Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous. – Wikipedia

According to NAN, Alhaji Mahmud Bello, the National Coordinator, Grazing Stock Routes, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced that the Federal Government plans to demarcate 6,000km cattle routes across all parts of Nigeria in 2017.Bello announced that the new plans will prevent indigenous owners of the lands that will be demarcated, from encroaching into the stock routes, grazing areas and selling those areas that have been mapped out as graving reserves (imagine that).

According to the official of the Federal Government which is supposed to promote justice, fairness and stability the lands would be handed over to the herdsmen.It is very clear that Bello by making this announcement is flying a trial balloon to gage the reaction of the South (Igbos, Yorubas and Niger Deltans to see how much opposition the policy would get, so that if their is minimal opposition, he can go ahead.

This policy is being floated since the grazing reserve bill which was widely rejected in the South was rejected by the South through their Governors, religious and political leaders, human rights activists and leaders of thought in social media (bloggers, Nairalanders, etc). The policy is unjust and aims to collect ancestral and ethnic lands from Southerners, given to them from time immemorial and hand it over to a profession dominated by one ethnic group in such a way that it would look like ethnic cleansing.

Southerners have said they are okay with commercial ranches by herdsmen, which will even make the herdsmen capture the African cattle market and bring glory and riches to them and to all Nigerians. But it seems some people are determined to force feed the unjust, unfair, land-seizing grazing reserve policy on Southern Nigerians. (What is wrong with commercial cattle ranching, biko nu? Oga o!) It will not work o!The South must not relax in its human rights activism against this new policy, because Southerners are not slaves and therefore, deserve to live with dignity.

They don’t deserve to have their lands seized from them that their ancestors (Eri, Oduduwa and other great men handed over to them to pass on to the descendants forever.Someone cannot then come out and say that these lands were gazetted in 1962, in other to collect land that Eri, Oduduwa and other great ancestors of Southern Nigeria gave their children since time immemorial. The stage of settling on virgin land and declaring it as the homeland of an ethnic group in Nigeria has passed. The stage of capturing ethnic lands in the name of your ethnic group has also passed.

Nigeria is now in the stage of buying land from willing buyers anywhere and settling. But indigenes still have rights to their lands. When you come to a community and say you are demarcating land for a profession dominated by only one ethnic group, to US in the South it looks exactly like ethnic cleansing, which the International Criminal Court has described as a Crime Against Humanity. The Nuremberg trials executed lots of German Nazi leaders for acts of ethnic cleansing.

When the Serbs tried to chase away or kill Bosnian Muslims from their ancestral land of Bosnia, so that they can take over their lands, the world made sure that the Serbs were tried and jailed for that ethnic cleansing by the International Criminal Court. I pray it doesnt get to that because we see all Nigerians as our brothers and resent all attempts to divide US. So many German officials were executed by the International Criminal Court for ethnic cleansing.

May Nigeria not have that kind of stain on its conscience.I am appealing to lawyers from the South of Nigeria to prepare to challenge any power that tries to seize ethnic and ancestral lands of the indigenes of Southern Nigeria, whether Igbo, Yoruba or Niger Delta indigenes. Challenge it in the magistrate courts, in the High Courts, In the Appeal Court , in the Supreme Court of the Land, in the ECOWAS Court, in the World Court and International Criminal Court if necessary. Now is a time to get ready to respond legally with unity if an attempt is made to seize your ethnic lands.

I encourage our political and religious leaders to think of future generations when resisting evil. don’t fail to speak out against injustice. If you are a Governor, remember that the laws of the land vest the Land Use Act in your hands. If you are a political or traditional ruler, do not sell your people’s future for nothing. Do not plant tears in the eyes of unborn generations.

I ask our leaders of thought (bloggers, Nairalanders, Facebook,Twitter and Whatsapp activists and other giants of social media) to defeat this new plan the same way they defeated the Anti Social Media Bill and the Grazing Reserve Bill- with your social media handles.Our journalists use your editorials, articles, columns to uphold justice for the South and for all Nigerians. Yes we can. We must speak the truth to power.

A wise man once said, ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty’. Frederick Douglas said, ‘If there is no struggle, their is no progress. Those who profess for freedom and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.’Let us not do wrong, but let us not be tired of doing right.

