₦airaland Forum

Dogalmighty17:
That's the simple truth. The first terrorist bombing in Nigeria didn't even start in the north. The first car bomb in Nigeria wasn't done by the North but by the South. The northerners carried what the South started and made it worse.

Is the why you guys have not turned it to industry? Because the south started it.. The distance btw you guys and common sense is very far

ebukal67x:
Kidnapping didn't start from the South. It started from the North, with the early days of Boko Haram.

GenZ spotted lol

Where kidnapping started from is not the point.
The point is that the current kidnappings, wherever they may be happening, should stop.

E reach una turn,una turn am to world war

Stephen0mozzy:
Una reasoning dey low sha. Always finding way to shift blames, rather than addressing your own incompetence to Handle the situation with the hard iron hand it needs.

Una don move from accusing previous administration to now blaming entire geopolitical zones. If it started in the South, why are you not nipping it in the bud when it started in your own backyard of the North.

Like people like leaders.

.. shut up a focus on the truth

treesun:
Kidnapping Started In Southern Nigeria, It Didn’t Start In The North, Says Governor Sule

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule says insecurity, particularly kidnapping, has become a national crisis that no region can afford to ignore, insisting that the phenomenon did not originate in northern Nigeria as widely assumed.

Speaking on the Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, the governor described a recent meeting of Nigerian governors as tense and emotionally charged, reflecting the gravity of the nation’s security challenges.

He said, “It is usually very forgetful for us in this part of the world, you know we usually forget things very, very easily and we are very fast actually and very quick in pointing accusing fingers at others.”

Sule said the governors’ meeting was heated because members were frustrated by rising insecurity.

“You needed to see the stress at that meeting and the tension during the meeting as far as the issues of these insecurities are concerned,” he said.

“Sometimes people raise their voices… people are angry, people are warning, people are thinking we are not doing enough. We are accusing ourselves that we are not doing enough," he added.

According to him, the level of agitation during the meeting showed that the governors are deeply concerned.

“If the people are not worried, we wouldn’t be talking like that to each other,” he said.

Governor Sule argued that kidnapping initially became widespread in Nigeria’s oil-producing southern region before later spreading to the North.

“Let me remind you… if you go back between 2003, 2004 all the way to around 2009 in this country, no kidnapping was taking place in northern Nigeria,” he said. “But kidnappings were taking place in all the oil regions.”

Drawing from his experience in the oil and gas industry, Sule recounted how foreign and local oil workers were abducted frequently in the Niger Delta.

“At that time most of the oil workers were being kidnapped, it was a daily activity in the oil region,” he noted.

He recalled that a firm, Tetra Tech, had its workers abducted.

“One of them was kidnapped, and they made up their mind that they were not going to come back to Nigeria,” he said, explaining that the development led him to serve as a consultant and work in Port Harcourt and Trans-Amadi.

Sule said the early wave of abductions in the South was driven mainly by financial motives.

“It was mostly economic kidnapping because they kidnapped some of our people and a lot of them, in most cases oil workers, were kidnapped and oil companies would pay,” he said.

He added that the situation began to ease during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan following negotiations and agreements addressing resource control and militancy.

Sule warned against regionalising the current wave of insecurity, stressing that Nigeria must unite to defeat kidnapping nationwide.

“We forget that the issue of kidnapping started in the South with the abduction of oil workers, then the people of the North thought it was none of their business,” he said.

“Now it is a major problem in the North. All of us as Nigerians should work together to eradicate kidnapping from Nigeria.”

He expressed optimism that the current crisis would eventually be brought under control.

“So now the kidnapping came into northern Nigeria; so this is what is happening and it will come to an end,” he said.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/08/kidnapping-started-southern-nigeria-it-didnt-start-north-says-governor-sule

This is ALL sementics coming from the Governor Sule of Nassarawa State who is a Fula. His father is a traditional ruler of Fula origin in Nassarawa State based off of credible investigations.

Kidnappings historically have taken place in the North and South of what is now modern Nigeria for centuries now due to intra-ethnic wars, the trans-Saharan Slave Trade and the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. With the 1804 rise of the foreign Fula so-called jihad led by the Niger Republic-born Uthman Dan Fodio and his goons, they embarked on kidnappings for sale into the SLAVE TRADE of people in Kanuriland, Hausaland, and especially the Bauchi area of the Middle Belt region of Nigeria in the 1800s. A lot of the Kanuri enslaved prisoners of war who were rescued from slave ships by British Navy Squadrons patrolling the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa in the 1800s and resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone (just like others who were rescued from slave ships) said they were captured and sold into slavery by the Fulas during the jihad. The famous Ali Eisami [meaning "Ali the son of Aisha"] is one of those rescued Kanuris whose father was also a Kanuri Muslim scholar. From historical records I've seen, about 700 Kanuri for instance were in Sierra Leone based on census figures as of the late 1800s.

