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Adapted from Dr Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:


As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving Minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States -- Muslim 1.1%

Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 3 %
Italy -- Muslim 2.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%

Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 4.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.


For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.
They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply.

This is occurring in:

France -- Muslim 8%

Philippines -- 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.

In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.
Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana -- Muslim 10%

India -- Muslim 19.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%

Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

Nigeria 50% Muslim

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania -- Muslim 70%

Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%

Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99..8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" -- the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%

Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.


It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law.

The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.

Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers.

I can't stop laughing at the regression in the pix. Ironically, it is progress to them.

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Juliusmalema:
A new militant group, ‘Biafran Motherland Warrior’, has emerged in the Imo state.


The group, which is said to be deadlier than the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), reportedly operates around Mbaise area.

A new video, which has gone viral, showed the group attacking security agents in Mbaise.

Our correspondent gathered that the people of the area had raised the alarm about the activities of the group.

Though not much is known about them, they are said to be targeting security agents.

The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Mike Abattam, was not available for comments as his phone rang unpicked.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-new-militant-group-emerges-in-south-east?fbclid=IwAR0QdZTZoB7Eh8zh1AbD5-cBB-s8jnPbUihuAuscrXG4E_MZ8-m7bWIk8B8

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All your aims have failed already. The recent narrative you guys are creating to justify the many armouries and armoured vehicles have been reported. They will be taken care of. Garbage Shehu doesn't know what he's getting himself into. Just watch and see.

If more than half of a country wants division, who is the other group to say no? This is the likely situation currently in Nigeria. The fulanis benefiting from the fraudulent constitution and skewed arrangements will never agree to any constitution that gives every region a fair stake. Therefore, it's a waste of time going through that route. Let all the South plus the middlebelt insist on the division of Nigeria and see how the invaders will go into overdrive. It will hasten the conclusion of this nightmare currently ravaging the land.
Afenifere as a group have been doing very well for long. They should be able to know that this evil regime will not review the constitution to balance things. It isn't feasible to them. They will prefer to remain in power as much as they want until they find a way to perfect their conquest. The time to halt everything is now and the simple way is for collective of all southerners including the middlebelt states to call for division and massive protests to be held in all the states involved on the same day. The compromised military architecture will be overwhelmed and the world will know that the request is real. Anything short of this will be us still handling this dire situation with kid gloves. How many more innocent people will die before we realize that satanic government wants every opposer dead for their own agenda? A stitch in time saves nine.

SlyDev:
Ipob secret agents are working over night to spread fake news.

Does that alien looking creature look like an IPOB member? Your tears just dey start. The terroristic activities of your brothers will find them out. Watch as it happens.

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ablejesus26:
Well I have always corrected him on the reality that Igbo bu ofu obara anytime, anyday.
I don't totally agree with his narratives but I don't go tribe tagging him for it.
There are Igbos who do not believe in secession,this is reality,he might be one of those. It's his opinion.
Btw don't take away the unnecessary insults, threats and curses ipob are known to dish out against any opposing voice �.

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Fulani terrorist thinking he's deceiving anyone. You're just deceiving yourself. You and juliusmalema are birds of a feather i.e. from the same nest.

rosinkkit:
If you weren't a thick headed dunce, you would know that this ''efulefu'' nonsense is a recipe for an INTOLERANT society where dissent is punished by ostracisation, ridicule, persecution, and worse.

Your new nation already has 'third word dictatorship banana republic hell hole' written all over it.

If your 'BIAFRA' will be a country where dissenters are called ''efulefu'', you're already going to be worse than South Sudan. Guaranteed.

How then is the bleak future you painted for Biafra a problem to you? You should be rejoicing alamajiri.

This is no news. I don't pity the foolish soldiers from the South who waste their lives going their to engage the terrorists. These same terrorists will soon be declared 'repented' and they would be forgiven whereas the soldiers who died or were maimed in the fight will be abandoned and their wives exploited. This is one Nigeria for you.
Carry on Boko haram.

mfm04622:
Read to understand, not to respond.
Bandits now have anti aircraft weapons they use to shoot at planes bombing them!
Do you now understand?

You should take your own advice. Since bandits can now shoot down planes (not fighter jets), why not move in with special squads aka commandoes and do the damage? Are their locations not known already or will the army claim to be powerless simply because the bandits now possess anti-aircraft guns? No sensible person will buy your excuses. The same army have rolled in over 40 armoured vehicles into the SE but nothing has been moved to Kaduna to use in engaging the so called bandits only excuses. Park one side Mr man. We know the game.

