₦airaland Forum

Coronabirus:
NCS heads reach there by rank, Sunusi Lamido was appointed by Yaradua and sacked and replaced by Emifele.
If u think u can do something before July then let's see who will reap the wrath and consequences of his actions.

Aboki take pride and grow yourself, we can't continue to feed you forever, tides shall turn

tsdarkside:
nawa....you are far from redemption....go ahead....go piss people off and then cry to uno,au,ecowas,amnesia international....wait,wait....dont forget to complain to animal kingdom too....

You are confused... sorry.

tsdarkside:
wtf are you talkin about....??
you think only you christians are capable of that....??

they abhor modernity....??
what does that even mean....

who do you think brought modernity to europe while those whites were busy trying to find out how to clean their arse....??

Apperently you have twisted what you talking about...

North are like scavengers under this union, even though you don't contribute mineral resources which is God-given, at least contribute by innovation...mba, it's so so cycle of violence.

tsdarkside:
how is North parasitic....??

that is a very rude thing to say....

are all northerners politicians....??

Do you reside in Ghana?

What nature of question is this?

Which people abhor modernity?

Who made all the archaic law in constitution to be conservatives

Mikehot:
You may think calling them out doesn't work, but it could have been worse, the south could have been colonized if that Northern ruga idea went through.

They fear greatly anything that would threaten their freebies under one Nigeria.

North is currently self destructing with Boko Haram etc

The North Central is really enjoying their union.

Just keep calling them out, this country can't keep this up forever.

It is well, time will reveal many things

My grouse is they keep dragging southerners back their level

How is the North Central enjoying them?

Mikehot:
The solution to this country has always been restructuring, with restructuring we can unbundled the bottle neck of this country either for outright better governance or to soften the ground for disintegration.

In the meantime if we don't have the restructuring we should stop this appeasing of the north.

People should call them out when they are at fault south too.

The rigged system works best when there are useful southerners that are at their Beck and call ready to clap them on.

E.g muric by Ishaq Akintola, Femi Adesina etc

Okay I get you. But people have been calling them out even during the military era, along some southerners got tired and joined the moving train thereby accepting that the country is a Catholic marriage.


Mark me, northern legislators won't give in to restructuring, they won't. For a region that doesn't even have human resources, if it is to happen they will still bid for something new to favour themselves.... They have got the numbers.

An all out balkanisation won't work too, they are vampires with useful southern idiot at their beck.


It's a quagmire!

Mikehot:
lol, Southerner can't still try it, the system is rigged to favour north.

The moment a southern tries it that is when you would know the north is United in something, the NASS would threaten impeachment aided by useful Southerners.

There would be series of ungovernable practices by the northern elites unleashing it's almajiris and causing chaos everywhere

I can recognise this scenario having stayed in K.d. what do you think is the way out?

Coronabirus:
This bigotic old fool is at it again. When OBJ and GEJ were at the seat of power he never protested the extremely lopsided appointments of their governments but rather enjoyed the isolation of his Northern brethren because of religious bigotry.
I categorically challenge anybody who can prove to me beyond reasonable doubt that PMB isn't more fair than the previous Presidents of the last 21yrs. There was never any meaningful appointment of Northern extraction but below is the prove of PMB's full appointment designation from 2016 to date:

