Nigeria is not the only country where nomadic pastoralists herdsmen come and go. In Kenya, they have the Maasai herdsmen who have been herding cattle around the Nile Valley area from the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt. Other nations have their own form of pastoralists too. But never in the history of the 20th and 21st Century has the world encountered a scenario such as that which stares Nigeria in the face, whereby Fulani pastoral Herdsmen simultaneously and nationally and almost systematically are wiping out indigenous Nigerians for the benefit of their cattle.

I challenge my readers to take the time to do a Google search and collate the number of reported casualties from unprovoked Fulani attacks on innocent, unarmed Nigerians in 2016 alone. The results will shock you! I will not throw out a number in order not to give my political foes fodder to use against me in a case of incitement, but please carry out even a cursory research on the matter.

And what has been the response of the Nigerian Government? I was shocked to read the reaction of Nigeria's minister of Internal Affairs, retired Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau, who blamed Social Media users for exacerbating these attacks!

I mean really? So what are we to do when we become aware that Fulani herdsmen are accused of killing, raping and maiming Nigerians? Are we to keep quiet in the national interest? Excuse me, but I thought the national interest was the interests of human beings rather than the interest of cattle!
And then President Muhammadu Buhari from faraway China, rightly goes ahead to issue a lethal warning to pipeline vandals: desist from your actions or else be dealt with as I dealt with Boko Haram!
Yet this same tough talking President does not have similar words for Fulani herdsmen? Mr. President, how many Nigerians have to die before you give Fulani herdsmen the 'Boko Haram' treatment?

President Muhammadu Buhari must be willing to suspend the fact that he is himself a Fulani by ethnicity and remember what he has been preaching to us since he first forced his way into our national consciousness after his coup against President Shagari in 1983.

I can never forget when the then military head of state, Major General Muhammad Buhari said "This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together."
Indeed, the President must remember that he wanted us to stay and salvage Nigeria together and not stay and be savaged in Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen!
And the absolute worst part of this story is the attempt by some Legislators to add salt to injury and injustice by floating a so called National Grazing Commission Bill to compulsorily acquire large swathes of Nigerian land and give them to the Commission for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen!

In fact, it makes better sense to establish a Victim Support Commission for the many thousands of victims of Fulani herdsmen than it does to set up a National Grazing Commission!

Honestly, I do not understand the idea behind this Bill. The legislators sponsoring this Bill are asking Nigeria to change her land tenure system to fit nomads who may or may not be Nigerian citizens. Has the world gone mad

Nigeria should not change to fit Fulani herdsmen, instead it is Fulani herdsmen that should change to fit Nigeria!
The Grazing Commission Bill is an insult to all the victims of the herdsmen. Peace can only be achieved if those who want to herd cattle set up ranches as is done everywhere else in the world!

The cattle herding business is a private enterprise. It should not be the business of the government to use public land and public funds to promote the group interest of Fulani herdsmen.

Let me assure any federal legislator that is foolhardy enough to support this Bill that Senators and Representatives from states where Fulani herdsmen have killed innocent Nigerians should forget their reelection if they support the Grazing Commission Bill!
In fact, they should be ashamed of themselves that they sat in a National Assembly where the Lagos-Calabar rail was not provided for and watched as the #GrazingCommissionBill got to second reading!

Instead of passing laws to protect victims of genocide they want to pass laws to protect those who commit genocide! Talk about Stockholm syndrome!
I am tempted to ask if this the Federal Republic of Nigeria or the Federal Republic of Fulani Herdsmen with Nigerians as second class citizens? Hardworking, tax paying Nigerian citizens do not have land to build houses yet the backers of this repugnant Bill want to give free land to Fulani herdsmen?

But should I or anybody reading this really blame the sponsors of this Bill? Shouldn't the blame rightly be on all of us collectively when we keep silent while our brothers die because of political ambition and fear of persecution!
What did Jesus say again in Matthew 10:28 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."


My name is Reno Omokri, if anybody likes let them come and arrest me for saying the truth. I would rather live the rest of my life in a dungeon than fold my hands and do nothing while my fellow Nigerians are being killed so that cattle may live!


Reno Omokri is the host of Transformation With Reno Omokri, founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California and author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept.

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Lalasticlala

Fulani herdsmen must be declare Terrorist Group for the safety of our country. Enough of Barbaric Killing.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Common sense.

There is nothing bribery can not achieve. Anyone who sells his mother land for a bowl of soup is an......

I totally fail to understand or comprehend the sort of human beings we call our leaders.
The other time, they talked about importing grasses from Brazil to feed cows. Now they want to appropriate lands for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen whose presence signify death and destruction.

