Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Xisnin(m): 5:39pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Wole Soyinka on point, open grazing must be banned. 3 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Snow02: 5:41pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
no way I'm reading all that, this man's books gives headache 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by phpfx(m): 5:41pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
see english |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by SPOPOVICH: 5:49pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
why speak now? 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by KingMicky3286: 5:49pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
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Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by bionixs: 5:50pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
orisa37: .
No Restructure : No 2019 Election. who do you say wrote this river Nile? He should enjoy what they all brought. Jonathan this Jonathan that. 2019,I must vote Buhari so we can get overdose of what we deliberately brought upon ourselves. Meanwhile, where is Tinubu sef? He should be pelted with stones wherever he shows up, but no, Nigerians have the shortest memory on earth. They have forgotten the creator of this evil and are now talking about the evil 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by fratermathy(m): 5:51pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Preshy561: guess you have realized your mistakes What mistakes exactly? Does he owe you any explanation for his action? For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by ElPhoche(m): 5:51pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
AllTheWayUp: Buhari and Ortom are bastards That picture is not Benue state. It is in Umuahia, thats where the Complex that minstries in Umuahia occupy. I am Igbo person, in case you want to attack me. Every corper posted to the ministry of health in umuahia can bear me witness |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Sapiosexuality(m): 5:53pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Good one, though it took so long. I was almost giving up you. His supporters are lost and not ready to think. At this stage everyone should know Buhari loves what the herdsmen are doing. He sees nothing wrong with the course and path they chose. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Doerstech(m): 5:54pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
erunz: Permit me to remind you that, early in 2016, an even more hideous massacre was perpetrated by this same Murder Incorporated – that is, a numerical climax to what had been a series across a number of Middle Belt and neighbouring states, with Benue taking the brunt of the butchery. A peace meeting was called, attended by the state government and security agencies of the nation, including the Inspector General of Police. This group attended – according to reports - with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments. They were neither disarmed nor turned back.
They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community
This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization. The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. However, as we pointed out at the time, the conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti? How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not.
no comment. Same from here...NO COMMENT 4 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by writeprof(m): 5:59pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
psychologist: Excuse me sir You were among the people that sold us this hogwash He has repented like Dele Momodu and many others who have seen the deception of the 'change' they clamoured for. 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Bonifide(m): 6:06pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
My country a wilderness or a battle ground.... 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 6:11pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
It is the impunity, the rationalisations and the justification that has left us baffled, butvone day the madness must stop 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by cytell56: 6:13pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Sealeddeal: The Fulani herdsmen has been wronged by farmers, if not there will not be massacre.Fulani herdsmen cow provides the nation with hides,meat and milk; something of inestimable value. We must accept Fulani herdsmen in the middle belt for peace to reign. Nigerians deserves well fed cattle and livestock. Govt should clear Agatu and convert it to cattle colony and also, clear gembu and mambila for a good Fulani pasture. Just check out the skull of those people killed by Fulani herdsmen, do they look better than Cow? Why would they occupy a land where cattle are to be grazed? We need cow with correct 'tozo' down here Dem don curse your future!!! 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Maser: 6:14pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Oga Soyinka you are not communicating |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by fabre4: 6:15pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
grandstar: He is stretching things a bit.
The Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram are not the same thing.
While the Fulani's issue is simply economic, that of Boko Haram is religious imperialism.
The herdsmen have nothing to gain from starting a full blown war with Nigerians or the government. It will be too costly and financially ruinous. They just want to herd their cattle in peace even though it means their cattle munching on people's farm crops- the source of many battles.
The government should have treated this issue with an iron hand from the start. It's playing ostrich while killings occurred was inexcusable
Your attempt at political correctness makes you look ignorant which I doubt you are. The Fulani's have always been known for their invasion and destruction of life and property from the days of usman Dan fodio the Hausa's can explain better. So it shouldn't come as a suprise their recent attacks as it would be in line with their plan to fully conquer the north and the issue of cows a disguise. The government seems to be fully in support of their action Ever asked why the military is quick to action against any resistance but slow to action against this killers with genocidal tendencies. 3 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by godwin120alex: 6:21pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Goodmorning WS . Imagine in a country where life of a cow is valuable to a human life that has no duplicate.
