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nairalanda1:
The thing is, it is going to cost a lot of money and it is also going to need a change in the way we run our economy before our security forces have the resources and stuff needed to fight terrorism in nigeria.

The problem is, Nigerians do not want that type of economy., or change.

A simple legislation of rural communities having automatic tools will stop this madness 📌💯.

Real2088:
Una never see anything,see one still dey represent hypocrisy,no worry time will tell bro

Tell what? January is here and Tinubu is winning. Or what are you talking about?

CodeTemplar:
This ADC paid writer again.

So what's ADC about what he said? And how is he an ADC writer?

The SW people here who should make it enter 12 pages are unfortunately "trolls " . The Igbos here are organic and they reach spontenuosly

esnbrutality:
The death is irrelevant because the killing happened in SW. If this happened in SE, the LOVERS of IGBO land will make this thread enter 12 pages. Let me do roll call..


FreeStuffsNG
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Flangelo12 HacheNoire Yarimo chiraq82 Legendhero Richtaiwo Wickedtruths madridguy

Why will this happen in peaceful SW ?

It's Obvious You Are Traumatized For Not Being A Yoruba

iichidodo:
Nothing will happen if there's an assimilation of terrorism in Yorubaland...The people will just learn to live with it.

You Are Not Correct, It's Obvious You Are Traumatized For Not Being A Yoruba

iichidodo:
Nothing will happen if there's an assimilation of terrorism in Yorubaland...The people will just learn to live with it.

I guess this did not happened in South East or it wasn't IPOB in the news cos if it is your guessing is as good as mine

esnbrutality:
The death is irrelevant because the killing happened in SW. If this happened in SE, the LOVERS of IGBO land will make this thread enter 12 pages. Let me do roll call..


FreeStuffsNG
FSBoperator MagicBishop DomPerignon
Flangelo12 HacheNoire Yarimo chiraq82 Legendhero Richtaiwo Wickedtruths madridguy

Why will this happen in peaceful SW ?

You forgot to add that Helinus and other Igbo haters too

Basicend:
President Tinubu is not the one ruling Nigeria. There are lots of things he wants to do that he cannot do.

Our Yoruba and Igbo young men have abandoned the Nigeria military signficantly to Northerners. Many of the bandits / terrorists received weapons directly from NA.

The Igbo guys even say that they should not bring recruitment to their side at all.

So who is in charge of our arms and ammunitions? The northern guys that constantly responded to NA recruitment calls have grown tru the ranks and flooded the system.

We southerners are here speaking Grammer and doing business up and down, but they (northerners) are planning something different.

One Aboki told me in Ikeja about 3 months ago that we Yorubas think that Hausa's are fools and uneducated, but that we will all understand that we are the fools very soon.

I won't say much. Our strategic and defensive strategy has been very poor. It's only fear of external influence that is still calming the north down a little right now. It's a sad case.

Do you mean civil war will be starting soon

Kperogi epistle on terrorism Oyo was good but really surprised he failed to use the same energy on his home town Kwara North where it is daily occurence

Too dull that can’t happen here we are more educated… wack ass

3weeksblocking:
Yoruba land must be islamized inshallah

This is the will of the prophet SAW peace be upon him

iichidodo:
The same subgroup exists in Kogi, anywhere there's a heterogeneous mixture between the northerners and indigenes as well as a cultural and religious assimilation between both sides, you have a base where external actors from futta djallon or as far way as Mali or Libya can call home and perpetrate such heinous crimes against the locals....Who would blame them? If I was a hardened desert fighter from Mali, affiliated to one of these Jihadist groups in the Sahel region looking for fortune, loot and booty. The sweet, vast green land of the Yorubas populated by a docile people will be prime real estate to establish a niche for my group..

Very informative and well explained

stuffs2002:
Igbos brought kidnappings and beheadings into Nigeria during the days of the Otokoto kidnappings and beheadings in the early 1990s. Does that mean every kidnapping or beheading is done by Igbos.
That incident was an attack where some people pretended to be Fulanis and went to attack a church.

This is no longer the era of lagos ibadan express propaganda.

CodeTemplar:
This ADC paid writer again.

I honestly cringe at your silliness.

Mentcee:
I honestly cringe at your silliness.

get lost. Gibberish spiller.

sammirano:
After wasting my time to read the nonsense this op writes the most disgusting part is northerners cannot differentiate between Yoruba and Igbo, are you insane? Our identity is far apart. Yoruba has zero similarities with Igbos

Yes. An average northerner in the far north can't differentiate between igbo , yoruba or edo

nairalanda1:
The thing is, it is going to cost a lot of money and it is also going to need a change in the way we run our economy before our security forces have the resources and stuff needed to fight terrorism in nigeria.

