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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by wifeesnatcher(m): 12:18pm On Jul 08, 2019
GMbuharii:
But coneheaded structures love their Buhari and his Ruga project nah

grin

They will soon call ooni and Soyinka ipob

grin


this is not an avenue to showcase stupidity. we are talking about human lives here which those in the rural areas that have no access to internet suffer for

I think the relationship between ohaneze and afenifere really call for more relationship between the Southern. I remembered it was the Igbo that took the head of govt to court then when the population statistics result came out that north are more populated than all the entire southerners. thumbs up to them


this is not time for online abuse, all eyes must be on deck, we need unity to resist this Buhari and his kinsmen stupidity

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Benekruku(m): 12:19pm On Jul 08, 2019
AbuuBilaal:
It's their land and it's their right to do what they wish with it.

They should also not stop the people who wish to give land.

Please tell them again!
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Benekruku(m): 12:19pm On Jul 08, 2019
[s]
GMbuharii:
But coneheaded structures love their Buhari and his Ruga project nah

grin

They will soon call ooni and Soyinka ipob

grin
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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Nobody: 12:20pm On Jul 08, 2019
nototribalist:
I don't know why I have the feeling that Nigeria will soon fight another civil war soon. Just because of this Buhari who believe his Fulani has the right to kill people.

and the developers who wont allow people to buy land in their own area but are colinising other areas by stealth buying up all their land, installing their own kings and disrespecting their hosts.

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by wink2015(m): 12:22pm On Jul 08, 2019
AnanseK:

RUGA: Educating Ethnoreligious Bigots Free of Charge!
������ Cham Faliya Sharon

To justify the megawatts of hatred for Fulani cattle rearers that has enveloped and consumed their bitter souls, they say:

''Is cattle business government business? Is it not private business? Why is government interested in procuring land for the Fulani to rear their cattle?''

Let's take it from there and proceed as follows:

* Is airline business government business? Why are states and federal governments busy expending huge public funds in acquiring lands and building new airports and rehabilitating old ones for aeroplanes that are owned purely by private travel companies and rich, private individuals including pastors and bishops? Shouldn't they buy land and build airports for their aeroplanes?

* Is transport business government business? Or are all the cars, trucks, buses and vans that use Nigerian roads everyday owned by government? Why should government be busy spending hundreds of billions of naira building roads for vehicles that are mainly on private trips or for transporters that are making huge sums transporting travelers to various destinations? Shouldn't vehicle owners then raise money and build roads for their cars and travels?

* Is farming business government business? Why are both states and federal governments always busy procuring and distributing fertilizers and various other farm implements to farmers, sometimes for free and sometimes in heavily subsidized form? Shouldn't farmers who are mainly private entrepreneurs be left alone to source for everything they need for their farming business? Why should government interfere? For example, is rice farming not private business so much that the federal government gave rice farmers in Ebonyi, Kebbi and other states financial incentives to expand?

* Is commercial banking business government business? Why has the federal government been spending hundreds of billions of naira bailing out distressed banks in Nigeria since 2005 till date? Why not allow the private bank owners source for funds on their own and bailout their businesses? Why should government intervene with public funds in such a private business venture?

* Is going on religious pilgrimage both to Israel and Saudi Arabia not private business? Why are both states and federal governments often involved in the preparation and sponsorship of pilgrims to do something that is purely personal to the individuals?

* Are those private (mostly religious owned) universities not private businesses? Why have they been writing and seeking federal government financial assistance through TETFUND to enable them attain certain levels of competence? Why do they seek government subsidy on something the government had no input in its conception and development?

* Is shipping government business? Apart from owning and operating a Naval force with military style ships, all other ships are privately owned by wealthy businessmen and women, but why is government saddled with the responsibility of building dockyards or sea ports where ships and boats owned by wealthy folks berth and have their goods loaded or unloaded? Is this not an act of government subsidising the business interests of the rich?

