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Sharpbobo:
GIST FROM WAKABOBO.COM

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday knocked President Muhammadu Buhari for doing little to stop killings by herdsmen amid the general insecurity in the country.

Obasanjo, who paid a condolence visit to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State on Wednesday, said the magnitude of security challenge the country was experiencing under Buhari’s watch was on the high side when compared to what happened during his tenure.

However, Soyinka noted that killings by herdsmen had been persisting because the Federal Government under Buhari had been treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves.

Obasanjo challenged the federal and state governments to identify the root cause(s) of insecurity and deal with them so that people would get a reprieve from the incessant violence in the country.

Obasanjo admitted that although there were problems during his time in government, “but not in this magnitude.”

“Even in my time, we had problems but not in this magnitude; we thought we were dealing with them as of that time but the earlier we deal with it, the better. I believe we can find solutions, we must find solutions,” he emphasised.

The former President, however, expressed optimism that solutions could be found to address the challenges and extended his condolences to the bereaved families.

Obasanjo said, “I’m here (in Jos) to express my condolences; what happened is very sad that in this day and age, this type of barbaric act is taking place in our country. I have suggested and I will say it again that we should find out the root cause of this problem and deal with it.

“There must be the remote and immediate cause, if we deal with it; we are not going to be multiplying condolence visits. I believe that any human problem has human solutions, I do hope and plead with the government at the federal level, those of you in states and even local government level, to join hands even at the community level to find the causes and deal with them permanently. We offer our condolences to the bereaved families, all we can say is that God knows the best.”

In his response, Lalong appreciated Obasanjo for the visit, saying that a phone call would have been okay.

He said, “Insecurity is not new to me, we thought we could handle it. When we came in, we quickly put up a team including Berom and Fulani. They came out with a road map to proffer solutions, we adopted the recommendations and have implemented some and was in the process of implementing the remaining ones. We have done our best, we have learnt our lessons. We will be very firm.”

But Soyinka in a statement titled, “On Demand: A language of non-capitulation, non-appeasement,” urged President Buhari to make killer herdsmen pay for their crimes to send a strong warning that his administration would not tolerate forceful land seizure anywhere in Nigeria.

The Nobel laureate said Buhari’s claim that it was unjust for the public to accuse him of being silent on the killer herdsmen’s activities was based on their observation of his “erstwhile language of complacency and accommodativeness in the face of unmerited brutalisation.’’

He added that Buhari had yet to speak in the language that the “murdering herdsmen” understand by exhibiting that forceful seizure of land would not be tolerated in any part of a federation under his governance.

Soyinka said, “That the temporary acquisition of weapons of mass elimination by any bunch of psychopaths and anachronistic feudal mentality will not translate into subjugation of a people and a savaging of their communities.’’

The playwright noted that certain unconscionable events had taken place in the country which could not be ignored, adding that entire communities had been erased from the national landscape, thousands of family units in mourning and survivors scarred and traumatised beyond measure.

He stated that famine loomed in many areas, even in those lodged in acknowledged bread baskets of the nation, adding that “impunity, gleeful and prideful impunity substitutes for decent self-distancing from once unthinkable crimes – let us not even speak of expressions of remorse and human empathy. The instigators, increasingly fingered as directors of human carnage are strutting around, defiant, justifying the unspeakable, daring a nation…’’

Noting that land-grab must be reversed, Soyinka said the restored would still require to be defended and aggressors also served a lasting lesson both from the manifested responsibility of governance, and the resistant will of the people.

“Accounting for crimes is also part of that responsibility, and such criminality must not be seen to be rewarded through idealistic solutions that paper over crimes against humanity. For that is the present actuality. Crimes against our humanity have been committed, and restitution must be made. Nothing less will restore confidence in a government, and reassure the people of its integrity, its commitment to equity in internal relationships and the rightful custodianship of ancient resources,’’ Soyinka said.

The playwright said it was a time of far-reaching, yet immediate decisions, because the nation was dying.

According to him, the time for false pride is over and if the nation lacks the necessary technical resources, then there remains only one blameless, overdue recourse and it is for the President to ‘Get help.’

Soyinka, who bemoaned the recent attacks on Barkin Ladi council area in Plateau State, noted that five young men were recently sentenced to death by a high court in Zamfara State for allegedly killing a herdsman.

