THE governors of the 36 states of the Federation are designated by the Constitution as the “Chief Executives” and “Chief Security Officers” of their states. It is for this reason that they arrogate to themselves billions of naira worth of “security votes” every year. It is also for this reason that they ride in armoured convoys with daredevil secret policemen, mobile policemen and sometimes even military personnel at their beck and call round the clock. That is why they are also pavilioned with immunity.
They are well protected from any form of enemy aggression. But, what about the people who vote them into that exalted office; the common people? Don’t they also deserve to be protected? Are governors the Chief Security Officers of themselves and their families alone? Is the security of lives and property of the people no longer the foremost function of government?
Most state governors have abandoned the protection of their own people from armed invaders masquerading as Fulani herdsmen for totally objectionable reasons. In Kaduna State, armed herdsmen are attacking Christian and non-Muslim communities in Southern Kaduna, killing, maiming and chasing people away from their native lands, burning down villages and occupying them with their cattle. Governor Nasir el Rufai plays deaf and dumb about it. The Federal Government and its security agents pay lip service to protection of lives and property, and the menace continues unabated. It is happening in Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue and most other states in the Middle Belt, South West, South East and South-South, with very tepid responses from the governors and little or no response from a Buhari administration that has Security at the top of its three-point agenda.
I have often wondered why the people of the Middle Belt, who were massively mobilised for the anti-Igbo pogroms of 1966 and became the main Northern contingent of the Federal side during the civil war, appear to have suddenly lost their fighting spirit. Their communities and people are faced with total annihilation and the Federal Government is not interested to do its constitutional duties.
The Middle Belt states still constitute a sizable element in the security forces today (army, police, DSS, Customs, Prisons, Immigration and other armed services). In fact, working for the security agencies appears to be their first choice of profession after farming. How could such a people renowned for their gallant roles in defending the nation fall so short when armed invaders, for over ten years now, have been threatening their people with extinction?. If the Federal Government does not want to protect them, should they lie supine and allow themselves to be obliterated? Is self-defence no longer the first law of nature?
The situation in the South East is even more baffling. Nearly 50 years ago, these people mounted a bid for independence and withstood the whole Federation and its foreign sponsors for thirty long months. They fought with locally-improvised armament. When criminals threatened to overwhelm the area after 1999, the governors, especially Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State, elevated the people’s vigilante (the Bakassi Boys) into a state-sponsored outfit, which was used to contain the criminals.
The experiment was copied by Anambra and Imo States. Bakassi Boys were so effective that when the Sharia riots hit the North as from the year 2000 and many Igbos became victims; the Northern population in Abia State felt the heat and begged Governor Kalu to find a safe haven for them away from the Aba and Umuahia hotbeds. They were given a settlement at Lokpanta on the Port Harcourt – Enugu Expressway, where they have lived peacefully and flourished in their cattle and other businesses.
But today, in spite of the presence of the socially-irrelevant Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, armed herdsmen have extended their invasions from the Non-Muslim North to Igboland with impunity. The governors and people of these states have offered no meaningful response, and the emboldened Nigerian supporter of APC are raiding more communities.
The responses of the governors have been so pathetic. Enugu State has been conquered because the governor there, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Gburugburu) has offered to surrender his powers as the Chief Security Officer. When Ukpabi Nimbo was invaded and scores killed, Gburugburu wept like a baby. The following day, he dressed himself up in white Northern popular attire (babanriga) and went to Aso Villa to beg Buhari. The President promised to deal with the “criminals”, but nothing changed. This same Ugwuanyi was the first governor to place full page colour adverts congratulating Fulani king, the Sultan of Sokoto on his 10th anniversary. How have Ugwuanyi’s bootlicking antics helped to protect those who elected him into power?
Barely five days after Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State dressed up in an over-sized turban and went with a large delegation to genuflect before Sultan Abubakar III, an Air Peace aircraft with over 150 passengers on board nearly crashed into a herd of cattle on the Owerri Airport runway, but for the dexterity of the pilot! Cattle nearly ran his convoy off Orlu Road, Owerri in August this year. These are just tips of the huge iceberg on the menace of armed herdsmen in Imo State without any heartfelt response by the “Rescue Mission” governor. Rochas’ antics are obviously aimed at getting Buhari, the Sultan and the North to anoint him for president! Even if he gets it, you can imagine what manner of president he would be.
In Abia State, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu initially responded to the murderous Fulani herdsmen challenge by resuscitating the Bakassi Vigilante in all the communities to work with the Police to protect the people. Still, we get reports of villagers being killed in their farms by these invaders all over the state, the latest being in Abam. Governor Willie Obiano responded to the menace with typical grandiloquent rhetoric: he would start a helicopter patrol of the state. But only last week, three communities: Aguleri Otu (he is from Aguleri), Mkpunando and Eziagulu Otu, started mobilising to defend their farms against the herdsmen this harvest season. Just how effective is Obiano’s helicopter surveillance?
Contrast with this measure from Ekiti State in the South West. Armed herdsmen have killed, kidnapped people and destroyed farms in the zone, particularly Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, even Lagos, with very little done to deter them. But Governor Ayo Fayose rose to the occasion. He created a law against unauthorised grazing and established a task force to implement it. It became so effective that the Fulani Minyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association,MACBAN, sent a delegation to him.
Matters were talked over, and both sides took groups photographs to celebrate a negotiated settlement. How many other states has MACBAN responded to in this dignifying and esteemed way? This governor did not cry, beg or prostrate before Buhari and Sultan Abubakar. When Federal agencies failed to do their work, Fayose spoke the language of leadership and demonstrated his true stature as the Chief Security Officer of Ekiti State. The sponsors of the invasions came to beg. He put his people first. That is a leader!
“Cowards die many times before their death”, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar said hundreds of years ago. Igbos are not known for the cowardice which their today’s governors portray. Does it mean that Igbos elected the wrong persons to be their Chief Security Officers?Any governor who cannot protect his people does not deserve a second term in office. If the Federal Government and the state Governor fail in their duties to protect the people according to law, then there is no need for government. Left on their own, the people must protect themselves.
No coward can ever be my leader.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/cowardice-todays-igbo-governors/

