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Marvieduke:
My first encounter with war voodoo and how Fulani bandits CANNOT withstand it if properly utilized was years ago when I was serving.

I was posted to a community called Ogume in Ndokwa West of Delta state.

I taught Creative Arts at the popular Ogume grammar school.

I will never forget that sunny afternoon I was returning to my PPA from school break in Portharcourt where I went to spend my holidays, because I couldn't travel all the way back home to Uyo.

I was on a bike, thundering down the desolate stretch of that Ogume-Amai highway from Kwale, when my bike man suddenly cut the bike brakes and meandered us into the bush nearby.

I thought he had lost his mind.

'Oga, you dey craze??' I fumed as the wet weed and mud splattered all over my khaki pants.

He signalled me to hush up and stay low behind some thicket, then he jabbed his finger ahead and that was when I saw it.

A group of Fulani herdsmen with turbans and automatic rifles were dragging a young villager out of the bushes to the center of the tarred road.

The young man looked not more than 19 years and had light bruises all over.

He wore a faded brazil jersey that was badly torn to reveal an amulet dangling from his neck.

He appeared like he had been struggling with someone in a fight and rolling on soil.

The Fulani herdsmen were speaking rapidly and slapping him, and before we knew it, one of them cocked his rifle and fired point-blank at this young native.

As the smoke cleared, we were shocked to see the young native still standing and not on the floor.

His left arm was clenched against his chest defensively and resolutely— otherwise he looked unscathed.

The Fulani herdsmen we saw were about 13.

I will never forget that number because what followed next haunts me till this day.

Each of the 13 Fulani herdsmen opened fire into the head and body of this young man continuously.

It was like a fireworks display.

They riddled his body with bullets and literally blasted the young man from one side of the expressway to the other side.

His body was flung back and forth like a rag doll as the volley of bullets rammed into his anatomy in quick succession.

All the young man chanted repeatedly was 'Kweke!!'

From where we watched, there was no perforation on his body.

Not a single gunshot wound we could see.

Not a single drop of blood.

What the herdsmen did next?

They pinned this young man to the ground and one of them tried to slit his throat with his dagger, but the blade refused to eat into his skin, and the villager just lay there bellowing 'Kweke!!!' continuously

They spent 10 minutes ferociously matchetting this young man, but the young man just lay there squirming in pain, but not sustaining a single cut or tear.

Finally, they tied the legs and hands of this man and dragged him back to their own side of the road where they consulted each other for few minutes, speaking and gesticulating in Fulani.

And the most unusual spectacle happened.

2 of them vanished into the adjoining swampy tropical forest and led back a particularly large bull with horns like a weapon made from rhinoceros horns and elephant tusks.

5 extra herdsmen held the cow in position and steadied his head so the horns pointed slightly forward.

Then another 3 grabbed the villager they had earlier tied, hefted him on their shoulders, ambled towards the bull and slammed the poor young man repeatedly into the horns of the animal.

The young man cried out in pain and started bleeding.

It didn't take up to 5 tries until the cow's horns neatly impaled his abdomen and rib cage, and the irate bull huffed and tossed his dismembered body to the ground where it commenced stomping the hemorrhaging body with its hooves.

Every time the cow stopped stomping, one of the Fulani herdsmen would make a clicking sound with their tongue and push the bloody body of their victim into its fore limbs.

And the cow would indignantly start stomping what it thought was the enemy all over again.

All of this while, the herdsmen stood by laughing and pointing, and when they were satisfied that their victim had been successfully killed, they fired some shots into the air signalling victory, pulled the cow away and filed into the forest.

I was in a daze over what I just witnessed

The bike man kept muttering 'KWEKE' under his breath too.

After we were sure the Fulani marauders were out of earshot, we strolled out to the road and I begged the bike man to allow us carry the body of the boy back to Kwale township where a hospital could attempt to save what was left of his life.

But as soon as we got to the body, we realized it was all over.

The young man's entire digestive system had been ripped out of his abdomen by the cow's horns and a big stone had been used to smash his skull for good measure.

But that wasn't even the worst of it all.

Lying in the bush there a few yards from us were over 23 dismembered and decapitated bodies.

Ogume Youths.

None more than 20 years.

The bike man told me to get on the bike so we continue our journey and he would alert the villagers of what had happened.

I couldn't even argue.

I sat on the bike and we roared off.

