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By femi fani-kayode
Mr Kolawole Odetola, who I do not know and I have never met, wrote the following contribution and every Yoruba man and woman ought to read it.
This was not written by flesh but by the Holy Spirit and it is what I have been saying for the last few
years. He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying.
I commend the author for his courage and I urge him to continue to sound the alarm until it is heard in every nook and cranny of the South West.
The Yoruba elites will hate him for speaking this bitter truth just as many of them hate those of us that have been speaking it for many years but the truth is truth.
Posterity and history will treat us kindly for having the courage to speak it despite the scorn and insults that are often poured on us on a daily basis and that we are often subjected to by those that cannot see beyond their noses, that lack courage and that have
decided that their lot is best served by turning a blind eye to this great evil that has beset us and seeks to destroy us, by being slaves and by selling their people into perpetual servitude and bondage.
I welcome Odetola into the ranks of the heroes and I thank him for standing at the gate and resisting the evil like brave Horatius in Thomas Babington-Macaulay’s famous 19th-century poem titled ‘Lays of Ancient Rome’.
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Omo Oduduwa, read his words, SPREAD IT, LEARN FROM IT and PREPARE FOR THE WORST!
He wrote:
“It’s easy for rich and middle-class Yoruba including the radical ones living comfortably in the big cities to
dismiss the attempts by poor yoruba’s in the countryside to defend themselves from sponsored
terrorism ( herders) as tribalism or ethnic jingoism.
But the day these herders and fundamentalists take over Lagos (and one day they will) -the only natural barrier for them; where they cant ‘graze cattle’ is the Atlantic ocean, the penny will drop and the urban elite will wake up from their complacency – but by
then it will be too late.
When that day arrives and these ‘herdsmen’ stop the Yoruba educated elite from clubbing, partying, Owambeing stop them listening to music, force their wives into the hijab, stop them connecting to the internet, behead them in public for ‘adultery’ and ‘
fornication’ and raise the black flag of Islamic fundamentalism over the 3rd mainland bridge, resistance to the herdsmen will no longer be dismissed as tribalism as it is now its the Yoruba lower classes bearing the brunt of the assault by these neo-fascist armed gangs.
Then it will become a fight for ‘democratic rights’ new revolutionary slogans will be coined, passionate speeches will be delivered at international human
rights seminars, NGO’s will spring up like mushrooms
– But by then it will be too late.
Now its the poor yorubas in the villages fighting for their land, livelihoods and their very lives, a fight that doesn’t concern the Yoruba middle classes as it doesn’t impact their shiny office blocks in Lagos, their access to social media and the glitzy banks where their money resides. It’s a tribal, ‘ethno nationalistic ‘sectarian’ struggle.
Ignoring the reality that the biggest danger to democracy in the country today are the fundamentalists in the north call them what you will
– Boko Haram, ISWAP, Herdsmen, bandits.
They are different branches spouting from the same poisonous root.
They are armed, protected and indulged by a Nigerian state built by British imperialism around the Northern feudal Oligarchy, – the most backward, the most reactionary and by a country mile, the most retrograde ruling class on the African continent with a mindset frozen, like an iceberg, in the 18th century.
What they are dishing out to peasants in Oyo, Osun and Ogun states will one day be visited on the lawyers, doctors and journalists dismissing the ‘tribal’ struggle in the Yoruba countryside. If anyone believes this is about ‘grazing land’ they will soon be
disabused of that notion.
If you allow armed herders in the Yoruba countryside what argument would you have to stop them settling in Lagos? Is there not grass in Lagos? Where does the grass in Lagos end? – The Atlantic Ocean”.
Kolawole Odetola has displayed such wisdom, such insight such foresight and such courage and I could not have put it better myself.
Let us hope that someone listens before it is too late.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/kolawole-odetolas-bitter-truth/?fbclid=IwAR0G-TZskrJ82-h8U3Kf24w3nZ_2CbZzDQRee971Rg17-h0arj0ioQ-ndEY
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Yoruba, unity is what we need, let's unite and send these killers fulani herdsmen to where they belong.
God bless yoruba sons and daughters
God bless yoruba land
fvck the haters

Odua1stson:
Yoruba, unity is what we need, let's unite and send these killers fulani herdsmen to where they belong.
God bless yoruba sons and daughters
God bless yoruba land
fvck the haters

ABUJA—The Presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in response to a question on ancestral attachments to land said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive.

If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter? The exhortation from the Presidency came on a day Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said that history would be harsh on the present administration if it failed to stop the mass killing of innocent Nigerians.

This is even as the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the 17 Southern states yesterday said the insecurity pervading the country, particularly in the North Central zone, poses grave danger to the conduct of next year’s general elections.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, gave the admonishment as he alleged a conspiracy by alleged critics of the administration to frustrate moves towards resolving the crises in the country. Adesina, who spoke on AIT morning programme, said it was wrong to describe the attacks against farmers as one directed against Christians.

He said: “Hundreds have been killed in Zamfara, are they Christians? People have been killed in Birnin Gwari, are they Christians? “What is happening is criminality, pure and simple, and it must be brought to an end. Government has a big role to play in this but the people themselves have a role to play.” Noting what he described as a campaign to stop the implementation of the administration’s plans to check the farmers-herders conflict, Adesina said: “Some people are saying don’t use government money to build ranches. If truly they don’t have lands, that is fine, but remember that Kogi State offered 15,000 hectares of land for cattle colony and in the midst of that offer vicious attacks were unleashed.

“In Plateau State, where we had the recent orgy of killings, the government has offered land for ranches and I tell you that some people are interested in this thing not being resolved.” Better alive than a dead land owner".

Adesina Asked about the ancestral attachment by the people of those states to their lands, he said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter? “The National Economic Council that recommended ranching didn’t just legislate it, there were recommendations. “So, if your state genuinely does not have land for ranching, it is understandable; not every state will have land for ranches. But where you have land and you can do something, please do for peace. What will the land be used for if those who own it are dead at the end of the day?”

Adesina further said the administration is doing its best to ensure peace throughout the country. “There are different theatres of crises in the country and you may look at each theatre with its peculiarities. In the Middle Belt, it has its own peculiarities and what is the peculiarity of that, Farmers-Herders conflict. What has the government done? “It has sent in security agencies starting with the police, later troops, later different operations by the military,” he said.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/giving-land-ranching-better-death-presidency/
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Southern People of Nigeria, Educated people for nothing

So other crimes should continue as long as herdsmen leave Southern Nigeria abi na Fulani herdsmen also perpetrating Kidnapping, Armed robbery, Ritualist?

So the so called Illiterate Fulani's can be claiming your lands for years while you have governors, senators, reps doing almost nothing about it...

Where there is no law, there is no sin, where there is no sin, there is no law. Had Southern Political Leaders past/present done something to tackle the issues all this while, we wouldn't have been in this situation.

"This was not written by flesh but by the Holy Spirit....."

This line of lie lasan.