₦airaland Forum

BaaleOko:
Una dey try too hard to match the legendary Yoruba Muslim tag, but it sounds so forced and off, no matter as una try reach, nothing will beat the yoruba muslim brand

I told one Yoruba mooslim so few days ago..lol

Simplyleo:
Laff want comot my teeth oooo.

You have always had gum infection since you were kid and so never had a healthy dentition. Happy sallah liondeleo

KahlDrogo:
There are more muslim ibos especially Shiites, than catholic ibos. Anglican ibos is the least. That is why you see most of them on the forum hate obiano with passion.

Even buhari smart pass you. Happy sallah

KahlDrogo:
I think it is because they are close relatives of Shiites. It was really amazing seeing how they demonstrated and protested for zakzaky in Abuja. I think it was their protest that made Buhari release sheikh zakzaky.

Ibo amaka.

Your mumu na follow come. Happy sallah.

mansakhalifa:
Honestly, this is disgusting. I lost my appetite after reading this.

My body just became week when I read the second police press release. This issue is obnoxious, very distasteful! But it's even worse to know that nothing will happen.

Pacesetter123:
U said what? We need to start doing de right thing? Where? In dis our kon3?
U just read how de policemen who were trying to do de same right thing you r talking abt were gruesomely murdered in cold blood......and now nothing is happening n nothing will still happen at de end of de so called investigation.
U want oda people to do de right thing n died prematurely? My dr, doing de right thing no be for we kon3 here...oo!

Me singing...shey na like dis we go dey dey

alphaNomega:
You are seriously taking the police word for it. I think they should take the matter to court and stop clogging our cyberspace. We look forward to the judgement on newspaper.

That was from the newspaper investigation. The two agencies have responded and we have read both responses. Why should I believe the army instead especially when they didn't respond to the salient points raised like where is the victim they rescued. Of course nothing will come out of the committee investigation

TSRC:
Where is the president?

He is fiddling while Nigeria burns.

ariesbull:
Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group

No source. This is fake

Hotworta1:
Sweetie, i read that part and i just rolled my blunt.


Bullshit of a country.

I need some of that if it's a good strain mahn...

A private citizen paying ransome on behalf of a government employee kidnapped in the line of duty is just too much to bear.

The released kidnap suspect was said to have paid ransome of 1.5m to free a kidnapped soldier once. Is anybody still in doubt of the Army's complicity in this?

sinkhole:
Hmmm, Buhari was a soldier, so he will defend his constituency (that is how it is done in Nigeria!), IGP is a puppet of Buhari therefore he, IGP will most likely betray his police boys just to protect his own job! The end result, "nothing go happen"

Obama once said what Nigeria needed to survive was strong institutions and not strong men. Here we only create strong men rather than strong institutions

Born2Breed:
No matter how bad most police personnel are and no matter how heartless most could be....they are still Nigerian's and they were murdered in cold blood.

This is very wrong,head must role to teach those murderers in military uniform a lesson.

Sadly nothing would happen. It's a shame really.

sinkhole:
Soldiers killing Police is like Fulani Herdsmen killing Boko-Haram , you simply will not know whether to be happy or sad

True, it's no love lost between the security agents and the people, but Mehn, Africa needs to wake up and stop behaving like barbarians.

If only this was a sane country, even a simple mistake of killing a robber who was not armed in a hot chase would earn the officer jail time not to talk of this kind of impunity. We need to start doing the right things.

KanuSE:
Don't you notice that our everyday undercover policemen don't look any different from kidnappers.

The Police commission need to look into the nitty gritty of their modus operandi & improve on some stuff.

Undercover police prostitutes look like prostitutes, that's why it's called Undercover. Where is the freed alledged kidnap victim?

Ray97:
Lol. I doupt dat. Heard the killed wer abba kyari's finest men.

You doubt that right? We are watching.

Ray97:
swept under the carpet how.

Swept under because the committee will never make plain it's findings. This is the last we will hear of it. Na padipadi government we dey.

Ikpeazukerosene:
Don't mind the guy. He's talking without knowledge of the facts.

The painful part is that I've met some these IRT guys before in Lagos and that particular bus was what they used. It pains me personally.

That guy is obviously trolling. He knows what he's doing

GeoAfrikana:
So what else should they form?

Your life would be a lot better if you avoid negativity.

Excuse me jareh! Which kind Yeye negativity are you talking about? Where is the rescued "kidnapped" victim? Hiss

Ray97:
Uuugh whats this one saying.

Uuugh? The police official reaction said it has a video gone viral now where one of the soldiers was heard saying they were policeman, yet the others still opened fire.

Have you read the Army's response? Did it even address any of the salient issues raised by the police?

Yet you are gleefully twisting the narrative and telling us to wait for the outcome of a matter that has already been swept under the carpet.

Ray97:
they didnt surrender either. Dont get me wrong am not supporting the army. Am just saying the police officers death was avoidable.

You tried changing the narrative to decieve gullible zombies until you were bursted. Yet you won't stop.

Ikpeazukerosene:
If the police opened fire, how come none of the soldiers was injured or shot?

How come the arrested kidnapper wasn't shot during the exchange of gunfire?

We have seen when soldiers rescue kidnap victims, they are usually taken to the nearest army formation. Where was the kidnapper taken to?

The arrested kidnapper was handcuffed, where did the soldiers get the key to uncuff him?

Calm down Baba, nothing dey happen. This information is the last we will hear about this case.

FarahAideed:
The kidnapping are used to fund Fulanis expansionism and they are protected by rogue fulani powers in high places ..the way those soldiers chased the police men in hot pursuit show they were working on an order to make sure that kidnapper was freed

Such brazen display of impunity! I pictured the demure soft speaking Frank Mba issuing the press releases and I felt sorry for him because he sounded so helpless and defeated.

The least I expected the army to do was own up to their crime and tag it a mistaken identity issue and not grandstanding.

Even though it is no love lost between the security forces and the Nigerian people, this open and reckless impunity must not be allowed to be swept under carpet by every well meaning Nigerian.

This is the time for the civil Rights groups to get their acts together and ask the question.

FarahAideed:
Sad this is how the country paid him back for his services.. The day he went after a Fulani Kidnap kingpin was the day he was killed by Buharis soldiers

I'm worried that the kidnapper has the ears of the entire structure because the top brass are the ones defending him.
Who could this abuooki kidnapper of gigantic influence be?

Does he kidnap to recruit for BH?

Does he kidnap to recruit for killer herdsmen?

Does he kidnap to recruit for bandits?

Or does he kidnap for ransome?

Who are his friends in the military for him to enjoy so much protection?

Kingosytex:
The army intentionally killed those policemen and set the kidnapper free. The kidnapper has a high ranking army officer on his payroll so the best way to conceal the secret was to eliminate those police officers. Fact!

Just imagine that! And yet you blame those who call for a revolution whether through violence or common sense.

odave:
And nothing will happen to those soldiers, no be naija? This is a deliberate act of evil. I don't like either police or soldier coz they are the same but the conspiracy behind this evil act must be investigated.

Who Wan investigate the matter sef? Same set of evil people? Omo I tire for naija jare

I was so disappointed with the response of the army even after they had evidence to the contrary.
Look at how two sister agents continue to bicker in the public space and the presidency kept mute. Who are those really running this government?

Oh if it was only in a civilised clime! The Nigeria army ably led by blood thirsty burantai is all set to sweep this under the carpet because people in high places are behind this.
And Garba shehu is yet to react to this after so many days.