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The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Nobody: 8:45am On Jun 24, 2021
AROUND the end of February 2016, officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria came to my office while I was serving as the Ondo State Commissioner for Environment, during the administration of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko. For the umpteenth time, they complained of illegal grazing within the premises of the Akure Airport with obvious dangerous implications for aviation activities.

This was one report too many. Having been inundated with several distress reports also by farmers and other residents on the activities of herdsmen, the ministry summoned a stakeholders meeting involving government, herders, cattle dealers, farmers and some selected traditional rulers.

The issue with the airport which we handled first, believing it would be more easily resolved than others, was actually the opening of the Pandora box. The airport officials, farmers and the chiefs recounted tales of woe on the destruction of farmlands, including provocative removal of yam and cassava tubers from the barns in Itaogbolu communities by herders to feed their animals.

An official of the ministry, a lady and an environmental health officer, who spoke flawless Hausa language, was readily on hand handling language interpretation for the herdsmen and cattle dealers. What appeared a blanket condemnation prompted the head of the cattle dealers to distance his group from the activities of the herders.

In a surprisingly flawless Queen’s English, this dark complexioned man insisted that his men, who are Hausa, had no business with the farmlands as they don’t rear animals but only buy cows from the herders, and then lead the animals to the cattle market where they are sold to the Yoruba who thereafter take the animals to the abattoirs. Feeling isolated, the leader of the Fulani herdsmen (no one was talking about Miyetti Allah then) after listening to what was being interpreted to him, suddenly broke out in a fit of anger, speaking Yoruba laced with occasional Akure accent, blamed the indigenous Akure people for the problems.

According to him, the lands where the Fulani cattle had been grazing, from Ekiti through Iju, Itaogbolu, Akure to the Ifedore local government areas, had been taken over by the indigenes either for farming or buildings for commercial or residential purposes. According to him, it was the search of new and more grazing lands, in view of their increasing cattle heads, that drove the Fulani herders to Obaile, airport, Iluabo, Uso, Owo road and the grazing on the airport territory.

To the surprise of the traditional rulers and Chiefs of the Akure-speaking areas, this leader of the Fulani cattle men said the solution to the crisis was for government to compel the indigenes to vacate the grazing routes and also cease further occupation of the land for whatever purpose.

Asked by the ministry officials how the herders came to seize the said grazing routes and lands, he said they were the first to open the forest almost 20 years earlier. Of course, the Chiefs and their teeming youths outside were enraged and threatened hell.

The chairman of the Agricultural Commodities Association in Ondo State, Akin Olotu, who led the farmers’ group at the meeting, demonstrated so much restraint and called for a proper synergy between the states in the federation and the Federal Government in establishing cattle ranches for the benefit of Fulani nomadic herdsmen.

Technocrats in the ministry and FAAN officials assisted us in calming the situation, particularly the youths, who could not comprehend the audacity of the herders in their very strange claims on land acquisition and ownership. The following day, March 4, 2016, the media, both conventional and social, were awash with the resolutions at the meeting with different headlines. The most common, among the titles, was: “Ondo Bans Activities of Fulani Herdsmen”.

Of course, that was not entirely true. In the communiqué at the end of the meeting, cattle rearing in cities, towns and villages were prohibited; there would be no night grazing and anyone caught would be treated in the language they would understand, to borrow President Muhammadu Buhari’s now popular Biafra phrase. It was also resolved that cattle owners would be registered with each animal bearing the registration number of its owner for easy identification for diverse mutually beneficial reasons.

Ultimately, the suggestion by the farmers on ranching was agreed as the befitting solution. Some of the immediate lessons from the meeting and most relevant in the present hot debates, particularly on open grazing, is that cattle business, like other enterprises, is a private endeavour which practitioners should pursue as such.

When the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, was busy, the other time, comparing animal husbandry with car parts trading, he must realise that the latter do not just pounce on people’s lands. They acquired land legitimately for their businesses. In the same Akure, the capital of Ondo State, the entire Central Business Area, spanning Oba Adesida, Oyemekun, Arakale and Hospital Road, are dominated by the ubiquitous South-Easterners where they acquired land legitimately and they are not treated as members of IPOB.

