PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE, WAS THE KINDNESS AND WELCOMING NATURE OF OUR PARENTS WORTH IT OR WAS IT A MISTAKE??


At the dawn of the colonial era around 1900, there were absolutely no to very few foreigners or settlers within present day Kaduna city, Jos, Kafanchan, Shendam, Mangu and most of the major towns/cities within Plateau and Southern Kaduna.

Based on colonial records, At the time the British consolidated their conquest of present day Nigeria, there were only some few Gbagyi speaking villages on both sides of the Kaduna river in the present location of Kaduna city.
While in the areas around Jos were settlements of the Anaguta (Naraguta) and neighbouring Afizere, Berom, Rukuba (Bache), Amo and Jere/Buji.
Before the 1900s, very little or nothing was known about present day Jos/Kaduna cities. In the case of Jos, there are few records and oral histories that talk about the defeat of the Emir Yakubu Bauchi and his Jihadist soldiers by a combined effort of Indigenous warriors of the Anaguta, Berom and Amo, when they (the jihadists) invaded the present day Jos area of the Plateau around the late 1800s.

From the early 1900s, Kaduna started growing as an urban center because it was made the capital of the new Northern protectorate (subsequently Northern region) by the British, due to it's centralized location and easy navigation through the Kaduna river which drains directly into the Niger river.
Jos on the other hand began to grow due to the lucrative Tin mining industry that begun in the early 1900s.
Other towns like Kafanchan also grew because it was a very important railway junction that linked different parts of Nigeria, at a time when railway was the most common means of transportation.

These cities/towns started attracting people from all over Nigeria. Yorubas, Igbos, Hausas, Kanuris, Fulanis, Urhobos, Ibibios, Edos, Idomas, Igalas, Ebiras, Nupes, e.t.c came in large numbers.
In fact, at the time of the Independence of Nigeria, settlers and foreigners outnumbered the Indigenous people in both Kaduna and Jos towns.

Unlike in Kaduna city where the evolving settlements were very mixed in nature, with every ethnicity and religion being present in almost every neighborhood, Jos had a very different settlement pattern per neighborhood.
In the case of Jos, this happened because the labourers of the Tin mines formed their own ethnic communities and were sometimes settled by the British in different neighborhoods based on their arrivals.
It is a known fact that during the colonial era, the Indigenous people of the Jos-Plateau did not show much enthusiasm or interests in working on these Tin mines, hence foreign labourers had to be brought in by the British from other parts of colonial Nigeria.

For example, most of the Yorubas who arrived Jos in the early 1900s were settled around Kasuwan dare/Rikkos and Nasarawa axis to the Southeast of Jos city center. The Hausas, Fulanis, Kanuris and other core-northern muslim people were settled along the Bauchi road to the northwest of the city center, while the Igbos were settled around Tafawa Balewa/Apata areas to the Southwest of Jos city center.
Till today, most of these communities are still found in their majority in these areas in Jos.

The numbers of we the Plateau and Southern Kaduna Indigenous people started growing in Kaduna and Jos significantly after the colonial era especially when the first 12 states were created in the late 60s after the civil war.
At that time, thanks to the education that came with the missionaries, we had enough educated people to start filling up the new administrative positions that came with the new states, local government areas, districts e.t.c.

These cities/towns within Plateau and Southern Kaduna kept growing in large numbers and cosmopolitanism until series of Ethno-religious crisis started from the late 80s in Kafanchan and reached it's peak from 2000 - 2010 within Jos and Kaduna cities.
These conflicts (which I prefer to call CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS) ended up creating irreversible ethno-religious partitions between both Kaduna and Jos cities and elsewhere within other parts of the country.

Most Yorubas, Igbos, other Southern Nigerians and people from other parts of the Middlebelt region like Benue/ Kogi who have lived and are still living in these areas can truthfully and sincerely testify of the extreme liberal and kind nature of our people, from earlier times and even till date.

Before the conflicts began, and even till now, our people who are Indigenous to the areas around these cities were so generous to a fault.
They welcomed the ever expanding influx of foreigners into these cities/towns with so much kindess. Landed properties were given to these settlers at giveaway prices and many times even free of charge.
Food was insanely cheap and sometimes even given free of charge. This kindness even extended to our fathers freely giving their daughters for marriage to these settlers all in a bid to cement peaceful and harmonious living.
This kindness and simplicity on the part of our people made both cities continue to grow rapidly even after Independence when Kaduna ceased being regional capital and when Tin mining activities on the Jos Plateau fell.

