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Nigeria is not the only country where nomadic pastoralists herdsmen come and go. In Kenya, they have the Maasai herdsmen who have been herding cattle around the Nile Valley area from the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt. Other nations have their own form of pastoralists too. But never in the history of the 20th and 21st Century has the world encountered a scenario such as that which stares Nigeria in the face, whereby Fulani pastoral Herdsmen simultaneously and nationally and almost systematically are wiping out indigenous Nigerians for the benefit of their cattle.

I challenge my readers to take the time to do a Google search and collate the number of reported casualties from unprovoked Fulani attacks on innocent, unarmed Nigerians in 2016 alone. The results will shock you! I will not throw out a number in order not to give my political foes fodder to use against me in a case of incitement, but please carry out even a cursory research on the matter.

And what has been the response of the Nigerian Government? I was shocked to read the reaction of Nigeria's minister of Internal Affairs, retired Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau, who blamed Social Media users for exacerbating these attacks!

I mean really? So what are we to do when we become aware that Fulani herdsmen are accused of killing, raping and maiming Nigerians? Are we to keep quiet in the national interest? Excuse me, but I thought the national interest was the interests of human beings rather than the interest of cattle!
And then President Muhammadu Buhari from faraway China, rightly goes ahead to issue a lethal warning to pipeline vandals: desist from your actions or else be dealt with as I dealt with Boko Haram!
Yet this same tough talking President does not have similar words for Fulani herdsmen? Mr. President, how many Nigerians have to die before you give Fulani herdsmen the 'Boko Haram' treatment?

President Muhammadu Buhari must be willing to suspend the fact that he is himself a Fulani by ethnicity and remember what he has been preaching to us since he first forced his way into our national consciousness after his coup against President Shagari in 1983.

I can never forget when the then military head of state, Major General Muhammad Buhari said "This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together."
Indeed, the President must remember that he wanted us to stay and salvage Nigeria together and not stay and be savaged in Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen!
And the absolute worst part of this story is the attempt by some Legislators to add salt to injury and injustice by floating a so called National Grazing Commission Bill to compulsorily acquire large swathes of Nigerian land and give them to the Commission for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen!

In fact, it makes better sense to establish a Victim Support Commission for the many thousands of victims of Fulani herdsmen than it does to set up a National Grazing Commission!

Honestly, I do not understand the idea behind this Bill. The legislators sponsoring this Bill are asking Nigeria to change her land tenure system to fit nomads who may or may not be Nigerian citizens. Has the world gone mad

Nigeria should not change to fit Fulani herdsmen, instead it is Fulani herdsmen that should change to fit Nigeria!
The Grazing Commission Bill is an insult to all the victims of the herdsmen. Peace can only be achieved if those who want to herd cattle set up ranches as is done everywhere else in the world!

The cattle herding business is a private enterprise. It should not be the business of the government to use public land and public funds to promote the group interest of Fulani herdsmen.

Let me assure any federal legislator that is foolhardy enough to support this Bill that Senators and Representatives from states where Fulani herdsmen have killed innocent Nigerians should forget their reelection if they support the Grazing Commission Bill!
In fact, they should be ashamed of themselves that they sat in a National Assembly where the Lagos-Calabar rail was not provided for and watched as the #GrazingCommissionBill got to second reading!

Instead of passing laws to protect victims of genocide they want to pass laws to protect those who commit genocide! Talk about Stockholm syndrome!
I am tempted to ask if this the Federal Republic of Nigeria or the Federal Republic of Fulani Herdsmen with Nigerians as second class citizens? Hardworking, tax paying Nigerian citizens do not have land to build houses yet the backers of this repugnant Bill want to give free land to Fulani herdsmen?

But should I or anybody reading this really blame the sponsors of this Bill? Shouldn't the blame rightly be on all of us collectively when we keep silent while our brothers die because of political ambition and fear of persecution!
What did Jesus say again in Matthew 10:28 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

My name is Reno Omokri, if anybody likes let them come and arrest me for saying the truth. I would rather live the rest of my life in a dungeon than fold my hands and do nothing while my fellow Nigerians are being killed so that cattle may live!