In the vast lands of the Akoko and Owo in the northern parts of the state, and in the Akure areas, farmlands are acquired by the Ebira, Igala, Agatu who are so mixed with the indigenous population that you hardly could distinguish them. They participate freely in all activities as free citizens, including the politics of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and okada businesses.

Generations of Urhobo and Ibibio nationalities are fully entrenched in the southern part of the state in the oil palm and rafia palm businesses respectively, while we all grew up to know the Hausa in their Sabo in all cities and towns. It must be emphasised that the resolutions at the stakeholders’ meeting were in tandem with the provisions of the environmental laws of the state. A more elaborate and comprehensive forestry law, within the purview of the Ministry of Natural Resources, existed since the Western Region government.

The decision of the present Akeredolu government ordering illegal occupants out of the state’s forest reserves is perfectly within the ambit of the law and we support him. The decision of state governments banning open grazing and transport of animals by foot is firmly rooted in the constitution and the Land Use Act which enjoys constitutional status.

It will therefore be interesting to see how the President and his officials, who are busy talking down on the elected governors, will employ federal might to dig up archaic gazettes to reopen grazing routes all over the country without breaching the 1999 Constitution which the President and his officials love so much and say is immutable.

It has been suggested by many well-meaning citizens that the President, rather than flex muscles with the states to create special federal territories for the Fulani, local and foreign, in the guise of grazing routes, grazing reserves, RUGA or Cattle colonies (they are the same) in states, such energy is better deployed at dislodging terrorists and bandits from the Sambisa in the North-East or other forests in the North-West states, extending to Niger and Kaduna in the central region, which have become havens for terrorist activities where they even keep kidnapped citizens, including schoolchildren.

It is amusingly contradictory that the President, who insists that there is nothing wrong with the 1999 Constitution to warrant the agitation for restructuring, would seek to brazenly violate the said constitution and the Land Use Act, which shares equal status therewith, by the illegal braggadocio of exercising powers over land use which is the exclusive reserve of the states. By the said constitution, in which President Buhari is most well-pleased, the land in every state is vested in the governor thereof to hold in trust for the people of the state.

The grazing routes law, which was applicable only in the defunct Northern Region and being now romanticised by the President, was ironically made under the 1963 Constitution loathed by the same President, though an era when the President agreed law was being obeyed.

Even among the 19 states of the North, no such law exists any longer or is enforceable, except as determined by the people through their governor and their representatives in the House of Assembly of the relevant state. For necessary but laughable political effects, we were told over the weekend, that the Federal Government claimed to have discovered old grazing routes in one or two Yoruba states.

The patriotic views of our governors and their colleagues at the Asaba Declaration are very well known. In any case, the powers of governors over land use are not absolute. The acquisition of my family land, at Motoro, can only be for the overriding public purpose of a road from the Alape lagoon to the Atlantic at the Ondo State coastline.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by chatinent: 8:50am On Jun 24, 2021
Remember the words: human government has failed.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Bola146(f): 8:53am On Jun 24, 2021
And Jesus wept cry What did you expect they to say
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by SportsHD: 9:01am On Jun 24, 2021
2023 is almost here. These cow ffuckers gon learn. Their eye go hear am.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by DDDEnterprises: 9:06am On Jun 24, 2021
SportsHD:
2023 is almost here. These cow ffuckers gon learn. Their eye go hear am.

That is, if they are not fast and smart enough to devise measures that'll block or destroy whatever you're planning for them

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 9:15am On Jun 24, 2021
All Apc states belong to herdsmen.. by association and implications.

The Yoruba states has been annexed... go to yoruba states and see herdsmen and their cows bouncing like kings

In Ekiti I know places where Fulani rule and make laws for indigenous people just as WAKILL in oyo..

Their press won’t say anything about it... same humans that were loud on asaba declaration..