However, with the return of democracy in 1999, the resurgence in kidnappings started with the foreign Fula militia bandits invasions of Hausaland and the Plateau State region as of November 2001. Some communities had lands seized from the indigenous people by the foreign Fula militia and CHANGED to Fula names.

Then kidnappings too began from the early 2000s of the OBJ Presidency with the Ijaw militancy, vandalism of pipelines and stealing of crude oil for sale to buy weapons in the Niger Delta during the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidency which led to Asari Dokubo being arrested, sent to court, and jailed for involvement in militancy.

The north always finding ways to shift blame instead of taking responsibility for your shortfalls. It's the south that also thought you how to import terrorists and commit genocide. Pathetic bunch that call themselves leaders.

Must you borrow bad habit and so improved on it?

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/08/kidnapping-started-southern-nigeria-it-didnt-start-north-says-governor-sule

The south saw them as criminals while the North see the terrorist as their brothers. Imaging saying an attack on Bokoharam is an attack on the north? So theyhave to deal with it or fight it.
I dare Northern governor to come out and say Asiwaju hasn't giving them support tiwards the fight against insurgency? You will see same people taking selfie with Terrorist.

Iceberg3:
A Mallam will always remain a Mallam...

A Mallam simply means a Teacher.

Hmm

Stinking statement from smelling mouth.

Please help us solve the insecurity ravaging the country, stop blame games jaree.

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/08/kidnapping-started-southern-nigeria-it-didnt-start-north-says-governor-sule

These are 'leaders' in charge of the welfare of millions of people, and when you listen to them talk, it's like you're listening to teenagers

Africa is really in trouble

DomPerignon:
Slave raiding was a national past time in the north prior to the British stumping it out.

The Fulani terrorists wrecking havoc kidnapping and sacking entire communities see this as their heritage.

What is different from kidnapping and slave raiding ?

A slave cannot be "ransomed" back to their family, that's the difference. Their children will be slaves, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so on, an endless supply of human resources unless they're freed by the owners upon their own volition (the last bit is rare)
Sit down, brother.

Christianity started in the south when will u become a pastor ?

So instead of tackling insecurity head-on these things are arguing and debating where kidnapping started?

Overtaking is allowed! You now own the franchise!😁

Lukuluku69:
A Mallam simply means a Teacher.

What about abokie

Does it matter where it started from? You guys should have some conscience and stop this competition. You'll destroy your region and the country because militants were given amnesty and by all means the bandits and terrorists must be given amnesty?

Cam you imagine what this governor is saying? Is this a justification of kidnappings in the North Central?
All can seen the level of IQ an average governor is displaying. On a sane clime, it will be difficult to cling a post of janitor.
Inane mofos.

kiddaz:
What about abokie

My Friend/Friend.