I congratulate Nairaland activists for what they did in this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3731850/fg-demarcate-cattle-routes-nationwideWe can promote justice on earth with our social media handles, with our writeups, with our legal advocacy. We must promote justice for ourselves and for all Nigerians because we can.

source: http://zikistmovement.igbodefender.com/2017/04/10/grazing-reserve-vs-comercial-ranching-southern-lawyers-social-media-prepare-against-ethnic-cleansing-in-nigeria/#more-2808

if lifestock farmers rearing goats, sheep, poultry etc breed their animals in enclosed spaces, who de hell ar fulani herdsmen they can try their grazing reserve business in d north but no part of south east territory will used for dis demonic scheme.
only in a cess pit will a govt attempt to confiscate indegenous pipul's ancestral land for fulani private business. dis rubbish will not be tolerated any wia in d world.

Commercial cattle ranching is the way forward. No to grazing reserve. No to unjust seizing of ancestral lands of tne South.

How can Oduduwa give Yorubas land from time immemorial and you come to collect it from them for grazing reserve?
How can Eri give Igbos land from time immemorial and you come to take it from them for grazing reserve?
How can you take the lands the ancestors of the Niger Delta left for future generations?
We have our history in the South for those lands. They have been with us no be today, no be 1962, no be 1862.

#NoToGrazingReserve in any form. Yes to #CommercialCattleRanching

Aboki will never get sense.

United we stand..

Kingspin:
Aboki will never get sense.

My brother, let US not attack the Abokis, but the Unjust Grazing Bill. Let US show the world why it is unjust and must never be allowed to become operative in any form while there is something called commercial cattle ranching in operation. #NoToGrazingReserve

Igbos,Yorubas,itsekiri,Ijaw,etc let us rise up against this barbaric sentiment no to land grabbing .

Esseite:
United we stand..

God bless you, Sir. The South has no choice but to unite over this issue. If we don't, all our years of education have been a total waste!

Everyone in the south must join hands,, we reject grazing reserves.. No to grazing reserve..

drss2:
if lifestock farmers rearing goats, sheep, poultry etc breed their animals in enclosed spaces, who de hell ar fulani herdsmen they can try their grazing reserve business in d north but no part of south east territory will used for dis demonic scheme.
only in a cess pit will a govt attempt to confiscate indegenous pipul's ancestral land for fulani private business. dis rubbish will not be tolerated any wia in d world.

Their sense for cattle rearing is so appalling, primitive and static, lacking in modern agricultural trends. Is this the method engaged by leading diary and cattle breeders (countries)of the world? Why is the obsolete grazing method supprted by "herdmen in power"? A way of life or doing things that can never be accommodated by others. How can a people be so hell bent on roaming about in another man's land in the name of 'one Nigeria grazing zone' with their personal cattle business. Is it an employment that can engage our unemployed youths the way it is done without a ranches? Grazing zone my foot....

profhezekiah:
Igbos,Yorubas,itsekiri,Ijaw,etc let us rise up against this barbaric sentiment no to land grabbing .

We might bicker a lot in the South, but we ain't gonna allow this madness.
Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni, Benin, Urhobo, Itshekiri etc., Let's drop our foolishness against each other and fight this Grazing madness!

Alfranco:

Their sense for cattle rearing is so appalling, primitive and static, lacking in modern agricultural trends. Is this the method engaged by leading diary and cattle breeders (countries)of the world? Why is the obsolete grazing method supprted by "herdmen in power"? A way of life or doing things that can never be accommodated by others. How can a people be so hell bent on roaming about in another man's land in the name of 'one Nigeria grazing zone' with their personal cattle business. Is it an employment that can engage our unemployed youths the way it is done without a ranches? Grazing zone my foot....

land grabbing is d only reason why fulanis ar still insisting on grazing reserve. as part of their plans to dip d koran into d atlantic ocean, grazing reserve will help dem achieve their goal quickly. dat is why they ar willing to go as far as massacre pipul of middle belt right in their land to accomodate their ancient lifestyle (jihadic mission).

igbodefender:
Commercial cattle ranching is the way forward. No to grazing reserve. No to unjust seizing of ancestral lands of tne South.

dis fulani problem is not even about grazing reserve or ranching. they demselves know dat ranching is d only way forward. it is their motive dat is d problem. their insistence on grazing reserve is with ulterior motive - JIHAD point blank. their know exactly wat they ar doing.

How can the Southern politicians keep mute to this agenda.
You want to take our land we use for farming a give to your brother herds men.

Is cattle rearing not a private business? If this is allowed to happen, then the agenda of islamizing Nigeria is perfected.

The Southern legislators must open their eyes to this evil agenda

The south will keep on shouting on different issues from the hands of hausa Fulani's, till thy kingdom come unless Nigeria is divided.
So Biafra is the solution.

Accept biafra & solve hausa fulani jihadist wahala.