BUHARI APPOINTEES DESIGNATION-2016
1. Joseph Ari: Director-General, Industrial Training Fund
2. Isa Ibrahim: Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency
3. Simbi Wabote: Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Monitoring Board
4. Aboloma Anthony: Director-General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria
5. Mamman Amadu: Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement
6. Sharon Ikeazor: Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate
7. Teamwork – Emir Bamalli
8. Akodundo Gloria: as National Coordinator, New Partnership for Africa’s Development
9. Ahmed Bobboi: Executive Secretary, Petroleum Equalization Fund
10. Umana Umana: Managing Director, Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority
11. Sa’adiya Faruq: Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons
12. Usman Abubakar: Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation
13. Bello Gusau: Executive Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund
14. Yewande Sadiku: Executive Secretary, National Investment Promotion Commission.
BUHARI APPOINTEES DESIGNATION-2017
1. Julie Okah-Donli, Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
2. Mary Ikpere-Eta, Director-General, National Centre for Women Development.
3. Bayo Somefun, Managing Director, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund
4. Ahmed Dangiwa, Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank
5. Alex Okoh, Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprise.
6. Abdulkadir Umar, Executive Secretary, Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency
7. Ibrahim Goni, Conservator-General, National Park Service
8. Nnenna Akajemeli, National Coordinator, Service Compact, SERVICOM.
9. Mr. Adebiyi, Nasir Ladan is the Director-General, National Directorate of Employment
10. Saliu Alabi, Director-General, Michael Imodu National Institute for Labour Studies
11. PJef Barminas, Director-General, National Research Institute for Chemical Technology.
12. Haruna Yerima is the Director-General, Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic Research
13. Sunday Thomas, Deputy Commissioner, Nigeria Insurance Commission; Tunde Erukera, Executive Secretary, Consumer Protection Council
14. Bello Tukur, Secretary, Federal Character Commission.
15. Dikko Abdulrahman, Director-General, National Pension Commission
16. Umar Jibrin, Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority
17. Folashade Joseph, Managing Director, Nigeria Agriculture Insurance Corporation
18. Cecilia Gaya, Director-General, Administrative Staff College of Nigeria.
19. Luci Ajayi, Executive Secretary, Lagos International Trade Fair Management Board
20. Emmanuel Jimme, Managing Director, Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority
21. Lanre Gbajabiamila, Director-General, Nigeria Lottery Regulation Commission
22. Jalani Aliyu, Director-General, Nigeria Automotive Design and development Council.
BUHARI APPOINTEES DESIGNATION-2018
1. Okechukwu Ukwuoma Director-general, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM),
2. Abdul-Jalil Suleiman Director-general, Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA),
3. Mojoyi Oluwa Dekalu-Thomas Executive Director (Liability Management), Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMCO)
4. Chinedum Olisakwe-Lawrence-
Executive Director (Corporate Services),
5. Junaid Abdullahi Executive Secretary, Border Communities Development Agency (BDCA),
6. Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria,
7. Banire Muiz Adeyemi Chairman, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON),
8. Sule Yakubu Bassi Secretary, Nigerian Diaspora Commission,
9. Olufemi Ajayi Oladunni Director/CEO, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM),
Clement Onyeabo Nze Director- General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency,
10. Clement Isong Member, Board of the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA),
11. David Isho Nyikyaa Secretary, National Salaries, Income, Wages, Commission,
12. Obinna Francis Ogwuegbu Secretary, Special Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property,
13. Obadiah Simon Nkom Director-General/CEO, Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office
BUHARI APPOINTEES DESIGNATION-2019
. Nigerians Communications Commission (NCC)
(a) Prof. Adeolu Akande (South West) replaces Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye (South West) as Chairman, Board of Commissioners – subject to Senate confirmation
(b) Mr Uche Onwude (South East) replaces Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume (South East) as Non-Executive Commissioner – subject to Senate confirmation.
2. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
(a) Dr Abubakar Sa’id replaces Prof. Adeolu Akande as Board Chairman
(b) Dr Habibu Ahmed Imam (North West) replaces Dr Lawal Bello Moriki
(North West)
(c) Dr Mohammed Sa’idu Kumo as Board Member
3. The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST)
Dr Ismail Adebayo Adewusi (South West) replaces Barrister Bisi Adegbuyi
(South West) as Postmaster General/CEO
4. Galaxy Backbone Limited (GBB)
Professor Muhammed Bello Abubakar replaces Architect Yusuf Kazaure
5. The Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat)
(a) Architect Yusuf Kazaure replaces Chief Dr George Nnadubem Moghalu
as Board Chairman
(b) Dr Najeem Salam replaces Hon. Samson Osagie as Executive
Director, Marketing and Business Development
(c) Professor Abdu Ja’afaru Bambale replaces Kazeem Kolawole Raji as
Executive Director, Technical Services
(d) Hadi Mohammed replaces Mohammed Lema Abubakar as Executive
Director, Administration
BUHARI APPOINTEES DESIGNATION-2020
1. Mr. Buki Ponle was appointed Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria
2. Mr. Nura Sani Kangiwa was named the Director-General, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism.
3. Mr. Francis Ndubuisi Nwosu was appointed the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Press Council
4. Mr. Ebeten William Ivara, Director General, National Gallery of Arts
5. Mr. Olalekan Fadolapo, Registrar/CEO of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria
6. Prof. Sunday Enessi Ododo, General Manager/CEO, National Theatre.
7. Mr. Ado Mohammed Yahuza, Executive Secretary/CEO, National Institute for Cultural Orientation
8. Prof. Aba Isa Tijjani, Director General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments
9. Mrs. Oluwabunmi Ayobami Amao, Director General, Centre For Black And African Arts And Civilization.