Big big shame to Mbuhari. PMB the shame is on u. I cldn't glance at d pics of d pple killed by foolish Funlani herdsmen. 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by eodavids(m): 6:28pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
erunz: Permit me to remind you that, early in 2016, an even more hideous massacre was perpetrated by this same Murder Incorporated – that is, a numerical climax to what had been a series across a number of Middle Belt and neighbouring states, with Benue taking the brunt of the butchery. A peace meeting was called, attended by the state government and security agencies of the nation, including the Inspector General of Police. This group attended – according to reports - with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments. They were neither disarmed nor turned back.
They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community
This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization. The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. However, as we pointed out at the time, the conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti? How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not.
no comment. |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by heffem(m): 6:28pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Uyeye: Now you are out of your cocoon Sir! Better late than never!!! ....bros, abeg forget that white-haired man. He was supporting the President Buhari blindly during the last election cos of what he stands to gain thru Lagos APC....so, why is he now complaining 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by SlayQueenSlayer(m): 6:32pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
EternalTruths: The Fulani Caliphate is the best thing after Sex for Northern Christians
All hail Fulani herdsmen
Biafrans are terrorists that is why Northern Christians avoid them and hug Fulani herdsmen terrorists. This is an example of what Wole Soyinka said is the problem with IPOB, The repel public Sympathy. There are two kinds of people who rejoice when Northern Christians are attacked, the Fulanis and their supporters, and southerners(mostly south easterners) who thinks it also served their purpose. You would hear them begin to call Gowon and Danjumas name. 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by EternalTruths: 6:34pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
SlayQueenSlayer:
This is an example of what Woke Soyinka said is the problem with IPOB, The repel public Sympathy. There are two kinds of people who rejoice when Northern Christians are attacked, the Fulanis and their supporters, and southerners(mostly south easterners) who thinks it also served their purpose. You would hear them begin to call Gowon and Danjumas name. We are encouraging them not to lose faith in the Fulani friends. is it wrong.? How am I wrong.? 4 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by DerideGull(m): 6:44pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
erunz:
It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression and will to dominate! I do not hesitate to draw attention to Volume III of my INTERVENTION Series, and to the chapter on The Unappeasable Price of Appeasement. There is little to add, but it does appear that even the tragically fulfilled warnings of the past leave no impression on leadership, not even when identical signs of impending cardiac arrest loom over the nation. Boko Haram was still at that stage of putative probes when cries of alarm emerged. Then the fashion ideologues of society deployed their distancing turns of phrase to rationalize what were so obviously discernable as an agenda of ruthless fundamentalism and internal domination. Boko Haram was a product of social inequities, they preached – one even chortled: We stand for justice, so we are all Boko Haram! We warned that – yes indeed – the inequities of society were indeed part of the story, but why do you close your eyes against other, and more critical malfunctions of the human mind, such as theocratic lunacy? Now it is happening again. The nation is being smothered in Vaseline when the diagnosis is so clearly – cancer!
We have been here before – now, ‘before’ is back with a vengeance. President Goodluck Jonathan refused to accept that marauders had carried off the nation’s daughters; President Muhammed Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police - in near identical denial, appear to believe those killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occasionally degenerate into “communal clashes” – I believe I have summarized him accurately. The marauders are naughty children who can be admonished, paternalistically, into good neighbourly conduct. Sometimes of course, the killers were also said be non-Nigerians after all. The contradictions are mind-boggling. Wole Soyinka Victor Dlamini
First the active policy of appeasement, then the language of endorsement. El Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, proudly announced that, on assuming office, he had raised a peace committee and successfully traced the herdsmen to locations outside Nigerian borders. He then made payments to them from state coffers to cure them of their homicidal urge which, according to these herdsmen, were reprisals for some ancient history and the loss of cattle through rustling. The public was up in arms against this astonishing revelation. I could only call to mind a statement by the same El Rufai after a prior election which led to a rampage in parts of the nation, and cost even the lives of National Youth Service corpers. They were hunted down by aggrieved mobs and even states had to organize rescue missions for their citizens. Countering protests that the nation owed a special duty of protection to her youth, especially those who are co-opted to serve the nation in any capacity, El Rufai’s comment then was: No life is more important than another. Today, that statement needs to be adjusted, to read perhaps – apologies to George Orwell: “All lives are equal, but a cow’s is more equal than others.”
