₦airaland Forum

allbright:
There's no doubt that Idriss Deby and Ali Modu Sheriff are both sponsors of Boko Haram....and Idriss Deby is GEJ's friend, Ali Modu Sheriff has become GEJ best friend...When the thief who stole your yam is helping you look for the stolen yam...your guess is as good as mine...May God help us. Time is key here!

GEJ is being remotely induced into frustration through a complexity of plots, both internal and external. His curious patience with the unworkable advice he gets from his security advisers is responsible for these strings of success by BH. Those who vetted the so-called ceasefire with BH and thereby slowed the tempo of the success the military was recording at the time should be removed from whatever position they are holding.It was a deliberate act!

ganye1:
Credit must be given to who it is due. The local vigilantes have done the job and the credit must be given to them.

Yes, that's what the people of Adamawa are saying: the local vigilante/huntwrs and mobile policemen chased bh out of Mubi town. One hopes the military consolidate on this to take back all territories now under bh control. Pride should not be allowed to hinder the needed cooperation of all in this fight against the devil's agents.

This is getting more complicated. We may end up replicating the iraqi scenario in which Sunni extremists have allied/metamorphosed into ISIS to wage war on Iraqi Shiite and moderate Sunnis of countries that are targets of the ISIS. Iran is likely to stand behind their Shiite brethren in Nigeria, creating a more complex situation for our already uncertain govt and its security forces. Middle East here we come.

berem:
So because Alex Badeh is a christian,he does not deserve to be sacked? A heartless CDS who airlifted only his family in Vimtim and left other helpless victims to their own fate?

Oritsejafor should be ashamed of himself for being a religious bigot!

CAN is simply countering northern Nigeria's islamists who don't separate religion from politics.

JohnSno:
At least keshi will leave on with a victory

Na u go sakam?

I suspect those who have always used their positions to favaour their kinsmen during peace-time recruitment exercises will start preaching federal character. ...because of BH.

Eldavido1: SAS may have used BH to win his reelection. But to say he is sponsoring BH activities just doesn't add up. BH have severally identify him as their number one enemy and always request for his arrest as a precondition for peace. With time more truth will unfold.

Thank you. Even though I dislike the man for his "agberoic" behaviour, I find it hard to believe that he sponsors BH when the sect actually hunted for him and in the process killed some of those people in Borno who identified with him. Boko haram has grown into a terrorist group with a huge ambition and links that transcend the boundaries of this country. They know how gullible we are and have been using all sorts of propaganda to cause confusion in order to divide and weaken our collective efforts towards removing them from our midst. The real BH sponsors or supporters are there and are largely silent. Where BH displayed their weakness in psychological propaganda is their inclusion of General Ihejirika in whose reign as COAS the sect remained mainly in running battles with the military. I remember how many individuals from the core north accused him of high-handedness in the fight against BH, with some of them threatening to take him to the ICC in the Hague. We mustn't fall mugu to cheap psychological war tactics.

Gullible, desperate, or is it just plain silliness? What is the source of Dr Steven's information? Answer: boko haram. When did Modu Sherrif return to the PDP? Answer: long after Dr Steven started his "assignment".

General Ihiejirika: How many threats were issued against him for his alleged high-handedness in tackling the BH challenge by northern politicians who also engineered their sons in the army to write a lengthy petition against him for his alleged favour of Igbos and southerners regarding promotions in the army?... Many. Have we so soon forgotten the Jaji bombing by terrorists which angered the COAS to the extent that he openly confronted and rebuked the officer in-charge for leaving his duty post for a workshop elsewhere when there were intelligence reports that BH was planning to penetrate and cause havoc in the military's premier institution (Jaji?) ...one general Samaila-if I'm correct. Some people can be so stu..d that commonsense no longer visit them even for a brief moment? Well, those who would believe the cock-and-bull story linking the former COAS to BH would be doing themselves good by seeking advice from psychiatrists on their mental health.

Ah! It is sad that many Nigerians are allowing this poorly "constructed" propaganda of the desperate and power-hungry group to hoodwink them to the real threats facing us as a nation.

