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Obamaofusa:
Yes,the difference is clear.
The million of Igbo people who fled to Ivory Coast were led by Ojukwu.
The second batch was led by runaway Nnamdi KANU.

Give us the names of your imaginary Yorubas who fled to Benin Republic and shame the devil.
If you can't, you remain the...

Eternal Documented Cowards.
EDC

Yaribanza Thou shall not deny your brethren


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFe8QtZY5GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S31XsLXAvs

othermen:
Herdsmen come into your farm, destroys your crop.

You object! and call the police, the police is one of the herdsmen!

You object! They bring out their guns and knives and injure you to murder you!

The community is afraid. They have heard of Oyigbo.

The community just want the body of their slain kinsman.

The herdsmen refuse! The owners of the cow is a major in the military or the president.

The eastern security network arrives, they demand for the body!

The herdsmen trigger their weapons, and people are dead.

The community members become displaced! they flee their community, abandon their farms!

The commissioner of police, who is also a Mohammed Aliyu arrives, most of the herdsmen are mohammed Aliyu.

The commissioner arrives after, the herdsmen have ploughed and looted the community already and injured the defenders and put fears in neighbouring communities.

Their are no arrests, not a single cow confiscated.

The herdsmen move on, while the bodies of the defenders and the easterners decay.

Not sure if you're daft, how those this rubbish correlate with the report?

The question remains, if ESN didn't rise up to the occasion in challenging those bastards...


Who would have protected those defenceless people against armed terrorist herdsmen? You all can now see why all our governors need to be lined up and shot dead execution style? their height of negligence is inexcusable.

IgweOfNnewi:
[s]You forgot to add maltreatment of widows, locking them up with their dead husbands, beating, starving, humiliating, raping, molestation, scraping their hairs with sharp and dangerous objects, forcing them to drink water used to bath the corpse, sleeping and sitting on the floor without bathing. Add the Bible passage[/s]

Oponu you watch too much of low budget nollywood movies, which explains where you got all these bogus and garbage misrepresentations of the Igbo culture from. Go dust up your Things fall Apart novel, then read it indeptly to understand the beautiful and intriguing components of the Igbo culture.

Personally I don't care if they want oduduwa Republic or Skull mining republic, this useless country is overripe for implosion anyway... my own is that as long as these yoruba agitators who are drawing their Secessionist map don't include Lagos (owned by the Bini people), parts of Ondo state (owned by the Edos and Ijaws), the Awori's (who are not indigenous Yorubas), parts of Ekiti, Kwara (Fulani don't even need to talk too much here), and parts of Kogi state... then they can fu*k off with their 5 and half states including there people who are in Benin Republic and Togo.

So based on the gory pictures I've seen so far, the only weapons the army could recover from 16 dead "gunmen" was one outdated shotgun (no be even Ak-47 sef) and long knives? so you're telling me these guys confronted soldiers that were armed heavy machine guns, AK-47's, artillery guns etc with just knives and one shotgun? na wa ooo!!!

Naija to the world

Like play like play some demonic elements are hell bent on turning the SE (which holds the enviable position as the most peaceful region in Nigeria) into another Borno! how did ESN go from flushing out criminal herdsmen from our forests to attacking security agents majority of whom are probably Igbos? now I expect the unknown gunmen to exert revenge and go on a killing spree of more security personnels that will trigger more bloodbath... UmuIgbo we don't need this madness right now, if ESN is responsible for all these attacks we need to seriously call Nnamdi Kanu to order before it gets out of hand. I support ESN but I'm afraid they are beginning to lose the plot... they were created as a vigilante security outfit mearnt to protect our villages, farms and forest not to become some ethnic militia that were unfortunately beginning to see now...they can't win this war against a far better equipped Nigerian army, they lack the sophisticated logistics of Boko haram or ISWAP, much less the type of fanaticism required to successfully fight the state army.

Fresh crisis appears to be brewing in the Ibarapaland area of Oyo State, following the return of Fulani herdsmen to the area and the alleged destruction of farms in the area.

Fulani herdsmen had, in January, migrated out of Igangan and other communities in Ibarapa, Oyo State, following the eviction notice given to Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Salihu Abdukadir, by Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho.

Farmers in Igangan, however, told Saturday PUNCH on Friday that the herdsmen had not only started returning to the area but that they had allegedly resumed destruction of farms and threatened to attack farmers who resisted them.

The Chairman of Real Farmers Association of Nigeria, Igangan branch, Mr. Abiodun Adegoke, in an interview with our correspondent, said some of the cases were reported to the police in Ayete and Igangan.

Adegoke accused some herdsmen of grazing their cattle on a cassava farm at Olukosi village on February 14, destroying a large part of the farm. He added that the herders invaded the farm around 7.30pm but that the farmers rallied other residents that pursued the herdsmen, who escaped with their animals.