The playwright stated that though he was not condoning murder in any cause or by anyone, it was necessary to insist on transparent and impartial justice.

He said, “The agitating question then is this: since this rampage began, has even one herdsman been brought up before those same courts on a charge of murder, much less sentenced to death at such lightning speed? Shall we wake up and find that they have been hanged? Yet Zamfara has lost hundreds to the homicidal orgy of these same herdsmen. There is a skewed application of justicial proceedings here that baffles many, this writer among them.’’

He revealed that when he visited the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, some weeks ago, he bitterly lamented that security agencies had ordered his communities to surrender even the very machetes of routine use in farming.

Soyinka also said what he termed as ‘the Danjuma thesis’ that helpless Nigerians should defend themselves was neither new nor strange, but simply a restatement of the logicality of human response in the face of aggression.

He told the President that he strongly believed that the recent planned massacre had a numerical target which was the formal annunciation of a new law.

The playwright stated, “From now on, for every missing, maimed, even legally seized cow-perhaps for trespassing and damage-one human being shall die, and the commensurate land shall be forfeited. Make no mistake, that is the message! Berom or Ondo, Tiv or Efik. Egba or Igalla — it makes no difference — this is the language, and if your government does not understand it yet, we, whose field is language, both spoken and symbolic, must decode it for you.’’

Soyinka said he also learnt that a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, whose ordeal of being kidnapped by the “marauders was still fresh in the nation’s mind,” was still under siege by the same forces as neither he nor his workers could routinely attend to the farms.

“An aggressor who sniffs, however faintly, the permissive air of immunity, is near totally beyond recall. Only the stern language of reprimand, manifested in act, will deter him,’’ he stated.

He noted that the language of the leaders of Myetti Allah whom he described as ‘self-vaunting instigators’ in the nation’s herder colonisation was being promoted by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on behalf of the government.

Soyinka added that if an individual qualified to be the guinea-pig for testing the outrageous hate bill speech contemplated by the nation’s lawmakers, it was the ‘unedifying pronouncements of the Minister of Defence, who “continues to defend the indefensible through his arrogant, provocative dismissals of an agenda of ethnic cleansing, dehumanising the victims anew, and camouflaging the failure of the government by his gratuitous blame-passing.”

According to Soyinka, the language of the Dan-Ali is a language that is now being contradicted by the meaning of ‘land grabbing shall be reversed.’

https://wakabobo.com/buhari-treating-killer-herdsmen-with-kid-gloves-soyinka/

Sir, the only solution will be when all none Fulani's decides to be slaves to Fulani's and let them all the towns and villages of none Fulani's, that is when there will be solutions. But unfortunately, they will fail because none Fulani's are no visitors to Nigerian state.

SheikhMuniru:
NO DOUBT, HE'S A BAST@RD SON

Is only a youth that van say this, lets assume he a bastard as you want us to know, he will soar while you are here not knowing where you will hide when Fulani herdsmen struck. Group of unappreciative youth.

ChiefAzubuike:
So meeting Queen Elizabeth II is an achievement to be proud of? Two years ago I met the crown princess of Japan Masako Owada during my trip to Nagoya . We had dinner together. Its was no big deal to me because I've met with big public figures like her before.

To you, its no big deal and to him it is deal for him so let him be. If you cannot read through the lines what message he is passing with the Queen, his mother and where has reached today. Group of unappreciative youths.

hisexcellency34:
Senator Abubakar Sodangi, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has said he is confident that the South- East will region will vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Sodangi, a three-term senator who represented Nassarawa West from 1999 to 2011 in a chat with DAILY INDEPENDENT said though the region did not vote for Buhari in the 2015 presidential election, they will do so now because the president has done a lot for them in the last three years.

He also advised the South East to join APC which according to him is the winning team rather than remaining in the opposition.
“I believe the South- East will go with Buhari in 2019 because there have been lots of changes since 2015. Buhari has come to demonstrate that he is not the leader of the APC or only those who elected him, he is the president of the whole country even in the South East”.

“What matters to him is delivery of dividends of democracy and creating peace and tranquility. That is what he is advocating in all the lands, especially in the South East”.

