Mightyhaiz:
so na only Fulani dey rear cow..

Rossikk:


Dude, if the herdsmen went on strike and stopped selling beef, that goat meat you say they eat in Akwa Ibom, will jump up in price by 1000% the next day due to meat scarcity. Same as other ''alternatives'' like fish.

You people don't understand economics.

Rossikk:


Dude, if the herdsmen went on strike and stopped selling beef, that goat meat you say they eat in Akwa Ibom, will jump up in price by 1000% the next day due to meat scarcity. Same as other ''alternatives'' like fish.

You people don't understand economics.

Pearlqueen:
And it is only beef that's meat in the market? The economics you're talking about is when there's no close substitute but in this case, there's no meat monopoly because there are many other meat sources.

Let the Fulanis go on the strike and see if hunger and extreme poverty won't ravage them. In this business, they're the top gainers.

Rossikk:


There is NO close substitute for beef in Nigeria. if this were say England or the USA or something, where people eat a variety of meats in near equal measure, we could say yes. But in Nigeria, not less than 90% of the population rely on BEEF for their meat requirements in meals.

How many times have you been to a buka and they gave you chicken? Or pork? Or even goat? Nigerians only eat those meats once in a while.

What they live on is cow meat.

If cow meat disappeared from the market, all those other meats will shoot up in price astronomically, and become extremely scarce. In fact their sellers will turn to millionaires.

Mightyhaiz:
u reason like a toddler. Who do u think will suffer and starve to death when that happens? The ppl DAT will easily switch to other animal, fish, birds and even plant protein alternatives, or those whose sole occupation is rearing n selling cow

Pearlqueen:
Are you talking to who lives in Nigeria or to who doesn't? If you go to am eatery whether bukka or what have you, you order the kind of meat you want and you'll be served with it. There is meat variety, even most people prefer fish to beef. So, get your facts right and know what you're saying.

If beef becomes scarce, there are plenty plenty plenty alternative and mind you, it is not only the Fulanis who rear cows. They can't even try hoard beef because they will suffer for it.

Rossikk:


STORY. This is full blown economic naivety.

The prices of these 'alternatives' will shoot up to astronomical heights if fulani beef exists the market.

mrvitalis:

Are we not partaking in International trade already? That phone u are using was produced hear right

Oh the dress u wear... The fan in ur room, the genarator

It's now meat we can't buy?

Are u really serious?

gbosaa:


Let’s be honest here. Is there any state in Nigeria without a sizeable portion of land for the cattle business...let’s forget the word Fulani for now? Like I said, I have seen for myself the areas allocated to them for their businesses.
I don’t think they need more land for their cattle. They have more than enough to build decent accommodation and other facilities and they make lots of money from there but still chose to live the way they live. Each one of them can be much better than the young business man at Alaba market but they still live in tents made with timbers and grasses or sleep rough under lorries. Cattle businesses are multi billion naira businesses. Those people can achieve whatever they want to achieve with the money that they make. Where’s the money going to? Have you ever asked yourself this? Do you know the number of cows being killed everyday in each state? As I’m typing this, restaurateurs are already collecting the meat chopped into bits and ready to start their cooking, butchers are on their way to start off their businesses. What do the Fulanis do with all these money?

These guys do not need anyone’s financial assistance. Is there something MACBAN and the government are hiding from us?....

There were clashes and lots of killings up north in kaduna etc...Nigerians were told that criminals were from other countries! Buhari said that. El Rufai paid some group of people ‘protection money’ to stop the killings. These people are known and could be approached. The killings never stopped. It continued in plateau state. Was there any attempt to rename towns there? There were killings in Kogi, Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa etc. What’s the problem with the Fulanis?

There have been security issues on our highways attributed to the Fulanis. Yes and it include kidnapping, robbery and murders. These are not rumours. Those were done by Fulanis. They have been some arrests made by either the police or the Nigerian Army...what later happened to these people?

There are various videos of Fulani men with AK47s, some of these weapons were in the colours of Nigerian police. How do they get these weapons?

People have every reason to be paranoid and the frustrations from the inaction or complicity from authorities might oneday plunge the country into a very dark and regrettable depths.

Herdsmen contribute significantly to the unrest through their destruction of farmland. The other issue is that of proliferation of weapons and insecurity. There seem to be another group of Fulani men involved here. They have been caught and paraded. This is the one that has got everyone talking. When people like Olu Falae start getting kidnapped and police can’t assist then there’s problem.

We are talking of annexing people’s lands in Plateau and renaming them, miyetti alla are talking tough but no one is making arrests, when the locals responded, IG of police declared that weapons must be surrendered.

Fed govts under Buhari has come up with RUGA! There was rumour of billions of naira payout to Fulanis. There were rumours of Fulanis ‘invited’ and given access to migrate into nooks and crannies of the country and now Buhari wants to give recognition to foreigners that he does not even know their numbers.

Oga Rossikk, can you not see a ‘pattern’ here?