This seems to be the government view, one that, overtly or by implication, is being amplified through act and pronouncement, through clamorous absence, by this administration. It appears to have infected even my good friend and highly capable Minister, Audu Ogbeh, however insidiously. What else does one make of his statements in an interview where he generously lays the blame for ongoing killings everywhere but at the feet of the actual perpetrators! His words, as carried by The Nation Newspapers:
“The inability of the government to pay attention to herdsmen and cow farming, unlike other developed countries, contributed to the killings.” The Minister continued:
“Over the years, we have not done much to look seriously into the issue of livestock development in the country….we may have done enough for the rice farmer, the cassava farmer, the maize farmer, the cocoa farmer, but we haven’t done enough for herdsmen, and that inability and omission on our part is resulting in the crisis we are witnessing today”
No, no, not so, Audu! It is true that I called upon the government a week ago to stop passing the buck over the petroleum situation. I assure you however that I never intended that a reverse policy should lead to exonerating – or appearing to exonerate – mass killers, rapists and economic saboteurs – saboteurs, since their conduct subverts the efforts of others to economically secure their own existence, drives other producers off their land in fear and terror. This promises the same plague of starvation that afflicts zones of conflict all over this continent where liberally sown landmines prevent farmers from venturing near their prime source, the farm, often their only source of livelihood, and has created a whole population of amputees. At least, those victims in Angola, Mozambique and other former war theatres, mostly lived to tell the tale. These herdsmen, arrogant and unconscionable, have adopted a scorched-earth policy, so that those other producers – the cassava, cocoa, sorghum, rice etc farmers are brutally expelled from farm and dwelling.
Government neglect? You may not have intended it, but you made it sound like the full story. I applaud the plans of your ministry, I am in a position to know that much thought – and practical steps – have gone into long-term plans for bringing about the creation of ‘ranches’, ‘colonies’ – whatever the name – including the special cultivation of fodder for animal feed and so on and on. However, the present national outrage is over impunity. It rejects the right of any set of people, for whatever reason, to take arms against their fellow men and women, to acknowledge their exploits in boastful and justifying accents and, in effect, promise more of the same as long as their terms and demands are not met. In plain language, they have declared war against the nation, and their weapon is an undiluted terror. Why have they been permitted to become a menace to the rest of us? That is the issue!
Permit me to remind you that, early in 2016, an even more hideous massacre was perpetrated by this same Murder Incorporated – that is, a numerical climax to what had been a series across a number of Middle Belt and neighbouring states, with Benue taking the brunt of the butchery. A peace meeting was called, attended by the state government and security agencies of the nation, including the Inspector General of Police. This group attended – according to reports - with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments. They were neither disarmed nor turned back. They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community. It is important to emphasize that none of their spokesmen referred to any government neglect, such as refusal to pay subsidy for their cows or failure to accord them the same facilities that had been extended to cassava or millet farmers. Such are the monstrous beginnings of the culture of impunity. We are reaping, yet again, the consequences of such tolerance of the intolerable. Yes, there indeed the government is culpable, definitely guilty of “looking the other way”. Indeed, it must be held complicit.
