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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Gandollaar(f): 9:44am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:


Mind games you said.. Ohhhhh

It is now mind games when it involved Al Cameroonie?

Nobody is justifying the killings. The Fg are clueless about handling the situations no doubt but you guys exaggeration of things are getting out of hands
Yes stop the mind games at least for now. It is not exaggeration, it's the frequency at which it happens that the reports are coming in.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Gandollaar(f): 9:46am On Aug 04, 2019
Legendguy:
Tinubu is telling you yorubers to endure the hardship, the killing, maiming and kidnapping for now or atlrast till 2023 when I become president and a this will be over
Exactly bro. You hit the nail on the head, are you a carpenter?
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by felaismyhero(m): 9:50am On Aug 04, 2019
Gandollaar:
Does it mean that anyone driving a flashy car is an elite?
I live in Lagos and I'm Igbo who must travel to the East every now and then, I'm so scared now plying that road with my family in an SUV
oh! thats true,you are right; it doesn't.

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Rajosh(m): 9:50am On Aug 04, 2019
Yet, the Fulani herdsmen are not terrorists. Maybe until they kidnap Yusuf and Zarah and Halima and Hannan or Even Aisha before he'll do something about his terrorist brothers.

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Okoroawusa: 9:54am On Aug 04, 2019
This Fulani Herdsmen craze will come n go but crimes like this will still be perpetrated.... just as it was in the days of kidnapping, every kidnap was from Niger Delta militants.


So all criminals in Nigeria r now on leave?


Like my oga asked,"Where r the cows?"
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by helinues: 9:56am On Aug 04, 2019
Gandollaar:
Yes stop the mind games at least for now. It is not exaggeration, it's the frequency at which it happens that the reports are coming in.

Mind games by not condemning FG for their cluelessness on handling the security situations in the country?

The ways Apc, SW and others are condemning the Fg about the security situations even though they voted for Buhari, no Pdp members or supporters did that when GEJ was misbehaving.

We all wants a better country. We should praised when needed and condemned when necessary.. That's the beauty of democracy
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Iamklade(m): 9:57am On Aug 04, 2019
Gandollaar:
Let's not forget that tinubu is a politician and their game is dirty. He knows the truth and I can bet you he's working underground with his fellow Yorubas to find a solution outside what his APC government is doing. But he just needs to be politically correct against the expectation of the common good which has really angered everyone.
If you read through tinubu's history you will always find out one thing that is consistent with him and that's the fact that he becomes self centred in his pursuit of power and relevance and he will do anything possible just to see his wish come true either by hook or by crook even if it's just 1% true that he's planning to contest for the highest office of the country in 2023 then that's enough reason for him to be subservient.

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Okoroawusa: 9:58am On Aug 04, 2019
Yusuf54:
He said the Fulani Herdsmen said their bullets wouldn't just waste like that. Can the Fulani herdsmen speak English or Does he undertand their language? This Man is Ibo, let others that were also abducted talk before believing him.....
I think the gunshots gave him the ability to understand Fulani
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by currencyz22: 10:01am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo
did you just ask how many, if I u say they are not much, even with their small number they still control north so what are you saying
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Fourwinds: 10:07am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo
you must be hallucinating... Even with overwhelming evidence from victims ... To be sincere something is wrong with you

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by drololaaof: 10:10am On Aug 04, 2019
Thank God for you and colleagues safety . Lesson to learn 1. Police swist action,they did not ask relatives to negotiate this time around ,location of the abductors and victims identified, no story that we are handicapped, no operational vehicle. 2. The case is not turn to armed robbery, castle rustling or hired assassin hope the they will be fished out soon. Thanks to ALL security agents for this quick action
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by otokx(m): 10:17am On Aug 04, 2019
The truth is finally coming out small, small.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by otokx(m): 10:20am On Aug 04, 2019
There are so many uninhabitable lands in Nigeria and that is a real security risk.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Rebuke: 10:21am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo




I am tired of the stupidity of some of yhu. Can yhu just hear yhurself?

So, yhu mean all these guys are lying huh? Do they look so young to identify a fulani man or are fulanis so complicated to identify by an average Nigerian now?


I hope yhu are a fulani man but if yhu are jxt a fulani sympathiser, don't cry when it comes to yhur turn becus right nw, it's very obvious we are all in it; only God can deliver us.


Yhu better wake up and smell the coffee!
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Neddstark: 10:35am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo

May they kidnap you. So you feel the pain
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by TriggahMan(m): 10:38am On Aug 04, 2019
Everything in Nigeria is blamed on the Fulani herdsmen
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by jamace(m): 10:43am On Aug 04, 2019
Draught:
Since Buhari entered government, 2 Terrorist groups have been added to Boko,

Only in Nigeria, since 2010, 3 terrorist groups ! before you know it every ethnic group will soon have their own version of terrorist. Since protesting is now a terrorist-ic act.