Meanwhile, two Caliphates are currently on the march in Nigeria: boko haram caliphate in the north-east; fulani caliphate in the north central. Maybe the former COAS has a hand in both. ...

ALKARULEZ615: But why dis kind tra.sh make frontpage na? Dem dey share money give pple wey sabi d history of egg-on pple abi na hen-off pple?

*spits on thread*

Your ancestors must have lost their culture/tradition to some weird ideologies ...probably under duress.

Litmus: If true then i believe i was right to argue that Nigeria does not know what they're up against. Nigeria should be able to defeat a local insurgency whether or not backed or financed by politicians. Nigeria can hold it's own against forces whose ranks are swelled by the useless from all over Africa. Nigeria cannot defeat forces backed, funded and supported by Western powers unless Nigeria knows that this is what is happening.

I am telling you guys right now that Nigeria is fighting forces backed and funded by the West or with the West complicit knowledge and surreptitious backing.

For Nigeria to stand a chance of defeating these forces Nigeria-even if it does not believe that Western powers are behind this, most re-arm and act as if Nigeria is fighting a Western backed insurgence. This means that for a start Nigeria most begin at once not to share intelligence with all those foreign military attache's that range from Pakistan to America. Beware of the capabilities of Western powers in intelligence gathering and tell yourself that whatever you do Bokoharam is probably one step ahead. It aint nothing to do with saboteurs - not saying they don't exist- but Boko is more likely to be getting massive intelligence and arming from abroad.


And for Christ sake do not trust CAMEROON!!!!!

Look inward; saboteurs are more destructive than external factors in any war situation. One leak can undermine a whole sets of plans that could box-in the enemy and expose them to quick and decisive defeat.

... Meanwhile, boko haram's "brothers" from same father but different mother called "fulani herdsmen" are moving in large numbers into the Middle Belt and building permanent homes in states like Nasarawa and some parts of Taraba on farmlands belonging to villagers whose homes they sacked in the ongoing "herdsmen" invasion.

DOUBLE WAHALA!

CAMNEWTON4PRES: Shut up jew's slave

Satan also manufactured malaria .ode

You have now confirmed your base ignorance. Otherwise, kindly explain what you understand by the word "satan".

CAMNEWTON4PRES: Smh

You should actually be ashamed of what you just typed

So Satan has laboratories and factories ?

Na wa oo for some gullible persons sha, and we wonder why we r not moving forward

You don't sound like one who understands a thing about spiritual matthers.

voltron: I keep wondering whether God is in alliance with this cataclysmic buffoon worse why he has sooo many gullible peeps under his control

What has he done to dserve the insult? Some of u are just the very problems the likes of TB JOSHUA are there to solve. ... Offer your heart for LOVE to lead it, brother.

idupaul: Suprised the MOPOL school was still in session , I tot it would have been abandoned long time ago during the onset of the insurgency because it was sure to be an attractive target to Boko haram fighter for the bragging rights and easy rifles, flash grenades, bullets, boots and helmets from the schools S\T and armoury. Its surprising the govt stiil left rookie MOPOL in a town that had been overun by insurgent under the watch of the ARMY and the Army couldn't and still can't do nothing about it almost a month later.

That's why most people believe some elements within the country's securty establishments are conspirators to the BH cause. There was no intelligent reason leaving that facility and its light weapons for the heavily-armed terrorists to overrun and covert those weapons to their use. Now, BH have at their disposal state-of-the-training facility from which they can train more terrorists and expand their murderous islamisation campaign. OMG!

UchihaMadara: Curious to know the treatment method used.

... They won't let anyone know the kind of drug/s and the method used at the moment; it's a financial secret. The good thing is that it happened here, and perhaps it's a wholly "local content".

Nigeria and Nigerians took things for granted so we are paying for the indolence. Ebola was killing hundreds in our neighbouring west African countries yet we never deemed it fit to enlighten the population of its possible spread to the country. It still remains a puzzle that Mr Sawyer wasn't isolated at the airport despite the obvious signs he showed on his arrival at the airport. It is even more disturbing that the healthcare providers at the First Consultant failed to remember that such might be related to an ebola attack-for them to be more cautious in handling him. I believe he was handled the way they attend to malaria patients. We pray it doesn't go wilder than it is presently.