Revolva:
Most Ukwuani people I know don't identify themselves as core igbo...yes there may be called semi igbo...you wan tell me ukwani peeps I have as friend too plenty.. and they have mixed ancestry as well..



ONELGA is a mixed LGA ..are u dumb...of Egbema who are more of imo state origin igbo and Ogba Egema i don't know what they speak but its more like ukwuani syle , then Ndoni who are more of Ukwuani origin .

It may shock you that many of these peeps you are draggin to be igbo may not be truly igbo ancestrally just few of them are from igbo ancestry,.



I don't know , I only know Ogba people because i stay with them a bit and they don't even sound igbo like that but more of ukwuani



Anioma is seen as Igbo because its has Igbo roots , but it is not that fact that every one in Anioma is Igbo that why is ay its 90 percent igbo ...YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT ...




you are the one that is a hater, sense. less always here why should I hate anyone...am only correcting you guys and you see my correction as a sign of hate. if I hate igbo people than I wont be for them that are always around me and my family we all co exist.......shame on you

Speaking on the bolded, I repeat that your confusion cannot be cured. If Anioma is 90% Igbo and they have Igbo ancestry, 5% Igala, who makes up the rest 5%? Is there anything like half Igbo as your wrote over there?
Speaking of ancestry, are all current Igalas originally of Igala ancestry? Do you want me to dissect Igala and their diverse origin? I can do that very quickly. There's no tribe on earth that can claim all her people to be of 100% homogenous ancestry. It is always like that.
It's better you shut your mouth if you don't know about a thing than for you to be speaking trash.

Difrent:
Anybody that say government is pampering bandits should just go into the forests and pretend to be a bandit to enjoy the pampering...
All this talk of government not fighting bandits and terrorists is stale already and only fools still believe that.....bandits shoot at millitary aircrafts yet some idiots will still come and be saying bandits are pampered....do you pamper someone with fighter jets?

The bolded confirms the romance of the pilots with the bandits. If not, why would a pilot who claimed to have gone to engage/neutralize the bandits complain of being shot at? The complain proves that the pilots mission wasn't to shoot/bomb the bandits. It's very obvious now.
Ok let us assume the pilots was on a recon mission. Since the shooting has helped identify their hideout, why have we not heard that the bandits have been destroyed with all the weapons available to the army? It's almost two weeks since Nigeria's Pentagon was invaded and heads are yet to role. Do you think serious minds can't do the maths?
Let's continue the hide and seek game. It is you that will get tired.

Revolva:
I have been here bro ...OMoku this place light is 247 it does not go off because of the Agip lol company

But OMoku is a very violent except now it has reduced

You people are not that igbos ..I know there are igbos between you guys especially that egbema people I know they are close to imo , then ogba people are ukwuani and ndoni as well it's a mixed LGA



Mr man you sound funny ..don't you know that igbos are in delta and the part they occupy is anioma which is a collective description of ukwuani , Ebu , ika , Asaba ogwashuku speaking clan anioma is 90 percent Igbo and 5 percent ebu (igala) and other

At the bolded, if they are 'not that Igbo', what then are they?
For your last paragraph, if Anioma is 90% Igbo while Igala with only one community(Ebu) which they even share with Igbos are 5%, who then are the remaining 5%?
Is Ukwuani among the 90% Igbo that constitute Anioma? If so, why then do the Ndoni and Ogba who you claim are of Ukwuani stock not to be considered as Igbos in ONELGA? Do you see why I said you're confused.

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Revolva:
You think every body is Yoruba , you have to change your reasoning

Read my last message well I said onelga is a mixed LGA ..egbema side is more Igbo that ogba people who are of ukwuani stock ...that means ONelga is semi Igbo town ok that how to describe it

I don't know which side you are from , maybe the Igbo side but I will tell u more about your people history ok

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Confusion of the highest order. How is ONELGA a mixed LGA when Anioma inclusive of Ukwuani is also Igbo? Your confusion is in arithmetic progression.

Investorxxx:
We all know it is a slight mistake

God will continue to expose all of you for the whole world to see how evil you are. Every devices you cook against our people will continue to fail.

epondudu:
You are a M.U.MU infact a capital one.......no matter what this government do you will never see anything good in it because you are blinded by 8.