This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization. The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. However, as we pointed out at the time, the conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti? How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not. Villages have been depopulated far wider than those outside their operational zones can conceive. They swoop on sleeping settlements, kill and strut. They glory in their seeming supremacy. Cocoa farmers do not kill when there is a cocoa blight. Rice farmers, cassava and tomato farmers do not burn. The herdsmen cynically dredge up decades-old affronts – they did at the 2016 Benue “peace meeting” to justify the killings of innocents in the present - These crimes are treated like the norm. Once again, the nation is being massaged by specious rationalisations while the rampage intensifies and the spread spirals out of control. When we open the dailies tomorrow morning, there is certain to have been a new body count, to be followed by the arrogant justification of the Myeti Allah.
The warnings pile up, the distress signals have turned into a prolonged howl of despair and rage. The answer is not to be found in pietistic appeals to victims to avoid ‘hate language’ and divisive attributions. The sustained, killing monologue of the herdsmen is what is at issue. It must be curbed, decisively and without further evasiveness.
Yes, Jonathan only saw ‘ghosts’ when Boko Haram was already excising swathes of territory from the nation space and abducting school pupils. The ghosts of Jonathan seem poised to haunt the tenure of Mohammed Buhari.
Wole SOYINKA
http://saharareporters.com/2018/01/10/impunity-rides-again-through-killer-herdsmen-wole-soyinka Let categorically to Mr. Wole Soyinka that issue of Nigeria is above lengthy grammar. Few people know about your little sympathy of 1966/7 when you showed objection to foolishness of Nigeria under Gowon to precipitate war against Ndigbo and Biafrans. Anyway, you can recall that one man’s empathy does not represent that of the general public. Your people drove in mass to join Gowon and marauders from northern region of Nigeria to atrociously kill Ndigbo and Biafrans. Of course, the IPOB could not engender sympathetic support from the southerners of Nigeria simply because they were not able to wear a jack boots and carry AK-47 while laying waste to idiotic Nigeria public. If IPOB would have come like Boko Haram, you would have singing a difference praise of them because the outcome would have been a little different from today. I guess if the IPOB had come down more forcefully than they did, they could have attracted generous public empathy. 3 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by SlayQueenSlayer(m): 6:47pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
EternalTruths:
We are encouraging them not to lose faith in the Fulani friends.
is it wrong.?
How am I wrong.? Who exactly is IPOB's friend? You guys are inherently incapable of forming alliance. Sometimes being a little strategic goes a long way. IPOB failed mostly because of their utterances. You have a high propensity for making enemies out of potential friends. FFK and Fayose were more vocal for the Igbos cause more than any Igbo leaders, still, that was not even enough for IPOB to suppress its hatred for their people. 4 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by holysina(m): 6:52pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Sealeddeal: The Fulani herdsmen has been wronged by farmers, if not there will not be massacre.Fulani herdsmen cow provides the nation with hides,meat and milk; something of inestimable value. We must accept Fulani herdsmen in the middle belt for peace to reign. Nigerians deserves well fed cattle and livestock. Govt should clear Agatu and convert it to cattle colony and also, clear gembu and mambila for a good Fulani pasture. Just check out the skull of those people killed by Fulani herdsmen, do they look better than Cow? Why would they occupy a land where cattle are to be grazed? We need cow with correct 'tozo' down here If this is not sarcasm then some thing is wrong 2 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 6:52pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Now it is happening again. The nation is being smothered in Vaseline when the diagnosis is so clearly – cancer!
President Muhammed Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police - in near identical denial, appear to believe those killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occasionally degenerate into “communal clashes” – I believe I have summarized him accurately.
El Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, proudly announced that, on assuming office, he had raised a peace committee and successfully traced the herdsmen to locations outside Nigerian borders. He then made payments to them from state coffers to cure them of their homicidal urge which, according to these herdsmen, were reprisals for some ancient history and the loss of cattle through rustling.
These herdsmen, arrogant and unconscionable, have adopted a scorched-earth policy, so that those other producers – the cassava, cocoa, sorghum, rice etc farmers are brutally expelled from farm and dwelling.
This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization.