That means at this rate before he leaves, we will have another group proscribed as terrorists.
(And then some people wonder why its hard for us to get visas to developed nations. Thank God those developed nations have intelligence agency here because they themselves know which part of a country there are more likely to give visa to).

The Military based man that made national insecurity as his mandate, is now the one proscribing different protesters as terrorists.

For all those that are fully determined to start the Aug 5 revolt.. Pls know that we the youths are fully behind U,
The turnout might not be great on the first day but if U dont crawl, U can't run..just start 1st


And the 2 terrorist groups added by Buhari are fulanis.

Buhari as president is the fulfillment of the fulani agenda. Bye bye Nigeria.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Gandollaar(f): 10:50am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:


Mind games you said.. Ohhhhh

It is now mind games when it involved Al Cameroonie?

Nobody is justifying the killings. The Fg are clueless about handling the situations no doubt but you guys exaggeration of things are getting out of hands
. Christianeast and Helinues
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by jamace(m): 11:05am On Aug 04, 2019
Startling Research findings on Fulani herdsmen

The Result of the Research about Fulani herdsmen.

“Fulani herdsmen killings: Modus operandi, those involved and the possible solutions”


The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people’s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have the requisite information needed for a thorough appraisal and resolution of problems as they arise.

A clear example is the recent terrorist attack in Enugu State of Nigeria and the obvious ignorance of the State Leadership on the modus operandi of the Fulani Herdsmen which led to poor leadership decisions. For a long time, the Nigerian state has been under siege by Fulani herdsmen terrorists operating under a predictable pattern of reconnaissance, attack and withdrawal, leading to many deaths and social dislocations. Since January 2016, there has been documented deaths of approximately 1000 Nigerians from across the middle belt, the South-south, and Southeastern parts of the country from these coordinated Fulani herdsmen attacks. The Fulani herdsmen are credited with destabilizing the city of Jos, a once tourist destination; and their history of mayhem extend beyond the borders of the Nigerian state. They are also the major actors/catalyst to recent conflicts in the Central African Republic. Armed with adequate information about these murderous group, one would have expected the Governors in the Southeastern states, especially those whose citizens were murdered in cold blood by these terrorists to come out with a strong condemnation of the Fulani herdsmen carnage and unify towards a common cause solution. On the contrary, events in the past weeks only showed confused state executives, who do not even understand the magnitude of the problem at hand.

In fairness to these Governors, some of them mostly followed the normal state security protocol in responding to this abnormality, Hence, the failure to protect the citizens was the liability of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its armed forces. Though we do not excuse the shabby response of these Governors to the Fulani Herdsmen tragedy, we are inclined to give them a slack because to solve a problem, one needs to first understand the problem. The Governors did not understand the problem. Most Nigerians and international bodies do not understand the Fulani herdsmen problem and we at CACLD [Chinua Achebe Center for Leadership and Development] did not initially. We therefore dispatched a fact finding team to the Southeastern part of the country to unravel the intricacies and complexities of the Fulani terrorist group; a group rated as the fourth most dangerous by respected international conflict organizations (According to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report; “Fulani militants” killed 1,229 people in 2014 — up from 63 in 2013, Making them the “fourth most deadly terrorist group”).

Our fact finding team visited “Ama Hausa and Garki” camps in both Enugu and Abia States. They also interviewed neighbors from the local communities living within and around the Hausa communities in both states. Both the Northerners and the local community were very open and volunteered valuable information to our team. There seems to be a willingness and eagerness for the violence to end. Below, we will present our findings in numbered points.

1. The Fulani herdsmen terrorists are Fulanis but mostly non-Nigerians:
This may come as a surprise to most of us. About ten percent of the terrorists are Nigerians and they live within the Hausa Fulani communities in Ama-Hausa and Garki’s in the South East and South-south regions.

2. The Fulani Herdsmen terrorists do not own cattle:
This is another revelation that may come as a surprise to many. Fulani herdsmen killers’ major job description is just to kill. They do not own any cattle. Most of them are employed by the cattle owners as “security men” whose job is strictly to protect the cattle. They do not however follow the cattle around, but move in separate vehicles along a defined route within the states where cattle are being reared.