Balkan:

The Southern legislators must open their eyes to this evil agenda

They already tried the Southern legislators last year during the grazing bill readings. Thank God for activists like us on Nairaland, Twitter, Facebook, etc. When the heat was too much they suspended the bill (we won that battle).

But from this latest attempt it is clear that they are not resting. They want to use this backdoor to introduce the same thing with a new name. But we are just too educated and too activist to fall for that.

We have to create awareness everywhere to also defeat this. On Nai'land; Twitter everywhere. Publicity is one thing they fear so much.

igbodefender:
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous. – Wikipedia

According to NAN, Alhaji Mahmud Bello, the National Coordinator, Grazing Stock Routes, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced that the Federal Government plans to demarcate 6,000km cattle routes across all parts of Nigeria in 2017.Bello announced that the new plans will prevent indigenous owners of the lands that will be demarcated, from encroaching into the stock routes, grazing areas and selling those areas that have been mapped out as graving reserves (imagine that).

According to the official of the Federal Government which is supposed to promote justice, fairness and stability the lands would be handed over to the herdsmen.It is very clear that Bello by making this announcement is flying a trial balloon to gage the reaction of the South (Igbos, Yorubas and Niger Deltans to see how much opposition the policy would get, so that if their is minimal opposition, he can go ahead.

This policy is being floated since the grazing reserve bill which was widely rejected in the South was rejected by the South through their Governors, religious and political leaders, human rights activists and leaders of thought in social media (bloggers, Nairalanders, etc). The policy is unjust and aims to collect ancestral and ethnic lands from Southerners, given to them from time immemorial and hand it over to a profession dominated by one ethnic group in such a way that it would look like ethnic cleansing.

Southerners have said they are okay with commercial ranches by herdsmen, which will even make the herdsmen capture the African cattle market and bring glory and riches to them and to all Nigerians. But it seems some people are determined to force feed the unjust, unfair, land-seizing grazing reserve policy on Southern Nigerians. (What is wrong with commercial cattle ranching, biko nu? Oga o!) It will not work o!The South must not relax in its human rights activism against this new policy, because Southerners are not slaves and therefore, deserve to live with dignity.

They don’t deserve to have their lands seized from them that their ancestors (Eri, Oduduwa and other great men handed over to them to pass on to the descendants forever.Someone cannot then come out and say that these lands were gazetted in 1962, in other to collect land that Eri, Oduduwa and other great ancestors of Southern Nigeria gave their children since time immemorial. The stage of settling on virgin land and declaring it as the homeland of an ethnic group in Nigeria has passed. The stage of capturing ethnic lands in the name of your ethnic group has also passed.

Nigeria is now in the stage of buying land from willing buyers anywhere and settling. But indigenes still have rights to their lands. When you come to a community and say you are demarcating land for a profession dominated by only one ethnic group, to US in the South it looks exactly like ethnic cleansing, which the International Criminal Court has described as a Crime Against Humanity. The Nuremberg trials executed lots of German Nazi leaders for acts of ethnic cleansing.

When the Serbs tried to chase away or kill Bosnian Muslims from their ancestral land of Bosnia, so that they can take over their lands, the world made sure that the Serbs were tried and jailed for that ethnic cleansing by the International Criminal Court. I pray it doesnt get to that because we see all Nigerians as our brothers and resent all attempts to divide US. So many German officials were executed by the International Criminal Court for ethnic cleansing.

May Nigeria not have that kind of stain on its conscience.I am appealing to lawyers from the South of Nigeria to prepare to challenge any power that tries to seize ethnic and ancestral lands of the indigenes of Southern Nigeria, whether Igbo, Yoruba or Niger Delta indigenes. Challenge it in the magistrate courts, in the High Courts, In the Appeal Court , in the Supreme Court of the Land, in the ECOWAS Court, in the World Court and International Criminal Court if necessary. Now is a time to get ready to respond legally with unity if an attempt is made to seize your ethnic lands.

I encourage our political and religious leaders to think of future generations when resisting evil. don’t fail to speak out against injustice. If you are a Governor, remember that the laws of the land vest the Land Use Act in your hands. If you are a political or traditional ruler, do not sell your people’s future for nothing. Do not plant tears in the eyes of unborn generations.

I ask our leaders of thought (bloggers, Nairalanders, Facebook,Twitter and Whatsapp activists and other giants of social media) to defeat this new plan the same way they defeated the Anti Social Media Bill and the Grazing Reserve Bill- with your social media handles.Our journalists use your editorials, articles, columns to uphold justice for the South and for all Nigerians. Yes we can. We must speak the truth to power.

A wise man once said, ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty’. Frederick Douglas said, ‘If there is no struggle, their is no progress. Those who profess for freedom and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.’Let us not do wrong, but let us not be tired of doing right.