Even on this your fake list, northerners superintend over the generating and juicy ones, and you left out the bigger ones to hide your hypocrisy. During GEJ era, NSA, customs, defence, navy, CBN, NPA with so many organisations still went to the north....talk more of other ones hibernating between the two regions. Just know that 2021 won't be easy for you guys if you continue failing the country on all fronts.... buhari should expect his biggest surprise before July... Nonsense

I don't remember any juicy agency, parastatal, military or judiciary arm been headed by a southerner...none .



















Last last Igbo and Yoruba must get sense by fire

Weed smoker

[quote author=Kriss216 post=97381815]I know a PhD holder riding Keke marwa for a living




This is not good, lord come down and help us

Ttalk:
Am surprised youve not come to accept reality that is hitting us as a nation.

When people are developing apps that covers a whole degree courses in accounting and simplifying it in such a way that primary school pupil can operate, what then do you expect.

The reality is that most courses we read in our university belong to the past when manpower is require in carrying out basic task, but all that are not require now and that is the reality.

It is better you accept this bitter pill before hunger becomes your companion

You captured it well..... There's a general need for a revolution in our educational sector, it's no longer functional.

This man has learned from the north, this is pure aboki style of sensationalism

cpu2006:
Gari don pass water for Ameachi. Technicality will go against him if this issue is not properly handle.
Infact, Buhari is trying by systematically distroying southern part of this country.

You got it. southern politicians are lackeys, the cost of their selfishness is what their succeeding generations is suffering from. After the suspension of oshiomole, I don't see why the acting national chairman shouldn't be a southerner pending the Congress that will produce a substantive one from the north against the general election of 2023.

'Nations can live with bad constitutions, so long as the leaders exercise restraint while governing with fairness and justice. This is why nobody raised those issues under Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. But we live in evil times'.
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I just scanned through and this place got my attention. Not a tribalist, but Buhari committed so many gaffes, sometimes wonder if it's the same man that was going about for a decade solicitising for votes.

*AN INDEBTH INTERVIEW ON THE RESULTS OF A STUDY IN ABU ZARIA ON BANDITRY IN THE NORTH. IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR THE ROOT CAUSES, PLS READ. QUITE INTETESTING.*

*The following piece is by Dr Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, the Director, Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, Zango Shanu, Zaria, whose centre carried out research on banditry, kidnapping and killings in Zamfara and Katsina states. He speaks on the findings of their research. Members of this platform should please take the time to go through it. It is very revealing, as it gives a real perspective to what is happening in the North Western part of the country, and the danger it poses for the country:*

Four years ago, you warned that unless urgent steps were taken to stop the crisis in Zamfara, the whole country could be consumed. With what is happening now, it seems you were prophetic. We are 20 years into democracy and Nigerians are wondering why insecurity has become such a big issue.

Four years ago when we first did our studies, it was farmer/herders conflict. What I am going to talk to you about is what is happening today in the North-West, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara, which is the epicentre of insecurity in the North. This conflict has been on for more than four years. It started as farmers/herders conflict but it degenerated into something else. Some years ago, there were armed robberies in the North-West. In the Zamfara area, some Fulani boys were alleged to be the major culprits.

In the areas we studied, there were so many ungoverned spaces: No electricity, telecommunication and local governments existed only in name. You could hardly see anybody when you go there. Over a long period of time, traditional leaders and Islamic teachers were the ones dealing with the crisis. There was no presence of the state. The roads were extremely bad and the people left to their fate. So when the armed robberies persisted, people took it upon themselves to bring about law and order, they formed vigilante groups.

The vigilante groups were quite often not trained. So they went beyond their limits whenever they went on operations. In the Dansadau area of Zamfara, they identified some boys, who also happened to be of Fulani stock. They attacked some of them and killed them. They were very brutal. They wanted to stamp out armed robbery in the area. They were the police, the prosecutor and judge. They did not stop in the towns and semi-urban centres. They pursued the Fulani deep into the forest and, in the process, killed so many innocent people. This was the immediate cause of the conflict.