In the case of Kaduna city with the Gbagyis, the 'kindness and simplicity' even became an object of ridicule and a stereotype till the late 90s.
People often said that Gbagyi Indigenes sold and gave away their lands in Kaduna to settlers while they relocated further into the interior villages as the cities expanded.
Now, this could be true, albeit not in the proportions of the stereotypes.
This is because most of we the Indigenous people of the PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA area have never been a centralized urban loving and trading people. Our lives are tied to and revolve around our farmlands.
[This is with the exception of some of the Jukunoid groups and some other neighbouring groups around Taraba and the Upper Benue (Nasarawa and Plateau south) who developed an urban culture during the days of KWARARAFA]

Just as the ridicule with the Indigenous Gbagyi people of Kaduna city, more and different forms of ridicule and mockery have been thrown at us by people we accommodated. From the past when these ridicules were more subtle and joking to today, now more toxic on-your-face insults.
These settlers call us different unprintable names from LAZY PEOPLE to DRUNKARDS e.t.c.
Apart from these continuous demeaning and insulting words of contempt thrown at us, our people have suffered untold and unimaginable forms of killings, destruction of properties and setback, this time around by settlers mostly of Core northern extraction.

In places that our ancestors lived, tamed and controlled for thousands of years, with this urbanization, there are now NO-GO-AREAS for us within these cities, because apparently, those areas are now MUSLIM DOMINATED AREAS.
After the various crisis that rocked these cities, many of the Indigenous people of these cities had to abandon or forcefully sell their family houses located on ancestral family lands which have been passed down for generations.
In Kaduna city, with the Gbagyis, it was even worse, because most of them not only had had to sell family houses, they also abandoned or hurriedly sold off their farmlands towards some of the northern parts of Kaduna city at giveaway prices, because they could no longer access these places for fear of being killed or attacked.

As a people, we have so much rescources and tourism potentials, but both local and International Investors no longer consider our homelands as viable options because of the bad name that has been brought upon our homeland.

Recently, the university of Jos had to be abruptly shut down due to attacks of terrorists around the vicinity. Different states and local government areas of the country sent in vehicles to whisk away their students.

To the south of Kaduna city, students were kidnapped from Greenfield University by terrorists and some of them murdered. Now, this university is owned by a Southern Nigerian who saw it fit to invest in our region.
Considering this, I don't think we can be able to convince another Southern Nigerian to come and invest in our region anymore, let alone us even thinking of marketing our region to the outside world.

Yes, we can say that these settlers have brought trade, commerce, innovation, capital e.t.c to our region, however when we juxtapose these benefits in the light of our current predicaments, it brings us back to the main question above.
OUR FATHERS' DECISIONS TO WELCOME EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY, WAS IT A MISTAKE OR WAS IT WORTH IT?

If you are from Plateau/Southern Kaduna or other areas within the wider PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA region and you can relate to the contents of this article, please feel free to SEARCH FOR, SHARE, LIKE and COMMENT on the Facebook page PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA to show your support.
Your opinion on this subject is highly valued.

We must tell the world our story!!


Written by
(Noah K. Son_Of_The_Plateau)
Plateau Gurara Gongola.

What is the write up about?

Go straight to the point

Be factual and don't give us work to work it out

Who are you referring to?

Indicate it in the title

Change that your topic to; "Was Welcoming The Fulanis into Southern Kaduna and Plateau A Mistake?" Then you can answer urself.

Yorubas, Igbos, Urhobos, Ibibios, Edos etc were the ones that brought the commerce, innovation and development. They did not kill or try to take anybody's land. What innovation did the fulanis bring there or anywhere for that matter? But u clearly stated in ur write up that they were the jihadists killing and destroying.

The answer is very easy to get if you are willing to ask the right questions. Besides whether ur ancestors made a mistake being too accommodating or not shouldn't be d issue...what are the present generation doing to correct the mistakes currently?

The mistake you made was selling your choice places and lands to "strangers" and drinking burukutu with the money while you relocate to the villages.
You also chose to lead very care free lives. Look at all the major markets in Plateau, for example, "strangers" occupy and own all the shops while indigenes sit outside with or without umbrellas in the sun selling their wares.
You need to sit up therefore, and renounce the life of mediocrity and envy and become studious and disciplined.
Meanwhile: God bless Plateau and my lovely Plateau brothers.