Idrismusty97: That is what i called show of strength. The same way the US fly their bomber over the disputed island near China and Japan. Despite China place a "No fly zone" they still stubbornly fly their jet over the Island. God don catch them now . I am so happy to be alive in the 21st century! Watching the America empire, their influence crumbled would be a pleasurable event. They did this for the Soviet Union but as they say "Nemesis would surely catch up with you".

Go Putin!! Go!!!
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Don't be among war cheerleaders. No human being could be absolutely safe from nuclear war in a world that has become a small village.

In spite of the USA's meandering intrusions here and there, they can be trusted to exercise more restraint than Putin's Russia. If Russia is trying to cast dust over their culpability in the massacre of innocent passengers of the Malaysian plane by provoking tensions with the west then they are being sturbbonly childish...just that this sort of childishness is dangerous.That's no way to resolve standoff.

aminu150: BH is not in any way related to islam. Thank God you were oppurtuned to stay with muslims. Had it mean all muslims are against christians you wont see a single christian in the north. Just think of it that we Nigerians from south, east, west or north can not get so low and start killing each other since we all know its against all religions of Nigeria. This BH we have now are just sponsored by some individuals be it muslims or xtians who want to start another civil war while clueless president looks on and support it either directly or indirectly. I am a
muslim from kano and i have christian friends from the south both.

when u said if muslims are against christians in the NORTH there will be no single christian left there, u are certainly referring to kano, zamfara, jigawa, borno, katsina, yobe, kebbi, and maybe bauchi where tseyawa people have been harassed to a servile state by the muslim majority. otherwise the other states there have too many christians to be easily wiped out-the way u put it. The truth is that northern muslims are rapidly becoming like arabs who have become a problem to themselves and the rest of the world.

This man's time in the police expired in June, what is he still doing in police uniform? He is certainly not among the IGs who could be rated as above average.

WAHALA DEY O! Religion now a curse to human civilisation.

decrox199: "I Did Not Write Any Letter to My Father, IYABO OBASANJO Speaks Out! December18, 2013 IYABO OBASANJO (On Rainbow FM): > "I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, IYABO OBASANJO never contemplate writing a letter to my Loving Father. I speak with him almost on daily bases. "Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raise me up and gave me the best of Education. I wouldn't have achieve whatever I did without my father. IN FACT, WHO AM I WOTHOUT MY FATHER? "As a father he never disappoint his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have. "If President Jonathan want to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgement, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best intrest of the nation. If Mr. President disagree with some of the allegations in the latter, let him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about. "How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source. If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I am a Yoruba Woman, we respect our parent in all circumstances. "I IYABO OBASANJO did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. "The purported letter is a malicious lies intended to rubish the good name of my family, when I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions. "I love my father and I never disrespect him."

The details, some of them damn too intimate, might prove difficult to "erase" without leaving some greasy stains. Lets hope Iyabo is able to trace the "master-forger".

Whatever way it goes, Obasanjo has just started reaping the over-ripe fruits in his many "farmyards".

nagoma: Funny man living in cloud cuckoo-land imagining that " the north is preventing them from flying Nigeria's flag on the moon ", beckoning the rest of Africa bla bla bla. The south has been complaining about northern leadership since independence , bragging about how well they ( so called educated and civilized people could have developed Nigeria). They have had the leadership of the country for 12 more or less continuous years and all we see is progressive failure and primitive instinct of amassing wealth at the expense of the country. There is nothing practical and tangible to suggest that the south is better or more civic conscious or skilled at moving the country forward. You will grab any excuse to blame the north for southern selfish and blundering leadership. How can you beckon the rest of Africa when kidnapping , robbery , drug trafficking and massive corruption is your trade mark? Regarding Boko Haram are you not surprised and frustrated as a Nigerian that getting on to 4 years no substantial arrest and no definite prosecution has taken place for any BH sponsor? We only have killing by the terrorists and counter killings by security forces together decimating the civilian population with no end in site. The ammount of money sunk in billions is proportional to the absence of any intelligence in the so called task force.You are pretending that the criminal gang BH are only after southerners when we all know better. School populations have been wiped out and high level community heads murdered one by one.We know those who lost hundreds and thousands in their communities and have their livelihood and fragile economy destroyed while an incompetent government of southerners looks on and blames Muslims. What is wrong with the criminal law? Where is the capability and education they are always boasting of?