Word!!!!! 3 Likes |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by cusBeta: 6:57pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
PROFESSOR OF PROFESSORS, I DUFF MY HAT FOR YOU. BUT UNFORTUNATELY I JUST FEEL THIS COUNTRY IS GONE TO FAR, TOO FAR BEYOND REDEMPTION. WE ALL KNOW THINGS AIN'T GOING THE WAY THEY SHOULD AND YET NO ONE SEEMS TO BE DOING ANYTHING. WE ARE SOOOOO LOST IN RELIGION AND ETHNICITY. FOR EXAMPLE WHAT IS THE RATIONALE BEHIND HAVING A MUSLIM PRESIDENT AND COMPULSORILY THE VICE MUST BE A CHRISTIAN, OR VICE VERSA. WHY CANT WE JUDGE PEOPLE BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER AND FORGET ABOUT VAIN AND VAGUE AFFILIATIONS. WHYYYYYYYY. WE CHECK NAMES(NAME CHECKERS) FURTHER INCREASING THE CHASM THAT ALREADY EXISTS. WITH ALL OF THESE, THEN HOW AND WHERE WILL OUR REDEMPTION COME FROM. 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by MikeBetty(m): 7:00pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Sealeddeal: The Fulani herdsmen has been wronged by farmers, if not there will not be massacre.Fulani herdsmen cow provides the nation with hides,meat and milk; something of inestimable value. We must accept Fulani herdsmen in the middle belt for peace to reign. Nigerians deserves well fed cattle and livestock. Govt should clear Agatu and convert it to cattle colony and also, clear gembu and mambila for a good Fulani pasture. Just check out the skull of those people killed by Fulani herdsmen, do they look better than Cow? Why would they occupy a land where cattle are to be grazed? We need cow with correct 'tozo' down here Olodo, Provided Meat And Milk Free Of Charge. Is Cow Rearing No Longer Personal Business? 1 Like |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by DeeMain(m): 7:06pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
"Now it is happening again. The nation is being smothered in Vaseline when the diagnosis is so clearly – cancer!"
Kongi, word! 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by orisa37: 7:18pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
bionixs: who do you say wrote this river Nile? He should enjoy what they all brought. Jonathan this Jonathan that. 2019,I must vote Buhari so we can get overdose of what we deliberately brought upon ourselves. Meanwhile, where is Tinubu sef? He should be pelted with stones wherever he shows up, but no, Nigerians have the shortest memory on earth. They have forgotten the creator of this evil and are now talking about the evil |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by DMathematical: 7:23pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Jonathan and Buhari are one and the same. Clueless leaders that sit down, ignoring all calls to meaningful action. |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by DMathematical: 7:34pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
Arrant nonsense! DerideGull:
Let categorically to Mr. Wole Soyinka that issue of Nigeria is above lengthy grammar. Few people know about your little sympathy of 1966/7 when you showed objection to foolishness of Nigeria under Gowon to precipitate war against Ndigbo and Biafrans. Anyway, you can recall that one man’s empathy does not represent that of the general public. Your people drove in mass to join Gowon and marauders from northern region of Nigeria to atrociously kill Ndigbo and Biafrans. Of course, the IPOB could not engender sympathetic support from the southerners of Nigeria simply because they were not able to wear a jack boots and carry AK-47 while laying waste to idiotic Nigeria public. If IPOB would have come like Boko Haram, you would have singing a difference praise of them because the outcome would have been a little different from today. I guess if the IPOB had come down more forcefully than they did, they could have attracted generous public empathy. |
Re: Impunity Rides Again Through Killer Herdsmen By Wole Soyinka by mcmyvoice: 7:38pm On Jan 10, 2018 |
grandstar: He is stretching things a bit.
The Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram are not the same thing.
While the Fulani's issue is simply economic, that of Boko Haram is religious imperialism.
The herdsmen have nothing to gain from starting a full blown war with Nigerians or the government. It will be too costly and financially ruinous. They just want to herd their cattle in peace even though it means their cattle munching on people's farm crops- the source of many battles.
The government should have treated this issue with an iron hand from the start. It's playing ostrich while killings occurred was inexcusable
My prayer for you is that may you and your family never encounter Book Haram but that of Fulani herdsmen only 1 Like 1 Share |