Uptill tomorrow Gbagyi people of kaduna still sell other southern kaduna tribes to embrace fulani people. Have meeting with them as brothers they will report everything back to the Hausa Fulani telling us that we all meet them that Fulani are their brothers. Jaba are becoming weak everyday, Adara has been subdued. Indigenous people of Jos can't fight for themselves only to drink from morning till night. I wish we can unit now that we still have southerners among us willing to help.

sadly, you people were made to believe that the igbos are your problems and you whole heartedly joined in murdering them in cold blood.

now its all clear to all and sundry that the enemy is the one that fooled you and ITS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

the igbo man just want to do his business in peace and nothing more.

But what says the "jack" in all of this ? or is he truly a stooge as some people claim?.

If Nigeria is not divided or restructured, forget about those lands.

AntiBMC:
Change that your topic to; "Was Welcoming The Fulanis into Southern Kaduna and Plateau A Mistake?" Then you can answer urself.

Yorubas, Igbos, Urhobos, Ibibios, Edos etc were the ones that brought the commerce, innovation and development. They did not kill or try to take anybody's land. What innovation did the fulanis bring there or anywhere for that matter? But u clearly stated in ur write up that they were the jihadists killing and destroying.

The answer is very easy to get if you are willing to ask the right questions. Besides whether ur ancestors made a mistake being too accommodating or not shouldn't be d issue...what are the present generation doing to correct the mistakes currently?

You are very correct!

The Core-northern settlers were the ones who brought all the violence and land grabbing and not the Southerners or Kogi/Benue people.

Trust me, the present generation must correct these mistakes no matter what it takes.

obiekunie01:
sadly, you people were made to believe that the igbos are your problems and you whole heartedly joined in murdering them in cold blood.

now its all clear to all and sundry that the enemy is the one that fooled you and ITS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

the igbo man just want to do his business in peace and nothing more.

Igbo ..they arw just like upgraded fulani.They have their own issue.

Lol what's the whining going to do? Tell the people of southern kaduna to secede and join Plateau. There's no need to fund your own destruction if you honestly believe northern part of kaduna is your problem.

DECLAN2015:


Igbo ..they arw just like upgraded fulani.They have their own issue.

upgraded fulani you say

upgraded fulani bc any Igbo man or group of Igbo men have ever killed your father or your brother, raped your mother and your sisters? or maybe sacked your entire village and take over your lands by force? if your answer is no to all these questions, THEN FULANI WILL SURELY VISIT YOUR VILLAGE REAL SOON TO SHOW YOU THE STUFF THEY ARE MADE OF THEN AFTER THAT YOU WILL NEVER COMPARE THE IGBOS TO THE FULANIS.

Your hate for the innocent igbo man hustling for his survival without hurting anyone but rather contribution positively to any community they find themselves - your hate, and envy for thm will surely consume you!

Yoruba need to start asking the same question. Fulani herdsmen, kidnappers, fake drugs, arm robbery, fake products haaaaaha is it a crime to accommodate?

Danjikanbauchi:
Uptill tomorrow Gbagyi people of kaduna still sell other southern kaduna tribes to embrace fulani people. Have meeting with them as brothers they will report everything back to the Hausa Fulani telling us that we all meet them that Fulani are their brothers. Jaba are becoming weak everyday, Adara has been subdued. Indigenous people of Jos can't fight for themselves only to drink from morning till night. I wish we can unit now that we still have southerners among us willing to help.

This is no longer true.
Yes, Gbagyis used to betray other Southern Kaduna tribes in the past, but no longer. They learnt their lessons since after the Kaduna series of crisis from 2000- 2005.

How can you say Adara has been conquered? That is false.

The problem southern Kaduna has is that they have huge forest areas and they failed to secure these forest areas. Fulanis and terrorists found these forests as safe heavens and rapidly entered into these places.

However, I kind of agree that Southern Kaduna tribes are becoming weaker. The Kataf, Bajju and Jaba we used to know in those days who hardly tolerate a minute of Hausa' fulani madness, I wonder where they have gone to.

Most of the youths have left the villages to Abuja, Jos, Lagos and Kaduna cities for greener pastures and that is where the Lacuna is forming.

LordIsaac:
The mistake you made was selling your choice places and lands to "strangers" and drinking burukutu with the money while you relocate to the villages.
You also chose to lead very care free lives. Look at all the major markets in Plateau, for example, "strangers" occupy and own all the shops while indigenes sit outside with or without umbrellas in the sun selling their wares.
You need to sit up therefore, and renounce the life of mediocrity and envy and become studious and disciplined.
Meanwhile: God bless Plateau and my lovely Plateau brothers.