If you know Ogume community well, you will know the road I speak of when entering Ogume land from Kwale.

A narrow and desolate stretch of tarred road flanked on both sides by thick rain forests and hectares upon hectares of swampy grassland that stretched into all directions for kilometers.

If your car breaks down on that road, you can park by the road side there for 2 hours and a single vehicle or bike will not come along.

And the potholes on the road even make that stretch of road more foreboding.

Mostly Dangote trailers or trucks carrying timber and rubber traverse that road.

One of the loneliest stretches of roads I have seen in my life.

Now you may be wondering the story behind what I just witnessed.

Let me tell you(as I later came to find out).

Fulani herdsmen brought their cattle into Ogbe-Ole Ogume community and started destroying the crops of the villagers.

Ogume indigenes are predominantly farmers, so you can imagine how bad this was for them.

The village head asked them to leave and delegated about 24 youths to peacefully escort them out of Ogume land.

Each of the 24 youths wore war voodoo.

They were 'cooked' and fortified against bullets, but the herdsmen didn't know this yet.

The Fulani herdsmen appeared to cooperate and allowed themselves to be escorted out with their cattle.

About 20 of them.

When they got to the most desolate and remote part of the wilderness— far far from where human settlement was— where they knew that the rest of the village couldn't get a distress call from, the herdsmen turned and started opening fire at the youths.

The youths only had big sticks for protection, but were generally unarmed.

But they fought back bravely and killed 7 of the Fulani marauders.

Unfortunately the herdsmen had knives, cutlasses and guns, and when they saw that their bullets were useless against the Ogume Youths, they attacked them with their knives and cutlasses and slaughtered 23 of them.

Except the last one which we happened upon.

The leader of the Ogume Youths.

He wore war voodoo not just against bullets like his colleagues, but also wore against knives, arrows and spears.

His body was impenetrable and impervious to bullets, knives, arrows and spears.

This was why the herdsmen couldn't kill him.

So they had to impale him on a cow's horns.

And then finish him off with a big stone.

Ogume community brought all 24 bodies of those brave young men to the village center at Ogbe-Ole and mourned for 14 days.

Every indigene painted ash on their forehead the entire period.

Ogume was declared out of bounds for any and every human of Fulani and Hausa ethnicity from that moment.

Till date.

Suya sellers packed up their things and fled to Ughelli, Amai and Abbi, Obiaruku and even Agbor.

Any Fulani or Hausa person found in Ogume community was k.illed at the spot.

We Corpers were advised to never leave our lodges without our ID cards so we aren't mistaken for Fulanis since we were basically outsiders and non-indigene.

I personally had to braid my curly Afro hair so I'm not confused for someone from Niger republic considering my height and build.

The villagers used the blood of their 24 fallen comrades to concoct a very powerful voodoo to secure the entire boundary of Ogume community, making it inaccessible to Fulani herdsmen.

No Fulani herdsmen could cross the boundary of Ogume and survive past 30 minutes.

We started getting news of Fulani herdsmen dropping dead around neighbouring communities and their cows being acquired by the villagers.

3 months before I passed out from NYSC, a group of almost 50 herdsmen tried to raid a community called Ogbagbu late one night.

Not a single indigene was hurt due to the war voodoo they wore.

But every single Fulani herdsman lost his life and their bodies were burnt at the center of the 7 villages that make up Ogume.

Till this day, Fulani herdsmen have NOT stepped a foot in Ogume land.

Even in Utuwe, the last and remotest village of Ogume.

I mean in a community where even children are fortified and ready for war?

Ask around, Ogume may be an economically backward community today, notorious for bloody communal clashes and all that.

But as regards Fulani herdsmen invasion?

They have COMPLETELY conquered that.

No, Ogume indigenes do not have automatic rifles.

They don't have sophisticated weapons and fire power.

They just know how to use the native protection their ancestors gave to them to survive.

They avoid certain creatures like snail, sheep, dogs etc and are forbidden from eating, touching or consuming them.

But they are a truly fearless breed of humans.

Imagine if those communities in Benue state, Taraba, Kwara, Niger and Plateau state adopted this method of self defense years ago against these Fulani bandits.

Just pause and imagine.

But religious Christians will tag it Satanism.

And agree to be slaughtered in their worship places than to protect themselves and continue living.