* Is the acquisition of education not supposed to be the personal responsibility of individuals based on their personal interest and conviction, either of themselves as individuals or their families? So then, why has it always been the expectation and business of government to build and furnish schools as well as recruit and pay teachers? Is this not a heavy subsidization by government of what should have been the personal obligations of individuals or families? Is it also not subsidy of education by government when government awards and pays students and lecturers scholarships?

* Is small scale trading or even big scale trading the responsibility of government or private business? Why then should government give small scale traders little sums like 10,000 naira each to help them boost their little trades? Shouldn't the traders be allowed to source for their own funds to help them expand?

* Is buying and selling not private business interaction between a willing seller and a willing buyer? Then why is it always expected that governments at all levels should be the ones to build markets for private individuals who want to buy and sell commodities? Why should governments spend huge public funds to build and maintain markets that will be used by private individuals who are making money daily?

* Still on education, is it also not government subsidy when government spends tens of billions of naira to feed primary school kids across the country in order to boost school enrollment?

* Is film making and the entire movie industry, e.g. Nollywood, not private business? Then why did the federal government give them 3 billion naira in 2014 to boost their film making industry? Shouldn't they have been left to source for funds on their own to expand their film business?

* How about public hospitals? Why should government build hospitals for people who are sick? Isn't sickness and wellbeing a private matter, which requires the sick person or their family to seek medical treatment at their place of choice? And if government expends huge sums of public funds in servicing the health needs of sick citizens, how about citizens who hardly fall sick and have never ever visited any hospital for any personal health issue; are the rights of such citizens not infringed on, or are they not being financially marginalized? Shouldn't they then demand cash rebates from government, based on their fundamental human rights, for not using hospitals built with funds they have rights to?

* And finally, of all the things or services I have listed above, which are being financed by government, which of them are Fulani cattle rearers who roam the forests with their cows enjoying? Is it government that gives them the rains that always beat them in the jungles alongside their cattle, or is it government that feeds them with the fruits and other lean meals they largely depend on in jungles and forests? Just what exactly is the larger society giving them by way of services? Are there even hospitals in the bushes, along their grazing routes specifically dedicated to them?

Yet, some supposedly educated persons and even religious leaders are questioning and opposing the development of either cattle ranches or cattle colonies or grazing routes or even settlement camps for the Fulani cattle rearers for easy monitoring by the federal government on the ridiculously shameless grounds that it involves government funding? How long, how strong and how deep the Devil has been controlling certain persons is clearly unfolding, and it's a shame.

Fact is, anyone or any group that keeps opposing any effort to solve the so called Farmers/Herders clashes must be benefitting materially or politically from the crisis. Of course, there are those who always dupe foreign donors by lying to them that the Farmers/Herders clashes is some agenda of religious persecution by a section of the country. Such persons and groups will not want the problem solved, for solving it will deny them two things: (1.) Loss of a propaganda tool that portrays them as victims of a bloody conspiracy, and (2.) loss of opportunities to keep receiving financial grants from foreign donors who aid ''victims of religious discrimination and persecution'' worldwide.

All over the world, there are people who see crisis as business and profit opportunities. Therefore, they will either stoke it or inflame it even if it was stoked by others.


FULANI HERDSMEN HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

THEY SHOULD NEVER BE REWARDED WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ANCESTRAL LAND.

NEVER ! I SAY ! NEVER !

THEY DESERVED TO BE PROSECUTED AND NOT REWARDED.

LAND IN NIGERIA IS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO NOT HAVE POWER.

Why is Fulani herdsmen treated as a special breeds of Individual?

Are they better than the fishermen in Bayelsa or the Cocoa farmer in Ondo state.

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Benekruku(m): 12:23pm On Jul 08, 2019
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wink2015:


FULANI HERDSMEN HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

THEY SHOULD NEVER BE REWARDED WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ANCESTRAL LAND.

NEVER ! I SAY ! NEVER !

