₦airaland Forum

modash:
Well, i think we shud nut be 2 quick to dish out blame to anybody,
afta all its neither fair nor is it objective to blame anybody without de facts

akigbemaru:
South-south for ibos? You must be silly for this phrase! After River Niger Brigde plunges, it's from other side you will be looking at Western region. Aye gba tapa ibo otu fe kole igunu, meaning "history records that ibos live under the influence of Edo, Ijaw and Itsekiriki.

cold:
One thing really baffles me in all of this.Between the hours of 3 & 6 am when the wanton killings were being carried out,where were the berom men in the community,what were they doing that they cldn't protect their wives,sisters & children? Don't they know that to check these extremists requires eternal vigilance? This is one aspect of the indigenes of plateau i cannot come to terms with.

aisha2:
Miss you Baby, where have u been? am holed up at the villa in france

Gbawe:
Please refrain from following me around Nairaland because of your vengefully immature nature . Stop dwelling pedantically on and deliberately misconstruing my choice of words in a pathetic attempt to discredit me. I am now scared of your persona because it seems you carry bad belle and hatred of others , when they write what you don't like,  from thread to thread to the extent that you will deliberately attempt to misrepresent them . Clearly you take things to heart and too personally. you are someone to avoid at all cost.

When I stated that Jonathan "must be given what constitutionally belongs to him" everyone knows that I am saying that , for the sake of peace and the cessation of a dangerous power vacuum , the provisions of the constitution should be adhered to so that the hand over to Jonathan can be completed if Yar Adua is medically indisposed. We all know that folks like Aondoakaa hijacked the Presidency. We all wanted that to stop so that Presidential power is handed down to the correct heirarchical recipient according to our constitution. Many of us are not constitutional lawyers on Nairaland but we know that our constitution makes provisions for the situation we are in.

It is a shame that you want to destroy your own credibility on this forum with vengeful, emotional  and immature writing.

Gbawe: Why ask Jonathan to act against the corrupt system that is responsible for the high office he holds that he would ordinarily not have gained in a serious democracy devoid of shamelessly self-serving kingmaking ?

Gbawe: How many of you think Jonathan would be our VP today , rather than Donald Duke , if merit and ability are the main recruitment criteria for political office in Nigeria?

amarilo:
lol am away already so no need running again. I stand by my earlier post Nigeria can never no peace or progress until equal number of victims die from every region that killed/starved Igbo children and their mothers. Those kids are still crying wherever they are now and you want to tell me that carring placard will wipe their tears off. Middle belt at the moment are taking the bullet, matchet, bow and arrow. Who knows where the blood shade will shift to next.

amarilo:
Sorry but i can't come from the northern bloodsuckers.

Gbawe:
Indeed. Even with my misgivings about Jonathan I showed up at the Save Nigeria protest in London because I believed that he must be given what constitutionally belongs to him i.e the power to become acting President if Yar Adua is unavailable. I felt that if Jonathan took charge , Nigeria's rudderless drifting , caused by a wicked group of men and women, would stop .

I have had to concede , like many Nigerians , that I thought wrong. Instead of seeing Jonathan as a 'poor , put-upon chap' who is being prevented from doing the right thing has it occured to many of his supporters on this forum that he might be just another business-as-usual politician who is totally concerned with self-preservation and maintenance of the Status quo to the extent that he will never seriously contemplate sticking his neck out to do the right thing? Why ask of Jonathan what he cannot deliver? Why ask Jonathan to act against the corrupt system that is responsible for the high office he holds that he would ordinarily not have gained in a serious democracy devoid of shamelessly self-serving kingmaking ? How many of you think Jonathan would be our VP today , rather than Donald Duke , if merit and ability are the main recruitment criteria for political office in Nigeria?

In effective democracies, political expectations must match a politician's history of political effectiveness. With Jonathans very mediocre political history , what is it that suggests he is now an effective Politician being prevented from performing the Messianic turn around of Nigeria?

AjanleKoko:
There is one thing that I find amusing, given all these comments.
Let's say the Middle Belters say they've had enough, and want to move down south. Can anyone tell me which tribe will whole-heartedly accept them?

aisha2:
Dont let your children come and fight your fight. My children will not come and fight this fight for me, may God forbid that it will be said of me that i was to cowardly to do the right thing in my time. That i wound up my Air Conditioned car and just complained and did absolutely nothing. God forbid

Dis Guy:
Hmm i think most of these taxes they are complaining about are illegal fess collected by policemen and other agberos in Lagos and different parts of the country

. . .But as soon as you come to Makurdi, you start facing extortion and it extends to Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom and Cross River.

frosbel:
I guess the useless so called army we have are aware of the threat of these babarians but turned a blind eye to this massacre.

Jonathan Goodluck is impotent as a leader, we need a man of iron in charge.

I detest Abacha but he was the kind of leader that would have ruthlessly crushed this uprising by now.

Its more than sad, Nigeria is gradually sliding into anarchy.

adconline:
Let's not jump to conclusions yet. We don't know who the agressors are or what started this. It may not even be caused by religion but ethnic issues. You are being delusional if you thought that it was not about religion. Why cant Pleatue State be annexed if it 'hosts' killing festival every month?

[size=14pt]Over 500 killed in reprisal attack in Jos[/size]
Cover Stories, Latest NewsMar 7, 2010
By Taye Obateru

Jos – Over 500 people mostly women and children were today [killed by] Fulani herdsmen on reprisal attacks. At least 45 children including toddlers were among those hacked to death, gunned down or roasted in their abodes which were torched by the marauders at about 2.30 am.