Nigerians are being taken on a ride.

No one is beefing the Fulanis. It’s natural for people to react and it’s natural for people to want to protect themselves.
Current scenario is beyond meat. A man angry and frustrated about security isn’t worried about his source of protein.

Rossikk:
It's slightly amusing watching folks doing all sorts of verbal somersaults to show they don't need Fulani meat.

Una no wan chop meat again!

See forming!!

Yet today you can bet they'll tear shaki and pomo for lunch, and then return to Nairaland to type bullshiit.

Why don't we just respect ourselves, and realise that we must find a way to accommodate, and where required, pacify our Fulani brothers and sisters, let them do their cattle business, and let the nation simply be?

It is the encroaching Sahara which is driving them southwards, not a ''Fulanization agenda perpetrated by Buhari and his henchmnen'' as one Nairalander wrote, in an otherwise forgettable piece of comic relief.

Rossikk:
All these people here that come in daily to condemn Fulani herdsmen, why don't you people put your mouth where your mouth is (excuse the pun) and BOYCOTT THEIR MEAT altogether?

I mean, you don't give a damn where or how they rear their cattle. You don't want them anywhere near you. You view the RUGA idea with contempt and utterly reject it.

But you cannot do without eating their meat on a daily basis. Beef, Shaki, Pomo, Brokoto, Oxtail, Roundabout, and so on. These things are a must for the average Nigerian meal.

It's a real dilemma and paradox.

Why don't we all just shun the Fulanis and their cattle and pray for our shaki and pomo to appear from heaven like manna?

I'm sure it will.

delugajackson:
We don't beg them for it, we purchase it with our hard earned money, it doesn't mean we depend on it.

The so called meat we consume can be always be obtained from other sources. And mind you, Fulanis aren't the only ones with the knowledge of rearing cows. And from the facts at hand, Fulani cow business is not what's running or sustaining the economy, OUR OIL from the SOUTH does! So please try to be reasonable with your submission, Mr. Fulani defender.

Rossikk:
All these people here that come in daily to condemn Fulani herdsmen, why don't you people put your mouth where your mouth is (excuse the pun) and BOYCOTT THEIR MEAT altogether?

I mean, you don't give a damn where or how they rear their cattle. You don't want them anywhere near you. You view the RUGA idea with contempt and utterly reject it.

But you cannot do without eating their meat on a daily basis. Beef, Shaki, Pomo, Brokoto, Oxtail, Roundabout, and so on. These things are a must for the average Nigerian meal.

It's a real dilemma and paradox.

Why don't we all just shun the Fulanis and their cattle and pray for our shaki and pomo to appear from heaven like manna?

I'm sure it will.

Rossikk:


You are just one person. This question is for the Nigerian collective, which NEEDS cow meat daily and would go absolutely berserk if it disappeared from the markets!

Acidosis:



Some people don't eat Fulani meat. There is chicken, goat meat, turkey, cat fish, Titus and other kind of fish. We even have pig, and Nigeria got the biggest pig farm in the whole of West Africa (and one of the biggest consumer in Africa).


Keep on posting useless threads about Fulani meat. I should also tell you that those Herdsmen don't eat cow meat. They rare the animals, rape them, and sell them to you. On the side, they rare goats which they eat and feed their families.

oyatz:
OUR OIL alone is not what is sustaining the economy.
Our OIL is the largest source of income for the Government but NOT necessarily the sole determinants of our economy, that's why oil only account for a small percentage of our GDP.

1)Every economic activities (including cattle rearing) sustain the economy.
2) If every citizen stop producing what they produce and we all wait for OIL money,there will be chaos in the land.

For instance, let's take few items for illustration.

* All Cassava and Yams producers stop working. Nigerians will be forced to use money received from the sales of OIL to import these cassava and Yams at international prices.

* If All Timber, Cocoa, Palm oil decide to stop producing these items, the left over of the OIL money will be used to import all these products, again at international prices.

*If ALL Herdsmen stop producing, very little money will be left to import meat from abroad and this will be affordable by only about 5% of the population.

So with all other sectors of the economy shutting down leaving OIL, massive economic devastations will hit the Country with millions of the citizens leaving the country.

Sapiosexuality:
Rossiki, I thought the last time you said there is nothing like hate in Nigeria. That Nigerians don't hate each other, so what exactly are you talking about here?

Rossikk:


I said the ethnic hate displayed on Nairaland was exaggerated and does not reflect the true situation across Nigeria. I maintain that position. 99% of Nigerians get along just fine.

Rossikk:


Madam, the reason for the increased southward movement of herdsmen ACROSS WEST AFRICA (the phenomenon is not unique to Nigeria) is the increasing desertification of the Sahel regions, which has forced herdsmen across the region to seek 'greener pastures' to the south to feed & graze their cattle. If they ''stayed in their places'' up north, their livestock would perish, and that delicious Egusi soup you make for your oga would be impossible, and you'd have no meat in it.

Or does he like Titus?