“I want to believe that South East will join other regions that will go with President Buhari. It is always good to join the winning team than to be a loser and to be in the opposition” he said.


Read more https://independent.ng/igbos-will-declare-support-for-buhari-in-2019-senator-sodangi/

Senator Sodangi, are you seriously mocking the president or you are making a sincere statement?

Very sad, what a shame.

PVC, Mr Buhari has all the security operatives to man the polling booths for him.

jieta:
na every mata you go carry for head chibok oooo na oby ezekwesili Nigeria don tire for Good luck Jonathan na oby ezekwesili go start riot, buhari no dey rule well na oby ezekwesili go start riot madam na only you dey this country.

if you are that jobless, you can go into business too much of everything is bad

If you are not happy she is doing all, you can take over from her. We don't have the guts, yet we rubbish those that can. Ha, Nigerians, we are such a difficult people. We should learn to appreciate those that do what we cannot do. You must be a youth.

flames01:
Its possible that buhari has some hidden agenda on how to rig himself into office?

Yes, he has, Buratai, Idris, Boko haram. Fulani herdsmen, Navy, Air force all these are his hope to accomplish his agenda. The man is not concerned about anybody asides the fulani.

Islie:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-to-critics-you-can-t-accuse-me-of-stealing-257958.html

Yes, you don't care also that the government vacancies are only reserved for the northern Fulani's and the children of politicians pass or fail. You suffer the children to go for test to cover your ills while your children are waiting comfortably at home waiting to resume, pass or fail. May all the people punishing the children of the poor be disgraced openly in the international forum.

samwizzye:
devil too dey use dis police people o

They are the devils themselves.

Nigerian leaders are Vampire. May they all be put to disgrace in their last days.

xxolisexx:
this country has gone beyond d stage of no repair, so rather than complain, jst join nd eat d cake anytime d crumble falls off..

Are there crumbles anywhere? They ate and clean plate that is why the young man on his decides to disgrace them in his own little way.

okerekeikpo:
Misplaced priority, this shit doesn't work in Nigeria

What exactly works for your group, will not come out yet, people that do is pulled down. You must be a Youth.

pocohantas:
I noticed that, so shameful!
They chose shifting the blame to the locals.
They didn't even mention the people that died, but they were quick to tell us herdsmen were killed. Wicked souls!

Herdsmen were killed ke, na cows that were killed not human begins o.

[quote author=madridguy post=68816617/ Miyetti Allah and am sure he will provide his killer boys.[/quote]Which FG to arrest the Miyetti Allah when they are the government themselves? Mr Buhari is intentionally killing the none fulani so that they will surrender their towns and villages to them.

Aliance:
But for how long will this killings continue in Nigeria ....i think we have had enough of it ...let our government arise and do something....the innocent are the one dying everyday...God have mercy o

But which government are we talking about, is it same government that are openly and shamefully supporting them to kill? I guess Benue/Plateau will be wiped out because when you talk about military is B/P that owns military so they have to go way for the Fulani to takeover. To me, it is an intentional killings that is going on in Nigeria.

Bhelamblog:
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 48-year-old female lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, at Kirikiri prison for killing her 52-year-old husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, and also chopping off his penis.
Udeme, 47, was arraigned by the Lagos State Government on a two-count charge of murder and misconduct with regard to a corpse.

She however pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The Lagos State Prosecutor, Mr Sunmonu Babatunde, had told the court that the accused committed the alleged offences on May 3, at Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Lekki, Lagos.

He said that the accused stabbed her husband and mutilated his corpse by cutting his genitals.

The offences contravened Sections 165 (b) and 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Section 165 (b) provides five-year imprisonment while Section 223 is punishable by death.

Justice Adedayo Akintoye, however remanded the accused in prison and adjourned the case until Oct. 8 and 9 for hearing.

The accused first appeared before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in prison pending the Directorate of Public Prosecutions legal advice.

Symphorosa Otike- Odibi, the murdered lawyer, from Delta State, was the second person killed by a female lawyer.

The first lawyer to commit the crime was Mrs. Yewande Oyediran, working with the Oyo State Ministry of Justice.

Yewande stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyediran Ajanaku, 38, to death in their Akobo Estate home in Ibadan, Oyo State home on February 2, 2016, after she found out that he fathered a child through another woman.