Indeed the south have no justification for blaming the the north for Nigeria's backwardness. However, "the primitive instinct for amassing wealth" is, no doubt, evenly distributed among southerners and northerners.

Concerning boko haram, those among whom the sect started and has now grown into a wild beast (the islamic north) have no good reasons to blame Jonathan's govt for failing to bring to a quick end activities of the "criminal gang" when, while govt was appealing for cooperation from the people of the region to defeat the sect, many there resorted to "constructing" conspiracy theories accusing the GEJ govt of having a hand in the sect's activities. Those conspiracy theories were sold out to the largely gullible youths of the north who continue to shamelessly "tender" them through internet fora, or even in the print media, whenever the BH issue comes up for discussion.

Meanwhile, we may abuse one another and try to justify such abuses, but we cannot circumvent God's inviolable laws; for beyond hate and ideologies that divide us lies the truth of our common origin and destiny as members of one human family...whose individual and collective desire for lasting peace can only come true when the command to "LOVE ONE ANOTHER" is heeded and carried out by human beings with absolute sincerity. It is an irrevocable condition placed before mankind by the Creator which no amount of craft or whining can change!

nagoma: Totally sincere and totally unexpected , judging from the poster's reputation!!
He is normally a bootlicker and a creep for the government. Unless there are more than one with such name.

"Totally sincere" because those among whom boko haram germinated and grew into the monster it is now were spared the blame by "the poster"?

Sincere 9gerian: Shame on the Nigerian military. How can they be on ground for over 6 months yet the ragtag bandits called Boko Haram still have the boldness and freedom to attack places that should have been no go areas. I'm highly disappointed. I wonder what would have happened without the civillian JTF. Maybe its time we started looking for mercenaries to fight this battle for us(after all all the major projects currently going on got the country are being done by mercenaries). Very shameful

There are boko haram moles within the Nigerian military. Remember the Jaji Church bombing where a senior military officer
along side many military personnel were killed.They are still there, no doubt. It is therefore not easy to quickly defeat the sect under such circumstances.

homesteady: this is just the beginning for jim iyke! More are yet to come!
I wonder what he was thinking that made him go for the deliverance!
Maybe 2morrow, them aki and paw paw would also ridicule him on twitter

Surely, one who is "inside" can't see what is "outside"...so it is with those who remain rooted in the mundane things of this world, denying themselves the freedom that avail itself to those who call on God to set them free. Free at last! Iyke free at last!

Kaduna-State-Governor-Mukhtar-Ramalan-Yero

Your Excellency Sir,
I know that you descend from a line of Fulani Aristocrats who played a crucial role in the capture of Zaria from the original Habe/Hausa rulers who retreated to Suleja area in December 1808. The defeated Habe rulers lived in the territories of the Koros and the Gbagyis … perhaps hoping to recapture Zaria their ancestral land sometime- it is not difficult to trace your ancestry from the colonial records sir- at least you should be related to the Yero who features in the records kept by the Brits. Now what is my point here?

Your Excellency, my point is simply that you of all people should know that the establishment and sustenance of ‘Jamaa Emirate’ as a first class ‘Traditional Institution’ in the territories of ethnic nations that do not share the ideals of the ‘Emirate Identity’, is as good as setting-up an offensive military outpost for imperial purposes- it is a recipe for recurrent and perpetuated conflict, whose endpoint is disaster if sustained.

ESSENTIALLY, the Jemaa Emirate concept represents an ideology that has been phased-out by advancement in human rights and equality of all peoples.