*Ethnic coloration*

Four years ago, it had already started taking ethnic coloration because those who organised the killings happened to be Hausa and those who were killed were the Fulani. At this point, the Fulani pastoralists started asking, on what basis were they being attacked? They had nothing to do with armed robbery; they had nothing to do with the theft in the area. They were not in town. The story of killings of the Fulani repeated itself in all the areas we visited. When the attacks on the Fulani became generalised, some of them withdrew, went and reorganised and came back to those localities where they were attacked, identified those who organised the attacks and sought revenge.

At that time, it was not generalised. They targeted those who organised the killing of their kinsmen. Then it became a tit-for-tat. Those in the bush will organise attacks and there will be counter-attacks. It took ethnic dimension. The conflict started escalating. Those pastoralists who withdrew as a result of constant attacks on them organised and came back and they forced the neutral pastoralists, those who were not party to any of the conflicts, those who were not attacked or even if they were attacked remained neutral, to join them in what they called the emancipation of the Fulani by participating directly or contributing to the financing of the struggle. Those whose kids were of fighting age were forced to donate their kids or provide money.

At the height of the conflict, virtually all the rural rich suffered one form of attack or the other. We were not able to establish whether the attacks were carried out only by the Fulani. In all the areas we visited, there were no banks. People kept money at home. These bandits will break into a man’s house and insist that he gives them all his money. In some cases, they will rape his wife and daughters in his presence. It was a terrible situation.

*What was government’s reaction to the worsening security situation?*

The government in Zamfara was not serious about the challenge ab initio. From fighting rural banditry by the vigilantes to the retaliation by the Fulani, the challenge morphed into generalised rural banditry. At this stage, the farmers and pastoralists became victims of a superior force. The pastoralists lost their herds because some other forces had come in and subjugated both the pastoralists and farmers.

A third force then emerged which dispossessed the pastoralists of their cows, dispossessed the farmers of their savings which they kept at home and drove them away from their lands. In the areas we studied, virtually all the cattle had been rustled by bandits. From rustling the cattle, they moved to kidnapping. When the crisis degenerated between the bandits and the vigilante groups, it escalated.

In one town in Zamfara, the vigilante group there was meeting to discuss how they could deal with the rural banditry. The bandits heard about the meeting, they attacked the town on a market day and killed about 200 people. When we got to the town shortly after, it was like a ghost town. There were no human beings in sight. When these youths lost their cattle, they had nothing to do anymore. But, surprisingly, they started seeing some of their rustled cows with some of the rich people around the area and that is what triggered the kidnappings. They could not get to some of the rich people because they had their own security guards armed with AK 47 rifles or police protection. So what the criminals did was to also acquire AK 47 rifles as a balance of terror. I have not spoken about land.

*The crisis in Zamfara is multi-dimensional.*

Some years back, the Zamfara government, under Sani Yerima, decided to drive the Fulani out of their ancestral land to pave the way for big farmers. These were people who had lived there for over five hundred years. Overnight, they were pushed out and their land and the land given out to the rich and many of the Fulani had to relocate to other parts of Nigeria or other parts of Zamfara which, in turn, heightened conflict with farmers.

The Fulani were dispossessed, first of land and later of their cattle. Violence was used in both instances. Many of the boys operating around the Abuja-Kaduna highway are from Zamfara.

*What was government reaction to your study which was made public four years ago?*

We made it known four years ago that this thing will get out of control. We recommended that concerted efforts had to be made to stop the crisis. You cannot solve the problems in Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto without dealing with the situation in Zamfara.

*How can the situation in Zamfara be tackled?*

The Zamfara situation has gotten out of control. The security architecture we have in the country cannot deal with the crisis. It is going to be with us for some time to come. Take for instance the police. Let us say we have 370,000 policemen. How can they effectively cover the 774 local government areas and tackle the different security challenges in the country? We are certainly under-policed. The police cannot deal with the situation. They can only do their best but they cannot deal with the situation.

Everywhere you go in the country, there is one form of crisis or the another; so the police are overstretched. Same thing goes for the army. They have also been overstretched. We need to expand the armed forces and the police. The number and the capacity are simply not there now. There are other factors that we have to deal with. The North-West is the poorest part of the country. We have so many educated boys who are unemployed and many more uneducated who have lost everything including hope. We must tackle this issue of poverty and, unless we tackle it, the problem will keep escalating.