THEY DESERVED TO BE PROSECUTED AND NOT REWARDED.

jay2pee:
Please is Ooni and Wole Soyinka ipob?

PlanckTime:

Buhari is a religious bigot and religious extremist, that's why most Nigerian Muslims love and prefer him to Atiku, even the liberal Muslims too.
the Fulani Jihadists killing people are not really Nigerians but they collude with the Nigerian Fulani to carryout all these atrocities, they want to conquer more land/territory and extend the caliphate. Buhari has another agenda and don't care about Nigeria.
It's not really the herdsmen that carryout the killings, the Fulani herdsmen have a military wing which is also under Miyetti-Allah, its the jihadist military/militants that slaughter people not the herdsmen that carry cows around, this has been going on for centuries and that's how the Fulanis Lord over the North.
They will go to village and kill the indigenous people, sack the community people then import news Fulanis who are not even Nigerians to take over the community and nothing will happen, they have the back of most powerful politicians.

Buhari will be pretending as if he is helpless and don't know what to do, he will blame the killings on politicians, Gadafi, Malians, foreigners and the same time asks Nigerians to surrender their land to the killers for peace to reign.
more than 90% of the victims are minority Christians

BUHARI IS 100% INVOLVED IN THE KILLINGS.

just watch this video and understand it a little


Ventura1:
All talk, no action. Isn't it the same Ooni that will be quick in rushing down to Aso rock for needless events, yet unable to face Pres. Buhari who's pushing RUGA? or the Prof. that'll will smile at President Buhari at fuctions?

It is time we stop celebrating mediocre leadership in any guise.

12345baba:
Na ooni go even give up land first

nototribalist:
I don't know why I have the feeling that Nigeria will soon fight another civil war soon. Just because of this Buhari who believe his Fulani has the right to kill people.

Nathdoug201:
I have 3 questions for the yoruba muslims and tinubu..
1- what is your say on the ruga settlements proposed by the federal government
2- are you still going to lick your fulani masters ass on this issue
3- why is tinubu mute on such a delicate issue..
Or is he planning on selling his territory to his fulani master because of his dirty presidential ambition..

Lamasta:
Buhari and the FG wants to cede our land to the Fulani's in the name of RUGA. May RUGA rugadem there.

mrvitalis:
After the north would blame igbos

If its this one blame us we accept no to fulani settlement of any kind in any name

Case closed

oluwasegun007:
Long live the King..

But the king sef should know how our yoruba people behave,

Multiple mouth....
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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by dboss12(m): 12:24pm On Jul 08, 2019
thank you prof, hence, the north should know that their boundary demarcated and end in abuja.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by kals4luv990(m): 12:26pm On Jul 08, 2019
AbuuBilaal:
It's their land and it's their right to do what they wish with it.

They should also not stop the people who wish to give land.
UNCLE R YU RILY SURE DAT YU R NORMAL OR R DEY DANCING ZANKU WIT UR BRAIN?
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Focusmind: 12:27pm On Jul 08, 2019
Jobac:
As usual, Catholic Igbo will invade this thread as if their existence depends on it.

Which one be "Catholic Igbo" again. Nigerians and segregation and yet you expect to be a strong and united nation - we are just deceiving ourselves.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by MobilityExpress: 12:27pm On Jul 08, 2019
If APC is not careful and call the presidency to order, Buhari will be the last APC president ever in this country. Ruga kill una dia angry

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by APOSTLECHUMA: 12:27pm On Jul 08, 2019
nototribalist:
I don't know why I have the feeling that Nigeria will soon fight another civil war soon. Just because of this Buhari who believe his Fulani has the right to kill people.
I KEEP SEEING HORRIBLE DREAMS OVER THIS AND HAVE BEEN PRAYING AND ASKING GOD TO PROTECT HIS CHILDREN AGAINST ALL SCHEMES OF BLOOD SUCKING DEMONS IN HUMAN FLESH.

