PEOPLE & POLITICS

Why North is imploding
February 9, 2022

By Ochereome Nnanna

SOMETHING extraordinary is happening in Northern Nigeria, alias Arewa. The sons of the poor are up in arms. In cahoots with foreigners from far and near, they are killing their own kinsmen, women and children.

They are kidnapping them for multimillion naira ransoms, destroying their own communities and driving away the elite to Abuja. The poor are fleeing in droves to the South.

The evil seeds sown over the past 218 years by the founders of Sokoto Caliphate, the most backward Islamic system in the world, have grown and are bearing fruits in multiple folds. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and a host of other Mid-Eastern peaceful and prosperous countries are also rooted in the Islamic culture.

Arewa and the wider Nigeria society it controls are fractured because of the unwholesome exploitation of Islam by founders of Sokoto Caliphate. It is a system that keeps the elite in snug opulence without any regard for the grassroots.

It is highly oppressive, wicked and bloody. It operates by divide and rule. It is an enterprise rooted on fraud and corruption; a pirate system which is incapable of building an inclusive, prosperous country.

Meaningful development has stalled all over Nigeria because we surrendered our birthrights to the political buccaneers of the Caliphate. We are all drowning in the rot foisted upon us by this evil system. Those of us who complain are called names.

What is happening in the North is a revolt of the oppressed grassroots against the system. In the North West, the Fulani herdsmen, who have been downtrodden by their own powerful and affluent kinsmen, have also taken up arms.

They are killing everything in sight and abducting those they can lay their hands on for ransom. They are rustling cattle and creating little empires of their own in the ungoverned spaces of the Sahelian wilderness.

They will soon start setting up political territories. Take it to the bank: The Bandit Terrorists will soon adopt a political agenda and position themselves for an Islamic theocracy to upstage the Sokoto Caliphate. Indeed, that was what Sheikh Ahmad Gumi tried to persuade them to do.

The Bandit Terrorists are mainly Fulani nomadic herdsmen who were kept in the bushes to rear livestock for their affluent and powerful kinsmen who call the shots in the government houses and bureaucracies, emir’s palaces and mosques. For over two centuries, their own powerful kinsmen kept them marginalised, feeding fat from their nomadism.

While the “home” Fulani freeloaded off the milk and honey of Nigeria, sending their pampered children to the best schools in the world, the “bush” Fulani had no access to modern education, health, other basic amenities. They lived with their livestock among wild animals. The world passed them by.

Meanwhile, the forests in which they grazed their animals were rapidly being converted to farms and housing/industrial projects by the owners and governments. For instance, those who used to graze their animals in today’s Abuja have nowhere to go.

Unlike the more progressive Igbo, Yoruba and other tribes which embraced education and created free escape routes from poverty for their grassroots, the Fulani elite, in their blind selfishness, kept their own cousins hidden in the bushes. Only Professor Jibril Aminu, as an education minister, lobbied General Ibrahim Babangida of the need for “nomadic education”.

It was a carbon copy of Muhammadu Buhari’s “Ruga”. Aminu’s “nomadic education” did not raise much eyebrow because it was not presented like “Ruga”, a land-grabbing ploy, as it was perceived, especially in the South. The scheme, however, collapsed shortly after Babangida left power.

Many of the nomads were already turning to crime, mainly cattle-rustling, when some desperate Fulani political leaders plotted to use them to force their way back to power after Buhari lost the 2011 election.

The story of how local and foreign Fulani were assembled in the bushes of Zamfara and Niger, armed and trained to come out and fight if Buhari lost the 2015 election, is in the public arena. No one has refuted it till date. They were promised land all over Nigeria. When the politicians were not forthcoming, the attacks started.

Buhari spent the best of the past six and half years trying to force indigenous landowners to give up their ancestral patrimonies for the settlement of nomads. The moves came in several forms: “Ruga”, “Cattle Colonies”, “Grazing Reserves”, “Grazing Routes”, National Livestock Transformation Plan, “Water Resources Bill”, and others.

Meanwhile, armed herdsmen conducted waves of attacks on farmers and indigenous communities with law enforcement and security agencies doing little to stop them. Indeed, individuals and communities which tried to defend themselves were harassed and arrested.

The Federal Government even sent the military to the South East to hunt down people suspected to be members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, which was established by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, to defend their people against armed Fulani herdsmen invaders.