In Zamfara for instance, I read in the media that for 16 months, civil servants have not been paid, despite the Paris Club refund by the Federal Government. The only industry in Zamfara is politics and yet all that the people need in Zamfara is security for them to farm. They are not lazy. They produce large quantities of maize and other things. Many of them have been pushed out to other states. If you go to Abuja, Kaduna, Lagos and other cities, they are the ones hawking on the street or riding motorcycle (Okada). The governor of the state was never there. He was always in Abuja.

In Kaduna, the governor is doing very well providing leadership; in Katsina, the governor is doing very well. But no matter what Kaduna and Katsina do, we will not be able to solve this problem unless we deal with Zamfara which is the epicentre of the crisis. The governor is not serious about it.

So what started in Zamfara as a local problem has escalated to other parts of the country. Of course other bandits moved in because of the security vacuum in Zamfara. They started operating in Zamfara before spreading to Katsina and Kaduna. Initially, it was restricted to the Birnin Gwari area of the state but it has now expanded. Let us move very fast and contain the situation or it will spread further and when it spreads further, given the weakness in the security architecture of this country, we will not be able to deal with it for a very long time.

But the armed forces have been bombing areas they said are the stronghold of the bandits. When you bomb and leave, the bandits come back. You have to hold territory and the security forces don’t have enough capacity to hold territory. The bandits even boast that they see fighter jets coming and dodge, the jets bomb and leave and the bandits continue with their lives. I think the Federal Government is just reacting because there is public outcry against what is happening in Zamfara.

*Findings*

We have been working in those areas for more than four years and we have made our findings public but no government agency has ever asked us what we have found.

*As a political scientist, how do you describe the security situation in Nigeria 20 years after democracy?*

We have a structure which was doing very well in the past. But the complexity of global politics has complicated the situation in this country, so there is a need for a review of the structure that we have. Whatever is happening in Nigeria has effects on neighbouring countries, so we are not dealing with what is happening in Nigeria only. The country has expanded in terms of population. Remember we even reduced the size of the army at a point. The security services have been overwhelmed by the myriads of problems that we have in this country. As far as we are concerned, we need to introduce a new force. I don’t mean we should dismantle the security services. The police should be left to deal with the normal problems they have been dealing with. We need a superior force, a rapid force that is superior to the police, armed and rapid to deal with the kind of banditry that we are contending with. It’s a force which is superior to the police but inferior to the Nigerian Army. The army will now be left to do what it is supposed to do: protect the territorial integrity of the country.

Before the army is brought into any crisis situation, this second layer force would have dealt with the situation. They will just come in to finish whatever is left.

*Are you advocating the return of National Guard?*

It can be called whatever name but we need it. The security architecture needs some tinkering, so we need something like that. Look at what is happening in the country. The military is being destroyed. They are there at the roadblocks and exposed to the corruption associated with roadblocks. They are there doing what they are not supposed to do and yet their attention is needed in places like Borno and Yobe. I think the time has come that we expand the police, create another layer within the security architecture and retrain the police with new values to face the new challenges. Unless we do that, we will be overwhelmed by the new challenges.

The governors, with the exception of the governor of Zamfara, are doing their best. Most of the time, the governor of Zamfara is not there and you need somebody to be there to give leadership. There is complete leadership failure in Zamfara and that is why this crisis has continued in the state and has now consumed even states that are doing their best.

When we started our study, it was Sabuwa in Katsina that was affected; now Batsari, Safana and Kankara have all been affected. All the villages there have become bandit territories. The bandits have moved to the Kaduna-Abuja highway and Kaduna-Zaria highway is just a matter of time before the bandits move in.

Faskari in Katsina State which is not far from Shika in Zaria, all the villages there are now bandit territories. All the villagers have moved into towns around there. Many towns now exist in names because they have disappeared. People have moved. They have become ghost towns because of banditry. And because of the vacuum we have in Zamfara, many criminals have moved from other parts of Nigeria to that area. Something that started as a local dispute, improperly handled, has gotten out of control.

