₦airaland Forum

THE MURDER OF THE FULANI: YUGOSLAVIA UNFOLDING

The Department of State Security (DSS) have claimed that five Fulani herdsmen were abducted, killed and buried in a mass grave by members of IPOB in Abia state a few days ago. They have also claimed that there were up to fifty more bodies in that mass grave and that they are all Fulani.

The implications of this announcement is obvious. It will create more tension and fear in the land and it will lead to reprisal killings in the north. Violence is never the way out and I have always believed that it has no place in any civilized society. Yet what I find curious about this announcement is the fact that it is unique and historic.

I say this because thousands of Igbos, Yorubas, Niger-Deltans and Middle Belters have been killed by Fulani militants and herdsmen over the last ten months since President Buhari came to power yet the DSS has never announced it and told the country about the details and ethnic identities of the victims.

When one thousand Shiite Muslims were slaughtered in Zaria and buried in mass graves the DSS did not speak. When five hundred Idomas were massacred in Agatu by Fulani militants the DSS did not speak.

When hundreds of southern and Middle Belt farms were raided by AK-47-wielding Fulani herdsmen who murdered, raped, burnt down and took over the land of their victims the DSS never gave us details of the victims or made any announcements.

When our leaders in the south were kidnapped and when men witnessed their wives and children being raped and butchered by the Fulani militias before their very eyes the DSS made no announcements.

When the International Terror Index told the world that the Fulani militias in Nigeria are the "fourth most deadly terror organization in the world" the DSS said nothing and neither did they give us details about their activities or their victims.

Worse of all is the fact that our government and our President, who himself happens to be a Fulani, has never deemed it fit or necessary to condemn the activities of the Fulani herdsmen and militants and neither have they expressed any sympathy or displayed any empathy for their many victims.

Let me be clear: the murder of anyone, regardless of their ethnicity or faith, is unacceptable to me. I deplore murder and violence and in my view the killing of one innocent soul diminishes the humanity of every single one of us as a community and nation.

However it seems curious that the minute that Fulanis are killed in the east the DSS is quick to rise to the occasion and express concern about it whilst they do not express the same concern when Nigerians from other ethnic nationalities are killed by the Fulani in their own homes and land.

Therein lies the double standard and it is sad and unfortunate. Furthermore not only is it very dangerous but it also confirms the view that our government and security agencies are not only partial but that they are also attempting to implement an ethnic and religious agenda.

Three questions must be answered: firstly who is funding the Fulani herdsmen and where do they get their weapons from? Secondly why does our government not only turn a blind eye to the mass murder and genocide that they regularly indulge in but also go out of their way to protect them?

And thirdly why do the government and security agencies have so much hatred and contempt for those that the Fulani regularly target and their victims and why do they believe that those victims do not deserve to enjoy the full protection of the Nigerian Federal Government?

Could it be because they are regarded as slaves and second class citizens? Is Fulani blood and are Fulani lives more important than others? Indeed do non-Fulani lives matter in President Buhari's Nigeria?

Are we compelled to begin a ‘’non-Fulani lives matter’’ movement which is based and fashioned on the ‘’Black Lives Matter’’ movement in the United States of America before we can draw the attention of the world to what is going on in our country?

Is it not obvious and logical that when the security agencies refuse to protect the citizens from the murderous hordes and herdsmen from hell those citizens will eventually seek to protect themselves and go on the offensive? That is human nature and it is to be expected.

Is it not clear to those in power that when a people are convinced that their government is no longer impartial in any conflict and that the security agencies of that government have been directed to go out of their way to actively and openly support those that constantly and regularly slaughter their people it will eventually lead to open war?

Is it so difficult to accept the fact that no government and no force from hell or on earth can compel or intimidate a man into lying down passively and silently watch his family, loved ones and kinsmen being butchered and slaughtered morning, day and night without trying to protect them and without indulging in some form of retaliation?

With the sort of things that are going on in our country today it is time to tell ourselves some home-truths. No-one wishes to accept it let alone say it but sadly war will come to Nigeria again within the next few years. I do not want war and I consider it to be the ultimate evil but I am constrained to speak the truth and say things as I see them.

The fact that a war is coming is a testimony to the fact that we have all failed to manage the peace that God has given us since 1970 and the cessation of hostilities after our brutal civil war. We have failed so badly that the remote and immediate causes of that civil war are back with us today even though we hate to admit or acknowledge it.

Our country is like Yugoslavia unfolding before it exploded and violently broke into five separate countries. All the signs are there. Anyone that knows about the history of Yugoslavia or that is a student of world history will agree with me and appreciate what I am saying.

Consider the dangerous mix. A crumbling economy. An inept, weak, failing and paranoid government. A hungry, angry and increasingly desperate civilian population. An ignorant, obsessive, arrogant, insensitive, corrupt and self-absorbed political class who are out of touch with reality.

The ruthless implementation of an ethnic and religious agenda by a reckless and irresponsible government that refuses to consider the implications of taking such a course of action and that have an early-1960’s mind-set. The growing unrest, ethnic killings and sectarian murders.