If you truly wish to build peace, then you must be ready to confront the conservatives and extremists among your own people like the heroic Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi did. He told them that in the contemporary world, the idea of imposing your identity and culture over those considered ‘different’ is criminalised and out-lawed in many laws and declarations, most of which Nigeria is either signatory to, or obliged to observe any way, such as UN Declarations.

You may not know your Excellency, but I am pleased to inform you that the British saw you and your people (or shall I say us) as an inferior race as they indeed saw all non-Europeans, all of us inclusive. They saw the world and constructed it by their firepower, primarily through those faulty lenses of ‘Racial Categories from the European perspective’. They were strongly guided by the belief in the now utterly discredited ‘Science of the Races’. This science of the races was the ideological tool for the most extensive mass atrocities and genocides recorded and unrecorded in human history. They built Nigeria and our African society on those principles, and because those principles are fundamentally contrary to the intrinsic dignity of all peoples, they have been successively cut to shape because they only foster a bloody history and paint the hands of administrators (including yourself) in blood sir. They sowed the seeds of Rwanda, Sudan, Darfur, DRC and many more places in blood, and it keeps reaping blood.

Permit me to give you a quote sir, from one of the ‘scholarly’ presentations that talked about ‘us’ as non-Europeans, and how we should be treated in world affairs. This comes from a public lecture in London by Dr. James Hunt, President of the London Anthropological Society in 1863, just when the Europeans were beginning to plot the colonisation of Africa, two decades before they parcelled Africa in Berlin 1884/85. The lecture was appropriately titled: ‘The Negro’s Place in Nature’. He started:

‘I propose in this communication to discuss the physical and mental characteristics of the Negro, with a view of determining not only his position in animated nature, but also the station he should occupy in the genus Homo’

‘Dr’. Hunt like most other ‘researchers’ and ‘experts’ of the time, proceeded to conclude that the ‘Negro’ never advances mentally beyond the capacity of the 7 year old child, that the Negro’s brain approaches that of the Ape with that of the Negress being almost the same as that of the Ape! (Page 10)

How does this affect you your Excellency? You were born into a world and a socio-political system and society constructed on ideals that draw from just these faulty ‘racialised’ and exclusionary ideological foundations. The British transferred their racial ‘scientific’ thinking to Africa, and went about proclaiming some ethnic nations as being superior to others, and designating ‘rulers’ and ‘followers’ on those bases. They basically set our dear Continent on the war path of the future- they came at a time when the continent was already blood-soaked from the Jihads and other ethnic wars. But those faulty ideas are increasingly retreating everywhere. Mankind has become wise to the reality that every identity, however different, provided it is human, is deserving of equal dignity, recognition and respect. In this regard the ‘Civilised West’ finds it difficult catching up with this truth which cannot be denied …. any longer. As for you and I, your Excellency, we are left with a legacy of a socio-political order and institutions founded on these gravely discredited and faulty ideas, and like Fanon said, we must out of relative obscurity, discover our destiny- and we must either fulfil, or betray. What shall you do about such faulty institutions Your Excellency?

I am sure of one thing: Socio-political equality and respect for all human identity will be attained, but I am not sure of a number of things including:

1. When it will be achieved;
2. How it will be achieved- whether peacefully or by violence;
3. Whether like Makarfi, you will be on the side of emancipation, or like Bush, on the side of imperialism

As to number three (3), the choice is yours- and you can see the consequences, i.e., that if you lean towards equality, your own people of a particular version of the ‘Arewa’ ideology who believe they are superior to ‘others’ will turn against you. These ‘opponents’ will be many, but not all of them of course, because very many now acknowledge the futility of the quest for unjust domination, and the benefits of genuine equality in rhetoric and in practice. On the other hand, if you lean towards the trend of sustaining the imposition of one or some identity over others, and thereby refuse equality and systematically foster bloodshed, you shall go down in history as one of the guys who had the chance to do some lasting good, but like many others, elected to reject the principle of essential human equality.

