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EzeUche_: udezue:ibo have good imagination sha!!!!! [size=13pt]Nigeria:Irete People Laud Goverment Intervention in Clash With Fulani Herdsmen[/size]Thompson Anyadike 9 November 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owerri — PEOPLE of Umunwanlo village Irete in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State have lauded the intervention of the state government following last week's clash between the people and the Fulani cattle rearers who took their feeding flock into the people's farm lands and destroyed crops worth over N1.5 million. Speaking to the Daily Champion shortly after a security meeting convened by the special adviser to Gov. Ikedi Ohakim on security matters Chief George Egu, chairman of the Irete Community Development Union (ICDU), Mr. C.N. Metu, said his people would abide by government's decisions and would not take the laws into their own hands. [size=13pt]According to him, government reminded the cattle rearers and owners that their areas of operation werethe Somachi Egbu road, Obinze and Okigwe, adding that the animals should be confined, and any violation of the order or any cattle found roaming inside the towns, villages would be seized and the reares or owners brought to the government house. The lawyer maintained that his people would not take vengeance as government has genuinely intervened but regretted that similar situations have occurred severally in the past and on each occasion authorities shied away as complaints fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, normalcy has returned to the area but due to the damaged cassava, yam, vegetable, melon, garden eggs farms, prices of food stuffs have risen in the area as the indigenes and tenants are predominantly farmers. Also speaking, a community leader in the area Hon Chinedu Akowuba urged Imo government to find a lasting solution to the perpetually recurring problems created by the Fulani herdsmen lamenting that his people over the years have suffered terribly and have always recorded painful losses. He regretted that most women of the area who were raped by the cattle rearers in the past died due to one disease or the other, adding that his people are not afraid of the vandals but for the respect for the law.[/size] Daily champion also gathered that women of the area who went to farm to discovered the herdsmen with over 200 cows inside their farm land, they ran back to inform the men and they were chased away. Incidentally according to my source the vandals barely after 24 hours besieged the area again with over 500 cows and brandishing guns, arrows, knives and other dangerous objects and incidentally one Emmanuel was killed, Onyebuchi was badly injurred while many others were wounded during the encounter. On whether the community seized any cow, my source said no, adding that the herdsmen flee after causing the problem. Meanwhile, government has mandated the Seriki Hausa who owns the cattle to produce the herdsmen within four days or be held responsible. |
[size=13pt]Categories: Feb-18-08 Date: Feb 18, 2008 Title: “Foulah Tong”: Creole or Yoruba land ![]() Alhaji Abu Bakar Hamid[/size] What is now the heartland of the Eastend stretching off from main Kissy Road overlooking the Queen Elizabeth II quay and dreaded for its nerve racking - jostling traffic of vehicles, motor bikes and people was in the early 1700s a lush green hilly slope on which densely populated pastoral Foulah traders grazed their cows – hence the name Fullah Tong. They did not occupy the land for long. The Foulah Tong Mosque What is now the heartland of the Eastend stretching off from main Kissy Road overlooking the Queen Elizabeth II quay and dreaded for its nerve racking - jostling traffic of vehicles, motor bikes and people was in the early 1700s a lush green hilly slope on which densely populated pastoral Foulah traders grazed their cows – hence the name Fullah Tong. They did not occupy the land for long. “Freed slaves, recaptives and business people mostly Yoruba’s from Lagos and Abeokuta in Nigeria came into Sierra Leone during the 1700s and from the mouth of the Quay – since the most popular form of transport those days was by sea – they moved into Foulah tong and later spread into Fourah bay and Aberdeen,” Alhaji Abu Bakarr Hamid a revered son of the early Yoruba settlers who has spent the whole of his 58 years in the Foulah tong community recalled. As the new group of settlers started building houses and cutting down the trees to expand the community, the Foulahs gradually left because the land was no longer suitable for rearing cows. “They went further east to Kissy which was then still bushy” said Alhaji Hamid. The Yorubas had founded a home, and Foulah tong