Point of CORRECTION To Governor Sule LAMBA- LET THE TRUTH BE:
Rankadede' governor Sule!
Are you the one talking on the TV or your Aides,that is being aided?
OR what are you talking about because throughout your so called Television 📺 Interviews - you did not Offer one single Solutions to TERRORISM,but you rather tell us about vague pleas on Kidnapping!
•Is TERRORISM and Kidnapping For RANSOME - the same thing or the Same Scale,Mr Sule?
•IS THIS HOW TO SOLVE THE REAL TERRORISM GOING ON IN MOST OF NORTHERN STATES- WHERE YOU GOVERNORS HAVE BEEN COLLECTING Humongous Security Money 🤑 -Votes,SINCE THE CIVILIAN RULE DISPENSATIONS,Every Year and These Are NBillions of Money being Diverted?
•Besides,how did Kidnapping in Niger-Delta Regions- Becomes The Northern- TERRORISM and Kidnapping Business?
Are the two the same thing?
•Your Terrorists-Bandits, Kidnappers Invades - Farmland with Ak-47,Guns and Weapons ,
i- to Kill,Maim,Shed Innocent- NIGERIAN Blood,
ii-Take Over Others Land and Properties,
iii-Take over their Wives, Forceful- Recruitment of the Youths - under Same Faith- is that same as Kidnappings for Money?
iv•When did we have Obasanjo 2nd-Term - That Borno- WELCOME Boko- haram-with Yusuf and Others- that Obasanjo destroyed their Bases and,
- Why Did The North Didn't Voice out that they were against BOKOHAM at that time? -RATHER,12- STATES OF THE NORTH QUICKLY BECAME Sharia'- and OBJ said ,
' This Is A Political Sharia'- Not The Real Sharia' and how have these States grown Economically Since that time?
-Nothing To Show For It in these States!
•-These STATES-In The North -have seen Poverty, Depravation in the Youths and the Masses - DESPITE THE BILLIONS THEY( Governors ) Have BEEN COLLECTING SINCE 1963!
•Govn Sule,
- You are Not TELLING THE TRUTH AS YOU WERE DODGING THE ISSUES - BY PASSING THE BUCK TO THE SOUTHERN CITIZENS - THAT THEY STARTED KIDNAPPING IN 🪔 Delta Regions,But How Did TERRORISM Became Part Of The Northern STATES ?
PLEASE, Answer NIGERIANS!
You mentioned that ' Governors Recently met- Is It All The Nigerians - Governors
Or the Associations of Northern Governors- including your traditional Rulers - that we saw the outcome you- were Praising,but could not confront some of them, With Facts and Evidence,
FOR Example - Not too long ,'an Emir in Kwara -was Caught on Camera- saying they should leave the Terrorists Alone'
-So when the North becomes the custodian of hibernating with the Terrorists and Kidnappers - the Real Enemies of Nigeria,what Do You Think We( Nigeria) Should Do to those Who are Supporting and Funding the Insecurities in Nigeria, Especially the Northern States?
*Finally,You Could Not Offer A Single Solutions to this Insecurity brouhaha and You Are A Governor - Meaning:
-You All Know those Behind the Insecurity and Your People don't want to Destroy it because Some People Are Benefiting!
-CAN THESE GOVERNORS RETURN ALL THE HUMONGOUS MONEY 💰 COLLECTED AS SECURITY -VOTES TO THE RESPECTIVE STATES?
SINCE YOU CAN NOT PROFER SOLUTIONS?
Nigerians Awaits Your Response!

Stephen0mozzy:
Una reasoning dey low sha. Always finding way to shift blames, rather than addressing your own incompetence to Handle the situation with the hard iron hand it needs.

Una don move from accusing previous administration to now blaming entire geopolitical zones. If it started in the South, why are you not nipping it in the bud when it started in your own backyard of the North.

Like people like leaders.

Answer with yes or no

Did kidnapping first started in the South?

ebukal67x:
Kidnapping didn't start from the South. It started from the North, with the early days of Boko Haram.

Ebuka go back and read history. Kidnapping of oil expatriates started from the south since before Muhammed Yusuf and his boko haram ideology even started

odejimioflagos:
Governor Sule is spot on. The early days of kidnappings were more prominent in the south, especially in the Niger Delta. The narrative that it started in the north is not entirely accurate.

And how does ''correcting'' the narrative help tackle the problem of kidnapping that the North is currently suffering from.

Mumu man. Instead of him to look for a way to end the criminal activities like k3lling of innocent people, banditry , cattle rustling , destruction of crops and raiding communities, he telling us the origin of kidnapping. Are the Fulanis, not carrying out these activities? Who are the biggest nuisance in the country at the moment ?
Has he heard of a Niger Deltan kidnapping people from the North or in Lagos? Has he heard of Ijaws bombing churches and kidnapping children from schools ? This man thinks like an illiterate. Some of these Northern governors are not fit enough to be hired as clerks.

Iceberg3:
A Mallam will always remain a Mallam...

Because he spoke the truth?
Since when is it a bad thing to speak the truth

motymop:
Truth, the first kidnapping and bombing started with over delta militant but that does not matter right now

There was kidnapping in Otokoto, Oweri in Imo state in the mid 1990s

Just conclude that terrorism started in the south and that's why there's no solution to it in the north, anumpama

Racoon:
Accept the responsibility of failing your region instead of engaging in a dick measuring contest.

ebukal67x:
Kidnapping didn't start from the South. It started from the North, with the early days of Boko Haram.

Goodmarlian:
After una go say igbos dey emotional and sentimental with Biafra aboki never agree they are wrong before even when it's glaring just imagine we are all the same

trutharena:
You go fear analysis by Sule.

ElSudani:
Kidnapping started in the creeks of Niger delta.

There was kidnapping in the south east as far back as 1990s during the saga of Otokoto, Oweri in Imo state

Emeskhalifa:
Answer with yes or no

Did kidnapping first started in the South?

Mumu man. If we are looking for what started in the North, there are many. Suicide bombing, mass and senseless killing, genocide, destroying other people's farmland. Is it a thing of joy to start debating whether kidnapping started in the North or South?
Is the North not the biggest menace we have in Nigeria ? Which other people will leave his region and go and kidnap others except the North ? Which other regions have suicide bombers if not the North ?