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| Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by wehla(op): 6:06am On Apr 01, 2025 |
GENERAL CECIL ESEKHAIGBE ON THE EDO STATE "MURDER" OF NORTHERN "HUNTERS" In as much as I'm against extrajudicial killings as witnessed yesterday in Uromi, Edo State, which I condemned in the strongest possible term, the whole story must be told holistically. Retired General Cecil Esekhaigbe on Channel Television station this evening corroborated what an eyewitnesses account said of the incident yesterday. The General said based on an intel that seasoned kidnappers are being haul back to the north, the vigilante mounted the road, searching all northern bounds vehicles for which Dangote trucks were some of them. In an attempt to search this particular truck, one of the Fulani chap, obviously a radical Fulani terrorist drew a knife and stabbed one of the vigilante. Seeing him in his pool of blood, the rest and the youths descended of them and the rest is history. What General Esekhaigbe didn't say was the bundles of raw cash running into several millions of naira found on them, suspected to be cash from ransom collections from their victims, apart from dangerous weapons, including assault riffles and AK47. The consciousness of the vigilante group stems from the fact that Edo State has been under siege in the last few months, having recorded over 200 deaths araising from Fulani terrorist attacks across the state. I read comments from people like @Auwal H. Mohammad, threatening northern revenge for the killings of these terrorists in Edo who he described as hunters. He also said southerners are doing businesses in the north, unchallenged. Obviously, Auwal knows better the mission of Fulani herders/terrorists in southern Nigeria. It certainly can't be hunting as he claimed. He also knows that southerners in the north are not into hunting in the north. If the Fulani invasion it's purely for hunting, then they should be restricted to the northern bushes like sambisa forest and other parts of the northern region. Auwal is one of the pretentious northerners who often mount the press that the killers herders are not Nigerian Fulani, but when one of them falls victim of their own crime, they'll rush to their defense. Early last month, my dearly beloved friend, Mr. Peter Ogedengbe was slaughtered on his farmland in Erha, Owan West Local Government of Edo State, after harvesting his cassava and feeding them to their cattle. There are other several incidence(s) in Ovia-North East and South West, Etsako East, Akoko-edo, and the two Owan local government areas, where Fulani herders/terrorists Slaughtered mothers and children in numbers and no one shouted revenge in the manner in which Auwal is screaming blue murder. In Edo State more than 25 communities have been sacked by Fulani terrorists who daily graze their cattle over people's crops and whoever challenged such brazen act impulsively meets his untimely death on the spot. Nigeria’s security woes speaks to the heart of the issues I have relentlessly interrogated over the last few years: the total collapse of security architecture is at the heart of it, coupled with government's romanticization with terrorism. Until President Bola Ahmed Tinubu act fast, the disintegration of Nigeria will be quickened by the counter attacks in response to terrorists attacks in southern Nigeria. CREDIT: GEN. CECIL ESEKHAIGBE (RTD) |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by aswani(m): 7:02am On Apr 01, 2025 |
wehla:Fulani needs to be careful over the handling of this matter, Middle belt are no longer on their side, the whole South are fed up of herdsmen menace (apart from Obidients). May we all continue to sheath our sword as we live peacefully amongst each other. I myself think they should have hired police or military escorts for their journey back to wherever. You cannot be speaking the same language as people terrorising others in their farms and be travelling with guns, even dane guns. The aesthetic is not good at all. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by RuddyFusion(m): 7:09am On Apr 01, 2025 |
aswani:What brought Obidient to this now? Can't you make your comments without bringing in Obidient to it? |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Anijay1212(m): 7:14am On Apr 01, 2025 |
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| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by kettykin: 7:16am On Apr 01, 2025 |