The Hausa-Fulani man in Kafanchan would be a lot better-off without having to be at arms all the time, bound to a fate they never negotiated, which is one of having to sustain a false ‘superior’ status by imposing upon their hosts: if they truly want peace that is. Why would anyone impose such an impossible task on the Hausa-Fulani Muslims in Kafanchan? How do you sustain an imperialistic institutional concept and design in an age of human rights and equality? This is conceptually similar (even if not exactly the same) as creating an Igbo ‘Kingdom’ in Sabon Gari Kano with a first class chief equal or superior in status to HRH Mallam Ado Bayero! Or perhaps a Bajju Chiefdom in Wusasa or Sabon-Gari Zaria, with a chief equal or superior in status to HRH Shehu Idris! The underlying concept is the institutionalisation of particular groups and identities as superior to others. The idea was to destroy the peculiar identities of the indigenous peoples by subjecting them to a Hausa-Fulani Emir in Jemaa. You might recall, your Excellency, that the 1999 ‘Staff of Office’ Kafanchan Crisis (As the commission of Inquiry called it) dealt with deep questions along this line.

Your Ministry of Justice can refer you to the White Paper on that report, particularly the recommendations relating to self-determination which amounted to a denial of equality- a recommendation which Makarfi had the courage to reject in creating the Kaningkon and Fantsuam Chiefdoms. That was the rejection of a conceptually imperialistic and oppressive institutional design. The reality is that the colonial ‘racial’ idea behind the imposition of Jemaa, which is to subjugate ‘inferior races’ is unsustainable in a democratic society affected by ideas of essential human equality. The Jemaa Emirate as a colonial construct representing the racist thinking of Europe in its foreign (White versus non-white) and ‘localised’ (Hausa-Fulani/Muslim versus non Hausa-Fulani/non-Muslim) forms, needs to be abolished, and the Emir made a District Head presiding over his people, but subject to one of the indigenous traditional institutions whose ancestral lands Kafanchan is in any case. Crazy right? I know this very well your Excellency. The truth can be crazy when we live in deception for very long, but it always whispers in the depths of our hearts, and we shall face it, in this life or the next.

TAKE A LOOK AT ALHAJI AHMED MOHAMMED MAKARFI …
Why would a Hausa-Fulani Muslim dismantle the power-structure of imposing his own people over others as rulers? Why would Makarfi derail from the idea of subjecting ‘non-Hausa-Fulanis’ to Hausa-Fulani Muslim rule? What kind of insane Muslim would do that your Excellency? Till date, the more I read colonial history and the British construction of ‘Northern Identity’ on utterly imperial and often genocidal ideals, the more I see the outstanding nature of the stride taken by Makarfi in freeing over 30 distinct ethno-national identities from Hausa-Fulani, and in many cases, Muslim domination. Was he any less a Muslim by so doing? Or perhaps more of a peacebuilding Muslim? He saw the risks, exercised ijtihad (independent reasoning), and took his shot against all the odds, and his name goes down IN GOLD as the first to demonstrate that not all Hausa-Fulani Muslims are bent on wiping out other identities or imposing theirs!

But Makarfi could only do so much, and he had his limitations, despite his strides, giant and golden nonetheless … What have you to offer from where he stopped in the quest for equality your Excellency, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero?

Talking about the Muslim attitude to ‘others’, I would draw your kind attention your Excellency, to the developments in the Islamic world, developments which do not essentially deviate from the trajectory of Islam in peacebuilding, from the Medina Charter made between the Jews and the Muslim Believers by Prophet Mohammed (SAW) in 622 AD, to the discourse of scholars like Abdullahi An Naim and Fethullah Gullen, who postulate the need for greater respect for ‘otherness’ by Muslims. You will be impressed to see Muslims championing the cause of human equality as a path to peacebuilding- a perspective that is sadly rare in some tropical climes your Excellency.

In fact your Excellency, a Muslim Based organisation is hosting an International Syposium next month in Washington DC on Peacebuiding. The theme is ‘Peacebuilding and the Hizmet Movement: Global Cases’, and I have been invited to present a paper. I intend to talk about approaches to pluralism: what shall I say about you Your Excellency?