You are an italicized fool ever falling to lower depths. There's no single project or policy of the current has the interest of the general populace at heart. It is as clear as the noon day sun.

garfield1:
You have refused to touch the politics of settler/indigene in jos north

Here's an excerpt from another post related to this issue.

We all know how the first Jos riot in the early 21st century started. It was your people who wanted to lord it over the indigenes and they were reminded that they are actually settlers who should know their place. Prior to that time, there was no indigene/settler dichotomy. The records are there. Most of the other claims you wrote as aggression against Muslims that forced them into revenge attacks were actually preventive/defensive fighting themselves. Hardly do the indigenes invade full known muslim territories so how can such fights be termed an aggression? The 2010 Rukuba fight(Eid day fight) is almost the same as the recent Gada-Biu/Rukuba attacks. Both cases were cases of Hausa/fulani muslims leaving their territories to venture deep into Christian territories with the aim to wreak havoc trusting in the biased Nigerian army to save them. In both cases, they came with weapons but had their asses wooped. People who know those areas know very well that no muslim group have any business going into Rukuba area en mass. It's like seeing Christians en mass driving through Gangare or Angwan Rogo. That is pure suicide mission. One similar attack you didn't mention was the one that happened at Eto baba axis during the local election of 2003. The Hausa/fulani muslims moved en mass with arms into a Christian area located far away from any muslim area to wreak havoc after the election. Christians were taken unaware and soldiers never came to stop them like they speedily do come when such scenarios have Muslims suffering heavy loses. The area suffered marginal destruction with scores of Christians killed with churches and houses especially along the major road destroyed. This is where Christians learnt their lesson and vowed never to slack again. It's either you don't know this story or you deliberately skipped it or those who fed you the stories didn't tell you this one. One quick Google search will confirm my story. The point is that most of the first and aggressive attacks were started by your people. Why are Yoruba Muslims not being attacked in Jos?
The same thing you guys started in Jos is exactly what fulanis have attempted on the whole Nigeria. I do state that the Jos crises is a microcosm of the Nigerian problem to a degree of accuracy. You cry that they called you a settler in Plateau with claims that you your grand father's were born there. Some southerners have their grandfathers' born in Jos too. Prior to Tin mining in Jos, were your forefathers found in Jos? It was the mining in the Jos that brought different people to the city where everyone was accepted and accommodated. Hausas, other tribes of the middlebelt and southerners all came to Jos after the end of WW1. None of them should make spurious demands that will threaten the peace of the city. Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904 in Zungeru, Niger state. Should Igbos in Zungeru now claim to be called Zungerawa like your people want to be called Jasawa? Live your life simply and allow others to do theirs in peace if you want peace.
If truly you want peace, try to feel the pain of others then others can also feel yours. Don't invade people's ancestral lands in the middle of the night to slaughter them. Don't invade their farmlands to destroys their sweat without any iota of remorse. They will revenge when the opportunity present itself. No one has monopoly of violence.

The hungry OP is an agent sent specifically for doing this dirty job of tarnishing the image of ESN. Everyone can see that the burial poster is dated back in July but they are claiming it happened today. One can clearly see that it's just a ploy to justify the carnage they want to start in the SE. The numerous armoured vehicles they brought to the region is about to be put to use but they will all fail.

udele1:
When you threatened,destroyed property and killed igbos for not obeying your order. How do you expect a genuine result? You will threaten to kill anyone that votes to stay.

The true referendum would have been to declare sit at home and make it optional.

Then you will see how many people will come out and compare it with those sitting at home.

But you used violence to force people to sit at home and claim it is complaince. For the fact that you used force shows you are minority.

You have no case vulture. A UN organized referendum has always been the mode of determining the wishes of a nation and not a sit at home. That of Biafrans won't be different. Your jaundiced opinions have always been expected though and we are ever ready to quash them.

udele1:
Evidence of confusion

Symptoms of delusion.

udele1:
For once i agree with buhari

They are opposite of everything they claim to be. They claim to be fighting for freedom but they force Igbo's to sit at home against their will .

They claim to be defending igboland, but since they launched ESN over 400 Igbo's have died. No single fulani casualty.

They claim to be christians but use igbo girls to prepare charms for protection.