The entire Edo and Eastern regions see the writing on the wall. You don’t need to watch a full 90-minute match to know the outcome. The real problem isn’t the North reacting to the slaughter of their own—it’s the traitors within the South, the shameless turncoats who twist the narrative at every opportunity, relentlessly shifting blame onto the Igbo while flooding social media with their deceit. When chaos erupts, these vultures won’t bother distinguishing between Edo, Igbo, or anyone else we’ll all be targets. A certain Niger Delta tribe, after proposing a so-called republic in the 60s, turned around and helped crush it matterred most and when the moment of truth arrived. Now, the same alliance they once served has reduced them to victims, and they dare act surprised. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by aswani(m): 7:17am On Apr 01, 2025 |
RuddyFusion:I can but I choose not to. Their irrational hatred of President Tinubu means they will not join forces with the rest of the country to stop the Fulani herdsmen menace. I also hate bullies which they are. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Mamaafrik1(m): 7:19am On Apr 01, 2025*. Modified: 8:40am On Apr 02, 2025 |
any southner who is going after assailant gambari or fulani should henceforth keep it away from camera. Again The south need to get back the judiciary,paramilitary and military in their palm before this get better ,one reasons why you see more southerners in the navy and Airforce is because of the 2.1 minimum entry requirements for officers cadre. Same should be introduced into the Army. Futhermore,our southern governors need to start massive cattle rearing projects in the hands of NATIVES to check the Fulanis onslaught in the south. The pilot phase should include agreement by state governments to provide veterinary services,good breeds at subsidized rate and eventually buy the adult cows,milk,hides,bones,horn and manure from the individual farmers at good price and transport it to processing zones or markets. (All these farms MUST BE RANCHED ). This is using a bird to kill two stone by taking away cattle rearing business (remember the herdsmen use this as a guise to stay inside our forest and cause mayem and they only knowa trade,CATTLE REARING ,so if this is done many of them will return back to their country or state of Origin) . Also the move will provide agro.processing opportunities for our people and investors and also give us an opportunity to take back our cash and keep it within our regions. Note:over 75_83 % of cattles produced or imported from Nigeria neighbours ends up in the south and middle belt. (C)Mamaafrik. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Makamatic: 7:25am On Apr 01, 2025 |
aswani:And you they use this reasoning cross road ? Make dangote trailer no go March you Sara, when you they support muslim-muslim ticket u nor know . Yooluba man till tomorrow edo state is obidient , go and join your foolaani masters |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by slimfit1(m): 7:29am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Who did are the people the Nigerian police arrest? The Nigerian police need to tell us the process they used to arrest these people they must be tried in Edo not Abuja. Let them use the same method to arrest those kidnapping since they are very good at arresting innocent people. I don't support killing but it must be done fairly. All crime must be investigated Deborah's case must follow. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by aswani(m): 7:34am On Apr 01, 2025*. Modified: 8:54am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Makamatic:I have never voted President Tinubu or his party so your accusations are false. Ẹdo state is so Obidient that Akpata came a distant third in gubernatorial elections. So Obidient that Neda is about to be recalled. Obidiency in Edo state died the day Ndigbo Obidients abused and insulted the Ọba (gha to kpere baba) for going to visit President Tinubu to remind him not to forget Ivbedo in his administration. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by babytoun: 7:36am On Apr 01, 2025 |
aswani:Join forces wirh the rest of the country to stop herdsmen menace ..as if Tinubu is no longer the president. You wan join forces to stop herdsmen menace even in Yoruba land like Ondo where these marauders are having a free ride ? |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Jman06(m): 7:36am On Apr 01, 2025 |
I hope that Okpebholo governor will read this and get all the facts of the incident before wasting Edo people's money in paying some useless compensation! Those guys were the kidnappers who had been terrorizing the south all these years! Our southern governors and political class need to do away with their slave mentality of trying to please the northern political elites in everything! It is disgustingly shameful the way southern leaders shiver at any slightest show of dissatisfaction against the south by the northern political elites |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by aswani(m): 7:41am On Apr 01, 2025 |