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by freeze001(f): 12:28pm On Jul 08, 2019
Benekruku:


Please tell them again!


So why did the FG suspend implementation of ruga in states like Niger, Katsina, Sokoto, Borno, Zamfara and co that had consented? Since it is supposed to be voluntary, did the refusal of Southern states affect acceptance by identified Northern states? Plateau people protested contrary to the governor's acceptance, Benue and Taraba have emphatically refused; how does their refusal affect implentation in willing states then? The FG and its fulani cronies are not being honest yet. Keep on supporting o!

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Nobody: 12:28pm On Jul 08, 2019
Nathdoug201:
what is your problem?
Is that the best way to earn traffic on your site

It’s not his fault....it’s the dirty human mind. statistics actually show that the most viewed site is pornhub....after eating to survive , sex is human’s first entertainment..haven’t u thought about it...?u think it’s magic we arrived at 8billion people on the planet.. people like to have sex and also watch sex
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by doyinbaby(f): 12:29pm On Jul 08, 2019
AbuuBilaal:
It's their land and it's their right to do what they wish with it.

They should also not stop the people who wish to give land.
no to ruga

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by freeze001(f): 12:30pm On Jul 08, 2019
Disrespecting hosts? Stealth buying? How so please? I'd really love to understand how hosts are disrespected..
isthatso:


and the developers who wont allow people to buy land in their own area but are colinising other areas by stealth buying up all their land, installing their own kings and disrespecting their hosts.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by MetaPhysical: 12:30pm On Jul 08, 2019
AbuuBilaal:
It's their land and it's their right to do what they wish with it.

They should also not stop the people who wish to give land.

Yoruba does not practice individualism. Your suggestion will apply elsewhere, not in Yorubaland.

In the West we are socialists and lands belong to families, not individuals.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by splendour7(m): 12:30pm On Jul 08, 2019
In other thread one yoruba muslim is saying that yorubas are ready to give land for RUGA in southwest these b*stards went as far as saying that igbos are hateful and lack tolerance hence they dnt want to give land for other ethnic group to settle(live),,those slowpoke(s) where also mocking the igbos saying that the north will soon deal with us following the 30days ultimatume by northern youths,,i dnt take those yorubas serious any more! let every one fight this fight on their own..trust the yorubas at you own peril.

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Angelfrost(m): 12:31pm On Jul 08, 2019
The silence of the President, V.P, ruling party, and Northern leaders on the misguided utterances of that useless Northern group is truly loud and resounding...

I'm not accusing anyone of nepotism... Just observing from my fence.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Benekruku(m): 12:32pm On Jul 08, 2019
freeze001:


So why did the FG suspend implementation of ruga in states like Niger, Katsina, Sokoto, Borno, Zamfara and co that had consented? Since it is supposed to be volintary, did the refusal of Southern states affect acceptance by identified Northern states? Plateau people protested contrary to the governor's acceptance, Benue and Taraba have emphatically refused; how does their refusal affect implentation in willing states then? The FG and its fulani cronies are not being honest yet. Keep on supporting o!


Dont follow this junk news.

The enemies of His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) are just still trying to heat-up the polity. RUGA has been suspended and left for which ever states that is willing to buy into it.

Enemies are just making a case out of nothing.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by 2sexycom(m): 12:32pm On Jul 08, 2019
AbuuBilaal:
It's their land and it's their right to do what they wish with it.

They should also not stop the people who wish to give land.
Bloody Northerner... no land for you in the SOUTH... ARE YOU BLIND?

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Benekruku(m): 12:33pm On Jul 08, 2019
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splendour7:
In other thread one yoruba muslim is saying that yorubas are ready to give land for RUGA in southwest these b*stards went as far as saying that igbos are hateful and lack tolerance hence they dnt want to give land for other ethnic group to settle(live),,those slowpoke(s) where also mocking the igbos saying that the north will soon deal with us following the 30days ultimatume by northern youths,,i dnt take those yorubas serious any more! let every one fight this fight on their own..trust the yorubas at you own peril.
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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by BlackBaron: 12:33pm On Jul 08, 2019
Northern governments should be innovative in combating their ecological issues ala desertification, Lake Chad basin, etc.

