One of the biggest lies being peddled by the Fulani Herdsmen and their FG apologists is the white lie that grazing routes were carved out by the British across the country.

There can never be a bigger lie than this with regards the grazing route lie as the then British govt only carved out grazing routes in the middle-Belt in response to Fulani herdsmen encroachment of farmlands in places like Nassarawa, Benue and Taraba. At no time did the British carve out grazing routes beyond the Northern region.

At Independence, the Federal Govt did not have the power to expand the grazing routes further south because we operated a regional govt where land and other resources were controlled by the regional govts. So there was no way Tafa Belewa would have been able to seek grazing routes outside the northern region.

The Fulanis are claiming that grazing routes predating independence exist across the country but at no time have they provided any gazetted proof where the Colonial administration carved out grazing routes in the south.

Thanks for the post. I hope they don't produce a fake document in a desperate bid to advance their sinister agenda.

jomonic:
Thanks for the post. I hope they don't produce a fake document in a desperate bid to advance their sinister agenda.

They will have to provide the gazette date and volume. The National archive in Ikoyi will have to corroborate on their claims and if the grazing routes were created by the British, the gazette will be at White Hall.

But they won't because there is no such thing as grazing routes in the south prior or after independence.

The nomadic Fulani man you see moving around with herd of cattle do not own up to 95% of the cows in their herd. Rather most of these cows are owned by wealthy and powerful, educated and city dwelling Fulanis who cut across from the private sector, military, civil service, politicians and powerful Amirs.

The arrangement is a simple one. A rich city dwelling Fulani man approaches the illiterate bush Fulani who falls under the Fulani sub-group (and inferior as well) known as Bororo, to supply at a given date and place a number of cows.

The Bororo is paid a fraction upfront of the cost of what the cow will sell when mature and at the market value.

A typical arrangement is about ten to fifteen thousand Naira per cow. Which will be delivered on average within one year.

The rich fulani will pay for as much as 100 herds of cow. The bush Fulani is then obliged to not only breed successfully the 100 cows but also rear and nurture them as well as deliver to the cattle market of choice of the Rich Fulani who has an agent ready to take possession and sell off the cows at an average cost of 120 - 250k depending on the location of the market (cows cost more in the south than in the north).

The Rich city dwelling Fulani is thus guaranteed to make a 1000% turnover on each cow he invests with the bush Fulani. Note, that the likes of Amir Sanusi will have at least 10 -20 bush fulani herders working for him with at least 200 cows per herder. That alone will tell you how much the Fulani elite are making off the back of their Bororo cousins.

Another point to ponder is the exponential increase of the number of Fulani herders in both the middle-belt and southern Nigeria since May 29, 2015. Most of these herders you see roaming around in the south are actually displaced Fulani from the anti-Balaka conflict in far away Central African Republic. These are displaced Fulani who the non-Muslim majority in C.A.R. have since chased out of their country. Others were encouraged to migrate from Ghana, Togo and Benin after the grand Patron of Miyetti Allah, Muhammadu Buhari who also happens to serve in the highest capacity in the apex body of the Fulani people of West Africa, was sworn in as President. Buhari today is the most powerful Fulani man on earth.

The Fulani Militia are the same with the Fulani herdsmen.

Most of the attacks carried out by the Fulani terrorist utilize Fulani herdsmen from another state to commit their atrocities.

That "friendly" Fulani that you think you know all these years in your community has taken part in at least one killing in another part of the country.

The financial gain which the city dwelling Fulani like El Rufai, Sanusi and Buhari stand to lose from the enactment of anti-grazing law is tremendous. They will do anything whatsoever to protect their hegemony in the cattle business and that not only involves wiping out any community that stand in their way to graze their cattle but any effort that will see their Bororo cousins emancipated from their enslavement - the reason why they killed the almajiri and nomadic schools set up by GEJ!

Another important point to consider on what is fueling the conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers, is the astronomical increase in the number of herders who as I earlier stated were deliberately imported from outside the country. Apart from having more herding slaves, the City Fulani want to grow their population and also forcefully have Fulani settlements in every corner of Nigeria so as to have a representative voice in every state to which they can grow and expand the kind of influence they have over the Awusa north and Muslim Middle Belt. The cattle colony was the very step towards that plan.

The grazing route argument was quickly discarded in prefrence to permanent Fulani settlements in the guise of Cattle colonies because there is no historical grazing route in southern Nigeria! Grazing routes were first carved out by the British in places like Nassarawa and Benue to stem the persistent Fulani encroachment on both the natives' farms but also the British operated plantations and prison farms in the middle belt.

Never had there ever been any gazetted grazing route that extended into southern Nigeria either in pre-colonial or post Colonial Nigeria. The British could not impose laws on the south without parliamentary approval and so the issue of grazing route in the north was never extended to the south. Also, the vegetation back then in the south did not encourage cow grazing as the thick virgin forests in the south harbored Tse-Tse flies which were known to be dangerous to cattle. So it would be highly foolish for someone to carve out grazing reserves across southern Nigeria when it is known that the forest harbour the dangerous Tse-Tse fly.

De-forestation in the south has pitched the south as the next target for Fulani land grabbing and they want to achieve this through replacement of the natives through genocide, forced secession of land and massive migration of Fulanis from all over West Africa and Central Africa.

If you like still be defending Fulani.

Falsehood will only take you this far but truth will always overtake it.

Are you not ashamed the way many of your hateful and false threads are being locked by the moderators?

A dose of truth garnished with plenty lies and innuendoes

Ovamboland:
Falsehood will only take you this far but truth will always overtake it.

Are you not ashamed the way many of your hateful and false threads are being locked by the moderators?

how is this thread hateful? Is the OP not saying the truth?

gurnam:
A dose of truth garnished with plenty lies and innuendoes

bros still waiting for you.When will you people establish ranches in the south like you said earlier.

PaChukwudi44:


bros still waiting for you.When will you people establish ranches in the south like you said earlier.

You sure you are quoting the right person ??

gurnam:
A dose of truth garnished with plenty lies and innuendoes

Oyoruba and their constant need to suck fulani cuck

Ovamboland:
Falsehood will only take you this far but truth will always overtake it.

Are you not ashamed the way many of your hateful and false threads are being locked by the moderators?

Ruga colony is now here

I hope you see the sense in the OP's post

PaChukwudi44:


how is this thread hateful? Is the OP not saying the truth?

Nigerians hate the truth