Reno Omokri is the host of Transformation With Reno Omokri, founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California and author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept.

http://www.36ng.com.ng/2016/04/17/grazing-commission-bill-when-men-die-that-cattle-may-live-by-reno-omokri/

Lalasticlala

Interesting article by Reno, I mean why the hell is the Federal Government still keeping quiet about this herdsmen, and doing nothing whatsoever to curtail them, annoying something.

well said Reno!!!the silence by the political class in the south and MB is quite nauseating!!I we to wait until these animals take over our lands before we begin to react?

God bless you bro. Politics aside, something is fundamentally wrong with Nigerian leaders. Do you know that it's better for Nigeria to breakup than to breakdown? we can form six countries and still intermarry,import/export and love one another. In short, do every thing together.

Reno my man.

Cattles are more important than human lives in Nigeria.

Just Negodu!!!!!!


GEJ My Hero forever...

Sam Anyawu aka Sam daddy 2019

Buhari and APC will disintegrate Nigeria faster than we anticipated. No inch of SE and SS will be conquered by this ongoing underground Jihad. Not only grazing reserve kunu reserve nko?

Fulani herdsmen and Grazing reserve bill must be stopped.

Çrap article.

When the eediots we sent there are concentrating on modifying code of conduct bill.

Reno was on vacation.

How will a grazing bill not favourable scale through House Of rep or Senate that have representatives of all the people suffering from the consequence of the grazing.

Instead of calling back those they sent to represent them, they are busy screaming Buhari

I don't Know if the government is ready to hear the people's opinion on this.

Oh God! It's been a while since I've read a sensible article like this one on NL!... All you see are utter bags of shít from Zombies!

Cc:Modath... come see what your peeps are doing!

PRYCE:
Oh God! It's been a while since I've read a sensible article like this one on NL!... All you see are utter bags of shít from Zombies!

Cc:Modath... come see what your peeps are doing!

omenka passingshots midolian vexacool abi na vedacool egift uncle gbawe

"National Grazing Commission Bill to compulsorily acquire large swathes of Nigerian land and give them to the Commission for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen"....It is not as if the proceeds from the cattle business ends up in the Federation Account. They are free to set up grazing reserves in the North but Southern Senators and House of Rep. members should stand against any expansion into the Southern region not when the North is almost 4 times the size of the entire 17 states in the South!

The problems Nigerians are facing and killings by Fulani herdsmen don't bother Buhari, the man is heartless.

You have been warned!!!

PRYCE:
Oh God! It's been a while since I've read a sensible article like this one on NL!... All you see are utter bags of shít from Zombies!

Cc:... come see what your peeps are doing!

Which are "your" people? The cattles or the herdsmen?

Someone created a replica of this thread, using Twitter Ben & made my stand known?

https://www.nairaland.com/3053395/count-me-out-grazing-commission#44779114

Any cattle rearer that enters any farmland using this rubbish legislation as legal ground will deserve all he gets.

The senators escorting saraki to cct should keep up their abobaku job. Their people who own the farmlands will take care of their lands if they're too dumb and useless to speak.

They've been made to believe that they can get away with anything.

People saying Hausa/Fulani don't even realise that even the Hausas are subjects to them. They are not on equal footing at all.

modath:
Which are "your" people? The cattles or the herdsmen?

Someone created a replica of this thread, using Twitter Ben & made my stand known?

https://www.nairaland.com/3053395/count-me-out-grazing-commission#44779114

modath please naaaa just one per nyuu
I'll die here ooo

modath:
Which are "your" people? The cattles or the herdsmen?

Someone created a replica of this thread, using Twitter Ben & made my stand known?

https://www.nairaland.com/3053395/count-me-out-grazing-commission#44779114

Chose one!

The long and short of it is that Cattles are being given rights that humans don't have or have lost!... sponsored by your party member!

It's pitiable!

PRYCE:
Chose one!

The long and short of it is that Cattles are being given rights that humans don't have or have lost!... sponsored by your party member!

It's pitiable!

You've tried on several occassions to get me worked up but I never bite & won't now because you don't examine events objectively.