The Federal government is unfortunately trying to pass the buck to other states. In effect, trying to force fulani settlements via federal might and resources.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by nams77: 12:33pm On Jul 08, 2019
AnanseK:

RUGA: Educating Ethnoreligious Bigots Free of Charge!
������ Cham Faliya Sharon

To justify the megawatts of hatred for Fulani cattle rearers that has enveloped and consumed their bitter souls, they say:

''Is cattle business government business? Is it not private business? Why is government interested in procuring land for the Fulani to rear their cattle?''

Let's take it from there and proceed as follows:

* Is airline business government business? Why are states and federal governments busy expending huge public funds in acquiring lands and building new airports and rehabilitating old ones for aeroplanes that are owned purely by private travel companies and rich, private individuals including pastors and bishops? Shouldn't they buy land and build airports for their aeroplanes?

* Is transport business government business? Or are all the cars, trucks, buses and vans that use Nigerian roads everyday owned by government? Why should government be busy spending hundreds of billions of naira building roads for vehicles that are mainly on private trips or for transporters that are making huge sums transporting travelers to various destinations? Shouldn't vehicle owners then raise money and build roads for their cars and travels?

* Is farming business government business? Why are both states and federal governments always busy procuring and distributing fertilizers and various other farm implements to farmers, sometimes for free and sometimes in heavily subsidized form? Shouldn't farmers who are mainly private entrepreneurs be left alone to source for everything they need for their farming business? Why should government interfere? For example, is rice farming not private business so much that the federal government gave rice farmers in Ebonyi, Kebbi and other states financial incentives to expand?

* Is commercial banking business government business? Why has the federal government been spending hundreds of billions of naira bailing out distressed banks in Nigeria since 2005 till date? Why not allow the private bank owners source for funds on their own and bailout their businesses? Why should government intervene with public funds in such a private business venture?

* Is going on religious pilgrimage both to Israel and Saudi Arabia not private business? Why are both states and federal governments often involved in the preparation and sponsorship of pilgrims to do something that is purely personal to the individuals?

* Are those private (mostly religious owned) universities not private businesses? Why have they been writing and seeking federal government financial assistance through TETFUND to enable them attain certain levels of competence? Why do they seek government subsidy on something the government had no input in its conception and development?

* Is shipping government business? Apart from owning and operating a Naval force with military style ships, all other ships are privately owned by wealthy businessmen and women, but why is government saddled with the responsibility of building dockyards or sea ports where ships and boats owned by wealthy folks berth and have their goods loaded or unloaded? Is this not an act of government subsidising the business interests of the rich?

* Is the acquisition of education not supposed to be the personal responsibility of individuals based on their personal interest and conviction, either of themselves as individuals or their families? So then, why has it always been the expectation and business of government to build and furnish schools as well as recruit and pay teachers? Is this not a heavy subsidization by government of what should have been the personal obligations of individuals or families? Is it also not subsidy of education by government when government awards and pays students and lecturers scholarships?

* Is small scale trading or even big scale trading the responsibility of government or private business? Why then should government give small scale traders little sums like 10,000 naira each to help them boost their little trades? Shouldn't the traders be allowed to source for their own funds to help them expand?

* Is buying and selling not private business interaction between a willing seller and a willing buyer? Then why is it always expected that governments at all levels should be the ones to build markets for private individuals who want to buy and sell commodities? Why should governments spend huge public funds to build and maintain markets that will be used by private individuals who are making money daily?

* Still on education, is it also not government subsidy when government spends tens of billions of naira to feed primary school kids across the country in order to boost school enrollment?