I started by making reference to your roots as an individual- the aim was simply to show that it should not be difficult for you to understand why the recent Kafanchan Crisis is a trend that cannot have effective resolution by sustaining the faulty status-quo. Do not take this as some negative phenomena, but as a factor that should motivate you to effect more innovative strategies and strategic decisions for effective peacebuilding and conflict resolution. The huge investments into the traditional peacebuilding measures which include Security Measures (as you rightly observed a few days ago, it will not build peace), and Judicial Measures (commissions of inquiry), have proved expensive with little or nothing strategic, intelligent or lasting to show.

Yes, you have to make political decisions, and sometimes ‘humanity’ is essentially ‘down the ladder’ on a Politician’s ‘strategic list’. So I will understand whatever measures you take in building peace. We do our part … the sun rises and falls again and again through the ages … and posterity shall tell the tale … but it seems that the human nature in its dignity, is essentially incapable of perpetual subjugation. I often think about those words of Jefferson- even though he was himself wanting in many respects:

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’- Thomas Jefferson, July 04 1776, US Declaration of Independence.

Yours in Human Equality
Kajit John Paul
Researcher on Peacebuilding and Constitutionalism in Multi-identity postcolonial societies
University of Edinburgh

The International Court of Justice (ICCJ) at the Hague, Netherlands, has freed Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang of crime against humanity.

The global court freed the governor in a judgment it delivered on a case pending before it since 2009.

The Hausa Muslim community in Jos, the Plateau State capital, had sued the Jang administration of masterminding the mass killing of Hausa and Muslims in the city during the 2008 political crisis.

They accused Jang of genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass killing when the governor allegedly issued a shoot-at-sight order to the police in November 2008.

They also alleged that the police command, acting on the order of the governor, killed about 750 Muslims during the 2008 crisis.

But the global court declared that the appellants failed to prove their allegations.

The Commissioner for Justice, Adward Pwajok, yesterday addressed reporters on the court’s verdict.

He said: “The ICC has absolved the state government and the governor of all allegations against them.”

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/icc-frees-jang-of-crime-against-humanity/

Wateron: Another terrorist group in the making. I just hope they can handle d situation professionally n tactically cos this is how boko haram started.

That was not how boko haram started; boko haram started with an ideology that accommodate nothing outside their belief system. They started by calling themselves the "Nigerian Talibans". They first robbed banks in Bama and attacked the police station there before the "helmet" clash between them and the police in Maiduguri town occurred- which degenerated into attacks on police formations in Maiduguri and environs, leading to the arrest and death of their leader, Yusuf, in police custody.

The "Ombatse" started as a response to the fulani invasion and killing of indigenous farmers across Nassarawa and other states in central Nigeria, which Eggons were one of fulani militia's major targets. To worsen the situation, the former governor of Nassarawa state, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, introduced a policy in 2006 ordering all Eggon people to relocate to Nassarawa Eggon local govt area of the state, wherever they were in the state. The aim of that policy was to make land available to fulanis and their herds of cattle who were moving into the area in search of greener pastures. Eggon took the matter to court and won up to the supreme court. Governor Al-Makura is continuing with the fulani-endorsed policies which seek to humiliate and alienate those who do not submit to the whims and caprices of of the "almighty Caliphate".

It should, therefore, not surprise observers of events in Nassarwa state that while the Ombatse issue occupies newspaper headlines and public discuss on the internet, the genocidal acts of fulanis against the Tivs and Eggons in the same Nassarawa South Senatorial District remain unreported. Presently, fulains are roaming free with their herds of cattle on the ruins of homes and farmlands abandoned by Tivs in Doma in the same Nassarawa state, and parts of Benue state. The Daily Trust Newspaper which reports the Ombatse attacks with relish does not report fulani militia attacks on communities. Where they do at all, they would say "unknown gunmen".