3. The Ama-Hausas and Garkis harbor 80% of the Fulani herdsmen killers.
This is a very important revelation. The Garkis are mostly Hausas and other minorities from the north, but within them, they Fulani herdsmen killers reside. The northerners were able to show us these Fulani herdsmen “security personnel” and they were dressed differently from the normal Northern Nigerians within these settlements. They were young, less religious, most of them use drugs, and consume alcohol. A majority of these herdsmen terrorists are migrants from Chad, Niger, and other Fulani enclaves outside the Nigerian state. A small percentage of these Fulani youths are Nigerians born in the states where they reside. They are the ones vested with the responsibility of leading these Fulanis on their regular rampage; serving as compasses to the blood-hungry terrorists.

4. The Fulani herdsmen that accompany cattle from the North to the South per season do not own cattle.
This is another surprise coming out from the investigation. The cattle are owned by more prominent Fulani leaders in the country. Most Nigerian Fulanis are no longer migratory herdsmen, but are either Emirs, Sultans, heads of parastatals, oil barons, Imams, Christian Pastors, Governors, Federal Reps, and Senators. However, they still maintain their cultural ownership of cattle. These wealthy Nigerians increase their wealth astronomically through cattle rearing by using their not well off brothers from outside Nigeria to rear these cattle. Instead of investing in ranches and buying of grasses from the South, they chose the cheaper alternative of having their kinsmen, imported from outside the country, take these cattle from the north to south seasonally; using the entire Nigerian space as their “grass kingdom”. These cattle, in turn, destroy farms in their path, rendering farmers economically bankrupt to further enrich the wealthy Fulani “remote herders”.

5. For clarity sake, let us present the breakdown of Fulani people in Nigeria as we deduced from our investigation.

There are about 5 million Fulani people in Nigeria making them one of the smallest ethnic group in the country.

Out of the 5 million Fulani people, only about 3 million of them are Nigerians. The remaining 2 million come from outside the country and are first generation immigrants.

About 60 percent of the Fulanis in Nigeria are governors, Pastors, Imams, Emirs, Sultan, House of Rep members, Importers, Exporters, Ministers, Oil well owners, lecturers, Vice Chancellors, Ministers, and Senators etc. In a nutshell, the Fulani control all sectors of the northern economy. These rich Fulanis own all the cattle being reared in Nigeria.

The remaining 40 percent of Fulanis come from outside the country. These are the poor and peasant Fulanis. These immigrant Fulanis are mostly in charge of the cattle owned by the Bourgeois Fulani. Because the Fulanis have the highest income per capita in the Nigerian state (Fulanis who are Nigerians), they constantly need to import their poor brothers and sisters from outside the country to increase their population (the Fulanis always either marry into rich families or they would marry only Fulani to maintain their pure race) and to help with menial jobs.

In Garki and Ama-Hausa settlements all over the country, there exist a few Nigerian Fulanis (some are born in these states) who coordinate the cattle business. These Fulanis either help manage family cattle or are just contracted middlemen in charge of the business on behalf of various millionaire cattle owners. They themselves are also millionaires. Under these middlemen are about a group of 20 to 40 Fulani boys within the ages of 20 and 35. These are the unofficial Fulani herdsmen security team whose job is to protect the Fulani herdsmen cattle.

Lastly, there is a group of Fulani herdsmen who rear the cattle from the north to the south. These are at the bottom of the Fulani Herdsmen ladder. Some of them do not even know how to speak English and are so poor that they are paid just a little amount of money for their job. These herdsmen do not carry guns. They only carry arrows and machetes to help them navigate the bushes on their way down to the South.

6. Fulani Herdsmen Attack
We learned from the surrounding communities and from some of the Hausa elders about what constitutes a Fulani herdsmen attack. According to information we received, when there is a disagreement between host communities, or between herdsmen and farmers, the Fulani herdsmen who accompany the cattle will locate the nearest Fulani settlement and if there is none, they will locate the nearest Garki or Ama Hausa. When they arrive, they will narrate their story. The Fulani (Nigerian middlemen) cattle managers will notify their top Fulani Herdsmen which in this case, include governors (like El Rufai) and other top Fulani Bourgeois who own the cattle. A decision will be made about whether there should be an attack or not on the said village or host community. If an attack is sanctioned, then modalities will be mapped out and a date will be chosen for the attack. Most times, Fulani herdsmen in the military and police are notified and everyone sends a representative. Neighboring settlements send out representatives and arms cache are opened and arms are distributed to the participants. The major participants are the 20 to 40 Fulani herdsmen who reside in the Garkis and Ama Hausas. These are the Fulani warriors whose job is to kill.

During an attack, every Fulani person in the area knows there will be an attack and all will contribute to make sure it goes on successfully. Fulanis in the higher levels of the military will ensure all commands under them stand down, and the top Fulani police officers will do the same. The road is then clear for the Fulani herdsmen to carry their attacks.