babytoun:That is why I called you Obidients out, not everything bitter politics. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Makamatic: 7:46am On Apr 01, 2025*. Modified: 10:55am On Apr 01, 2025 |
aswani:Na u know wetin you they talk , we know you're a yoruba APC man . I'll still repeat it to you , inshort the whole ND is highly obidient . People wey reject una mummy na him want come accept una daddy 😂. No cap if LP had fielded an ishan man in the last elections , it would have been different in edo state but I think it's all good coz they didn't see any suitable candidate from Esan |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by jkpbestseries: 8:03am On Apr 01, 2025 |
They were hunters in another person land, what happened to sambisa forest? Funny people |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by lamentor78(m): 8:05am On Apr 01, 2025 |
The main question am still trying to answer is, why will hunters travel to South South to hunt , when has hunting be a trans state profession . The whole of Sambisa forest is enough for any hunter to practice their hunting skills. God bless Sunday Igboho ,these nonsense should not be tolerated. ...and why is police always releasing those accused when they hand them over to them. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by 2elliot: 8:06am On Apr 01, 2025 |
kettykin:In as much as I am an ardent supporter of Biafra, the Igbos, and Nnamdi Kanu, as an Ijaw man it annoys me a lot to read and listen to some of you talk rubbish about my people. Una dey craze well well. And as much as I hate Adaka Boro myself for his myopic actions for supporting Nigeria instead of being neutral and pushed for the Niger Delta Republic that he had agitated for, I will not have you guys disrespect him. Neither Nigeria or the former Eastern government have a right over us as a people; because they never represented our collective interests. We are a people bound by circumstances of British colonial rules. Adaka Boro had all rights to call for secession from the Eastern region, especially since the first coup happened which created distrust. But only for Ojukwu to crush it and send him to prison( same thing we accuse the Nigerian government of doing to Nnamdi Kanu). And then, within just a few months, the same Ojukwu who arrested and imprisoned Adaka Boro called for secession from Nigeria. How then do you expect Adaka Boro or the minorities to support Biafra after seeing how Ojukwu crushed the Niger Delta Republic movement? So, it's unwise for Igbos to accuse the Ijaws or other minorities for going against Biafra. We are not fools. We the Ijaws in particular, have lost more than any group of people in Nigeria, except for the Biafrans killed, which also includes the Ijaws and other minorities. Our resources are being wasted in one Nigeria everyday, while the people remain poorer. Our air, water and land, are being polluted without consequences or compensation by one Nigeria. We are treated as conquered people and territory by the south west and north because of the Biafrans war. The Biafrans war remains our biggest regret till today. Something which wouldn't have happened if Ojukwu had allowed Adaka Boro and his newly declared Republic be. So, you guys should stop disrespecting the Ijaw people. We are suffering because of Britain, Ojukwu, Gowon, Adaka Boro's shortsightedness, e.t.c. And today, Nigeria has failed all of us, and so it needs to be destroyed to allow everyone go their separate ways. As an Ijaw man myself, I have chosen to destroy Nigeria the little way I can, and if that means alligning with you Igbos and Biafra to do just that. There are no permanent enemies in politics but permanent interest they say. You should do well to seek an alliance with us the Ijaws and other minorities in order to destroy this British fraud. So stop saying things that add salt to injuries. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by SpearofGod(m): 8:08am On Apr 01, 2025 |