Too long.

We need real men like Ifeanyi Uba or Ike Ekweremmadu to lead us in the East and not all these cry-cry babies we have now. It pains to see all these criminals with no balls masquerading as our leaders. But we will get it right very soon cos i see a hurricane coming.

The governors, senators, ohaneze ndi oshi na ndi ama, and other politicians both orji uzo kalu etc are all criminals, they have conspired one way or the other against us the masses and this time they have failed.

They have started saying Igbo president peter obi, orji Kali, okorohausa etc, Chukwu okike abiama in heaven will punish all of them one by one because they have soiled their hands against his people.

One Nigeria gbakwa Oku.

#Biafra is the answer and its ship is about to anchor.

Some people will say, why not agitators join politic and debate about Biafra.
But they will not tell buhari to debate about Palestinians self determination and northern Morocco which he upheld in the one of UN meetings.

As far as self determination is concern and endorse by Buhari and Britain # Biafra is sure.

# Biafra is non negotiable because its our right and no going back.
#All hail Biafra.

Long beautiful piece..

You see why I love Fayose?

omo this one na chronicles of Igbo govnor e too long abeg I no fit read am

All I Can Say Is Atiku 2019




#Atiku2019

Eastactivist:
[b]Afonja write up...

Always biased and tribalistic, see as he rushed to call the Igbos cowards masquerading under faking concern for the Fulani herdsmen rascality on SE region..

Meanwhile mile 2 saga is still fresh in our minds, we know who the true cowards are.

The herdsmen rascality is a national problem, and they attack vulnerable communities in villages, and when help comes, the did has been done most especially in abia state communities. But unlike you've wrongly proposed, the bill for grazing modularity has passed second reading in abia state assembly. Just tag along and see for yourself what enforcement is when the bill is passed

Security has been beefed up in Enugu and Anambra.
You don't seat and wish to be entertained by Igbos going on rampage on Fulani herdsmen...

Even Yorubas went for a bill instead of going on rampage. [/b]And I ask, why didn't the Yoruba's go to fight the herdsmen? Everybody knows It could have been suicidal for the Yorubas owing to their legendary in cowardice.

afonjas BC of ordinary bill with no clear enforcement blueprint are already forming kingkong while fayose has gone underground to beg for Peace, he even returned the cows he supervised in confiscating and cowardly disbanded the Yoruba hunters who are supposed to be the sacrificial enforcer lambs.