7. Solution
Many of those who interacted with us suggested solutions that are very interesting. Most of the northern Hausas and the local communities suggested a ban on grazing in the affected states. A total ban would be the only way to solve this problem. Some argued that with the Fulani’s nature of encroaching on other people’s land and territories, any attempt to give them land would aggravate the problem and not solve it.

Most villagers from Abia State suggested that these cattle be penned in the north while government releases money for people in the South to cut grasses, process the grass, and send to the north. This is the practice all over the world. They indicated that any attempt to take their lands and give to the Fulani would definitely result to a civil war.

We agree, the solution is very simple; ban grazing, establish ranches for the cattle in the north, pay the southerners to harvest grass and send to the north. With this, everyone would be pleased with the outcome. This solution is expected to generate 1 million jobs in the South and about 500,000 jobs in the North. Also Fulani herdsmen terror will be totally eliminated.

Conclusion
Next time when we talk about a herdsmen attack, we must understand that the attack was not carried out by the herdsmen you see escorting cattle on the roads and bushes. These attacks are well coordinated and sometimes involves the approval of senators and influential men in Abuja. Even our president Mohammed Buhari has a herd of cattle and hence is a Fulani herdsman, corroborating the information we received from respondents on ground. Fulani herdsmen attacks involve all Fulani ethnic members in Nigeria. Most times, these attacks happen only because “respectable men” sanction them.


By Professor Charles Adisa and issued by the News Team of Chinua Achebe Center for Leadership and Development.

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by kelly72: 11:10am On Aug 04, 2019
Many Yorubas will continue to swallow Fulani graces and urine until they realise nobody is handing over to them in 2023.

Then they will suddenly become human rights crusaders.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by baganas: 11:14am On Aug 04, 2019
Bravo123:


Read more https://alabingo.com/archives/27502
From their language you can tell they are fulani but you can't tell they are herdmen. Not every fulani is a herdsman. Dangote, sunusi lamido, Atiku etc. are not herdsmen . This is just a script acting. Too much politics with security issues
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by baganas: 11:17am On Aug 04, 2019
Generalwoodz:
local Man dont know what to say again....
Like for Buhari
Share for Big Brother Naija
Wake up now election is over
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by Nobody: 11:36am On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo

Herdsman, Its Hausa fulani
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by tomakint: 12:05pm On Aug 04, 2019
SillyMods:

You are indeed frustrated, Tomakint


You must have been living from hands to mouth hence your feelings about being frustrated my fulani herdsmen rustler
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by SillyMods: 12:11pm On Aug 04, 2019
tomakint:


You must have been living from hands to mouth hence your feelings about being frustrated my fulani herdsmen rustler
Living from hands to mouth indeed! grin grin grin

Internet kids know everything about everyone. Childish thinking always cheesy cheesy
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by ubee(m): 12:37pm On Aug 04, 2019
Gandollaar:
I'm sure the Yeye bloggers misguoted the victim with thier usual cut and join.
Yeah, yeah you are most probably right. And I'm not surprised because some of the worst and unprofessional writing I've ever seen have been on reports posted on this forum.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by tushbobo(m): 12:48pm On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo

Please pray no one you know experiences this. Two people I know have been affected. One a Prof. in OAU kidnapped in March 2019 another a brother's colleague
Kidnapped 2 years back (they shot his brother driving the car dead). Same antics and strategies they used on their victims.
It's been happening for long without being reported.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by executive12: 1:06pm On Aug 04, 2019
helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo

Big fool. Nigeria will be much better without stupid people like you.

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Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by ade4real2016: 1:07pm On Aug 04, 2019
CharleyBright:
Fulani country.
Fulani herdsmen are killing, maiming and raping all over the country and the Fulani warlord in Aso villa sees nothing wrong, protects them and even want to reward them with peoples land.
But Nigerians want to protest of bad government or seek justice via protest, he will send police and armies to either arrest or kill them.. Tyrannic govt in power and worse still with a Fulani agenda.

May it not be well with Osibanjo and Tinubu for this fulani agenda they put on us.




May it never be well with their entire generations both alive n yet to come(aameen n aameen)....
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by executive12: 1:12pm On Aug 04, 2019
Yusuf54:
He said the Fulani Herdsmen said their bullets wouldn't just waste like that. Can the Fulani herdsmen speak English or Does he undertand their language? This Man is Ibo, let others that were also abducted talk before believing him.....

Too many fools in Nigeria.
Re: Chiemela Iroha, Gringory’s Son: Our Kidnappers Were Fulani Herdsmen by NaijaNaWaa: 1:20pm On Aug 04, 2019
Tinubu: where are the cows?

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