Cattle rearing is a business whose owners are mostly from the north, and the government plans to create grazing reserves (mainly in the south, because that's where most of the grass will grow) for northern cattle businessmen!
Since when has government given such gift to other businesses in the country? Land is a major capital and the north has most of the land mass in Nigeria. I will lose no sleep if the grazing reserve will be created in the north. But we know the target is the middle belt and the south.

Can we finally admit that this country belongs to the Fulanis? The grazing reserve bill is nothing but a sinister move to dominate and subjugate the entire south. Now that their brother is in power, this is the opportunity to make the entire country their caliphate, as was admonished by Ahmadu Bello.

The senators from the south who all kept quiet when the bill passed a first and second reading have a lot to answer for. It seem the life of their people back home isn't worth that of the cattle they are creating the grazing reserves for.

This is serious, we the peoples of Southern Nigeria reject this grazing bill.

We bind it and send it to the pit of hell from whence it comes.

nigeria has gone to the *o*s

The 2nd reading passing of the obnoxious grazing commission bill is one of the ridiculous things to have emerged from the theatre of errors called the Senate.

No law should empower any agency leave to confiscate people's ancestral land from them, in order to hand to cattles & their "guardians"

In as much as we all have equal rights under the laws of the nation, one groups right doesn't supercede another..

Even though, we'd have preferred it if oga Ben had taken a stand on the floor of the senate to reject this, it's still on point...

#NoToGrazingBill


*seems it's Omokri's words*, doesn't matter,( he is Bruce's SM ghost) same sentiments stand!!

This bill is a blemish.....Any smart southern lawmaker will abstain from being stained by it..... Simple Common Sense!

This senate has taken commonsense to the cleaners!

Guys have redefined ineptitude!

Here, Nigerians--behold, your real enemies!

Wonder who they are beholdening to and what sort of leverage such party has over so many people all at once. Must be a cult of some sort!

Thought we elected leaders, never knew they are puppets grovelling at some puppeteer(s). Them for don cast somewhere.

South middle belth dont allow this Fulani land grabbers

I pity any southern Senator that will support the bill. May be Osun will support it.
In this age and time any Senator from the SE/SS that supports that obnoxious bill will only have himself to blame. Because the list of everyone that supported it will be made available and you know what's next.

NO TO GRAZING BILL OR COMMISSION..
From Owerri

well done senator BMB other southern senators need to speak out too.

Who are those senators representing?

Say No to Fulani deceitful takeover of our ancestral lands.


Build Ranches and not steal lands in the name of Grazing Reserve


Fulanis are terrorists.

#NoToGrazingBill

I just called my Senator to confirm if he support the Grazing bill and his reply was



We will make sure Nigeria sink instead of that bill to be passed

Twitter Senator.

Unfortunately, Buhari won't listen. He doesn't see anything wrong with killings of innocent and harmless people by fulani herdsmen.

Kestolovee95:
I pity any southern Senator that will support the bill. May be Osun will support it.
In this age and time any Senator from the SE/SS that supports that obnoxious bill will only have himself to blame. Because the list of everyone that supported it will be made available and you know what's next.

why mention Osun nao, no make us vex oooo, atleast two of our senators have been vibrant in d house .

Ben Bruce is a Discernment by the Order of God Almighty. And the Threader here is a Prince of Nairaland.

BMB, abeg no be Twitter matter be this, talk am for floor.
@Reno, your own no go scatter for your eyes, you are always on point, sincerely, I wished to see you someday in pmb's crew or probably contest for an elective post in your state.
God bless you.

Our senate is a shame. Ben Bruce is a shame too. Why come on twitter to rant. Where was he when this bill passed first and second readings? What did he say. Where are our southern senators. Are these people under a sort of spell in that abuja or what. What nonsense is happening in that upper chamber. This is really disgusting. They only become vibrantly active on the floor of the house if it is ccb ammendment bill. Useless dolts.

What is really going on in Nigeria, Apc wants to take us back to the dark ages, May God forbid!

It is indeed an obnoxious bill that all well meaning southerners should stand against. It is not the job of government to provide grazing land to businessmen/herdsmen. Acquisition of rightfully owned lands of southerners to placate the criminal herdsmen is sheer injustice.

The Sponsors and supporters of such bills are the divisive elements we don't want in the new Nigeria.

The nous senator!

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To me,this grazing bill is nothing more than a form of colonization of nigerians by this blood sucking fulani's

This is amazing. Something is seriously wrong with our Southern legislators whose perennial occupation is to loot and to loot and to loot! Whatever brings nothing into their pockets is never important. I would not be surprised if some of them have been promised shekels to pass this bill without debate!

madridguy:
Fulani herdsmen must be declare Terrorist Group for the safety of our country. Enough of Barbaric Killing.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

They have already been declared as the 4th deadliest terror group in the world.

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