[quote author=wehla post=134795268]GENERAL CECIL ESEKHAIGBE ON THE EDO STATE "MURDER" OF NORTHERN "HUNTERS" In as much as I'm against extrajudicial killings as witnessed yesterday in Uromi, Edo State, which I condemned in the strongest possible term, the whole story must be told holistically. Retired General Cecil Esekhaigbe on Channel Television station this evening corroborated what an eyewitnesses account said of the incident yesterday. The General said based on an intel that seasoned kidnappers are being haul back to the north, the vigilante mounted the road, searching all northern bounds vehicles for which Dangote trucks were some of them. In an attempt to search this particular truck, one of the Fulani chap, obviously a radical Fulani terrorist drew a knife and stabbed one of the vigilante. Seeing him in his pool of blood, the rest and the youths descended of them and the rest is history. What General Esekhaigbe didn't say was the bundles of raw cash running into several millions of naira found on them, suspected to be cash from ransom collections from their victims, apart from dangerous weapons, including assault riffles and AK47. The consciousness of the vigilante group stems from the fact that Edo State has been under siege in the last few months, having recorded over 200 deaths araising from Fulani terrorist attacks across the state. I read comments from people like @Auwal H. Mohammad, threatening northern revenge for the killings of these terrorists in Edo who he described as hunters. He also said southerners are doing businesses in the north, unchallenged. Obviously, Auwal knows better the mission of Fulani herders/terrorists in southern Nigeria. It certainly can't be hunting as he claimed. He also knows that southerners in the north are not into hunting in the north. If the Fulani invasion it's purely for hunting, then they should be restricted to the northern bushes like sambisa forest and other parts of the northern region. Auwal is one of the pretentious northerners who often mount the press that the killers herders are not Nigerian Fulani, but when one of them falls victim of their own crime, they'll rush to their defense. Early last month, my dearly beloved friend, Mr. Peter Ogedengbe was slaughtered on his farmland in Erha, Owan West Local Government of Edo State, after harvesting his cassava and feeding them to their cattle. There are other several incidence(s) in Ovia-North East and South West, Etsako East, Akoko-edo, and the two Owan local government areas, where Fulani herders/terrorists Slaughtered mothers and children in numbers and no one shouted revenge in the manner in which Auwal is screaming blue murder. In Edo State more than 25 communities have been sacked by Fulani terrorists who daily graze their cattle over people's crops and whoever challenged such brazen act impulsively meets his untimely death on the spot. Nigeria’s security woes speaks to the heart of the issues I have relentlessly interrogated over the last few years: the total collapse of security architecture is at the heart of it, coupled with government's romanticization with terrorism. Until President Bola Ahmed Tinubu act fast, the disintegration of Nigeria will be quickened by the counter attacks in response to terrorists attacks in southern Nigeria. CREDIT: GEN. CECIL ESEKHAIGBE (RTD)[.] |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Jlow2: 8:10am On Apr 01, 2025 |
The clueless guy at the government house that can not express himself already ran to Kano to pay compensation, no investigation whatsoever. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Gadafii: 8:41am On Apr 01, 2025 |
All of a sudden, an armed Fulani man is a hunter, crazy exchange rate😂😂 What are Fulani hunters hunting in Port harcout, where are vast lands in sambisa forest and other northern states, all the way from sokoto to portharcout to "hunt" then passed thru Edo on their way back to North, inside dangote truck Even dangote needs to be investigated at this point, are his trucks now being used to ferry "hunters" across the states instead of cements and raw materials? |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by aswani(m): 8:42am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Makamatic:I can't speak for Niger Delta/South South, I will point to the results of elections to let you know Obidients are gone in Ẹdo. By the way, I believe "una mummy" Senator Remi Tinubu is a proud Itsekiri woman. Highly obidient kò, high on drugs ni. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by otomatic(m): 8:48am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Why do they even have guns? Is it now permissible to go around with guns in Nigeria? Even dane guns? Are those guns licensed? Where is their hunting ground? What animals were with them as their catch? Why did they have so much cash? |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Oju4190: 9:29am On Apr 01, 2025 |
kettykin:d certain Niger delta tribe dat u refered to wen dey intend to declare deir own Republic from Nigeria it was d Easterner mainly Ironsi and Ojukwu dat cruched it. Den fast forward,wen ojukwu declare Biafra then the certain Niger Delta tribe had to apply the doctrine of " Tit for Tat'. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by kettykin: 9:34am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Oju4190:Can you be kind enough to tell everyone why the ijaws decided to secede in 1966, he never secede in 1965,1964,1963,1962,1961,1960 but chose a very dicey moment to formally declare secession not only that , the same person fought healong for the same country he tried to secede from. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by kettykin: 9:39am On Apr 01, 2025 |