Politicians in Zamfara are all culpable. I was surprised when the Minister of Defence pointed accusing fingers at traditional rulers. During the course of our studies, the only people that were always there to console the victims of these bandits were the traditional rulers and mallams. They have become managers of misfortunes. Until this situation got out of control, Governor Yari was treating the bandits with kid gloves. He was even threatening government officials. They had overwhelmed the police and so government had to initiate dialogue. The deputy governor was asked to negotiate with the leader of the bandits. But the bandits’ leader kept the deputy governor waiting for hours and then sent a message that he was not ready to meet him.

Initially, the government of Zamfara was not ready to deal with the bandits the way they should be dealt with because they intended using them for political purposes. During election, parties that won in areas where the bandits were in control were parties that were in contact with the leaders of the bandits. The bandits would direct the villagers on what to do and they will obey because they are armed. The come to villages in about fifty to one hundred motorcycles. On each motorcycle, there will be three of them each armed with AK-47 rifle. They even attacked a town on a Sallah day.

*What is the implication of this on national food security?*

We did a study on the impact of this on the economy. People who used to produce two hundred bags of maize cannot produce anymore. They have been driven off the land. In one of the towns we visited, the bandits had written to the district head ordering him to tell his people not to go to farm. In one of the towns, fifteen people who defied the order were killed. For fear of their lives, many of these villagers fled to neighbouring towns. Same thing applied to the pastoralists. In that town I am talking about, the king of the Fulani lost one hundred and fifty cows. He was left with fifty sheep. One day he called me and told me that moments after I interviewed him, the bandits had taken the fifty sheep. He barely escaped with his life. There is a cattle market that used to sell five hundred cows a week. When we went, there was no single cow in that market.

*Abandoned*

The people feel abandoned. It was because of that same feeling of abandonment that they set up the vigilantes to defend themselves; went beyond their limits and the thing snowballed into what we have now. I know governors don’t control the police but it is a lie if the man (Zamfara Governor Abdul-aziz Yari Abubakar) says he has no influence over the police. But the man is not even there to have a proper appreciation of the crisis. When he leaves Zamfara, everything stops until he comes back.

*Given your vast knowledge about what is happening, what is your advice to the Federal Government?*

We asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Zamfara. There is no government in Zamfara. And the people are helpless. This study convinced me that Nigerians are patriots and patient. That is why our leaders are taking us for granted. In virtually all the places we went, there was absence of government in Zamfara. Bandits outnumber security agents in some areas. One of my informants in Safana told me that all the neighbouring villages had been taken over by bandits. He said in the whole of the local government, there were less than a hundred policemen. The bandits no longer hide. They come to the market. Sometimes they take your things and pay. Sometimes they don’t pay. Nobody can challenge them. We tend to observe things in isolation. We tend to see what is happening in Zamfara as a Zamfara issue. That is wrong. You may not care if you are living in Agenebode but your brother may be working in that town as a police officer or in another capacity. We were treating this conflict as a Zamfara conflict. Now it has engulfed Kaduna, it has engulfed Sokoto and Katsina. When they took over Kaduna road, it’s not only Kaduna people that are affected. Everybody on the road is a victim.

GofuckYourself:
This is the end

The end of the north is coming

Mark these words indeed

Northern theocracy is a civilization that started with Dan fodio, now it is eaten itself from within. As the saying goes ' civilization rises and fall' . Thank God the Yoruba are awake.

Nigger area...

Check the nearest calcare

All this things won't work.. no be Nigeria... This is just igg

Nice move

Guy look alike older garba shehu

Elbinawi:
Banditry:Failure of leadership at all levels in Northern Nigeria

Northern Nigeria is today gripping with not only the murderous BokoHaram insurgency that has crippled the North East but an equally murderous armed banditry that is destroying most of the North West. Armed criminal attacks, abduction, rape and ganged-raping of women and girls, and kidnappings for ransom payment is the order of the day in Northern Nigeria.

I will attribute this to the failure of leadership at all levels of Governance and structured societal levels. The political leadership have woefully failed over the years and this failure is worst with the clueless Buhari regime. The religious leadership has also failed as religious leaders in the region have become willing at a-price-tools of the extremely wicked and corrupt ruling elites of Northern Nigeria. And the Emirs and traditional leaders since the defunct British Empire destroyed the Othman caliphate that was established by the Revolutionary scholar, Sheikh Othman bin Fodio, have always been in the pockets of the ruling elites. The Nigerian ruling elites inherited them for the British Colonisers.