Which leads me to wonder:

Do we really believe that it is the wish of God in heaven for anyone to be gruesomely murdered and cut off at their prime by a group of blood thirsty maniacs who believe that they have more rights to life than anyone else?

I'm not done.

I'll be back.

#ivaneagle
#ivanthemachine
#dryestmaneverliveth

Are you truly female? Don't think so.

lawani:
There is no big deal in giving them land for ranches. You can do it on partnership basis. You need a water source and sheds then vehicles for hay collection. It is said that 1000 heads will need vegetation from 1000 hectares

I will not support surrendering ownership of land to Fulani. I bet you know why. It might look good and peaceful initially, but in 30 to 40 years to come, by then they have gained ground, they will bring out their nature through Islam.

Blankstare:
You forgot to mention that the rookie kogi governor just crowned a fulani king some months ago, unknowingly setting a dangerous precedent for his people

If you go to those places, Benue/kogi, they and Fulani are equally yoked. But they will tell you these ones are peaceful and they have lived together for ages, which is true.

But things have changed. Those peaceful ones are now the ones showing the visiting blood thirsty ones the terrain. When they attack, they don't attack the Fulani settlements.

Ranching the cattles is one way forward. Every state should invest massively in it. But no Eastern state should sell any parcel of land to Fulani to establish anything. They can be employed as workers in the ranch, but they must not become owners.
Those guys are very ev*l. Give them a yard they take mile.

saddler:
One sure thing that is guaranteed right now is the continuous supply of half-cooked beans Nnamdi Kanu will be served in prison.

No matter how high the price of beans gets, he will definitely not feel it.


Next time he comes to life on earth, he will control his mouth

Weep for yourself and your generation. He is a freedom fighter. His fate was sealed the day he became a freedom fighter. Kill him and you Martyr him, jail him and he becomes the symbol of injustice. Heads or tails, you loose. You been already got tired of circulating Photoshoped picture claiming he was crying. LoL.

Igbos are not your problem.

Your problem is Fulani and you know it because you definitely think about the menace and what tomorrow holds for you in Nigeria.

It's in kogi, it's in Kwara and I can feel your trepidation of who next even from afar.

I will tell you who next for free.

Oyo is next.

Intrepid01:
I don’t agree with karma because innocent lives are involved.

The lesson is that all politicians are the same, they don’t care about the masses.

Jonathan and Peter Obi are two politicians I know can never use human lives to play politics.

Bukola94:
is it your boobies, some of us like falling boobies like that, we go still put mouth

Ride on bro 😃

Dancebreaker:
I sure say e don see am. May be all the plum postings have been allocated and his name nor dey.

Can't they give him even if it's ambassador to Togo or Niger? 😆

PROPHETmichael:
Having found out the hard way that his name was not on the list, he’d begun to stylishly attack the government.

Nna mehn, tinubu teeth no try for that picture 🤣

ceeceeuwa:
Who takes him serious? Tomorrow he will say the opposite. But why is he looking 'white' like he used pancake 😄

May be he has vitiligo. 😃

Amumaigwe:
He obviously did not make the list. Such a shameless, hungry emergency activist.

Amuma, hahaha 😃

Honestly, I didn't see your post before making mine. 😆

Dude didn't make the list. He'd have been taunting Igbos because of Kanu's ordeal by now.

gidgiddy:
I dont believe FFK wrote this, APC people only remember insecurity only if it happened in the South-East, so they can blame IPOB

I read somewhere that the much awaited ambassadorial list was transmitted to DSS. Maybe he didn't make the list afterall. 😆

This one has seen the ambassadorial list and his name is not in it. 🤣🤣

Two hunters carrying Dane guns? Such sight is enough to make security conscious persons take to their heels over there.

But how did police know they were hunters and carrying dane guns? Did they arrest or met the hunters waiting for them to arrive?

Hmmm..

nairalanda1:
Oga, all the other schools in Niger state have closed. This school refused to close. Na only them come?

Government is bad, my guy, but sometimes human beings are stubborn too and behave as if bad things can never happen to them

Even if the school tells tale that they 'did not hear'...the fact is they closed down and then opened again and did not tell government. That indicts them

Government lies, yes, but so do regular humans.

PLus even intelligence, how many police and soldiers can they send to the school. At most ten. You forget that these bandits operate by swarming a single school in high numbers sometimes reaching a hundred...what can ten men do?

We need to hear the school's side of the story. It's necessary. I do not for one believe any school would deliberately put their pupils in harms way so branzely.