I laugh in Swahili

The statement in bold is the reason why igbos dont succeed in politics and other national issues, u ar all about emotions and no brains, u view evry issue from conflict perspective only. The worst thing is that u dont even confront d problem physically lyk u boast, all u do is make noise and beat chest from distance. We can see d niger deltans actually confronting d military, we see individual yorubas standing up against d government wt their educational powers not minding being jailed. Wat can we say about u pple? Since the herdsmen av been raiding ur towns, when av u challenged or confronted physically? U boasted that u wuld wipe em out of existence if they show up in ur land and they not only showed up, they took their time to massacre, kidnap and rape ur pple without loosing a strand of their hairs and u still come bak here to call yorubas cowards for taking to a reasonable and effective way to solve same problem. Just think about it, wat av u achieved by trying to solve evry issue wt force?

Eastactivist:
[b]Afonja write up...

Always biased and tribalistic, see as he rushed to call the Igbos cowards masquerading under faking concern for the Fulani herdsmen rascality on SE region..

Meanwhile mile 2 saga is still fresh in our minds, we know who the true cowards are.

The herdsmen rascality is a national problem, and they attack vulnerable communities in villages, and when help comes, the did has been done most especially in abia state communities. But unlike you've wrongly proposed, the bill for grazing modularity has passed second reading in abia state assembly. Just tag along and see for yourself what enforcement is when the bill is passed

Security has been beefed up in Enugu and Anambra.
You don't seat and wish to be entertained by Igbos going on rampage on Fulani herdsmen...

Even Yorubas went for a bill instead of going on rampage. And I ask, why didn't the Yoruba's go to fight the herdsmen? Everybody knows It could have been suicidal for the Yorubas owing to their legendary in cowardice.

afonjas BC of ordinary bill with no clear enforcement blueprint are already forming kingkong while fayose has gone underground to beg for Peace, he even returned the cows he supervised in confiscating and cowardly disbanded the Yoruba hunters who are supposed to be the sacrificial enforcer lambs.

I laugh in Swahili [/b]

Among all the igbo's commentor on the reputable forum, you are the most delusional and demented fellow with empty skull. An igbo propaganda newspaper gave and examples of your act of cowardice, yet you still attach Yoruba to the inefficiency of your so called leader.


With the way you reason, if you are unable to satisfy your wife, you will still blame your yoruba neighbors.

Their cowardice no be here atal

ojukwu sef get hope beside them

PeaceOut:


Among all the igbo's commentor on the reputable forum, you are the most delusional and demented fellow with empty skull. An igbo propaganda newspaper gave and examples of your act of cowardice, yet you still attach Yoruba to the inefficiency of your so called leader.


With the way you reason, if you are unable to satisfy your wife, you will still blame your yoruba neighbors.

Mechionu there. Afo anu mmuo. The whole world and ofenmmanu people knows that ofenmmanu's are cowards.


Be good now

Alariwo2:
Their cowardice no be here atal

ojukwu sef get hope beside them

Coming from someone that shares same tribe with oladipo Diya, That's rich.

Even the buffoon Abiola that tried to play hero didn't even see it through.

Spits

Iboko12:




Mechionu there. Afo anu mmuo. The whole world and ofenmmanu people knows that ofenmmanu's are cowards.


Be good now

You have been noticed.

Iboko12:




Mechionu there. Afo anu mmuo. The whole world and ofenmmanu people knows that ofenmmanu's are cowards.


Be good now

You mean cowards like running away in the heat of a battle dressed like a deranged woman??

Excerpts; by Onyeka Nwenu....

On the Python or crocodile dance operation in the southeast, a peaceful region, on a Christmas season and criminal silence of all southeastern governors, states assemblies, senators and house reps. I say this to you, you may hide under the altar of cowardice and hypocritical silence, be assured we know why you are silent. When we voted for you guys, we entrusted our collective welfare into your hands. In matters like this, we look up to no one put you. Silence speaks one language betrayal. Yes you betrayed our trust. We feel abandoned. We will wait for you during election time.
From the slaughter of our old men, children and rape of our women by Fulani herdsmen, to the beheading of Bridget and the acquittal of the murderers, to the slaughter of pro Bi...afra agitators praying, those celebrating memorial of our fallen heroes to this final occupation of our land, we tell you Bi...afra shall arise.
Bi....afra is our destination. The youthful spirit of our ancestors. The eternal city of all who desire to live in freedom for self actualization. That day will come when the oja will sound, the gong shall herald the rising of the Sun, the victory of the wise men from the east. That day as Martin Luther King Jr said, "we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
And for Nigeria, the grave of Bi...afra ingenuity, keep your evil intent on the people of Bi...afra. You must know that it is your hatred, marginalization through policy of exclusion and your murderous policies and impunity to our people that fuels our energy.
We will not give up.
Bi...afra is all we ask and only that we shall accept. No presidency. No restructuring.