Let's invite the UN for a referendum simple. If majority of the people vote to remain second class citizens in the Nigeria then the fulani controlled government's claim would be correct and IPOB should be scrapped but if our people vote overwhelming for Biafra, then IPOB should be celebrated.

gidgiddy:
From 2015 to 2020 when IPOB had no arms and killed nobody, the security forces shot snd killed hundreds, if not thousands of unarmed IPOB, tortured many, dehumanised them and clamped them in detention, just for exercising their constitutional right to freely protest

That one you will never hear Garba Shehu address. That injustice is something the hypocrites who call themselves IPOB critics will never address

But as soon as ESN was formed this year 2021, thats when it became convenient for fools like Garba Shehu to blame IPOB for every crime committed in the East, even without any investigation, and call them terrorists

Garba Shehu is not fooling anyone but himself

We have the videos of everything that has been done our people which the international community are aware of. This is a case the terrorist government can never win. They were shooting straight at armless protesters and treating those they didn't kill worse than animals at that time. Now they can see that those they treated with much disdain and as worthless trash are nothing of such. There own children will grow fatherless due to the foolishness of their fathers who chose to be fulani willing tools of oppression.

udele1:
Who are the saboteurs now?

The people who sit at home despite the suspension or those who go about their business in obedience of the suspension order?

People like you are the saboteurs.

psucc:
Which satellite did you use. The Nigeria satellites ran out of oil and is operating at the mercy of God according to the Agency.

They sent 100 gallons of groundout oil to space lastweek to revive the dying satellite. That is where the OP got his information from.

uba1991:
withdrawing the insult will have made you more sensible. I wish you what you wish yourself.

Thanks for the bolded. You're a rare terrorist I admit but your smokescreen is only for the amateurs. You guys have lost already. Keep it to heart as the time rolls slowly.

uba1991:
did the fg tell you that they are using the nlng as a bargaining chip? Why are people with a head that flat normally don't have brain?

Fools like you think we can't see your steps and their intentions? Let it sink into your terrorist head that we can see your steps clearly. Soon those who disagree with my position will come to agree with me as always. We know your aims even if you're hiding inside an 'ahua'.

buckeyemedia:
Shut up Useless Wailer, Ebele Jonathan was there for 6 years, why didn’t he relocate NLNG? Zombie.

I will always burst all your schemes and I love swimming so cry me a river.
Jonathan was playing politics instead of leading like a leader. The dirty politics of Nigeria doesn't need a lily-livered politician who thinks he has to pander to the expectations of some sahelians to win second term. Jonathan's case should be a huge lesson to all politicians from the South and Middlebelt. A bird at hand is worth a million in the bush. This is why Trump will always be remembered. Just one tenure but his achievements were felt and are still being felt. He never gave a damn and went on his goal straight on.
We expect more of such repositioning of things to cause rifts among southerners on the one hand and on the other used as a bargaining chip. We know your games. Southerners will sort out themselves knowing your tricks and still pull the rug off your feet.
Cry cry alamajiri.

Ibkhaleel:
Jos: No Peace Without Justice.

The way things are happening at almost the speed of light in Nigeria is alarming. Most of them trace their roots to injustice and the inability of our leaders to address it. Once you hear of something, before you chew it over, swallow and digest it, another thing comes up. Nothing gets settled, and in more cases than one, settled matters do not get foreclosed through due process, but by our collective amnesia. Circumstances have made us deliberately amnesic.
Why will you not choose to forget what you have no power over? Why should you keep in mind what you know the authorities will not see-through? If it were the authorities alone, perhaps you would keep reminding them of their duties, but even those affected forget. Perhaps to mitigate the pains, Nigerians have learnt to let go.
But are the pains mitigated? Are they banished? No. Only justice can mitigate pain. Therefore, the silence of a man denied justice should not be misconstrued as forgetfulness, let alone forgiveness. Such a man will just lie low, deceiving all that he has forgotten. But any slight opportunity for revenge he sees, he seizes. This is the nature of man. Well, most men.

