BENARI:
I lived in northern nigeria for many years, and one thing I can tell you is, the first property a fulani man buys even before a sleeping mat is weapons(whichever he can afford). I used to think those days that it was stupidity since they hardly used them. Hardly did I know I was the fool.
The culture of keeping weapons for self defense is as old as humans on this planet. Ever wondered why many of our grand and great grand fathers owned double barrels even as poor as they were then? Of course not all of them were hunters and those weapons came to them at a huge cost, but they had them all the same. In the west and other parts of the world, self defense tools are a norm, forget all the noise from America; the only reason it's so pronounced in the US is because the people are intoxicated with sophisticated gun ownership, but weapon ownership is a global right and practice. Even the united nations chatter recognise that self defense is a fundamental human right. Jesus even said to sell your garment and buy a sword.
I still don't understand why this generation of mostly southerners and those they call middle belt have become foolish about thier own security. The government is telling you to rely on thier own compromised and at best inefficient security agencies to protect you and you agree with them, yet everyday Nigerians are being killed by criminals and terrorists who go against government regulations and buy deadly weapons to kill innocent law abiding citizens?
Today people in the southwest are now being displaced from thier homes and ancestral lands because of foreigners who come in with this same unlawful weapons to pillage, rape, kill, and drive them away from thier land. The story is the same Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Kastina, in fact all over Nigeria. And what is the government and so called security agencies doing about it; nothing! At best they themselves are also targeted and killed. Therefore I ask, when "our mumu go do" for heaven's sake? If the criminal who is killing you in your own home and land is not afraid of obtaining weapons to carry out his crimes, why should the law abiding helpless citizens be too afraid to obtain weapons to protect himself and his family? Unless somebody can tell me the rationale, then it remains a mystery to me. Just yesterday, we read news of the lawmaker who shot and killed an armed robber who invaded his home. If hadn't a weapon, he probably will be dead now or in the kidnappers den negotiating ransom. Yet you listen to him when he and his colleagues tell you to rely on the security agencies to protect you?
All I see today is that even the government and security agencies are in need of protection themselves let alone them protecting you and I.
To your tenth O Israel While the Fulani is allowed to carry weapons you dare not do so There was a community that prevented an attack from herdsmen if I remember correctly the military went and disarmed them and I don't think they survived after that There's a reason regional outfits like Amoketun exist if the police and military were doing their job securing Nigerians lives and Properties they wouldn't be needed |