The problem is, Nigerians do not want that type of economy., or change.

Always yarning offpoint

Blankstare:
Yes. An average northerner in the far north can't differentiate between igbo , yoruba or edo

Go and read about the Nigerian civil war and come back to me, Yoruba were more than Igbo in the north at the time, yet they reached their targets easily

sammirano:
Go and read about the Nigerian civil war and come back to me, Yoruba were more than Igbo in the north at the time, yet they reached their targets easily

Truth is, the typical Igbo outside his homeland does not live his life in quiet humility like his Yoruba, Hausa and Edo counterparts do. Such lifestyle engenders a feeling of distrust from their hosts especially when moves are made to install themselves as traditional chiefs in parts belonging to others. Most Igbo will vehemently challenge my optics on this matter but it doesn’t matter. Chinua Achebe a prominent Igbo and a global literary icon had this to say about The Igbo, his kith and kin -"There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behaviour that can offend; by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness."

franchasofficia:
Tinubu is not a Yoruba man but many Yorubas fail to realize this dark truth.


No Yoruba man or woman can confidently name Bola Tinubu's real blood relatives like siblings, nieces, nephews, uncles, etc

So Tinubu fell from the sky abi since he does not have a father nor mother. Or Maybe Tinubu is an alien from another planet.

Many of you OBIDIENTS are downright ridiculous and that is why no one takes you seriously

Klington:
This is no longer the era of lagos ibadan express propaganda.

Las las ur head just dey turn oniown

I said kidnappings and beheadings and you thought you were defending your people when you brought a ritual killing story in the south west as if I am from the south west.

Go and read about the Otokoto killings and hide your head

https://web.facebook.com/100066676973079/photos/the-otokoto-ritual-killings-of-1996-a-dark-chapter-in-owerris-historyon-a-regula/1123034473262441/?_rdc=1&_rdr#

https://nigerialii.org/akn/ng/judgment/ngsc/2016/88/eng@2016-12-08

https://www.nairaland.com/8496007/otokoto-ritual-killings-1996-crime

SlavaUkraini:
Baba nor go send anyone until Fulani people go kpai one of his children....

Which of them? The ones wey dey abroad abi the ones wey use security to surround themselves. Dey play

edogu:
Which of them? The ones wey dey abroad abi the ones wey use security to surround themselves. Dey play

Bandits nor dey reason security details, if they mean you, dem go get you...

CorrectionFLuid:
Always yarning offpoint

Thank you for your kind and good comment.

ogododo:
Terrorism In Oyo And Tinubu’s Yoruba Test- Farooq Kperogi by ogododo


For more than a year, a conscientious, cosmopolitan retired senior military officer from the North has told me that his worst fear for Nigeria is the prospect of terrorists and bandits from the North extending their bloodstained tentacles into Yorubaland. He said it would provoke the sort of communal convulsion that would take on a regional and ethnic hue. He doubts Nigeria can survive it.

When news emerged of the abduction of students, teachers and other residents, including the chilling, tear-jerking slaughter of a teacher known as Michael Oyedokun in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State by armed terrorists, he reached out to me again yesterday to say his worst fears appeared to be materializing.

Before he reached out, my own thoughts had gone to what he had been telling me immediately after I read the news. I kept thinking: How will the people of the Southwest react to this heartrending incident?

What happened wasn’t a run-of-the-mill terrorist or bandit attack. It was a vile, criminal spectacle calculated to elicit raw emotions. It’s the kind of tragedy that every part of the North has endured in silence for years.

Several people forwarded to me the video of Oyedokun’s beheading. I couldn’t bring myself to watch it. I simply lack the mental and emotional strength to put myself through that kind of soul-depressing anguish. Yes, I confess to being a wimp when it comes to issues like that.

Even so, the story of Oyedokun’s decapitation, especially the last words he was reported to have uttered before he was beheaded, still haunts me. What sort of insensate beasts in human form snuff out life like that for fun?

My older friend’s fear is that, human beings being human beings, villainy from outsiders tends to be refracted through primordial lenses. And recriminatory responses to assaults against a group identity tend to target innocent people living among the victims, which provokes an endless cycle of unjustified retaliatory violence.

We have seen that in the tragic rupture of the centuries-old relational harmony between Hausa and Fulani people in northern Nigeria, about which the country seems oblivious, but which has spilled over to social media and is becoming the inspiration for so-called Hausa-Zalla [Hausa-only] associations.

Years of sustained rural and urban banditry in the Northwest, particularly in Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto, have caused many Hausa people to interpret what is happening to them in ethnic terms, which is perplexing to outsiders because the depth and breadth of the ethnic and cultural alchemy of the two groups is such that only self-conscious genealogy can tell them apart.