The revenge, not done legally, even if justifiably, breeds another desire for revenge from the other party. It continues ad infinitum as long as authorities have not waded in and dispensed justice. One sure action some people take when authorities show reluctance to protect them from their assailants, or to punish the culprit, is for the victims to seek revenge.
Do we read a pattern in which, for instance, Boko Haram insurgents who have taken arms against the state, killed and maimed innocents in tens of thousands, displaced people in millions and destroyed private and public property, are being “forgiven” and resettled in towns? Their children from illegitimate consummations will be freely educated while other children whose schools they had burnt are in IDP camps with their parents. They are being “resettled” with vocations while they have destroyed those of others. They will get houses after they have burnt those of others. And they are getting a new lease on life while they have snuffed that of others. All courtesy of the government that should prosecute them if not for their crimes against humanity, to set an example for potential brigands. Yet we want peace in our country!
This is how non-state actors seize opportunities to manipulate disgruntled people.

Plateau State is a case in point. There was a time the state prided itself as The Home of Peace and Tourism. No more. I doubt if there is anyone who will pick offence if it is now called The Home of Strife and Terrorism.
The state has been in turmoil since the current political dispensation. Perhaps human greed is at the root of the evil that seems to have settled in that temperate location in a tropical country. Distribution of scarce resources through our representative politics of winner-takes-all is also not helping matters.
This brought to the fore new political terminologies, “indigenes” and “non-indigenes”. Suddenly, people who have been living in a place since their great grandfathers’ time were designated “settlers” and thus cannot aspire to offices or secure some basic rights. This has been causing a lot of communal conflicts that have affected not only residents but innocent passersby. From 2001, when the first major riot communal clash occurred after over thirty years, to date, thousands have lost their lives.
In 2010, Dogo Na Hauwa, an economically bubbling Hausa settlement, was attacked and people killed in their hundreds. The assailants threw many dead bodies into wells that became their graves. Riyom and Barikin Ladi also witnessed deadly attacks on Hausa settlers. These also became causes for revenge as those aggrieved carried out reprisal attacks. Thus, a cycle of revenge ensued. This war of attrition was to even cause the death of a senator. In the long run, the communities, who couldn’t sleep having murdered it, embraced peace and started sleeping with both eyes closed.
We should also not forget that the Eid-ul-Fitr day of 2011 was also one of the saddest in the history of violence in Plateau State. Ramadan Sallah day fell on Monday 29 September. Assailants attacked the Muslim faithful on the prayer grounds in the Rukuba area. They killed many, their bodies desecrated, with some assailants roasting and eating some of their body parts.

Most of these crimes were video graphed, yet no one was punished accordingly. The same fate was meted out on Major General Idris Alkali exactly three years ago at Dura-Du District, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. He too was cannibalised. Those who committed that atrocity are free on bail.
To quote a social media commentator, “And with each new round of violence comes another round of a flagrant display of lack of political will to punish, which gives birth to a mutated and a more deadly generation of murderers who are wired to believe ethnic cleansing is an easy tool for resolving knotty social conflicts with a little societal irritation as a side effect, instead of the repulsive anathema it is to the rest of the saner world.”
While those were with the Birom, we are now witnessing another round between the Fulani and Irigwe. Just last week, Yelwan Shangwam was raided, apparently in a reprisal attack. We can say this started from when Muslim travellers from Bauchi were lynched a few weeks ago. No arrest was made and, perhaps, people believed that, as usual, the authorities will just sweep the hideous crime under the carpet.
And so the fight of attrition will continue in a seesaw-like manner between Muslims and Christians, as long as those concerned continue to treat the unfortunate situation with levity, punishing no aggressor.
The government must wake up and start dispensing justice in a timely fashion if our descent into bestiality must be halted and reversed. For how long will we remain watching people being killed for no other reason than that they belong to another tribe or religion? Why should we accept a situation where people will take the law into their hands and avenge themselves on one who was not a perpetrator but was unluckily passing by at the wrong time?
But it may constrain one to ask: are our leaders ready to dispense justice? Do they feel for the downtrodden? Do our elite, who are influencers in the corridors of power, love our nation?
Someone somewhere said, “It’s something to fear speaking because you could say something wrong, but it is agonising to self-censor because you fear you might say something right that is not allowed.”
We need to ask questions and we need to talk. If not for our sake, for our nation and the future of those we brought to this world.
Take the case of the Salihu Tanko Islamiya school pupils kidnapped in Tegina, 91 of whom they released last week. These pupils, aged four, five and above, spent three months in the kidnappers’ den. Six of them have already died, while some parents have also died of a heart attack.
There are also the Federal College of Forestry, Kaduna, students still in the custody of their abductors. We also have the yet to be released girls from Federal Girls College Yauri.
With the Islamiya pupils, their abductors asked for N100 million, which was negotiated down to about N70 million. The parents sold what valuables they could sell while the school’s proprietor sold off half of the Islamiya to raise funds for the ransom. The Forestry College students, too, are held captive pending the payment of ransom. Recently, some heart-wrenching video clips of the abductors torturing the students went viral. Some were being slashed with knives and others were beaten with horsewhips! Typical of us, we feign forgetfulness! Understandably, what can we do if those concerned are more engrossed in what soothes their fancies?
What soothes the fancies of our leaders is what massages their big egos. Recently, the son of our president got married and all the elite were falling over themselves to outdo one another in spending for the couple. The money spent was enough to bring out all those kidnapped in Nigeria.
Agreed, we should not pay kidnappers because it strengthens them and emboldens others to take to that ignominious trade, but the money is enough to train a vigilante army that can confront them as well as buy the gadgets to track them.
The money is also enough to take off the streets and into schools potential kidnappers and insurgents. All those out-of-school kids are the recruitment base for all criminals.
This behaviour of our elites makes one question their love for the country. Do they love the country, one may ask. But perhaps they will continue in their ways as long as those they are doing such “eye services” for do not frown at such misplaced priorities. Leaders must always be circumspect. A leader must reason where those outdoing themselves for him now were before he became the leader, or whether they will be there after he leaves office.
Where were they when, in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari had to take a bank loan to buy his presidential nomination form of less than N30 million? Where were they when the poor folks who believed in the messianic attributes of the president – but now at the receiving end of insecurity – were buying airtime to raise funds for the president’s campaign? Why should they be merry when many parents are in mournful moods over their kidnapped children, or when schools are forced to close?
It is daily becoming clear that our elites pour their money on what ultimately may not be in the interest of the people.