You still haven't learnt anything. This is one the reasons I don't pity you people.
The Fulani are killing you in your huts but your problem is innocent Igbo people that acquired shops in your markets legally.
You now see why God will bless the Fulani for helping you out mortally

obiekunie01:
sadly, you people were made to believe that the igbos are your problems and you whole heartedly joined in murdering them in cold blood.

now its all clear to all and sundry that the enemy is the one that fooled you and ITS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

the igbo man just want to do his business in peace and nothing more.

The narrative that Indigenous people of PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA joined in killing Igbos during the civil war is very very false.

Yes, our people in the military fought the war against Biafran soldiers, but our masses did not partake in any forms of killings. It was the Hausa' fulani muslims who did that.

At the time of the war, most of our Indigenes were still in their villages and had not started living in towns and cities.

However, I cannot speak for the Kogi-Benue people.

BKayy:

You still haven't learnt anything. This is one the reasons I don't pity you people.
The Fulani are killing you in your huts but your problem is innocent Igbo people that acquired shops in your markets legally.
You now see why God will bless the Fulani for helping you out mortally

Failed attempt at divide and rule Fulani man.

The person you quoted was an Igbo man.
So, get out of here.
If you think you can bring divide and rule between Southerners and Middlebelters at this point in time. You are mistaken.

Be gone Satan !!

PlatGurGongo:
PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE, WAS THE KINDNESS AND WELCOMING NATURE OF OUR PARENTS WORTH IT OR WAS IT A MISTAKE??


At the dawn of the colonial era around 1900, there were absolutely no to very few foreigners or settlers within present day Kaduna city, Jos, Kafanchan, Shendam, Mangu and most of the major towns/cities within Plateau and Southern Kaduna.

Based on colonial records, At the time the British consolidated their conquest of present day Nigeria, there were only some few Gbagyi speaking villages on both sides of the Kaduna river in the present location of Kaduna city.
While in the areas around Jos were settlements of the Anaguta (Naraguta) and neighbouring Afizere, Berom, Rukuba (Bache), Amo and Jere/Buji.
Before the 1900s, very little or nothing was known about present day Jos/Kaduna cities. In the case of Jos, there are few records and oral histories that talk about the defeat of the Emir Yakubu Bauchi and his Jihadist soldiers by a combined effort of Indigenous warriors of the Anaguta, Berom and Amo, when they (the jihadists) invaded the present day Jos area of the Plateau around the late 1800s.

From the early 1900s, Kaduna started growing as an urban center because it was made the capital of the new Northern protectorate (subsequently Northern region) by the British, due to it's centralized location and easy navigation through the Kaduna river which drains directly into the Niger river.
Jos on the other hand began to grow due to the lucrative Tin mining industry that begun in the early 1900s.
Other towns like Kafanchan also grew because it was a very important railway junction that linked different parts of Nigeria, at a time when railway was the most common means of transportation.

These cities/towns started attracting people from all over Nigeria. Yorubas, Igbos, Hausas, Kanuris, Fulanis, Urhobos, Ibibios, Edos, Idomas, Igalas, Ebiras, Nupes, e.t.c came in large numbers.
In fact, at the time of the Independence of Nigeria, settlers and foreigners outnumbered the Indigenous people in both Kaduna and Jos towns.

Unlike in Kaduna city where the evolving settlements were very mixed in nature, with every ethnicity and religion being present in almost every neighborhood, Jos had a very different settlement pattern per neighborhood.
In the case of Jos, this happened because the labourers of the Tin mines formed their own ethnic communities and were sometimes settled by the British in different neighborhoods based on their arrivals.
It is a known fact that during the colonial era, the Indigenous people of the Jos-Plateau did not show much enthusiasm or interests in working on these Tin mines, hence foreign labourers had to be brought in by the British from other parts of colonial Nigeria.

For example, most of the Yorubas who arrived Jos in the early 1900s were settled around Kasuwan dare/Rikkos and Nasarawa axis to the Southeast of Jos city center. The Hausas, Fulanis, Kanuris and other core-northern muslim people were settled along the Bauchi road to the northwest of the city center, while the Igbos were settled around Tafawa Balewa/Apata areas to the Southwest of Jos city center.
Till today, most of these communities are still found in their majority in these areas in Jos.