* Is film making and the entire movie industry, e.g. Nollywood, not private business? Then why did the federal government give them 3 billion naira in 2014 to boost their film making industry? Shouldn't they have been left to source for funds on their own to expand their film business?

* How about public hospitals? Why should government build hospitals for people who are sick? Isn't sickness and wellbeing a private matter, which requires the sick person or their family to seek medical treatment at their place of choice? And if government expends huge sums of public funds in servicing the health needs of sick citizens, how about citizens who hardly fall sick and have never ever visited any hospital for any personal health issue; are the rights of such citizens not infringed on, or are they not being financially marginalized? Shouldn't they then demand cash rebates from government, based on their fundamental human rights, for not using hospitals built with funds they have rights to?

* And finally, of all the things or services I have listed above, which are being financed by government, which of them are Fulani cattle rearers who roam the forests with their cows enjoying? Is it government that gives them the rains that always beat them in the jungles alongside their cattle, or is it government that feeds them with the fruits and other lean meals they largely depend on in jungles and forests? Just what exactly is the larger society giving them by way of services? Are there even hospitals in the bushes, along their grazing routes specifically dedicated to them?

Yet, some supposedly educated persons and even religious leaders are questioning and opposing the development of either cattle ranches or cattle colonies or grazing routes or even settlement camps for the Fulani cattle rearers for easy monitoring by the federal government on the ridiculously shameless grounds that it involves government funding? How long, how strong and how deep the Devil has been controlling certain persons is clearly unfolding, and it's a shame.

Fact is, anyone or any group that keeps opposing any effort to solve the so called Farmers/Herders clashes must be benefitting materially or politically from the crisis. Of course, there are those who always dupe foreign donors by lying to them that the Farmers/Herders clashes is some agenda of religious persecution by a section of the country. Such persons and groups will not want the problem solved, for solving it will deny them two things: (1.) Loss of a propaganda tool that portrays them as victims of a bloody conspiracy, and (2.) loss of opportunities to keep receiving financial grants from foreign donors who aid ''victims of religious discrimination and persecution'' worldwide.

All over the world, there are people who see crisis as business and profit opportunities. Therefore, they will either stoke it or inflame it even if it was stoked by others.

Trash above.
Just two sentence: No one want to give their land to blood thirsty killers. That would be suicidal!
Secondly, None of the above personal businesses takes people's land by force/trick.

Bottomline, its my land and i can do what i want with it.
I won't dignify you with a response as this one will suffice
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by okeniti: 12:34pm On Jul 08, 2019
My greatest fear.

nototribalist:
I don't know why I have the feeling that Nigeria will soon fight another civil war soon. Just because of this Buhari who believe his Fulani has the right to kill people.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by APOSTLECHUMA: 12:34pm On Jul 08, 2019
I PRAY THAT IBO TRADERS UP NORTH WILL BE WISE ENOUGH TO READ THE HAND WRITTING ON THE WALL AND LEAVE NORTH,WHILE THERE IS STIL TIME, BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THEIR FIRST TARGETS.

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by jrusky(m): 12:35pm On Jul 08, 2019
Simple as that. Everybody should defend their land just simple as that. The north want trouble and the South are ready for it at the end let's so who the big looser would be.


I have said it sometime ago that I have the feelings Buhari might be the last president in Nigeria as one nation and Buhari is working that path right now but the painful truth is if civil unrest finally break out to settle the scores Buhari and his entire home would d be consume with no mercy.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by nams77: 12:35pm On Jul 08, 2019
AnanseK:

RUGA: Educating Ethnoreligious Bigots Free of Charge!
������ Cham Faliya Sharon

To justify the megawatts of hatred for Fulani cattle rearers that has enveloped and consumed their bitter souls, they say:

''Is cattle business government business? Is it not private business? Why is government interested in procuring land for the Fulani to rear their cattle?''