became aYoruba hegemony with the culture and everything -Yoruba except the name. These early Yoruba settlers were mainly Muslims probably that is why the Foulah Tong mosque became the epicenter of the community. There are very many streets like tree branches shooting out from the main street (Mountain cut) named - First Street, Second Street, Third Street… and it seemed when they were tired of counting they gave typical Yoruba names to the streets, like Haderudeen Street. Foulah tong in Freetown still bears the relics of colonialism captured in the architecture of the houses. These houses are either board or stone houses with an upper room attached with a window which is known in local circles as “Kongosa Window” where most times the oldest member of the family who occupies such houses would position themselves to scrutinize every activity that goes on in the community, - and now and then deliver the greeting “e Karroh” (Yoruba word for ‘how are you’) to passers by, mostly when they want to be recognized. Sadly though, many of these houses were lost, thanks to the January 6 invasion by rebels in Freetown, who burnt them, causing the landscape to now be increasingly dotted with modern architecture. The Foulah Tong Mosque The mosque stands stoutly on top of the hill on Mountain cut and Second Street. There had been claims that the mosque was a converted church, but Alhaji Hamid dispelled this. He disclosed that the mosque was actually built in 1882, further up the mountain and not where it is presently located. In those days Alhaji Hamid recalled there were serious persecutions in the community by Christians who considered non Christians as pagans. “So there was a palaver and the Mosque was burnt down by these Christians.” Another mosque was built opposite the mosque now but was again demolished after some years because it was not big enough. Finally they built the massive structure which is what is now the Foulah Tong mosque and maintained the 1882 date as its establishment.” Alhaji Hamid narrated. Amariah Primary School he said was also built in 1887 by Dr Blyden who saw the need for education and that the land was donated for the project by twins - Alhassan and Alusine. The mosque and the school he said to a large extent came to mold the life, civilization and education of the Yoruba people in the Foulah Tong community. The Former President of Sierra Leone, Tejan Kabbah was confirmed to have attended the Amariah Primary School, though he was not a Yoruba, others were the late Dr Sanusi Mustapha, Late Justice Nasiru Alghalie, Late Justice Bankole Rashid and Dr Aroun Daniya. Alhaji said that the school was refurbished in 1997 by Plan International and that the whole community still uses the school’s playground to observe the feast of Eid-ul-ada. A fading culture “I think that the failure of the government to recognize Yoruba as one of the national languages was one of the pivotal agents that is killing the Yoruba people and language in this country,” Alhaji argued. He disclosed that he could not speak the language as fluently as he wished to and it is getting worse with their own children. “We found out now that we have to claim Creole and speak krio to properly identify ourselves in Sierra Leone other than that we are Yoruba and Nigerians (foreigners). On the other hand it is actually interesting and peculiar for us Muslim Yorubas to claim ourselves as creoles with Muslim names like Mohamed Cole, Mucktaru Pearce, Osman Thomas, Saptieu King. The Christian Creoles always think that they are the pure and original Creole people, but actually we are all brothers and sisters and came from the same origin with the same culture.” Alhaji Hamid explained. He continued that the expanding natures of communities in cities, Freetown not excluded has unknotted the threads that held them as a cultural society. Alhaji Hamid said that Foulah Tong had become cosmopolitan, in fact a home to many tribes than Yoruba, and that most of their properties have been sold out to other people so with the mix they cannot operate as a different entity with different cultural values but to move on and imbibe the various life styles and culture of other people. With nostalgia Alhaji revealed that they were the tribe that started “Ashobie” which has been used now by everybody else for weddings and other celebrations. He pointed out that they have very rich cultural celebrations for naming ceremony -‘Khomojade’, wedding and the observance of the three-day, seven-day and forty-day after burial. “The unbraided ‘kaftan’ had been our cultural dress and bread and ‘fourah’ the delicacies served in all of our celebrations. The Ojeh and Hunting society was also introduced by the yorubas” But all of theses are changing now Alhaji sighed, “The