The numbers of we the Plateau and Southern Kaduna Indigenous people started growing in Kaduna and Jos significantly after the colonial era especially when the first 12 states were created in the late 60s after the civil war.
At that time, thanks to the education that came with the missionaries, we had enough educated people to start filling up the new administrative positions that came with the new states, local government areas, districts e.t.c.

These cities/towns within Plateau and Southern Kaduna kept growing in large numbers and cosmopolitanism until series of Ethno-religious crisis started from the late 80s in Kafanchan and reached it's peak from 2000 - 2010 within Jos and Kaduna cities.
These conflicts (which I prefer to call CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS) ended up creating irreversible ethno-religious partitions between both Kaduna and Jos cities and elsewhere within other parts of the country.

Most Yorubas, Igbos, other Southern Nigerians and people from other parts of the Middlebelt region like Benue/ Kogi who have lived and are still living in these areas can truthfully and sincerely testify of the extreme liberal and kind nature of our people, from earlier times and even till date.

Before the conflicts began, and even till now, our people who are Indigenous to the areas around these cities were so generous to a fault.
They welcomed the ever expanding influx of foreigners into these cities/towns with so much kindess. Landed properties were given to these settlers at giveaway prices and many times even free of charge.
Food was insanely cheap and sometimes even given free of charge. This kindness even extended to our fathers freely giving their daughters for marriage to these settlers all in a bid to cement peaceful and harmonious living.
This kindness and simplicity on the part of our people made both cities continue to grow rapidly even after Independence when Kaduna ceased being regional capital and when Tin mining activities on the Jos Plateau fell.

In the case of Kaduna city with the Gbagyis, the 'kindness and simplicity' even became an object of ridicule and a stereotype till the late 90s.
People often said that Gbagyi Indigenes sold and gave away their lands in Kaduna to settlers while they relocated further into the interior villages as the cities expanded.
Now, this could be true, albeit not in the proportions of the stereotypes.
This is because most of we the Indigenous people of the PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA area have never been a centralized urban loving and trading people. Our lives are tied to and revolve around our farmlands.
[This is with the exception of some of the Jukunoid groups and some other neighbouring groups around Taraba and the Upper Benue (Nasarawa and Plateau south) who developed an urban culture during the days of KWARARAFA]

Just as the ridicule with the Indigenous Gbagyi people of Kaduna city, more and different forms of ridicule and mockery have been thrown at us by people we accommodated. From the past when these ridicules were more subtle and joking to today, now more toxic on-your-face insults.
These settlers call us different unprintable names from LAZY PEOPLE to DRUNKARDS e.t.c.
Apart from these continuous demeaning and insulting words of contempt thrown at us, our people have suffered untold and unimaginable forms of killings, destruction of properties and setback, this time around by settlers mostly of Core northern extraction.

In places that our ancestors lived, tamed and controlled for thousands of years, with this urbanization, there are now NO-GO-AREAS for us within these cities, because apparently, those areas are now MUSLIM DOMINATED AREAS.
After the various crisis that rocked these cities, many of the Indigenous people of these cities had to abandon or forcefully sell their family houses located on ancestral family lands which have been passed down for generations.
In Kaduna city, with the Gbagyis, it was even worse, because most of them not only had had to sell family houses, they also abandoned or hurriedly sold off their farmlands towards some of the northern parts of Kaduna city at giveaway prices, because they could no longer access these places for fear of being killed or attacked.

As a people, we have so much rescources and tourism potentials, but both local and International Investors no longer consider our homelands as viable options because of the bad name that has been brought upon our homeland.

Recently, the university of Jos had to be abruptly shut down due to attacks of terrorists around the vicinity. Different states and local government areas of the country sent in vehicles to whisk away their students.

To the south of Kaduna city, students were kidnapped from Greenfield University by terrorists and some of them murdered. Now, this university is owned by a Southern Nigerian who saw it fit to invest in our region.
Considering this, I don't think we can be able to convince another Southern Nigerian to come and invest in our region anymore, let alone us even thinking of marketing our region to the outside world.

Yes, we can say that these settlers have brought trade, commerce, innovation, capital e.t.c to our region, however when we juxtapose these benefits in the light of our current predicaments, it brings us back to the main question above.
OUR FATHERS' DECISIONS TO WELCOME EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY, WAS IT A MISTAKE OR WAS IT WORTH IT?