2elliot:Firstly, no one denies that Adaka Boro had every right to seek secession from the Eastern Region. But let's not pretend that his rebellion was some noble pursuit of an independent Niger Delta. He declared war on the very people who stood the best chance of fighting against the oppressive Nigerian state—people who, despite the conflicts of the past, still share a deeper historical and cultural connection with the Ijaw than the Fulani-led North or the Yoruba-dominated West ever will. You argue that Ojukwu's response to Adaka Boro’s rebellion was the reason the minorities turned against Biafra, but history tells a different story. The Nigerian government, not Ojukwu, crushed Boro’s rebellion and imprisoned him. Ojukwu, a military governor sworn to uphold law and order in his region, had no choice but to respond as he did. To compare that to the Nigerian state’s persecution of Nnamdi Kanu is a false equivalence. Kanu was fighting against an established system of oppression; Boro took up arms against his own people at the wrong time and then sold out to the same oppressors he initially fought. The regret of the Biafran War is shared by many, but if there's anything to regret, it's that our fathers didn't win. The suffering of the Ijaw people today is not because of Biafra, but because of Nigeria—the same Nigeria that Boro helped strengthen when he fought against Biafra on behalf of the very forces that now exploit the Niger Delta. The Igbo have never been enemies of the Ijaw or any other minority group. If anything, we have been their strongest allies in resisting the northern oligarchy and the western economic domination. The fact that Ijawland remains impoverished and polluted today should make it clear that aligning with Nigeria was the real mistake. That said, I welcome your call for unity in dismantling this colonial fraud called Nigeria. The Igbo and the Ijaw share a common enemy, and it is time we fight together rather than let past wounds divide us. But unity must be built on truth, not revisionist history. Adaka Boro made his choices, and those choices had consequences—not just for him, but for the entire Niger Delta. The time for blame is over; the time for strategic alliance is now. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by kokoA(m): 9:42am On Apr 01, 2025 |
The vigilante operatives should have captured them, hand them over to the military or police and made sure they are not released until they prove their innocence. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Disenfranchised: 9:42am On Apr 01, 2025 |
One major question should be why did Fulani hunter hid themselves in a Dangote truck if they are legitimate hunters? Let's for a second forget about the ammunition and cash found with them. Dangote trucks enjoy little or no scrutiny down South and I believe that these trucks are mainly used in conveying terrorists and ammunition across the southern borders. |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by Difrent: 9:49am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Makamatic:What was Akpatas position in the last election. You are not up to date Edo is now Lagos, as said by the governor You can go and die Or hug the nearest transformer You can also jump into the lagoon |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by SeeWahala: 9:54am On Apr 01, 2025 |
RuddyFusion:No mind the coward. Na Yoruba man him be, 😂 him dey hide dey claim minority just to have freehand in attacking igbos ![]() If you accost him now he will swear he has nothing to do with tilumbu or politics as a whole but if you view his profile you'd see he is a usual muncher of the agbadoid urchinus species ![]() |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by MrDoGood(m): 10:00am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Nobody is talking about they attacked first |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by SouthSouth1914: 10:05am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Hundreds of Edo people have been slaughtered by these Fulani men, none has been caught. It is an insult to Edo people what the governor is doing! |
| Re: Uromi Killing: Balanced View From A Retired General by SeeWahala: 10:06am On Apr 01, 2025 |
Makamatic:GBAM! no lies in your post @bolded. The cretin has been trying his hardest to sound neutral for months but his biased Yoruba blood keeps spiking his posts with Agbad0 vibes ![]() |
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