The farmers’ chairman said the anti-open grazing law in the state meant nothing to the herdsmen, adding that they stilled grazed at night in spite of the law against it.

According to him, one of the cows was caught and taken to the police station at Ayete, the headquarters of Ibarapa North Local Government Area.

He said, “Two weeks ago, another incident happened at Asunnara village. Some herdsmen grazed their animals on the farm of Semiu Ariwoola. They invaded the farm and started uprooting cassava there to feed their animals. Our people mobilised and ran after the herders and their animals.

“They escaped but six rams among the livestock were caught and were taken to the Igangan Police Station. These people have shown that they cannot change. One would have expected that they would desist from farm destruction, plundering and attacking farmers, but they have returned to their wicked ways.

“We were attending a meeting organised by the Justice, Development and Peace Commission on Wednesday and I received a call that some herdsmen were grazing on someone’s farm. The farmer challenged them and they started beating him. Two of them beat him mercilessly with their rods.”

Adegoke said it took the intervention of some other farmers who arrived to stop the herdsmen.

“As they were talking, one of the herdsmen, Yahaya, brought out a cutlass and threatened to attack one of our people, but when he saw that they were many, he stopped,” the farmers’ chairman added.

When contacted, the Convener of Igangan Development Advocates, Oladiran Oladokun, told Saturday PUNCH that the herdsmen had started returning and destroying farms.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, also told our correspondent on the telephone that the police would have started investigation into the cases since the complainants said they had reported the cases.

He said, “The police would have begun investigation since they said the incidents were reported. We will continue to do what will promote unity and peace in every area.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/fresh-crisis-brews-in-igangan-as-herdsmen-resume-farm-destruction/%3famp=1

Lyrics269:
Everybody knows igbos are associated with
Ritualist


Thiefs and armed robbery

Human trafficking

Drug trafficking

419

Rapist

Secessionist
Woe! To all Igbos

Thiefs and Armed robbery originated in yaribanza land, do your research about Ishola Oyenusi

Drug trafficking, ok na we get that one

Human trafficking, majority of your sisters are sex slaves in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Libya with records of them crying out on social media for help.

419- the most wanted yahoo yahoo boys on EFCC list are your brothers, go figure!

Rapist- Ogbeni, we all know South west Nigeria is the epicenter of rape! let's not even go there.

Secessionist- Oponu when did Secession become a crime?

Lyrics269:
Crime is the national identity of a confirm Igbo man

Says a yaribanza whose tribe pioneered armed robbery in Nigeria (Ishola Oyenusi holds the record as the first armed robber caught and executed in Nigerian history)
A tribe known for ritual killings and skull mining
Na una first start yahoo-yahoo
Una first start forgery AKA Oluwole certification
Lagos alone has the highest number of violent street gangs/hooligans in Nigeria

You should be the last person as a Yoruba men to talk of crime.

Lyrics269:
If you like let them be Hausa, Igbo blood run in their blood and thats the reason for the crime

What a smart reply , commit a crime as a Deltan then you are Omo Ibo, but win a major award or attain a top global position of office as a Deltan like Okonjo Iweala, you're not Igbo but "Deltan"... the stupidity of the average Nigerian.

Lyrics269:
Igbo people sef..

But the report indicated that the family are from Delta state, are they now Igbos because they committed a crime? Cause it's still your brothers that will come here tomorrow and scream to high heavens that there are no Igbos in Delta state... SMH

Fulani herdsmen’s atrocities: Whether it is declared or not, we are already at war —Obawoya, head of Ondo farmers

The Ondo State Agricultural Commodities Association (OSACA) is the umbrella body for farmers and agricultural commodity producers in the state. The chairman of the association, Mr Gbenga Obawoya, in this interview by HAKEEM GBADAMOSI, speaks on the havoc being wreaked on farms and farmers in the state, among other issues

How have the activities of herdsmen affected farmers in Ondo State?

The situation in the last one year is as if we have been under siege. It is just like siege was laid on the city of Samaria, as recorded in the Bible, where everything became expensive and scarce and people were killing and eating their children. We have had it very bad in the last one year. Crops and even seeds were eaten up by cattle. The herdsmen also help themselves to our plantains and yams. They harvest, boil and roast yams right on our farms. People have been raped, kidnapped and killed. People are afraid to go to farm. That is the truth. Even areas that we thought were relatively safe have become places where we now dread. For some of us that reside in town and have our farms far away, we have small homesteads over there where we spend the night when we need to be in the farm. A good number of people are now afraid to spend the night in their farms. You know productivity and yields will drop and there have been lots of problems.