If you are from Plateau/Southern Kaduna or other areas within the wider PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA region and you can relate to the contents of this article, please feel free to SEARCH FOR, SHARE, LIKE and COMMENT on the Facebook page PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA to show your support.
Your opinion on this subject is highly valued.

We must tell the world our story!!


Written by
(Noah K. Son_Of_The_Plateau)
Plateau Gurara Gongola.

The usage of the word, "Mistake" , is a misnomer. You and forbearers committed a blunder. You went further in 1967 to compound the silly blunder by foolishly cow-towed with the boneheaded son of the Plateau called Gowon to precipitate a war against Ndigbo and Biafrans. You sold out in 1967 and chickens have come home to roost.

DECLAN2015:


Igbo ..they arw just like upgraded fulani.They have their own issue.

you are a stupid fool just like ur progenitors....... meanwhile op ur case is doomed because the hausa fulani have taken up a big part of jos...if not for the brave igbos that defended apata to the core dem for colombi apata too and expanded more into chobe and busabuji .... the yorubas were massacred in 2008 crisis and have to flee nassarawa gwong rikkos and other areas were they had huge population to inner places like fudawa and etobaba the hausas now dominate nassarawa gwong and rikkos ..... the worse is unijos that surrounding lands angwan rogo and the rest are university lands yet them allow hausa ppl to expand and encroach everywhere now,,, for those wey no know jos ... unijos is now like its in the middle of sambisa forest ... the university is surrounded by terrorist ..i just pity the students yet the state government just kept quiet as if nothing is happening ... currently the university is on lockdown due to the useless almajiris surrounding the university

PlatGurGongo:


Failed attempt at divide and rule Fulani man.

The person you quoted was an Igbo man.
So, get out of here.
If you think you can bring divide and rule between Southerners and Middlebelters at this point in time. You are mistaken.

Be gone Satan !!

Who is this one?
Sorry my dear ignoramus, the days of Ndigbo diving into the net of backstabbers are over. Atleast not when I am opportuned to encounter and spot them for our people on time.
If you see nothing wrong in your compatriot direct hate speech on Innocent Igbo business then it confirms my ascertion that it is the general belief of you people.
You haven't changed a bit. You can still be used by the Caliphate at will at any given time.
May Fulani love and mercies follow you people.
Thank you

DECLAN2015:


Igbo ..they arw just like upgraded fulani.They have their own issue.

I knew somehow someone would divert the topic to Igbos. Very pretty indeed.

meccuno:
I knew somehow someone would divert the topic to Igbos. Very pretty indeed.

Don't mind them.
They haven't learnt anything. This thread is not a resolve but the lamentations of a cornered people who still have a soft spot for their supposed oppressor.
It is obvious from their comments here that their sworn enemy is Igbo.
Look at them targeting legal shop owners.
Ndi ara

BKayy:

This thread is not a resolve but the lamentations of a cornered people who still have a soft spot for their supposed oppressor.

It's hilarious they think these sob stories are going to convince people to add more northern states. After they get it they'll simply vote along the same party lines and the nation will have ti deal with a bunch of new states that can't fund themselves. The solution that should be foisted on them is simply making them secede from their "oppressors" and join their "brothers". No Southern Kaduna state just join your brothers in Plateau. The little map he post on every thread is the blueprint he should follow.

PlatGurGongo:

I started by calling you Southern Kaduna people my brothers and sisters even though I am from Plateau state because in reality, there is absolutely no difference between Plateau and Southern Kaduna people except for imaginary boundaries that were drawn by colonial masters.
Culturally, Linguistically, Ancestrally, Mentally, Socially, Physically and Religiously, the people of Plateau and Southern Kaduna are basically the same.

Written by
(Noah K. Son_Of_The_Plateau)
Plateau Gurara Gongola.

How Buhari managed to win plateau, Kaduna and Benue in 2015 surprise me like seriously middle belterns has no reason to complain about fulani conquest

PlatGurGongo:


The narrative that Indigenous people of PLATEAU GURARA GONGOLA joined in killing Igbos during the civil war is very very false.

Yes, our people in the military fought the war against Biafran soldiers, but our masses did not partake in any forms of killings. It was the Hausa' fulani muslims who did that.

At the time of the war, most of our Indigenes were still in their villages and had not started living in towns and cities.

However, I cannot speak for the Kogi-Benue people.