The first thing any logical person would have done is to find out who the sponsor of the bill is, when it was introduced & party affiliation of the sponsor..

This bill was sponsored by Zainab Kure a PDP member of the 7th senate of PDP MAJORITY under SP David Mark, but I don't expect you to know that since a better part of your time is spent either digging for anti National interest propaganda or "mentioning MO" to engage you in all manner of baseless inanities!

For the avoidance of doubt, no one, I repeat NO ONE can stop me from correcting & unraveling the twisted narratives y'all are intent on perpetuating in pure ladylike manner!!Only dunces go Ad Hominem!!

Misinformation will not thrive, sorry...

BTW, I'm a PMB Stan, which means sympathizer by extension of APC, No, I do not have a party card!!

AntiWailer:
Çrap article.

When the eediots we sent there are concentrating on modifying code of conduct bill.

Reno was on vacation.

How will a grazing bill not favourable scale through House Of rep or Senate that have representatives of all the people suffering from the consequence of the grazing.

Instead of calling back those they sent to represent them, they are busy screaming Buhari

Everything has to be APC against PDP, wailers against zombies to you.
Think about it, think for once.
This is you against Fulani cattle.
For this govt, your life is less important than the Fulani cattle.

modath:
You've tried on several occassions to get me worked up but I never bite & won't now because you don't examine events objectively.

The first thing any logical person would have done is to find out who the sponsor of the bill is, when it was introduced & party affiliation of the sponsor..

This bill was sponsored by Zainab Kure a PDP member, but I don't expect you to know that since a better part of your time is spent either digging for anti National interest propaganda or "mentioning MO" to engage you in all manner of baseless inanities!

For the avoidance of doubt, no one, I repeat NO ONE can stop me from correcting & unraveling the twisted narratives y'all are intent on perpetrating!! Misinformation will not thrive, sorry...

BTW, I'm a PMB Stan, which means sympathizer by extension of APC, No, I do not have a party card!!

Doesn't matter who sponsored the bill.
What Nigerians prone to these Fulani herdsmen attack are saying is that the govt must stop the attacks and save their lives. This is no PDP vs APC issue.

Buhari must act fast since the fulani militias are lurking very close to my inheritance. Failure of buhari to act will propel yours truly to first report him to the gods of the land and my ancestors before we pick arms to defend our pride.

All men are capable of great evil given the right conditions and motivations. The fulani have no exclusive rights to violence.

Well written..things happening these days in this our country are just mind-boggling I swear

SamuelAnyawu:
Reno my man.

Cattles are more important than human lives in Nigeria.

Just Negodu!!!!!!


GEJ My Hero forever...

Sam Anyawu aka Sam daddy 2019

shut ur dirty mouth there. If ur Samuel anyanwu cannot oppose this grazing bill and stop all this nonsense with Saraki and his support for daunting corruption, he will not smell the gate of Douglas house

chukel:
shut ur dirty mouth there. If ur Samuel anyanwu cannot oppose this grazing bill and stop all this nonsense with Saraki and his support for daunting corruption, he will not smell the gate of Douglas house

Take it easy my brother, did I insult you with my post? Happy Sunday

SamuelAnyawu:
Take it easy my brother, did I insult you with my post? Happy Sunday

sorry my brother. I'm just boiling this Sunday afternoon as a result of the ineptitude of our representatives. If you are very close to samdaddy, send this message to him. We are watching. Happy Sunday too, though I'm not happy.

I think it's high time we started recalling these senators from abuja. They were there their northern counterparts not only expunged projects from the south from the budget but also replaced with projects sited in the north. They were there this preposterous grazing bill passed first and second readings. They are also there supporting Saraki when they kn if he is shown the way out, a southerner becomes senate president. I plead on all those who are very conversant with the various social media platforms to start educating the populace on the steps of recalling senators and HOR members. We need to recall those from the south.
#RecallSouthernSenators#

Buhari is the problem

Replace d horses

The same government who wants us to grow what we eat and stop importation, now wants to pass Grazing Commission Bill?
How will our crops survive,when this bill is passed? Cattles are now more important than we humans.
Only God knows where we are heading to in this country.