All Yoruba states are deserted... and ghosted.. Yoruba people online and offline knows this truth..
The few of them remaining are too hungry to visit farm... Fulani people are only the indigenous people now roaming in their villages

Walai... Yoruba people knows this ... even their governors know.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by MansoryMX(m): 9:19am On Jun 24, 2021
He said and I quote “ the land in every state is vested in the governor thereof to hold in trust for the people of the state”.



If Buhari thinks he can force his kinsmen on us by bringing Chaos, BokoHaram and Banditry to our peaceful region and forest he is mad! We will meet him power for power in the language him and his stupid blood sucking kinsmen will understand. There are vast lands in the North than any other region! They should take their cows up North and only bring them here for trading if they don’t have sinister motives! Everyone knows their plans and intentions so nobody is asleep anymore! Everyone is vigilant, everyone is ready to match them machete for machete, gun for gun, jazz for jazz and sword for sword. Foolish people!.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 9:24am On Jun 24, 2021
Abi, as the governor, reps, senators, state assembly members are Fulani.

Iranu talk
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 9:25am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:
All Apc states belong to herdsmen.. by association and implications.

The Yoruba states has been annexed... go to yoruba states and see herdsmen and their cows bouncing like kings

In Ekiti I know places where Fulani rule and make laws for indigenous people just as WAKILL in oyo..

Their press won’t say anything about it... same humans that were loud on asaba declaration..

All Yoruba states are deserted... and ghosted.. Yoruba people online and offline knows this truth..
The few of them remaining are too hungry to visit farm... Fulani people are only the indigenous people now roaming in their villages

Walai... Yoruba people knows this ... even their governors know.

Including Ebonyi and Imo state... undecided
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 9:29am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


Including Ebonyi and Imo state... undecided

YES!

And that’s why there’s trouble in those states..

They people vs. herdsmen and Nigeria army..

Herdsmen kill.. the people retaliate... the army kills the people...

But in Yoruba land .... herdsmen main and kill.. Yoruba people make noise... the army protect the herdsmen.. Yoruba people goes back to sleep..

Till next time and same noise ..

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 9:31am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:


YES!

And that’s why there’s trouble in those states..

They people vs. herdsmen and Nigeria army..

Herdsmen kill.. the people retaliate... the army kills the people...

But in Yoruba land .... herdsmen main and kill.. Yoruba people make noise... the army protect the herdsmen.. Yoruba people goes back to sleep..

Till next time and same noise ..

I guess the likes of Oba Adewusi, Pastor Adeboye only visit Aso rock to eat Gworo
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 9:36am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


I guess the likes of Oba Adewusi, Pastor Adeboye only visit Aso rock to eat Gworo

And what’s the outcome of their visit...

They visit to collec money and take orders.. that’s the official visit to asovilla..by any human.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Ever8090: 9:37am On Jun 24, 2021
The audacity of fulani herdsmen during this Buhari regime is out of control...

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 9:38am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:


And what’s the outcome of their visit...

They visit to collec money and take orders.. that’s the official visit to asovilla..by any human.

The outcome of their meetings and are so glaring. Herdsmen attacks are reducing daily in SW
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Tranquillity360: 9:39am On Jun 24, 2021
Yorubas and fulanis are truly one.

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 9:43am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


The outcome of their meetings and are so glaring. Herdsmen attacks are reducing daily in SW

Even Benue is reducing... none in the east and south..
and I didn’t hear Tor Tiv or Obi of onitsha visiting aso rock

Abi you heard that ubong of kalabar visit Buhari

This Yoruba humans sef...

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 9:47am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:


Even Benue is reducing... none in the east and south..
and I didn’t hear Tor Tiv or Obi of onitsha visiting aso rock

Abi you heard that ubong of kalabar visit Buhari

This Yoruba humans sef...

Each region with different method of approaching issues. As you can see we never allow the likes of Igboho to get into herdsmen issues cos we are organised in solving such issue.

Is it not the brave steps Ondo state took that other Southern states have to follow regarding herdsmen
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Nobody: 9:57am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:
All Apc states belong to herdsmen.. by association and implications.