They should include Reno omockeey too.

nairalanda1:
Even then, they were warned. They no hear at all.

How can we hear the school authority's side? Any clue? This is important before we judge.

These intelligence they are always getting, why can't they act on it rather than these reactionary measures? How long will you shut down schools?

Won't the bad guys reappear when they reopen even after a long closure?

2mch:
This is now a planned work. It’s obvious they kidnapped in Kebbi thinking they are Christians. Now they went to a school in the North that they are sure must have Christian’s or they think might all be Christian’s. They are in for another shock. Whoever is sponsoring this does not know or understand Nigeria. Agenda must agend.

Who also noticed a rapid increase after PDP convention? Na wa o. It’s Tinubu’s fault sha because by now all the sponsors houses should be getting raided and people should be arrested.

The sponsors are his men. He can't touch them.

Intrepid01:
With the wave of kidnap and killings going on, it is obvious the plan is to embarrass Tinubu’s government, same thing they did to Jonathan’s government. If Tinubu doesn’t stand up and fish out the Northern politicians and traditional rulers behind these, they’ll end up ruining his government, just as they ruined Jonathan’s government.

But tinubu was part and parcel of those that embarrassed Jonathan. Is this karma or what?

Felimax:
Awarawu dressing!
I cover my anus...
You cannot even dress like this and come close to me. The kind slap you go collect go reset your brain.

Just choose your fights wisely before you go slap who go send you to your ancestors. 😆

Guys, where are the tears?

How does been visibly angry equate to crying? The blogger even said he broke down! Hahahahaha 😃

You wish! But wishes are not horses, otherwise beggars would ride.

He was not even in the courtroom when his sentencing was being read! 🤣🤣🤣

You wished he wept, begged and grovelled but was disappointed. You are only left with click baits. 😅😅

Well, the click bait worked. Blogger must chop.

Rich4god:
You can call it unity begging, but just know that currently, no region in Nigeria, can single handedly defend Thier land against these bandits. So the earlier the three regions unite to save their land, the better for them.

It takes two to tango. You can only unite with who wants to unite with you right?

The ship already set sail!

Cherrybae:
I didn't post any screenshot. Actually Kanu somewhat cried.

But it is wrong to mock him. I can never mock him.

I pray President Tinubu grants him pardon.

Nobody is above mistake in life. If I were kanu I write the president apologising for my wrong doings.

Nothing more than taken responsibility and saying I am sorry.

Udo

What does "somewhat" mean?

Ire o!

Sure thing Op!

You spoke well.

kettykin:
If you are Igbo from South South or South East ,please be careful with the message. This will end up as igbos trying to fight the core North. Every zone should defend itself

The Op is probably high on something cheap with his unity begging.

Op, you are on your own with this personal opinion of yours.

Rich4god:
My brother... Our country is gone. The core north don't care about progress and development. All they care about is advancement of their religion. This is why somehow, they are in tacit support of bandits activity.

Because his moniker says ebuka, you think he's your brother? Peel back on his comments and see for yourself.

PROPHETmichael:
Nnamdi Kanu cried in court today, not from fear, but from watching a justice system act like a political thug in a wig. Those tears are not weakness, they’re evidence that the zoo is indeed a disgraced to the comity of nations.

He didn't cry. He was very upset. He wasn't even in the courtroom when his sentence was being read. Go and watch the video where the small goat lifted his screenshot from.

Cherrybae:
Did Nnamdi kanu cry ? If yes, what's wrong pushing the thread to the front page.

You deserve a permanent ban

No he didn't cry! He was only upset! Visibly upset! Go and watch the video where you lifted the screenshot from.

bluepreek:
. Lamidu cownu has been sentenced to life in prison,hope you've heard? . but Reno is a free man and doesn't have the tag of an international terrorist pinned on his neck

International terrorists? Yet Ipob speaks at the UN, US Congress?

How does been upset equate crying?

Hahahahaha 😃

You all wished he wept, begged and grovelled! 🤣🤣

malali:
See Revolution leader.......Day don break !!!

That's what I thought exactly. You just want to troll.

“Those killing Nigerians did not need to be instigated by Trump; they were already actively encouraged by a government that consistently fails to act decisively to stop the carnage, a government that is, even after nearly three years in office, still celebrating its electoral victory while the country is turned into a killing field.”