western culture is also affecting us, many of our children are overseas and they cannot keep these cultures. We hope that our heritage does not die out completely. What they still have is the ‘Adikali’, the head of the court and the head of the community all in one. The present Adikalie is Dr Fadlu Deen and his function is to settle all disputes brought to him ranging from land dispute, family palaver to marital problems but he seldom uses the ‘Tambaleh’ (traditional drum) only to announce the death of a very important personality or the day for pray-days. However amidst all the changes of landscape, people, and culture Foulah Tong continues to sit on the hills stoically accepting the transformations as they come and waiting for the day its own name will be changed. By Mohamed Fofanah |
mukina2:dont mind that kokonbilington! carlton OKORO cole darksin blyden so black he dey purple @topic doesnt really matter cause me being from Lagos i KNOW that their has always been krios in sierre and Nigeria and krios KNOW that also, these dudes are just young and dum,b. |
Krios arent confused about their roots these guys are young AND DUMB. |
Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992–1996 [size=13pt]Abel Nathaniel Bankole Stronge, [/size] current speaker of parliament of Sierra Leone Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leonean advocate, nationalist, and educationist [size=13pt]Abioseh Davidson Nicol[/size], author and Sierra Leonean diplomat Herbert George-Williams, current mayor of Freetown Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967 [size=13pt]Ade Renner Thomas,[/size] former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Sierra Leonean journalist, activist and politician Andrew [size=13pt]Juxon-Juwon[/size]-Smith, former commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces Christiana Thorpe, current chief of the Sierra Leone National Electoral Commission Abdul Tejan-Cole, current Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, current Chief of the Defence Staff of The Sierra Leone Armed Forces, the professional head of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and the highest ranked military position in Sierra Leone [size=13pt]David Omoshola Carew, [/size] current Sierra Leone Minister of Trade and Industry [size=13pt]Ogunlade Davidson[/size], Current Sierra Leone Minister of Energy and Power Victor [size=13pt]Chukuma [/size] Johnson, member of Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area (APC) Winstanley [size=13pt]Bankole [/size] Johnson, mayor of Freetown from 2004–2008 Cecil [size=13pt]Osho [/size] Williams, member of Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area (APC) Victor Reider, member of Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area (APC) John Henry Malamah Thomas, mayor of Freetown from 1904–1912 Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948–1954 Christopher Cole, former Sierra Leone's Governor-General and Chief Justice Prince Harding, Sierra Leone minister of transportation and communication from 2002–2007 Dennis Bright, Sierra Leone's sport minister from 2002–2007 John 'Johnny' Taylor, Creole trader during colonial era Dr. John Augustus [size=13pt]Abayomi[/size]-Cole, Sierra Leonean medical doctor, herbalist and politician. Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor of Freetown Herbert [size=13pt]Bankole [/size] Bright, was Sierra Leonean medical doctor and politician William John Campbell, former mayor of Freetown Tom Carew, Chief of Defence Staff of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003 Edmund Cowan, |
They arent Nigerian but they are problably from yoruba and ibo along They are creole who descended from ex slaves- they need to geth thier heads checked! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2264916863&v=info#!/group.php?gid=2264916863&v=wall - Sierre leonean creole group on facebook look at the names of the member and posters Ayo, Akindele, Modupe Olawale, kenhinde,Dehinbo |
You guys are clowns has nothing to do with nigeria or biafrans TIV or middle belters this problem is WIDE SPREAD ACROSS WEST AFRICA. not even that fulani are bad the NOMADIC HERDING tribes cause problem in all countries [size=14pt]In ghana[/size] Menace of Fulani Herdsmen is a worry to communities in Upper West Gwollu (U/W), Feb. 12, GNA - In the Upper West Region there is no community, village or settlement where people are not campaigning for the expulsion of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle from the Region. Women and children are worried because they are leading a "Mickey Mouse" freedom class of life. Their social and economic activities have been curtailed. None of them can go to the bush to fetch vegetables, pick sheanuts, baobab fruits or dawadawa