The Yoruba states has been annexed... go to yoruba states and see herdsmen and their cows bouncing like kings

In Ekiti I know places where Fulani rule and make laws for indigenous people just as WAKILL in oyo..

Their press won’t say anything about it... same humans that were loud on asaba declaration..

All Yoruba states are deserted... and ghosted.. Yoruba people online and offline knows this truth..
The few of them remaining are too hungry to visit farm... Fulani people are only the indigenous people now roaming in their villages

Walai... Yoruba people knows this ... even their governors know.
Are you through burying your parents in Ebonyi?
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by ogbuefi677(m): 10:01am On Jun 24, 2021
Yoruba and Fulani are one naa

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 10:02am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


Each region with different method of approaching issues. As you can see we never allow the likes of Igboho to get into herdsmen issues cos we are organised in solving such issue.

Is it not the brave steps Ondo state took that other Southern states have to follow regarding herdsmen

Nobody took Ondo step

ESN was there already before Ondo whatever..
And was driving Fulani out of eastern bushes..

Till the governor invited the military..

Local vigilantes in the east were already doing same .. even communities

Presently in Ondo State owo and other Ondo communities still have herdsmen parading in hot afternoon

Is like you don’t even travel around Yoruba states
Talk more of Nigeria

You need to move around and see things in reality .. not online news and propaganda from your people

In idu Ekiti and Ifaki Ekiti... there’s lot of Fulani herdsmen
And they rear their cows in residential areas and live among the people with their cows ..

The indigenous people wen asked say the live in peace with them... meanwhile this people acts as lords to the native Yoruba people

Same apply to oyo villages , osun villages.. don’t know if ogun ..

I’m talking presently as we’re typing..

Make your findings.. from the name of village I drop

And will make more available
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 10:14am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:


Nobody took Ondo step

ESN was there already before Ondo whatever..
And was driving Fulani out of eastern bushes..

Till the governor invited the military..

Local vigilantes in the east were already doing same .. even communities

Presently in Ondo State owo and other Ondo communities still have herdsmen parading in hot afternoon

Is like you don’t even travel around Yoruba states
Talk more of Nigeria

You need to move around and see things in reality .. not online news and propaganda from your people

In idu Ekiti and Ifaki Ekiti... there’s lot of Fulani herdsmen
And they rear their cows in residential areas and live among the people with their cows ..

The indigenous people wen asked say the live in peace with them... meanwhile this people acts as lords to the native Yoruba people

Same apply to oyo villages , osun villages.. don’t know if ogun ..

I’m talking presently as we’re typing..

Make your findings.. from the name of village I drop

And will make more available

Politically, you are too emotional.. Who first banned open grazing in Southern States?

Are this same herdsmen still not in part of SS and SE most especially the peaceful one amongst them.

Please, stop talking about ESN cos they are charade. The minimum cows average herdsmen always have are from 10. How come ESN arrested just 1 cow , the cow they bought themselves..

Between SE and SW, whose method is working regarding herdsmen, which of the region methods have been able to reduce herdsmen clashes, security operatives clashes, innocent people being caught during cross fire?

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Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Nobody: 10:32am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


Politically, you are too emotional.. Who first banned open grazing in Southern States?

Are this same herdsmen still not in part of SS and SE most especially the peaceful one amongst them.

Please, stop talking about ESN cos they are charade. The minimum cows average herdsmen always have are from 10. How come ESN arrested just 1 cow , the cow they bought themselves..

Between SE and SW, whose method is working regarding herdsmen, which of the region methods have been able to reduce herdsmen clashes, security operatives clashes, innocent people being caught during cross fire?

Herdsmen clashes in the SE have been reduced by 92.67% whereas in the SW it is only just beginning. Start looking for solutions ASAP.
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by lwise(m): 10:33am On Jun 24, 2021
Buhari is a disaster.Nigerians made a terrible mistake voting him twice,we have never been so divided as it is now,never!
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Monogamy: 10:33am On Jun 24, 2021
FreedomWinsNow:


Herdsmen clashes in the SE have been reduced by 92.67% whereas in the SW it is only just beginning. Start looking for solutions ASAP.