Ordinary Fulani people in rural Northwest Nigeria, who are not bandits and who are themselves victims of the horrors of bandits who happen to be Fulani, became targets of attacks by Hausa victims of persistent banditry who had been stumped by the steadily escalating virulence of attacks against them.

The tit-for-tat violent attacks between Hausa and Fulani people in the Northwest are off the radar of the institutional media because, as I pointed out in my December 29, 2018, column titled “Triple Jeopardy of the Unending Zamfara Mass Murders,” the media “lack ready-made, stereotypical mental representations with which to frame the conflict, so they either avoid reporting it altogether or minimize its horrors if they report it at all. The news media thrive on Manichean binaries, conflictual differences, and sensation. The Zamfara mass slaughters don’t lend themselves to that.”

Of course, under Buhari’s presidency, many northern Muslims had an incentive to conceal the recriminatory violence that went on between the Hausa and the Fulani in rural areas. They did not want to “embarrass” or undermine Buhari. That incentive is gone now.

If attacks like the tragic incident at Community High School, Ahoro-Esinle, persist, extend to other parts of Yorubaland and cause serious threats to education, the most prized commodity in the region, something is going to give, and it won’t be pretty for Nigeria. That was the core of my friend’s concern.

Human beings, in general, do not interpret identical acts through identical moral categories. They interpret them through group identity, threat perception and prior suspicion. Had an armed gang of Yoruba youths done exactly what the terrorists from the North did in Ahoro-Esinle, Yoruba people would likely say, “These are criminals,” “These are area boys,” “These are jobless youths,” or “The state has failed.” The crime would be individualized.

But because the perpetrators are northerners, it is more likely to be ethnicized or Islamized. The perpetrators cease to be merely criminals. They become representatives of a larger feared category.

As I said, this isn’t unique to Yoruba people. It’s a human trait. And it’s not hypocrisy. Were the situation to be reversed, that is, an armed gang that happened to be Yoruba abducting and slaughtering innocents in any part of the North, it would be interpreted in ethnic terms.

Scholars actually have a name for this. It’s called intergroup attribution bias. Some call it the ultimate attribution error. It means people tend to explain bad behavior by in-group members as situational, individual or exceptional, but explain bad behavior by out-group members as revealing something about the out-group’s character, culture or hidden agenda.

As I despair over the disquieting prospect of terrorist and bandit attacks by northerners devolving into a theater of mutually assured destruction, I recall President Tinubu’s self-professed raison d’être for being president in his memorable 2022 “Emi lo kan” speech in Abeokuta, and it gives me a little relief.

He said the irreducible minimum condition he gave Muhammadu Buhari for supporting his presidential aspiration in 2015 was that Buhari “must not joke with Yoruba interests” [“Mo sì sọ fún un pé kí ó má fi ọ̀rọ̀ Yorùbá ṣeré.”]

He also framed his presidency as the turn of the Yoruba. People don’t seem to realize that before he said “Emi lo kan” [It is my turn], he first said “Yoruba lo kan” [It is the turn of the Yoruba]. “This time, it is the turn of the Yoruba,” he said. “And among the Yoruba, it is my turn.”

Especially with the appointment of Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (rtd) as Special Adviser on Homeland Security, perhaps Tinubu will prove, as he told Buhari not to “joke with Yoruba interests,” that his presidency won’t countenance terroristic banditry in Yorubaland.

Should he do that, that would be one instance when I would celebrate ethnic particularism. It would be a positive use of ethnic solidarity for at least two reasons.

One, seeing the government aggressively and concertedly go after these bloodthirsty scum of the earth whose only reason for existing is to visit violence, death and misery on innocent people will reduce the temptation toward retaliatory violence against innocent northerners in the Southwest, which could propel reprisals against innocent southerners in the North.

We all know that in moments of inflamed national passions, most southerners can’t tell Hausa, Fulani, Nupe or Angas people apart. And northerners lump Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, Efik and other southerners into one undifferentiated group.

Second, if the terrorists from the North who have crossed over to the Southwest are vanquished, they won’t be alive to torment our people anywhere. And, of course, they won’t be alive to “repent,” be “de-radicalized” and “re-integrated” back into society, from where they wreak more havoc.

Yoruba lo kan shouldn’t be limited to exclusivist elite appointments. It should manifest in protecting the people from the existential threats posed by terrorists and bandits. That would, interestingly, benefit everyone in the country. I hope Yorubaland is where terrorism and banditry finally go to die.
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2026/05/terrorism-in-oyo-and-tinubus-yoruba-test.html?m=1

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

CodeTemplar:
This ADC paid writer again.

May terrorist not happen to u and ur children. This is not politics. This is about human lives

Exceed15:
May terrorist not happen to u and ur children. This is not politics. This is about human lives

To the writer, it is about politics. He should write same piece for governors too.