There are other dimensions to the problems, including setting farms on fire, either deliberately or inadvertently by these herdsmen. Some of these fire incidents are due to smoking of Indian hemp or hunting of wild animals. And sometimes, it is deliberate wickedness on the part of the herders, setting people’s farms on fire. They even harvest honey from hives that bee keepers keep in the bush. So, we have really been under siege. I don’t know a better expression to use. We have been crying out to the government, saying they should take a hard-line stance on the matter once and for all. The state governor has demonstrated the readiness to confront the problem head-on through his actions. But we need a lot more to be done. When a pronouncement was made a few weeks ago, we came out to identify with Governor Akeredolu that farmers in the state appreciated what he had done, but we also made it clear that this type of pronouncement had been made before and there was no enforcement. The situation even became worse. This time, we want enforcement to be done and it should be backed up with legislation.

For four years now, we have been holding summits where we have been calling on security agencies to stem the tide before it gets out of hand. Over the years, security agents have told us that there is no law that can be used to stop these things we are crying about. But we were glad when we heard some days ago that the state government was sponsoring a bill in the House Assembly. We, farmers under OSACA, had drafted a bill which we presented to the eighth House of Assembly and when we reminded them, they told us that there was a new House of Assembly in place and we needed to present the bill again, which we have done. We presented the bill to this ninth House of Assembly. We would be glad if these things see the light of the day and we can have laws that security agents can enforce, laws that can give farmers and the general public confidence to be able to resist these people because part of what we hear at police stations is that in ECOWAS, there is free movement of people and goods and nobody can say they cannot move to wherever they want to move to. But if we have laws in place that ban open grazing, then that solves the problem. So, we are looking forward to it. We have really had it very bad in the last one year

How many farms are affected and what is the cost of the destruction caused by the herders?

There is hardly a farmer in Ondo State that has not been affected one way or the other. We have all had encounters with the herdsmen but not on the same proportion. There are estimated 1,500 of us, farmers. There is hardly any farmer that you will meet that will not have one incident or the other to recount. Some are serial victims. One of us has been victim about 12 times in the past two years. We are talking of hectares of maize, beans and imported oil palm seedlings from France destroyed by these herdsmen and their cows. The total amount lost by famers in the state in the last one year is nothing less than a billion naira.

Why do you think the herdsmen carry out the killings?

We cannot say precisely why they are killing but in my opinion, they probably want to grab people’s lands. The need land and they don’t like being rebuked while destroying people’s farms. They are prepared to behead you if you try to confront them. They are just too violent. They are just not the type that can stay around us. Honestly, to say that we are under siege is an understatement. The South West is currently being colonised. We, Yorubas, are inside a coffin, a nailed coffin, only that we are yet to be lowered. There is the case of a particular farmer from Ogbese. His wife was raped and she took ill two days after. She died a few days later. The incident is fresh. It happened in January this year. It is not hearsay. The other day, a security operative that covers agriculture was saying that we should give details of how the woman was raped and we told her that we were tired of filing reports. Even people are tired of reporting these things. People are in despair. That is why I said that very soon, there would be war if we are not careful. A week or so ago, people resolved to start to physically push Fulani herdsmen and their cows out of their territory with arms and once these people resist, there will be violence and it will escalate

Is there any plan by your association to dialogue with the leadership of the herders, the Miyetti Allah, over the situation?

In the last five years, I can’t recall the number of meetings we have held with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, the government and security agencies. Even the chairman of Miyetti Allah in the state seems overwhelmed because he said that many of the herders perpetrating these atrocities were not known to him. He said he could not account for them and really, most of these people are foreigners that came from outside the country because the president said they are our brothers and there is free movement across the borders. They are so bold and brazen. They will ask you what you expect their cows to eat if you try to stop them from entering your farm. We have tried. We have interacted with Miyetti Allah in Ondo State but they looked overwhelmed to us and many times when we hold parleys, they promise that they would do this and that but we have realised that they are just buying time and hoping that tension would go down.

Has there been any difference with the advent of Amotekun?

I think the coming of Amotekun has brought about a ray of hope. We seem to have moved a little bit away from the precipice that we were on before. Amotekun has actually offered hope.

Amotekun has been working hard, we must be fair. The situation used to be that when you apprehended a herdsman and his cows, at your own expense, you would transport him and the cows to the police station but with just a phone call, your effort became a waste because they would be released. But with Amotekun, once you catch a cow or a herder, until they compensation is paid, they will not be released. But if you can’t get hold of a transgressing herdsman, there is little they can do. Once you can apprehend even the cows, the owners will surface and then you will get some measure of compensation. It is not like before where a farmer would be given just N10,000. We have heard of compensations of between N500,000 and N1 million being paid. Not so many people are courageous enough to face the Fulani herdsmen but when you put a distress call across, they deploy their personnel to go after them. Amotekun has actually offered a lot of help, but they need to increase the number of their personnel and they need to be armed if they are going to be quite effective. So far, Amotekun in Ondo State has really tried

Is there any help from other security agencies like the police, SSS and NSCDC?