How big is SE in landmass?

One herdsmen attack in SE should be equivalent to 5 attacks in SW..So which has reduced?
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by mp3ree: 10:49am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:
All Apc states belong to herdsmen.. by association and implications.

The Yoruba states has been annexed... go to yoruba states and see herdsmen and their cows bouncing like kings

In Ekiti I know places where Fulani rule and make laws for indigenous people just as WAKILL in oyo..

Their press won’t say anything about it... same humans that were loud on asaba declaration..

All Yoruba states are deserted... and ghosted.. Yoruba people online and offline knows this truth..
The few of them remaining are too hungry to visit farm... Fulani people are only the indigenous people now roaming in their villages

Walai... Yoruba people knows this ... even their governors know.



Why are you obsessed with yorubas?always deviating from issues and talking about yorubas ....Bororo
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by AntiBMC(m): 10:58am On Jun 24, 2021
The deluded c0ws believe that they own all of Nigeria... thanks to their deranged ancestor danfodio.
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by Asgard73: 11:04am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


Politically, you are too emotional.. Who first banned open grazing in Southern States?

Are this same herdsmen still not in part of SS and SE most especially the peaceful one amongst them.

Please, stop talking about ESN cos they are charade. The minimum cows average herdsmen always have are from 10. How come ESN arrested just 1 cow , the cow they bought themselves..

Between SE and SW, whose method is working regarding herdsmen, which of the region methods have been able to reduce herdsmen clashes, security operatives clashes, innocent people being caught during cross fire?

Banning open grazing can’t work and won’t work.. i don’t consider it as achievement..

ESN was build to uproot them from the forest and back to north or wherever they came from and that’s the best approach not sentiments.

There’s no peaceful herdsmen.. either they’re harboring their own for attack or in bushes providing logistics
Some of us are privileged to some information..

To fight herdsmen and fulanilization ... which is absolutely different from Islamic agenda .. though the government is projecting both together due to western Muslim

To fight this..
the south must uproot all fulanis herders , dwellers from all southern bushes...

And this none of the southern governors have the moral to do.
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by OBALOLA55(m): 11:05am On Jun 24, 2021
Asgard73:
All Apc states belong to herdsmen.. by association and implications.

The Yoruba states has been annexed... go to yoruba states and see herdsmen and their cows bouncing like kings

In Ekiti I know places where we rule and make laws for indigenous people just as WAKILL in oyo..

Their press won’t say anything about it... same humans that were loud on asaba declaration..

All Yoruba states are deserted... and ghosted.. Yoruba people online and offline knows this truth..
The few of them remaining are too hungry to visit farm... we Fulani people are only the indigenous people now roaming in their villages

Walai... Yoruba people knows this ... even their governors know.
BORORO
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by OBALOLA55(m): 11:07am On Jun 24, 2021
Monogamy:


Politically, you are too emotional.. Who first banned open grazing in Southern States?

Are this same herdsmen still not in part of SS and SE most especially the peaceful one amongst them.

Please, stop talking about ESN cos they are charade. The minimum cows average herdsmen always have are from 10. How come ESN arrested just 1 cow , the cow they bought themselves..

Between SE and SW, whose method is working regarding herdsmen, which of the region methods have been able to reduce herdsmen clashes, security operatives clashes, innocent people being caught during cross fire?
ANOTHER BORORO
Re: The Day Herdsmen Told Me Akure Land Belonged To Them by OBALOLA55(m): 11:09am On Jun 24, 2021
mp3ree:




Why are you obsessed with yorubas?always deviating from issues and talking about yorubas ....Bororo
I DON BUST AM TEY TEY BUT JUST LIKE HELINUES AKA MONOGAMY AND THEBOSSTREVOR1, BORORO NOR TOO DEY GIVE UP. SEE AS HIM AND MONOGAMY DEY WHINE THEMSELVES HERE grin

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