₦airaland Forum

MetaPhysical:
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.

wifeesnatcher:
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

freeze001:
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?

wifeesnatcher:
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

nams77:
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

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..

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.

skypper:
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have jointly called on Nigerians to defend their ancestral home lands against the Federal Government proposed RUGA cattle settlements.
This was made known in a communiqué issued yesterday to highlight details of a meeting between the monarch and Novel Laureate at his (Soyinka’s) home in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The meeting was centred on the state of the nation.

Oba Ogunwusi and Soyinka, in the communiqué, said their call on Nigerians to defend themselves became crucial as the Coalition of Northern Groups gave a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pass the Ruga project for Fulani herders despite being suspended after many Nigerians went against it.

The report read: “In this regard, the recent ultimatum delivered by a sectarian order to the President of this nation to set up the so-called Ruga cattle settlements across the entire nation within a stipulated time, despite the national outcry, should be acknowledged as an entitlement under the bounty of freedom of expression.

“In return, we exercise ours and call upon Nigerian nationals across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands. This birthright has never been annulled, not even under colonial occupation.

“Among such issues of urgent import are the ongoing insurrectional movements that derive from religious fanaticism and intolerance, exemplified by Boko Haram and allied tendencies, as well as aspects of commercial enterprise.
“In which some groups consider themselves especially privileged, singular, and above the laws and entitlements that are binding on other sectors of commercial and industrial undertaking. We have in mind destructive forms of social transactions that characterise groups such as nomadic cattle herdsmen, and their umbrella groupings in the nature of Myetti Allah.

“We confess ourselves increasingly distressed and appalled, that the hitherto harmonious cohabitation, even routine collaboration, among the productive arms of society that Nigerians have taken for granted even from pre-colonial times, have deteriorated to unprecedented levels of barbarity, contempt for human lives and a defiant trampling on the civic entitlements of other productive sectors such as farmers, the providers of both food and cash crops.

“This abhorrent, yet consistent pattern of sectarian, and homicidal arrogance is obviously not merely counter-productive but inhuman, criminal and divisive.

“We consider it a primary imperative of national existence that the constitutive parts of the nation take steps to preserve and enhance their distinct cultural identities, including tested and relevant pre-colonial values, their spiritual apprehension of phenomena and worship, all without detriment to the principles and ideals of mutual co-existence.
“To this end, we undertake to create state-of-the-art ethnic museums for our people both at home and in the Diaspora, where present and future generations can access their histories and cultures vividly, as living expressions of their very humanity, not simply as relics of eras vanished forever or irrelevant to the present,” the communiqué added.



Read more here https://thickmatch.com/ruga-ooni-ife-wole-soyinka-tell-nigerians-defend-ancestral-lands/

AbuuBilaal:
Says who? I'm a Yoruba, FYI. I'm from Osun State and my name is Bayo. Adebayo!

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..

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.

wifeesnatcher:
I've know you to be a regular iidiot so your stupidity don't surprise someone like me and I wasn't expecting you to make use of your brain since you're still staying under your parent roof


even the PDP in southwest are to suffer because of plain ground of politics? did your Atiku ever condemn the herdsmen ever since they've been killing unjustly. Enugu and other part of East were victim of these miscreants, are they paying for it because they voted for APC as well?


you must think this is a party thing. Yoruba support Fulani, Igbo support Fulani. Fulani will never abuse or condemn themselves that's why I said you're dumb earlier on

wifeesnatcher:
I've know you to be a regular iidiot so your stupidity don't surprise someone like me and I wasn't expecting you to make use of your brain since you're still staying under your parent roof


even the PDP in southwest are to suffer because of plain ground of politics? did your Atiku ever condemn the herdsmen ever since they've been killing unjustly. Enugu and other part of East were victim of these miscreants, are they paying for it because they voted for APC as well?


you must think this is a party thing. Yoruba support Fulani, Igbo support Fulani. Fulani will never abuse or condemn themselves that's why I said you're dumb earlier on

wifeesnatcher:
Ruga fall on your flat head there. onye ara


original ewu like you should focus on your post utme, don't mess with me ok

freeze001:
Disrespecting hosts? Stealth buying? How so please? I'd really love to understand how hosts are disrespected..

splendour7:
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!

AnanseK:
RUGA: Educating Ethnoreligious Bigots Free of Charge!
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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

olawale1516:
This Ruga of a thing shouldn't cause any argument or misunderstanding within tribes, federal government should have come with this plan in a better way than this ..they should have invested in cattle farming in every state and build a large range own by Federal government, then invite private individual for registeration.instead of coming plainly like they want to get part of Yoruba and other tribes land by force or compel. me just say my view

AbuuBilaal:
Says who? I'm a Yoruba, FYI. I'm from Osun State and my name is Bayo. Adebayo!

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.