fruits for home consumption. The small boys can not also go for rats and other fruits that are of nutritional value to them. Farmers are crying loud, they can no longer leave their foodstuffs in the farms. Their yams, cassava and millet that are left on their farm huts are broken into by herdsmen for their cattle to feed on. Yam and cassava mounds are destroyed and those who sow their yam seedlings get them eaten up by the cattle. Water sources are drying up. Economic trees such as the shea have their branches slashed and the leaves used as fodder. All ant hills in the bush are eaten up by these cattle. The Fulanis add salt to water and pour it on the ant hills for the cattle to eat. Hunting has come to a halt in many of the communities in the Region. Rape and defilement are high, threat to kill and killing farmers is equally high in the communities. Indeed the people have now become social and economic refugees on their own land, all in the good name of the Ghanaian hospitality and the Great ECOWAS Conventions. In some of the communities one does not need to go to another community by following the old roads. There are now many paths created by these cattle leading to all communities in the Sissala West, Sissala East and Wa East Districts. The environment is completely destroyed and farmers now have to travel long distances this time round to their farms. Madam Florence Zaato, Vice Chairperson of the Sissala Union, expressed worry about the huge environmental degradation caused by Fulani herdsmen and their cattle to the land at the annual general meeting of the union at Tumu recently. She urged District Assemblies and Traditional Authorities to collaborate and get them out of the area to save the land for their children. She expressed unhappiness about their involvement in rape and armed robbery. The South Sissala Tertiary Youth Association also appealed to the Chiefs of the South Sissala area and the Wa East District Assembly to expel all Fulani herdsmen from the area for degrading the land and making it unproductive. Mr Timothy Nbenaba, President of the Association, explained that the decision to call for the expulsion of the Fulani herdsmen is to avert any future clash between the farmers in the area and the herdsmen that may consequently lead to loss of lives. He said last year there were clashes leading to the payment of compensation by the herdsmen as a result of losses incurred by the farmers through the invasion of their farms by the herdsmen and their cattle. At Gwollu the District Chief Executive of Sissala West, Mr Robert B. Wavei appealed to the youth to compel their chiefs and all those who had settled Fulani herdsmen and their cattle in the communities to let the herdsmen go. He said it is disheartening for some chiefs to accept cattle from the herdsmen and to keep them in their communities and slaughter the animals to entertain their visitors. A prominent farmer, who wants to remain anonymous, said the North would soon become a desert if the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle are not expelled. He asked the Government to be bold to say no to the Fulani herdsmen to save the people from virtual bondage. "After all, the Fulani herdsmen have somewhere to go but our people have nowhere to go when the land is destroyed," he said. He said the District Assemblies should not use revenue mobilisation as an excuse to harbour the herdsmen and close their eyes to the huge destruction that they are causing to the environment. "The land belongs to the people and they must not be made to feel as slaves on their on land," he said. GNA |
GEJ will win BUT it DEF wont be easy. |
not really a big deal Fashola u r too good to even trade words with obj- gej-akala-oyinlola first i was thinking maybe fashola should run for president but naw i actually want more of a tribal party for ACN- to be cohesive like the old days. OBJ Akintola really fuckd it up. SW was progressing when they were ALONE no need to be at the center of everything. GEJ should just win presidency with votes from the SS SE middle belt and NE- I WOULD RATHER ACN and Labour party be labeled tribal awoist and SW leaders than in the same light with OBJ ZIK etc Yoruba folks should relax not really that serious |
ribadu cant win over jonathan |
why even make such a topic? KnowAll:pls shhh. no one is going to rig in favour of a non yoruba. common sense politics in the SW is different than around Nigeria- I like it THAT WAY, |
hahah dude was scared |
even if ribadu dobales for every yoruba person baby mother father in the SW and surrounding areas He cannot win their votes so why bother. ACN is not winning SW votes on a national level. |