Most hit was Dogon Na Hauwa village where most of the killings were done and over 75 houses were razed but nearby Ratsat and Jeji villages were not spared.

A victim, Musa Gyang who spoke to journalists where he is receiving treatment at Plateau Specialist Hospital said they were woken up by gun shots in the middle of the night and before they knew what was happening they saw their houses torched and as they ran out they were attacked with gun shots or machete.

Journalists could not help but break down in tears as they saw piles of corpses mostly women and children some of them with heads severed.
The Commissioner for Information Mr. Gregory Yenlong who briefed journalists later said about 500 corpses would be given a mass burial adding that security has been beefed up to contains the situation .

He described the attack on the Berom villages as a kind of ethnic cleansing saying some families were completely wiped out.
He confirmed that the attackers were suspected to be Fulanis who came on foot from elsewhere to beat security but call for calm as government intensifies efforts to track down the attackers.

The Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Gyang Buba who visited the area  also lamented the gruesome murder of innocent people describing it as man’s inhumanity to man.

He said he received information of planned attacks on villages and informed the security agencies appropriately wondering why the attacks still happened.

Addressing the survivors, he appealed for calm warning against any form of reprisals.
“I am deeply sad. We can’t continue like this; we are not animals. We’ll go back and discuss with government even up to Abuja and make our case. Let’s Have patience. There is no alternative to patience and don’t let us take laws into our hands. Do not do anything that would aggravate the situation”, he told them.
Ends.

kosovo:
i know you will all eat me,  but i must subscribe to what Ahmadinejad said,  because i stand for the TRUTH.
  The CIA did a great JOB that day in concealing . i have often told people that US government were responsible for the 9/11 Attacks. There are alot scholars who have proved that a tower can not jut fall from the top to ground level completely. it therefore implies that a BOMB was planted in the building, which can only make that possible. People forget that the structure in question was a still tower and there is no way a Boeing 747 can cause it's total collapse.
  How can 4 planes be hijacked the same day? pls CIA give me a break. most of us already know, it was a calculated effort to gain access to the middle east, which they successfully did and have totally failed in that regard if you ask me.

it is a shame that alot of people still believe the Nonsense their intelligence agency told us. UTTER RUBBISH.

Ahmadinejad just made my day.  I rest my case.

MrCrackles:
Learning what fast?
Is the latest move Jonathan's inititiative or what?

frosbel:
I for one think that the North will become like Somalia and not the South.

Remember there is a distinction between Somali-land where there is relative peace and Somalia which is war torn.

Northern Nigeria is already in some ways worse than Somalia, in Somalia you hear of dozens killed while in Nigeria you hear of hundreds and sometimes thousands killed.

Shutalim said, ”If we are transporting cattle and other foodstuffs to the South, some states are blocking us and collecting money from us. If you buy something in Maiduguri and you are bringing it to the South, nobody disturbs you in Yobe, Bauchi, Plateau and Nassarawa. But as soon as you come to Makurdi, you start facing extortion and it extends to Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom and Cross River.

[size=14pt]Clashes kill more than 100 in central Nigeria[/size]

Villagers in Dogo Nahawa, just south of Jos, said Fulani pastoralists from the surrounding hills attacked at about 3 a.m. (9 p.m. EST), shooting into the air before slashing those who came out of their homes with machetes.

A Reuters witness who visited the village counted around 100 bodies piled in the open air. Pam Dantong, medical director of Plateau State Hospital in Jos, showed reporters 18 corpses that had been brought from the village, some of them charred.

Officials said other bodies had been taken to a second hospital in the state capital.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the violence.

"They came around 3 o'clock in the morning and they started shooting into the air," said Dogo Nahawa resident Peter Jang.

"The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses and then when people came out they started cutting them with machetes," he said, women crying behind him.

Four days of sectarian clashes in January between mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, which lies at the crossroads of Nigeria's Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

The latest unrest in the volatile region comes at a difficult time for Nigeria, with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan trying to assert his authority while the country's ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua remains too sick to govern.

"This is an act of inhumanity," said Da Buba Gyang, the traditional ruler of the Christian Berom ethnic group in Jos.

Jonathan deployed hundreds of troops and police to quell January's unrest, in which community leaders put the death toll at more than 400. Official police figures estimated the death toll from the clashes in and around Jos two months ago at 326.

The instability underscores the fragility of Africa's most populous nation as it approaches the campaign period for 2011 elections with uncertainty over who is in charge.

Yar'Adua returned from three months in a Saudi hospital, where he was being treated for a heart condition, a week and a half ago but has still not been seen in public. Presidency sources say he remains in a mobile intensive care unit.

Fears of a debilitating power struggle between Yar'Adua's inner circle, keen to maintain its grip on power, and Jonathan sprang up in the OPEC member state of 140 million people when the 58-year-old leader was brought back late at night.

Jonathan has moved quickly to reassert his authority, appointing three new advisory committees last week and chairing his first cabinet meeting since Yar'Adua's return.

Apart from the violence in Plateau state, there is also potential for fresh instability in the Niger Delta, the heartland of the country's mainstay oil and gas industry, after a militant splinter group last week claimed two attacks on oil facilities

kosovo:
^^^^^
    i decipher the Nub which Buhari is talking about. But i still suggest he takes a break. Let him go to gym or sumtin,  i am completely tired of hearing the Noise of these people,

PapaBrowne:
In my honest opinion, this is a political move!

I say, good riddiance!!
We southerners would enjoy our Fish and Chicken, they can carry their beef and stuff it down their throats. !!
We can do without those onions and carrots.
Or better still we can even import foodstuffs from Ghana sef!!