Your long epistle is quite insightful will lots of reasoning poured into it except for the selective truth sandwiched therein. By your post, one can deduce that you have seen how violence can be deadly to all and why justice must be upheld by all if the society must witness lasting peace. If I were to take you up on this justice as it pertains to Jos, you will become defensive and so justice won't be sacrosanct for you in that regard.
We all know how the first Jos riot in the early 21st century started. It was your people who wanted to lord it over the indigenes and they were reminded that they are actually settlers who should know their place. Prior to that time, there was no indigene/settler dichotomy. The records are there. Most of the other claims you wrote as aggression against Muslims that forced them into revenge attacks were actually preventive/defensive fighting themselves. Hardly do the indigenes invade full known muslim territories so how can such fights be termed an aggression? The 2010 Rukuba fight(Eid day fight) is almost the same as the recent Gada-Biu/Rukuba attacks. Both cases were cases of Hausa/fulani muslims leaving their territories to venture deep into Christian territories with the aim to wreak havoc trusting in the biased Nigerian army to save them. In both cases, they came with weapons but had their asses wooped. People who know those areas know very well that no muslim group have any business going into Rukuba area en mass. It's like seeing Christians en mass driving through Gangare or Angwan Rogo. That is pure suicide mission. One similar attack you didn't mention was the one that happened at Eto baba axis during the local election of 2003. The Hausa/fulani muslims moved en mass with arms into a Christian area located far away from any muslim area to wreak havoc after the election. Christians were taken unaware and soldiers never came to stop them like they speedily do come when such scenarios have Muslims suffering heavy loses. The area suffered marginal destruction with scores of Christians killed with churches and houses especially along the major road destroyed. This is where Christians learnt their lesson and vowed never to slack again. It's either you don't know this story or you deliberately skipped it or those who fed you the stories didn't tell you this one. One quick Google search will confirm my story. The point is that most of the first and aggressive attacks were started by your people. Why are Yoruba Muslims not being attacked in Jos?
The same thing you guys started in Jos is exactly what fulanis have attempted on the whole Nigeria. I do state that the Jos crises is a microcosm of the Nigerian problem to a degree of accuracy. You cry that they called you a settler in Plateau with claims that you your grand father's were born there. Some southerners have their grandfathers' born in Jos too. Prior to Tin mining in Jos, were your forefathers found in Jos? It was the mining in the Jos that brought different people to the city where everyone was accepted and accommodated. Hausas, other tribes of the middlebelt and southerners all came to Jos after the end of WW1. None of them should make spurious demands that will threaten the peace of the city. Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904 in Zungeru, Niger state. Should Igbos in Zungeru now claim to be called Zungerawa like your people want to be called Jasawa? Live your life simply and allow others to do theirs in peace if you want peace.
If truly you want peace, try to feel the pain of others then others can also feel yours. Don't invade people's ancestral lands in the middle of the night to slaughter them. Don't invade their farmlands to destroys their sweat without any iota of remorse. They will revenge when the opportunity present itself. No one has monopoly of violence.