Gossip From Ebiwali--
http://www.ebiwalisgossip.com/2018/06/female-lawyer-who-cut-her-husbands.html

May she never be released.

dre11:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-i-m-in-difficult-situation-over-appointments-257956.html

You cant be tired, ministries and Parastatals are only occupied by the northern Fulani's only. Mr Buhari, you know what you doing and refusing to employ those that did DPR test may God take His decisions on those that are sitting on the test result for employment., Amen

After you have stolen them dry, they are now weak party. Barawo

GREATESTPIANIST:
una like wahala, person no greet well, una go talk, person greet well, una go still talk!!!! HUMANS!!!!!!!! UNPLEASABLE CREATURES OF WAHALA.......LOL......


......good morning nairalanders....May this week yield greatness for us all....

Amen.

If this is true, the child died carelessly and Dibanji and his wife should be arrested for killing their child. Ayo nte ti gba a leleyi.

deomelo:
Den don begin shift goal post....

You people don't have educated people in iboland to stand behind and send to Aso Rock?

Shebi you people are the smartest, educated, the most superior and the richest?

Obviously, an educated northerner is more superior than you and the folks in the above picture...

They are all fools.

Useless old fools, with due respect to you fathers and mothers. You people mean, you are still not sure of yourselves after all these years. Greed is not allowing you to see the hand writing on the wall. Anyway, Umahi is a northern stooge who is ready to use his people as collateral for favours. Shameless leaders who cannot stand to defend their citizens.

Kophschmerzen:
Wow!!! The white privilege on overdrive. These lots are going so racist on immigration and coming to the western world. Yet a lot of Nigerians on this forum support Trump and Europe right wing parties, I just can't understand y'all. African government should also start denying western corporations coming to pillage African natural resources.

Africans cannot afford to reject them because they are the reason why we still exist. Look at the Mineral Resources in this country, they wait for the foreigners to come and harness while the educated flaunts expressive CVS yet, don't have the knowledge of what he is having in his CV. Even the quarter oyibo are called to the rescue, so, you see Nigeria cannot reject them visa.

Faad77:
fake news everywhere... everyone dat kill now is herdsmen

Just wait until it berths at your doorstep.

Hmm, Ukwuani bu ani eze?

Didn't they say this girl/lady was married?

Flirtyjane:
Some delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were involved in a ghastly motor accident while traveling to Abuja for the party's national convention on Saturday (tomorrow). The delegates were traveling from Taraba state before the accident occurred.

The number of casualties are yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report as the injured were rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, as part of measures to ensure a hitch-free convention, the Police said it has deployed 5000 personnel from various units and two helicopters to the venue of the All Progressives Congress (APC), convention.

In addition to the personnel, the police also said six Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) have been deployed to the venue of the convention which will hold on Saturday at the Eagle Square in Abuja.

The Police also said it would divert traffic from the venue from 10pm on Friday till the end of the convention.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/delegates-involved-in-ghastly-accident-on-their-way-for-apc-convention-in-abuja-photos.html

Deplored, for what exactly, are they going to war?

Yes, there are good and kind people, in my own case, i still ask God's grace to continually be with is young man. At ogidan bus stop on Lekki Epe expressway i stopped a keke napep going to Ilaje after Ajah and i told him i had 500# on me and he asked me to enter which i did. On getting to ilaje i gave him the money and what he said was shocking in this time and age, the fare was one hundred and fifty naira.
He said i should go and said i Don't know you and this is morning hour. This very young man insisted he wont take the money because he does not take fares from old people, why i asked him, he said just what he has decided to do for the old. I thanked him and said by HIS grace God will open doors of favours to him, which i know God would have done that for him in so many folds. Seeing the young man, he is well schooled but Nigeria with the wicked stealing leaders turned him to a keke napep rider. What a country where her young schooled children are not cared for by the government that should.

Olalan:
Thou am amazed at how fast the police have unmasked the killers, it's obvious the guy was a Yahoo boy.

They came out fast after SARS was accused of killing them. Is police to be trusted. I sincerely don't No.

Exwizard:
All I see is a pained relegated actress trying to be relevant again...... She's obviously throwing that at mercy

If you ask me, i think Ronke is very right. Don't be carried away by your wealth, hide yourself a bit, that is what Ronke is saying.