An ethnic and religious division within the Armed Forces and security agencies. A relentless clamp-down on and persecution of the opposition and all dissenting voices by the government and the use of fear as a tool of governance and control. The entering into a secret and covert treaty and military alliance with a group of Arab Sunni Muslim countries that seek to Islamise our country, that have, over the years, funded the most brutal and barbaric jihadist and radical Islamist terrorist organisations all over the world and that seek to impugn our national integrity and violate the secularity of our state.

The constant and open abuse of power. The impunity and insensitivity of the Buhari administration to the plight of the masses. The hunger, hardship, poverty and suffering in the land. The failure of the government to get rid of the fuel queues and supply electrical power.

The demonisation of peaceful and law-abiding self-determination groups and the unlawful incarceration of their leaders. The breach of the constitutional rights of the citizens and the ignoring of court orders and judicial processes by the government.

The attempt to intimidate and control the Judiciary and Legislature by the government and so much more. The list goes on and on and history proves that such a mixture of circumstances is dangerous and can only lead to open conflict if not halted.

The country is badly divided today and the people are suffering as never before. The division and hatred amongst some of our ethnic groups has reached pre-civil war levels.

We in the south must prepare for the worse and not be found wanting when the trouble starts. That is my greatest fear. We must not end up like the Bosnians did during the Yugoslavian civil war.

They were the only ethnic group in Yugoslavia that was not prepared for it when the war started. They had no arms, no plan, no allies and no fall back position.

When the fighting started they were caught unawares and for two years they suffered immeasurably for their stupidity and naivety whilst their people were killed like flies and their women and children were raped and enslaved. God forbid this should happen to our people.

The reason that they suffered for two years was because there was an international arms embargo placed on all the ethnic groups and warring militias and armies in Yugoslavia when the war started. And sadly the Bosnians were the only ones that did not buy and stockpile arms in preparation for war months and years before it actually broke out.

Plagued by a cowardly and weak-minded ruling elite and a naive, self-serving, servile, ignorant and intellectually-challenged middle class the Bosnians just kept talking, writing newspaper articles, appeasing the aggressors and their tormentors, praying and hoping for peace whilst all the other ethnic and religious groups and warring parties were quietly preparing for war. Sounds familiar?

They suffered immensely for their lack of understanding, insight and foresight and their civilian population paid a heavy price. For two years after the civil war started the Bosnians could not even buy a gun or bullet to defend themselves. Their towns were besieged and blown up whilst their women and children were raped, enslaved and butchered.

Their men were rounded up into Second World War-like Nazi concentration camps and starved and tortured to death and their dignity and self-respect was taken from them. They were turned into an internally-displaced people and their land was transformed into a sea of desperate and suffering refugees.

It was a nightmare from hell and suffering on this scale had not been seen on European soil since the First and Second World Wars. It was after the international community silently watched them being slaughtered by their Serbian and Croatian compatriots for two long years that they were compelled, as a consequence of pressure from the people of the world and on moral and humanitarian grounds, to lift the arms embargo on them so that they could buy arms to defend themselves.

The war dragged on for more years after that but at least the Bosnians, though two years late, were now able to fight back and defend themselves. It took the intervention of NATO, the bombing of Belgrade by the international community led by the Americans and the eventual break-up of the entire country into five pieces to stop the carnage and barbarity of the Serbs and eventually bring the civil war to an end.

It was during that war that the term "ethnic cleansing" was first used by CNN to describe what was being done by the Serbs to the Bosnians, the Croats, the Kosovars and the Monte Negrans, all of whom represented the other four ethnic groups. Eventually the country broke up and each of them got their independence from the dominant Serbs and one another.

If such a thing could have happened in the heart of Europe in the early 1990's why on earth would any reasonably intelligent person dismiss the notion that it can happen here? The only difference would be that if such a thing were to ever unfold in our country it would be far worse than what happened in Yugoslavia due to the sheer size of our population.

The signs are already there and it is left for us to recognize them and prepare ourselves for the worse or to ignore them and, like the Bosnians, eventually pay a very heavy price. I pray that I am wrong but as far as I am concerned, for Nigeria, the bell is tolling. May the Lord deliver us.

Source: [url=https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154064126677210&id=62188827209&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10154064126677210%3Atl_objid.10154064126677210%3Athid.62188827209%3A306061129499414%3A2%3A0%3A1462085999%3A7417966666942217675&__tn__=%2As]FFK Facebook wall.[/url]

If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

FFK so on point.!! BTW #DSSUnderBuhari is already trending on twitter

kettykings:
this to me is where ignorantly igbos are


i have never seen such a gullible and ignorant tribe like igbos

So how exactly are the igbos gullible and ignorant? Is it in not voting for Buhari or in retaliating the repeated attacks by fulani herdsmen? What exactly is your point?

cktheluckyman:
So how exactly are the igbos gullible and ignorant? Is it in not voting for Buhari or in retaliating the repeated attacks by fulani herdsmen? What exactly is your point?