It is a well crafted scheme meant for the purpose of eliminating capable pilots so they can have exclusive use of the newly acquired Tucano jets. We know their plans.
What do you have to say biodun556? You seem to be more focussed on the hardware acquired for use against your mortal enemies but silent on the death of your pilots. Is it that your prized pilots have not be touched yet?

Primitive pastorialist thinking they can play with people's heads. After denying you of your right for a long time, they strategically return the right while selling it to you as a favour. Slow minded people will swallow the trick and concede other areas that would be used against them again in the future. Smart ones see the bigger picture and recognise the thief for who he is.
NLNG headquarter should rightly be situated in the region where the bulk of the mining is happening. It is not a favour that should be used as a bargaining chip. If allowed to be used as a tool of bargain, you will be required to concede something critical to your survival in the nearest future. That is how the game works. Stay vigilant and remain on course.

JPhilip:
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is on top of events and is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest in Plateau.

The president gave the assurance in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja.

Buhari, however, maintained that to achieve success, communities must unite against these horrific attacks, saying retributive violence was not the answer.

He challenged religious, traditional and other community leaders on the need to preach peace and not to allow the use of their spaces for the propagation of violence and incitement to violence.

According to him, the troubled communities on the Plateau are being reinforced with security personnel to protect lives and property in the state.

The president said, “Attempts to simplify the reasons into a basic narrative may help raise donor-dollars for international NGOs, fill pages of overseas newspapers and burnish foreign politicians’ faith credentials; but this does not increase understanding, nor offer solutions.

“If anything, simplistic theorising and finger-pointing make the situation worse.

“It is important both for Nigerians and the international community to appreciate that there are a multitude of factors attendant to these troubles.”

According to Buhari, there is the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorism, as well as the spate of kidnappings for ransom, transformed by some misinformed global media into a Muslim-on-Christian threat.

“Yet, in reality there are no religious connotations at all when the primary purpose of these acts is to extract money.

“Then the herder-farmer clashes. While international voices and some Nigerian politicians who seek personal gains from division declare this a matter of religion, for those involved, it is almost entirely a matter of access to water and land.

“Herders have moved their cattle into contact with farmers for millennia.

“But increasingly, due to population pressure, escalating aridity of northern states and climate change, they are forced to travel further south to find grazing lands,” he said.

On the activities of IPOB, the president said: “Then, further afield in the South-East, IPOB are not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism in order to steal money.

“IPOB is not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim, when almost every citizen of those states they terrorize is uniformly Christian.

“Yet mistakenly and because the lobbyists for IPOB have duped them, some misguided foreign media and politicians believe so.

“As for Nigerians, what we need is to come together. And we must do this firstly and for the most part by our own hands, by casting asunder those who seek to divide us for their own nefarious financial and political gain.”

Read more...[b]https://www.herald.ng/buhari-vows-to-crush-perpetrators-of-unrest-in-plateau

May the fingers of the writer of these falsehood shrivel. May his/her hand swell x3 it's original size and may the pain be unbearable until he/she publicly withdraws the lies (in bold) against IPOB. IPOB have always called for a UN organized referendum. There shall never be peace for the wicked.
May every plan of the terrorist government against the peaceful people of Plateau and other states defending their ancestral lands from fulani invaders always fail. May all the elements work against them. May confusion engulf their camp and may they turn their weapons against themselves. Amen.

I just love the internet. The records are open for all to see. Before you wish others bad today, think of tomorrow.

Olatomiwami:
U are the one that should borrow yourself sense by stop exposing your ESN with your useless hyping,let your actions remain coded,all your above epistles has nothing to do with my comment.

We don't need your advice. It's best you remain silent in ESN's issue like you've been silent in all fulani killings all over Nigeria.