I will give an example of the leadership failure of the political class. A dubious character like the former Governor of Zamfara state, Abdul-Aziz Yari, has no business with leadership and Governance. Yari was a Quranic teacher of the children of Ahmad Sani Yarima when Yarima was working in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). When Yarima became Governor of Zamfara state, the political carrier of Yari began to rise. Yari that has no formal education became the secretary of the ruling party in the state. Then he became the state chairman of the party for the sole reason that Yarima trusted him. When the 8 years tenure of Yarima ended in 2007, Yarima sent Yari to the House of Representatives. Please, do not ask me how Yari obtained his primary and secondary certificates. This is the most easiest thing to obtain in Nigeria especially for corrupt politicians who have an unlimited supply of money. Yari crowned his fabricated credentials with some post graduate certificates. Yarima's Deputy inherited him as Governor of Zamfara state, Mamuda Shinkafi. Shinkafi did not open the state treasury wide enough for Yarima, so Yarima decided to replace him with Abdul-Aziz Yari after his first tenure. Yarima been the most powerful politician in Zamfara state successfully defeated Shinkafi in the 2011 election with Yari as front. Yari went on to become the most corrupt and useless Governor in the history of Northern Nigeria. And nobody gave the corrupt Islamic scholars donation like Yari. Yari recked Zamfara state with unprecedented looting of the state coffers and bad Governance. Due to our poor and ineffective corruption laws, Yari is walking free today.

Let's return to our topic. What started as the usual Herders Vs Farmers clash in Zamfara & Kastina states has now transformed into a collosal terrorist conglomerate that wanted to eclipse BokoHaram insurgency in the level of brutalities and killings. Initially, the Herders are from the Fulani tribe and the Farmers are Hausas but today the murderous armed bandits are a conglomerate of Hausa, Fulani and other tribes due to it lucrativity and source of fast Money.

We must not forget the input of the evil imperialists that are always greedy to loot the rich resources of other nations. Zamfara state is rich in gold and other mineral resources. The historical evil agenda to depopulate a region that will facilitate the looting of it rich resources is at play in Zamfara state. Foreign elements and their local agents are arming these murderous armed bandits.

On a final note, the entire security architecture of Nigeria is outdated and has collapsed with the present Massive and unprecedented insecurity in the Land. And sadly, today we have a president that is suffering from acute dementia, a leader that is incapacitated to govern.

Harun Elbinawi
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Elbinawi.

Restructuring will cure all these northern malaise, northern problem , peculiar northern solution.

Moferere:
Not only Katsina alone, Zamfara, Kaduna, Kogi and including my state Ondo state.

Planning to travel home next week for Xmas, I don't think I will drive home, I may have no option than to fly.

All the forests have been taken over by the Terrorists they call bandits.

To me, they are Bokoharam

Get armed bro... Get a gun, be a man

1966 coup

Pls send to garbage shehu on garbageman@gmail

The Alafin have spoken well, there was an agreement which must be respected. The heart and soul of APC was Lagos, buhari must warn Buni and malami to stop playing the cabal card.

This man nearly won the champions League that year...rest on sir

Designsking:
So much trouble for this administration

End result of hypocrisy, God almighty doesn't support hypocrisy even against the unbeliever. The administration blackmail GEJ government of all they can't tackle now. May the almighty give us the courage to always speak the truth whenever we are fighting our enemies or friends...Amen

psucc:
And nothing can be so stupid than such comments.

I keep saying the northern leaders knows better about Boko Haram, people fail to understand. Boko Haram was created as a version of the Militants in the Niger-Delta to help the North get their own share of the Amnesty. Unfortunately, since their religion is violence prone, they are unable to keep it from blood shed. Again, they see it as a way of furthering the spread of Islam as well as the Fulani hegemony.

The northern leaders are merely shedding crocodile tears. They know the truth. Until Buhari is ready, we'll continue to have his boys around.

Happy North! Happy Banditry!

You absolutely right. They also create it to keep Nigeria under their check incase there's a threat of breakup from other regions. The south west needs to wake up.

The northern fabrics is dislocated from the inside, the northern civilization that started with the jihad is decaying, alas all civilization rise and fail. Theres lack of Idea to navigate the north to another desired phase amongst her elite.