These were desperate measures taken by the ruling Fulani elite under Buhari to force indigenous Nigerians to pay for the Fulani neglect of their own grassroots. But, of course, it has not worked; will never work.

It has only led to unrequited bloodshed and the needless stigmatisation of an ethnic group that many Nigerians used to admire for their beauty, exotic culture and deft political and administrative acumens.

Now that the North West bandits have been declared as terrorists like Boko Haram, we must bring them to heel. After that, nomadism should be outlawed and nomads brought into the civilised population to live under the law as normal humans and citizens.

The foolish attempts to seize lands from indigenous people for allocation to the nomads must continue to be resisted till they drop it. The dog cannot eat excrement while the goat suffers rotten mouth!

The South is watching.

Fulanis are like there name.. FOOLS.. Bowing to anyone wearing those dirty rags tied around there heads..

I gat ntin else to contribute..

Bye

The northern leaders have been using religion to brainwash their people hence very little development going on in the region even upon their potentials

Las las ,You do not have to tell a blind man it's raining........

Always a nice read from Nnanna Ochereome.
Say it as it is. They hate the truth, they can go and die!

TheNiceGuy:
Myndn44 lalastimclala seunb rule 2

. Lobatan!

Alapatirin ti binu

Helinues do you know the old monikers of this BMC? I want to check something

TRIPPLE996 AND LOVENORTH ARE NOT COMPLAINING

The Southern elites cannot be absolved from similar horrible acts. They empowered uneducated youth to become agbero while the educated ones were initiated to become cult guys just to be used as political tools during election.

Nigerian elites are simply wicked

I actually thought it's Achalugonwa

I'm trying to take him along if eventually the unexpected happens


Where have you been

CharlotteFlair:
. Lobatan!

Alapatirin ti binu

TheNiceGuy:
I actually thought it's Achalugonwa

I'm trying to take him along if eventually the unexpected happens


Where have you been

I dey here...

I dey monitor your movement!

CharlotteFlair:
. Lobatan!

Alapatirin ti binu

Helinues do you know the old monikers of this BMC? I want to check something

Say it as it is. They hate the truth, they can go and die!

Kettle....

Btw, all your alternative monikers just dey received Gbas gbos from mods.

Another kettling things..

With this same moniker

That's incredible.
Leave the tribal slur abeg

CharlotteFlair:
I dey here...

I dey monitor your movement!

helinues:




Kettle....

Btw, all your alternative monikers just dey received Gbas gbos from mods.

Another kettling things..

You cannot change. If I lie low, you would be asking me why? So I should quote you with all my other monikers abi?

Ban fire!

TheNiceGuy:
With this same moniker

That's incredible.
Leave the tribal slur abeg

I dey kampe. Just took time over to wean my baby

Wow.
That's good.

Welcome back.
Meanwhile, leave Politics section for us to family section because of your baby.

You need to relax very well

CharlotteFlair:
I dey kampe. Just took time over to wean my baby

Now that the North West bandits have been declared as terrorists like Boko Haram, we must bring them to heel. After that, nomadism should be outlawed and nomads brought into the civilised population to live under the law as normal humans and citizens.

I laugh. The day they were declared terrorists, the government touched the leopard's tail. You just cannot label a whole tribe as 'terrorists'. Garba Shehu was right, but like everything Buhari, he wanted to shield his own while profiling others. I cannot support the Fulani to create caste system. I CANNOT SUPPORT CREATION OF A CASTE SYSTEM.

TheNiceGuy:
Wow.
That's good.

Welcome back.
Meanwhile, leave Politics section for us to family section because of your baby.

You need to relax very well

Your plan has failed. Who will protect my people here? So that you lots can mine their skulls right?
Kolewerk!

Who mine flat skull

E no dey give money

CharlotteFlair:
Your plan has failed. Who will protect my people here? So that you lots can mine their skulls right?
Kolewerk!

This foolish fat frog called Ochereome nnanna with his nose like Hitler's smoking pipe.

I really hope the south has taken notice of how the Fulani hegemony has handled affairs of the nation when trusted.

I really hope is with the way igbos are treated as outcasts for the civil war, they too will be asked tough questions when next any one of them tries to vie for the number one position of the country again.

TheNiceGuy:
I actually thought it's Achalugonwa

I'm trying to take him along if eventually the unexpected happens


Where have you been