We the Igbos deeply feel your pains because we have been there and have experienced worst but the fact is, THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND THAT OF YOUR CHILDREN CHILDREN IS IN YOUR HANDS - IF YOU PEOPLE (I MEAN THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST AND MIDDLE BELT) DON'T STAND UP TO FIGHT AND DESTROY THE INVADERS FROM FUTAJALON NOW, BELIEVE ME 40 YEARS FROM NOW, YOUR LANDS WILL BE TURNED TO GRAZING FIELD CAUSE THE INVADERS WOULD AV DECIMATED YOUR ENTIRE POPULATION - THE SURVIVING ONES WOULD V FLED TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF AFRICA.

I HAVE MET SOME OF YOUR YOUTHS IN THE EAST, AND SOME IN LAGOS, IBADAN AND EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS PORTHARCOURT, DELTA AND EVEN OYO STATE - AND EACH TIME I STRIKE A CONVO WITH THEM, IT IS ALWAYS THE SAD TALE OF HOW THEIR LANDS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE MARAUDING FULANIS.

IF YOU PEOPLE FAIL TO FIGHT NOW, TOMORROW WILL BE WAY TOO LATE!

BKayy:

Don't mind them.
They haven't learnt anything. This thread is not a resolve but the lamentations of a cornered people who still have a soft spot for their supposed oppressor.
It is obvious from their comments here that their sworn enemy is Igbo.
Look at them targeting legal shop owners.
Ndi ara

imagine

obiekunie01:


We the Igbos deeply feel your pains because we have been there and have experienced worst but the fact is, THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND THAT OF YOUR CHILDREN CHILDREN IS IN YOUR HANDS - IF YOU PEOPLE (I MEAN THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST AND MIDDLE BELT) DON'T STAND UP TO FIGHT AND DESTROY THE INVADERS FROM FUTAJALON NOW, BELIEVE ME 40 YEARS FROM NOW, YOUR LANDS WILL BE TURNED TO GRAZING FIELD CAUSE THE INVADERS WOULD AV DECIMATED YOUR ENTIRE POPULATION - THE SURVIVING ONES WOULD V FLED TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF AFRICA.

I HAVE MET SOME OF YOUR YOUTHS IN THE EAST, AND SOME IN LAGOS, IBADAN AND EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS PORTHARCOURT, DELTA AND EVEN OYO STATE - AND EACH TIME I STRIKE A CONVO WITH THEM, IT IS ALWAYS THE SAD TALE OF HOW THEIR LANDS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE MARAUDING FULANIS.

IF YOU PEOPLE FAIL TO FIGHT NOW, TOMORROW WILL BE WAY TOO LATE!

Thank you.
However it is not as bad as you put it.
Apart from some parts of Southern Borno who have lost their lands to Boko Haram, no part of our region has lost their homeland to Fulani Herdsmen.

Fulani Herdsmen have just formed camps in and around the forests and from these forests, they terrorize villages.

system21:
How Buhari managed to win plateau, Kaduna and Benue in 2015 surprise me like seriously middle belterns has no reason to complain about fulani conquest

Buhari did not win Plateau. He has never done that. APC only won governorship because the previous governor Jang made a very huge mistake by bring tribalism into the state's politics.

Yes he won Benue because of the shallow-minded nature of Tiv people and their pettiness.

As for Kaduna. The population of Northern Kaduna is used to manipulate that of Southern Kaduna all the time.

They should ask the likes of Gowon, TY Danjuma and their other elders who schooled them to believe they are one with fulani's; with the title "NORTH Central"... They fought to keep this country together so they should enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Don't get me wrong, I am not for or against the unity of this country; but just amused at how GEN. YAKUBU GOWON and his likes have suddenly lost their voice... I wonder if they are regretting their actions of trusting the Fulani's as their children blame them today.

D southern kaduna has failed because i onced lived there.
their girls are total flop that they sell thier bodies to those hausa and fulanies because of money there by dishing thier secret to thier enemies and this is were thier enemies knw so many routes on how to attack them.
thier men own is drink and steal pety pety things like slippers , bulb , fruits and drink ogogoro [ very lazy set of people].
and again gossiping is in thier DNA[ both d men and women] and witch hunting dem sabi am wella

See how my Igbo brethren turned the thread about them smh.
Well Obasanjo tried to make some adjustments but you guys couldn't leverage on that...instead you allowed them even grow stronger....El Rufai had an agenda right from day one, but you guys were blind. Anyway most of us were blind too.