Fulanis have been using Alago people as tools against Tivs and Eggons since they intensified their forceful occupation drive in the state. Currently, eight Alago youths and one fulani boy who were caught red-handed by soldiers deep inside Benue state, through the help of youths, while burning Kurayemen village, where five persons were killed, are in prison custody in Makurdi for murder and arson. Alagos must realise that their destiny lies with their neighbours with whom they have been living before fulanis arrived this part of the country; not with those who seek to exploit through divide-and rule tactics.

Eggon people have responded to these developments with uncontrolled anger and indiscriminate violence that must now becloud the real issues and pitch them, instead, against security forces whom they wrongly vented their anger upon.

In all of this, fulanis will come out as the real winners as their malevolently insidious craft displays its manipulative tactics among the bickering negroid tribes of central Nigeria, and indeed Nigeria as a whole.

The federal govt must exercise wisdom in handling this crisis by taking holistic measures. The idea of allowing fulanis to graze on the ruins of abandoned homes and farms while the search for peace is on must be discountenanced, and attention should not be focused on Ombatse alone...if peace must return to the state.

MANGAM: Am in Akwanga and the roads are totally blocked with the military checkpoint at Akwanga completely deserted by soldiers after the death of one soldier by ombatse cult members

See what the Fulanis' invasion and determination to cow indigenous tribes of the Middle Belt have brought to the region! My advice to Eggon people is to take it easy with the subservient Alagos who have become fulanis tools against them and the Tivs. Otherwise they will end up incurring the wrath of the govt, while the real architects of the Middle Belt crises, fulanis, would quietly move their cows to safer places, leaving the tribes and govt to dig out out. Fulanis are evil geniuses.

fagbalex: so is that what you will say? you must be a fugitive like them. everybody know that this people are wicked and heartless in the way and manner of their actions and inactions. God will surely help the alago people from this wicked act of ombatse people that so much believe in charm and Juju.

It is unfortunate that Nassarawa state, and central Nigeria in general, has become a lawless jungle. However, there are background promptings to the ceaseless bloodshed among these tribes that had lived peacefully together before the arrival of fulanis in the region.

To cut a long story short; you should know that every enlightened person in this country knows why these crises refuse to end..... The troubles in the Middle Belt will remain as long as there are some ethnic groups that agree to become the puppets of the fulanis. Let truth be told. Alagos have pitched their camp with fulani invaders and have become tools ready to be used against those who do not submit to the whims and caprices of the Fulani Caliphate. The same Alagos who had lived with the Tivs of Doma for many centuries suddenly decided to team up with fulani herdsmen to chase away all Tivs from that local govt. For the past three years, the Tivs of Doma have been in Benue as refugees. Alago people actively participated in the attacks, extending even deep into Benue state. Presently, eight Alago youth and a fulani boy are now in prison custody in Makurdi for mass killings and burning of Kurayemen village in Guma LGA, Benue state-They were caught red-handed by soldiers through the help of youths in the area. Fulanis must have assured them that nothing could happen to them since they are the "owners of the land". Paradoxically, the same Alagos have been running to Tiv land (in Makurdi and evirons) in Benue state since the conflict between them and the Eggons started. The underlying cause of the conflict among the tribes is therefore the divide-and-rule tactics of the fulanis, which is a hallmark of their dealings with others. Governor Al-Makura is equally dancing to the tunes of the fulani Caliphate whose governors usually paid him "solidarity visits", obviously to assure him that they are solidly behind him against the Kafiri tribes of the state. It should therefore not surprise anyone that none of the "solidarity visiting" governoers ever considered all these killings in the region a priority problem to be solved. Alagos must realise that their destiny is tied with their immediate neighbours, not with invading herdsmen from the deserts whose only interest is to exploit the land through grazing on the lush greens, and to turn the tribes into perpetual puppets. The Eggons too must learn to control their anger to avoid escalation of the crises. Fulanis must equally come to a realisation that for them to enjoy peace among the people of the region, they have to stop backing one group against the other and encourage peaceful coexistence. May we all wake up and work for peace to reign in the region, and in the country as a whole.

eGuerrilla: Source

Subtract the "herds of cattle" that roam our farm lands, destroying crops, while their herders commit genocide on helpless farmers, and you will discover that we are better off without them.