Let's take it from there and proceed as follows:

* Is airline business government business? Why are states and federal governments busy expending huge public funds in acquiring lands and building new airports and rehabilitating old ones for aeroplanes that are owned purely by private travel companies and rich, private individuals including pastors and bishops? Shouldn't they buy land and build airports for their aeroplanes?

* Is transport business government business? Or are all the cars, trucks, buses and vans that use Nigerian roads everyday owned by government? Why should government be busy spending hundreds of billions of naira building roads for vehicles that are mainly on private trips or for transporters that are making huge sums transporting travelers to various destinations? Shouldn't vehicle owners then raise money and build roads for their cars and travels?

* Is farming business government business? Why are both states and federal governments always busy procuring and distributing fertilizers and various other farm implements to farmers, sometimes for free and sometimes in heavily subsidized form? Shouldn't farmers who are mainly private entrepreneurs be left alone to source for everything they need for their farming business? Why should government interfere? For example, is rice farming not private business so much that the federal government gave rice farmers in Ebonyi, Kebbi and other states financial incentives to expand?

* Is commercial banking business government business? Why has the federal government been spending hundreds of billions of naira bailing out distressed banks in Nigeria since 2005 till date? Why not allow the private bank owners source for funds on their own and bailout their businesses? Why should government intervene with public funds in such a private business venture?

* Is going on religious pilgrimage both to Israel and Saudi Arabia not private business? Why are both states and federal governments often involved in the preparation and sponsorship of pilgrims to do something that is purely personal to the individuals?

* Are those private (mostly religious owned) universities not private businesses? Why have they been writing and seeking federal government financial assistance through TETFUND to enable them attain certain levels of competence? Why do they seek government subsidy on something the government had no input in its conception and development?

* Is shipping government business? Apart from owning and operating a Naval force with military style ships, all other ships are privately owned by wealthy businessmen and women, but why is government saddled with the responsibility of building dockyards or sea ports where ships and boats owned by wealthy folks berth and have their goods loaded or unloaded? Is this not an act of government subsidising the business interests of the rich?

* Is the acquisition of education not supposed to be the personal responsibility of individuals based on their personal interest and conviction, either of themselves as individuals or their families? So then, why has it always been the expectation and business of government to build and furnish schools as well as recruit and pay teachers? Is this not a heavy subsidization by government of what should have been the personal obligations of individuals or families? Is it also not subsidy of education by government when government awards and pays students and lecturers scholarships?

* Is small scale trading or even big scale trading the responsibility of government or private business? Why then should government give small scale traders little sums like 10,000 naira each to help them boost their little trades? Shouldn't the traders be allowed to source for their own funds to help them expand?

* Is buying and selling not private business interaction between a willing seller and a willing buyer? Then why is it always expected that governments at all levels should be the ones to build markets for private individuals who want to buy and sell commodities? Why should governments spend huge public funds to build and maintain markets that will be used by private individuals who are making money daily?

* Still on education, is it also not government subsidy when government spends tens of billions of naira to feed primary school kids across the country in order to boost school enrollment?

* Is film making and the entire movie industry, e.g. Nollywood, not private business? Then why did the federal government give them 3 billion naira in 2014 to boost their film making industry? Shouldn't they have been left to source for funds on their own to expand their film business?

* How about public hospitals? Why should government build hospitals for people who are sick? Isn't sickness and wellbeing a private matter, which requires the sick person or their family to seek medical treatment at their place of choice? And if government expends huge sums of public funds in servicing the health needs of sick citizens, how about citizens who hardly fall sick and have never ever visited any hospital for any personal health issue; are the rights of such citizens not infringed on, or are they not being financially marginalized? Shouldn't they then demand cash rebates from government, based on their fundamental human rights, for not using hospitals built with funds they have rights to?

* And finally, of all the things or services I have listed above, which are being financed by government, which of them are Fulani cattle rearers who roam the forests with their cows enjoying? Is it government that gives them the rains that always beat them in the jungles alongside their cattle, or is it government that feeds them with the fruits and other lean meals they largely depend on in jungles and forests? Just what exactly is the larger society giving them by way of services? Are there even hospitals in the bushes, along their grazing routes specifically dedicated to them?