I congratulate Nairaland activists for what they did in this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3731850/fg-demarcate-cattle-routes-nationwideWe can promote justice on earth with our social media handles, with our writeups, with our legal advocacy. We must promote justice for ourselves and for all Nigerians because we can.

source: http://zikistmovement.igbodefender.com/2017/04/10/grazing-reserve-vs-comercial-ranching-southern-lawyers-social-media-prepare-against-ethnic-cleansing-in-nigeria/#more-2808

We say no to Fulani Jıhadist land grabbers!
Bia,it seems they have special interest in Eriland,I mean Aguleri and Umuleri.

Ojiofor:

We say no to Fulani Jıhadist land grabbers!
Bia,it seems they have special interest in Eriland,I mean Aguleri and Umuleri.

Why do you say so?

igbodefender:

Why do you say so?

You mentioned Eri in this qoute below.
They don’t deserve to have their lands seized from them that their ancestors (Eri, Oduduwa and other great men handed over to them to pass on to the descendants forever.Someone cannot then come out and say that these lands were gazetted in 1962, in other to collect land that Eri, Oduduwa and other great ancestors of Southern Nigeria gave their children since time immemorial. The stage of settling on virgin land and.

Ojiofor:


You mentioned Eri in this qoute below.
They don’t deserve to have their lands seized from them that their ancestors (Eri, Oduduwa and other great men handed over to them to pass on to the descendants forever.Someone cannot then come out and say that these lands were gazetted in 1962, in other to collect land that Eri, Oduduwa and other great ancestors of Southern Nigeria gave their children since time immemorial. The stage of settling on virgin land and.

By Eri, he technically meant all of Igboland because we are descendants of Eri.

You all screaming are idiots. There is nothing you can do, that land will be collected.

Having seen how the South, an inhabitant of cowards, were swayed away by Apostle suleiman's allegations, you all have no forking right to oppose this.

You have not see anything yet.... go challenge them na and see if you won't be the next to be accused by webbing you with your "crime" and the social media will eat you.

Let them kill as many as they can... I will not feel any pity. The South is cursed. SPIT

BudeYahooCom:


By Eri, he technically meant all of Igboland because we are descendants of Eri.

I beg to disagree,I am no descendant of Eri neither does my land.
Eriland=Umuleri and Aguleri thats all.

Ojiofor:


I beg to disagree,I am no descendant of Eri neither does my land.
Eriland=Umuleri and Aguleri thats all.

It doesn't matter what you feel about Eri. The point is that the South has to come together on this issue to prevent future pains and confusion, and as a matter of dignity. #NoToGrazingReserve

igbodefender:

It doesn't matter what you feel about Eri. The point is that the South has to come together on this issue to prevent future pains and confusion, and as a matter of dignity. #NoToGrazingReserve

I totally i agree with you on the above,we should not allow an inch of our land to be given to the Fulanis.

Ojiofor:


I totally i agree with you on the above,we should not allow an inch of our land to be seized for grazing reserve.

Mature mind! What they have been attempting to do is an attempt at ethnic cleansing.

If they want to help they should provide money for the herdsmen to buy land for commercial ranches from willing sellers, and watch these herdsmen to build commercial ranching empires that no one can contest. Instead they want to seize people's ancestral land.

It baffles me that as people go about their normal business, someone is thinking about how to implement grazing reserve when the indegeines of the lands have said no.

I am not sure but I hope the SE Governors and Traditional rulers will stand firm in opposition, but I reckon that SE is in a political disadvantage in the current administration, therefore it is incumbent upon Yoruba Governors, Traditional rulers, Legal luminaries and media outlets to speak aggressively and in defense not just Yorubaland, but also every land in the South and in Central whose people oppose a forceful confiscation of their ancestral homeland for acquisition by a nomadic foreigner.

The greatest ADVANTAGE of the North over other regions is that 75 per cent of land in Nigeria comes from North.

- Prof. Ango Abdullahi, Northern leader of thought recently.

igbodefender:
The greatest ADVANTAGE of the North over other regions is that 75 per cent of land in Nigeria comes from North.

- Prof. Ango Abdullahi, Northern leader of thought recently.

If you add Central. To kill their advantage we must awake consciousness in the people of Central and rock the boat.

My point is: why try to collect Southern ethnic and ancestral lands when you have all this agricultural land in the North? That is the question Mr Bello and his grazing reserve friends have to answer.

Any one that supports that idea should donate their family land. North has a large section of land in Nigeria. Let d south keep acting like mum, it's our future generation we are mortgaging

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