Well, the civil defence has an arm called agro-rangers. Before Amotekun came, they were offering a little help. So, civil defence, yes, but the police, no. The DSS is just about information gathering. That is all they do. DSS only uses us to gather security reports; they are not helping us in any way. Any time we threatened to take action against the effrontery of the herders, we would be summoned by the DSS and their director would appeal to us and say they did not want war. They are not saying we shouldn’t protect ourselves but they are also not telling the herders to stop destroying our farms. It is as if they are tying our hands behind our backs for us to be slapped without retaliating.

For soldiers, we don’t have much contact with them even though we there have been accusations that soldiers are good backers of the herders because we heard that top officers in the barracks own many of these cows

What do you think is the solution to this problem?

The solution is that the president should make a pronouncement that open grazing should cease; that all itinerant herders should return to their bases. Those who are based in places other than the North should settle as farmers settle and acquire land for their personal farms, not colonies. The acquired land must be fenced physically or electronically. The electronic fence will prevent the animals from straying into the farm. That is what the government must do. The Federal Government knows what can solve this problem but they are not willing to go the whole hog. They are now giving conditions that if you know that you want peace, make sure that you give us land. You must make sure you provide facilities there, for a private business. Is that being done for pig, poultry and other categories of farmers? Are herdsmen a special class of farmers? Aren’t they raising animals the way other people are raising animals? Why their animals feed for free, others pay through their noses to feed their animals.

But there are allegations that those in power are keeping quiet because these cows are owned by them.

Possibly, yes. I have also discovered that one of the strategies of these herders is that when they get to a foreign place, they approach the symbol of authority which, in most cases, is the traditional ruler, and in paying obeisance to him, they bring a gift of one or two cows. And they will tell the king not to worry about rearing the animals; that they will be raised for him at no cost. Indirectly, the Oba now has cows with them. And when they are confronted, they will say but the king’s cow is here and the king’s cow is a Greek gift to protect 5,000 cows. So, it is part of the strategy that they use. It is a trap that has been used for many of our people in authority, especially our traditional rulers, as a leverage to do whatever they want

But there are local herders that have been with us for years. They and their cattle do not give us problems. They don’t destroy people’s things. You find the cows even in neighbourhoods and people know the owners. And if the cows destroy anything, the owner will be contacted and he will not bring out a gun or a dagger to attack the complainants. You can report them to the landlords association or to the police or to the traditional head because they are not faceless persons. So, we have not been having those problems with our people

What would be your advice to traditional rulers across the South West?

They shouldn’t fall into that trap again. They should reject these cow gifts. They should be kind enough at this time of high tension not to give land out to these people for now because we are at war. Whether it is declared or not, we are already at war. There is a lot of hatred and bitterness because you don’t mean well for us. You want to kill us, destroy our economy and cause bodily harm to us. You have made yourself our enemy, even though we don’t want to be your enemy. So, we are at war and in times of war, you suspend natural laws. They shouldn’t sell or release land at this time and they should not accept gifts of cows. And to the general public, we renew our call as a body that people should do without beef and all cow-related products, including hide and skin for now, in protest against what is being done to us. People have actually been eating blood-stained cows because they were raised on the blood and sweat of some innocent people. In the South West, we are promoting indigenous cattle rearing. We want to go back to our local breeds and we want our people to raise cows in the proper way, properly ranched in their own farm. Some universities are doing it. Some individuals are doing it. We want it to become popular. Individuals can own three, four, five cows; you don’t have to have 2,000

Are there no traditional ways of driving away these criminal herdsmen?

There are lots of ways but this can’t be discussed on the pages of newspaper
https://tribuneonlineng.com/fulani-herdsmens-atrocities-whether-it-is-declared-or-not-we-are-already-at-war-obawoya-head-of-ondo-farmers/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

valirex:
They will make their choices, I am not of the opinion of forcing people.

Earth is free, let everyone make their choices that's my mantra

Lol clown

valirex:
Before Nigeria Ẹdo stood alone after Nigeria Ẹdo go still stand alone

Ok I just dey ask cause I notice say una wan include some speaking parts of Anioma into your "Benin empire".

valirex:
God forbid this country breaks and Ẹdo stays with southern Nigeria, we can be united but make everybody dey their country

Bros no vex, out of curiosity, if Naija break which side Edo go belong to... Niger Delta Republic?

IDENNAA:
I am actually at work but these information are seconds withing reach. You think they don't know these are facts

On second thought it's pointless engaging them any further, na Yorubas we suppose dey drag these kinds of arguments with when it comes to academic achievements etc not bloody Ijo of all people.