Yet, some supposedly educated persons and even religious leaders are questioning and opposing the development of either cattle ranches or cattle colonies or grazing routes or even settlement camps for the Fulani cattle rearers for easy monitoring by the federal government on the ridiculously shameless grounds that it involves government funding? How long, how strong and how deep the Devil has been controlling certain persons is clearly unfolding, and it's a shame.

Fact is, anyone or any group that keeps opposing any effort to solve the so called Farmers/Herders clashes must be benefitting materially or politically from the crisis. Of course, there are those who always dupe foreign donors by lying to them that the Farmers/Herders clashes is some agenda of religious persecution by a section of the country. Such persons and groups will not want the problem solved, for solving it will deny them two things: (1.) Loss of a propaganda tool that portrays them as victims of a bloody conspiracy, and (2.) loss of opportunities to keep receiving financial grants from foreign donors who aid ''victims of religious discrimination and persecution'' worldwide.

All over the world, there are people who see crisis as business and profit opportunities. Therefore, they will either stoke it or inflame it even if it was stoked by others.

Why can't you use you large land mass for your ruga up north. In western climes, people buy ranches and rear their cows, not forcefully taking other people's land
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by Nobody: 12:36pm On Jul 08, 2019
Someone should please enlighten me about this RUGA....is it that the presidensy wants is to sell land to them to benefit both parties or we should just give them free land cos they selling cow... I mean we don’t have to eat meat if the wahala wants to be beneficial to only one side

Secondly, how is this going to work....are they gonna be confined in that space and not go about cos the grass there will finish and the next thing the idiots will do is start moving about again.. I mean...it’s not like they are gonna get 300million acres
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by lexy2014: 12:37pm On Jul 08, 2019
RealLordZeus:
In the first place, FG supposed to prosecute this radical northern group, for every action there will be an equal and opposite reaction, since those northern groups are allowed to give meaningless ultimatum after the fg suspended the ruga stuff, then they should be expecting this.
When FG hasn't arrested one Fulani herdsman for killing despite d govt& myetti Allah acknowledging that d herdsmen are murderers. It's a pity cos we still c so called educated Nigerians saying buhari is d solution

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Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by splendour7(m): 12:37pm On Jul 08, 2019
isthatso:


and the developers who wont allow people to buy land in their own area but are colinising other areas by stealth buying up all their land, installing their own kings and disrespecting their hosts.
i bet you have never been in any south east state,let alone looking for land to buy,or do you want to buy land in onitsha while sitting confortably in your village?smh!
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by freeze001(f): 12:38pm On Jul 08, 2019
Which junk news? The FG itself that has been the sole champion of this ruga initiative has announced its suspension and you call it junk news?
Actually, the enemies heating up the polity as you claim are those that are warning Southerners and have issued a 30 day ultimatum to the FG to implement ruga in all 36 states or they will unleash violence against bonafide citizens of Nigeria. Where is the voluntary willingness then?

Why did the FG suspend? Were there not about 10 willing states in the North that indicated readinesss to participate? Is it not the FG that plans to deploy public funds towards procuring and setting up modern facilities in those state for ruga settlements for the benefit of fulani cattle owners and herders? Are you implying tht it is suddenly the states that will set up the ruga without the FG anymore?


Benekruku:


Dont follow this junk news.
The enemies of His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) are just still trying to heat-up the polity. RUGA has been suspended and left for which ever states that is willing to buy into it.

Enemies are just making a case out of nothing.
Re: Ruga: Ooni Of Ife, Wole Soyinka Tell Nigerians To Defend Their Ancestral Lands by LionTiger(m): 12:40pm On Jul 08, 2019
But You both and a certain Chimamanda Adichie, Obasanjo and other distorts of history used your offices and vocabularies to deceive the world and enthroned this evil.

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