igbos are not prepared for anything , no plan B, no fall back position , no strategy , no preparation, no cards on the table , no deft moves , no organisation only wailings , the igbo race is now more vulnerable than they were in 1967 and more prone to being roundly defeated in a little arm struggle like there was in 1967

kettykings:
igbos are not prepared for anything , no plan B, no fall back position , no strategy , no preparation, no cards on the table , no deft moves , no organisation only wailings , the igbo race is now more vulnerable than they were in 1967 and more prone to being roundly defeated in a little arm struggle like there was in 1967

Bros you are not even making sense!! What has this got to do with this thread? Are you suffering from igbophobia or what? This thread is to discuss the menace of the fulani herdsmen and the unprofessional conducts of the DSS and not your hatred for the igbo nation

cktheluckyman:
Bros you are not even making sense!! What has this got to do with this thread? Are you suffering from igbophobia or what? This thread is to discuss the menace of the fulani herdsmen and the unprofessional conducts of the DSS and not your hatred for the igbo nation

ok i am sorry sir

madridguy:
If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

pls can u point out were FFK lied......

ffk

Fulai will evetualy kill the country!!!

Surprisingly it's no news that the country's secret police by not faulting that press statement proved to every sane Nigerian that some people are more equal than the rest.

Should the police or army see a young man down south with an AK he's as good as dead but.. ........


Wake up my brothers before its too late. The acrimonious bickering alongside the untold hardship I fear is the beginning of an end. A fatal end I dread.

Hmm......

Nice write up frm ffk I also see it coming but is only the minority tribe that will suffer such as middle bert and south east cos they ar out of there home as it stand nw only the north,west and south south hav advantage cos they hav much people at home than out side there land nt like the east and middle bert that hav majority of there men out side there land

madridguy:
If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

Someone wrote an intelligent piece, you lack the intelligence to reply, yet you couldn't seal your lips. Are you alright?

When I read about the press release by the DSS, I came to the conclusion that there are war-mongers in this govt. Reasons been that, why should the DSS release such information to public media judge the from the fragile security situation of the country in terms of ethnic lines. As FFK said, it could spark reprisal attacks in the North and so it will continue. Another thing that baffles me is the swift response of the DSS in Abia State over 5 kidnapped fulani men. This is a clear indication that the FG is not running a Northern Agenda but a Fulani agenda and I bet you when it escalates, the WHOLE South will be affected. This doesn't only concerns igbos or the midde-belt, the Fulani Herdsmen are menaces in the whole southern region.

madridguy:
If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

Are you a 1970s robot ..try and make sense please

It is often said, the first casualty of a war is the truth. Whatever anyone thinks about this man, you can not deny the fact in his message. Intimidation, divide and conquer is what the north has left in their armour.

Nnamdi Kanu Speaks On Hausa-Fulani Atrocities; killing, pillaging, raping and forcefully marrying off our daughters months ago...prophecy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKMAeeAPcs&feature=youtu.be

we tell them

Y is Buhari silent on the menace of the fulani herdsmen if he's not on their side? FFK made sense and we all know it.

Are we compelled to begin a ‘’non-Fulani lives matter’’ movement which is based and fashioned on the ‘’Black Lives Matter’’ movement in the United States of America before we can draw the attention of the world to what is going on in our country?


yalk



No we don,t- fire for fire will do
just get your folks in line.
south sudan don do ther own
long live Biafra

kettykings:
this to me is where ignorantly igbos are


i have never seen such a gullible and ignorant tribe like igbos

Like ibos or like we ibos ?

It beats me why he hasn't be picked up already especially when some defense money has been linked to him. People like Ffk are a danger to Yorubas cause and shouldn't be trusted. He's like a drunk neighbor that goes out to bring street fight into his living room. Yoruba must distance themselves from iddiots like him who gets involved with ethnic baiting on behalf of non-Yoruba.

madridguy:
If Nnamdi Kanu can be arrested and detained I don't see reason why FFK should be a freeman by now.

DSS, please go after this basketmouth and make him companion to Nnamdi Kanu or Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky.

FFK, as you are calling for war, may you never know peace again. Omo ale jatijati

Wyttcat:
It beats me why he hasn't be picked up already especially when some defense money has been linked to him. People like Ffk are a danger to Yorubas cause and shouldn't be trusted. He's like a drunk neighbor that goes out to bring street fight into his living room. Yoruba must distance themselves from iddiots like him who gets involved with ethnic baiting on behalf of non-Yoruba.

Which yoruda you represent . me na christian yoruba for me femi dey do us xtian yoruda well
we gree him talk



long live ipob

Wyttcat:
I know it's tough to be you right now, but I'll tell you that being ibos isn't the worst thing on earth, so embrace your identity, and say to yourself daily that, "I'm ibo and proud of it". It is well

Omo get well soon am half yoruba my mum is yoruba my dad from esan in edo state
. you dont ve to be ibo to be ipob all you need is sence

He who have ears, let him hear.. And to him whom have fingers, let them type their rant here..

Time.. I said time shall tell.

1967 can never be 2016..once anyone acquire powers to fight back, then there is no stopping him..

Let us not regret later, but let's regret now and adjust, for the only time left to correct mistakes is now or never...

The streets will be filled with blood if we do not take the right steps now..



Said!!!