic attitudes in the Francophone regions of West Africa. Even relative liberals such as Temple (1918) argued that the system of domestic slavery should not be summarily dismantled. Slaves whose original ethnic identity had been abolished were still working within the Hausa system in the first quarter of the twentieth century (Figure 10). A decree finally abolishing slavery was only promulgated in 1936, although by this time, almost all those former slaves who maintained an ethnic identity had left for their home area (Olusanya 1966).

If una like, make una dey drink brukutu dey shout we are northerners

Lordave:
OP, you can do little to nothing about it.

Buhari is a Fulani, he aided and is aiding his Kanuri brothers turn North-East to Syria...we all know why he did that and why is still doing it, so no long story.


Now what you're saying is like asking the Devil to reduce the rate to which his demons carry out spiritual and psychological attack on humans.

Honestly my hope for this country has dissipated. Am ashame to be a Nigerian. There is no justification whatsoever for the wanton destruction of lives and properties in the middle belt. No justification at all.
I want to use this medium and call on all middle belters to defend themsleves. These evil should not be tolerated any longer.

CUM4WHAT:
Says who? .....NONSENSE

People are dying that's why there's an outcry here haven't youu been reading of it lately?

BishopMagic:


The Fulanis are not becoming a terror, this is what they have been doing for over 500yrs.

The Middle-Belt should do what Nations do which is to defend their lands and identity or die.

It is that simple.

The better south comprising of Niger Delta and Igbos will not be enslaved under the Caliphate.

This is what Biafra is all about.

I already have a thread on this matter since yesterday https://www.nairaland.com/2565557/1902-quote-fulani-rampage-middle

You are absolutely right. Middle belters have no other options than to defend themselves.
#TheKillingsMustStop
Thankyou very much for your time. Really appreciate it.

The president's silence on the issue is troubling.
http://www.naijiant.com/articles/president-buharis-silence-is-deafening/

jakiedudu:

Honestly my hope for this country has dissipated. Am ashame to be a Nigerian. There is no justification whatsoever for the wanton destruction of lives and properties in the middle belt. No justification at all.
I want to use this medium and call on all middle belters to defend themsleves. These evil should not be tolerated any longer.

You are just finding out the reality of the true nature of things in the middle belt that have existed for close to a thousand years.

Nigeria can never be a nation as long as there exist a people who chose to be unproductive but wait to steal the resources and sweat of other regions.

Shekau and his Bokos are a northern agenda to hold Nigeria to ransome which some slaves in the south chose to overlook.

How can Jonathan be behind Boko Haram? What concerns Orisejfor and CAN with Boko Haram?

Today the fools prefer to Sanusi Lamido embracing Buhari in Aso Rock than Jonathan with Orisetjafor forgetting that as Emir, Sanusi is both the spiritual and military leader of Muslims in Kano.

Let the Jihad spread accross the middle-belt and Southwest.

nabiz:
This is a long term plan to turn nigeria into islamic country. After killing all the northern christian, the next will be south west followed by south east, then their mission will be accomplished. It may take 200years to achieve. It is there long term vision to secure the life of there children.

With the killings goin on daily, what you said may not be far from the truth.
Middle belters must defend themsleves.

I made the decision to disintegrate Nigeria as far back as my primary school.am happy that comrades are rising...
Buhari is turning Nigeria into a keg of gunpowder, and when the time comes,I'd be proud to be among the honorable people that'd light the fuse

They believed every outragous lie against Jonathan being behind boko haram.

It did not stop there... rather than rally against the evil the north unleashed - they went on to mock Jonathan as clueless.

The slaves even mocked Jonathan's meek background.

The clueless shoeless one who rose to be elected by them must go for the aristocratic cow herdsman and his beautiful wife.

This is slavery and nothing more.

How many opposition figures fighting for independence and post independence have come out from the north?

How many northerners have been recorded in history to oppose any of the heads of states that came from the north?

Not a single damn one. Even Buhari defended Abacha when he was in power!

But when a christian minority from the south with humble background became President, the north suddenly became an opposition force.

Yoruba, your slavery is already engraved in marble.

Naija my con3

[size=18pt]Ojukwu On Islamization And Arabization Of Black Africa[/size]



The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity

-Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) was the only president of the short lived Republic of Biafra.

arms proliferation is a concern for FGN all ethnic militias will be did armed ..