he didnt insult SW people HE JUST WANTED PDP to sound good in the eyes of SW people. Though he shouldnt have said it because it was a blatant LIE. I think SW pdp GOVENORS are among the WORST in Nigeria. |
lol its CLEAR ACN isnt TRYING to win the presidential election OBVIOUSLY. i HEARD acn ISNT EVEN CONCERNED AT THE PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL AS OF YET i didnt believe it TILL NOW! Sunny ugochoku IS FUNNY. acn cant get now votes in the SW SS North or even the SE with him on the ticket Okonjo Iweala - is FUNNY she doesnt have what is takes to win ACROSS Nigeria esp with lame Ribadu. shes not a politician Yomi Osinbajo- WHO THE HEL.L IS HE he cannot even win an election in his hometown. I dont know what ACN has planned but for 2011 election they are not planning to win, theyre just throwing up a candidate to be there. |
ooni of ife is christian - anglican i think |
X-factoria:you took the words right out of my mouth esp with the christian muslim ratio from state to state and even ijebus and egbas soooo correct. ive always said that muslims maybe be slightly more than christian or if it is 50/50 in yorubaland half of the christian converts were originally muslim/ from muslim families. |
he already won osun ondo lagos i even thought atiku could have gotten atleast of 40% in osun but he got only 1 vote- and that vote was probably to mock Atiku. lol i kno osun people planned it like that, they are wicked! i can imagine them sitting together and saying since Atiku didnt give VP slot to oyinlola " je ka fu ni eyo kon kan"- " lets give him one |
appletango: are you delusional? I like most sw may not like obj and gej but there are no candidates better than him.GEJ winning the SW PDP primaries and general elections. |
there is still zoning, i dont think northerners love GEJ any more than atiku common sense- 4 years of Atiku then ibo president for 8 years or 4 years of GEJ and 8 years of sambo who is VERY popular among northerners. them voting for GEJ is like voting for Sambo in the future |
pdp in the west is fukd jonathan and nwodo didnt address it correctly. too many of them westerners at loggerheads with OBJ. esp oyo where the senator was just arrested but jonathan STILL will get atleast 60% |
jason123:dont mind him yoruba have always had GOOD relations with non yorubas esp midwesterners. namely edos and itsikiri some urohobo the only difference is yoruba wont go around boasting how they invest this and that in another mans land, expecting something in return as the ibos do. it is an equal exchange you didnt ask for anyone to come live invest in yourland - the purpose of investing is too make MONEY for ONESELF no one is going to go around investing in places where WONT PROSPER just to BE"nice". doesnt work like that [size=14pt]When a person migrates somewhere he does so to better himself FIRST, IBOS TALK as if theyre doing people a favour by living in someone eslse land and benefitting from that places economic upside. NO ONE asked ibos to come to their land or any places they did so solely because it benefited them- which is fine, I JUST DONT LIKE HOW PEEPS GO AROUND BOASTING AS IF THEY ARE DOING US A FAVOR![/size] |
i blame yoruba folks tho because of the mixed messages they send. |
dayokanu:lol nice one [size=14pt]nigeria can never change - which is fine with me, i dont hate any tribes its better to undersand them rather than forget it. must ethnic conflict and killings begin before people understand the message? ibos understand hausas well well Huasa: Kai you cannot rule us but be under us. ibo: Chai I understand[/size] https://www.eyewitnessnewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ati-n-ibb.jpg This pic says alot you have the three northerners in front and ibo boys sitting in the bak. Hausa sent that message from DAY1 if theres anything i like about them its that. |
lol funnty thread |
dayokanu:who ?? it was remi bakare adikuwu? she was married to ibo tho but yoruba |
Akhenaten:lol tell bini to go and contest then TELL OBA OF LAGOS HE IS A BINI MAN, see if he doesnt give you dirty slap! and bini yoruba should also cpntest in anamra state and anioma. i read an article written by an ibo man about how yoruba-bini want to rule ibos because of the bini-yoruba ancestry eze chima has had obi of onishta or w/e if you think being elected gov of any SW state is easy cake go and look at Rotimi williams, bola ige, dipo dina contest if you want but ur only looking for trouble. its already HARD FOR A YORUBA POLITICIAN to emerge SO I KNO IT WILL BE HELLL FOR A NON YORUBA. Obiagu1:GO head and contest lol if that non yoruba guy can excape assassinations, god fatherism and inter ethnic-religous clashes and still be govenor (wanted by the people) my hat is off to him he dserves it. thats SW politics if ibo want to enter it go head but this aint the SE its the west totally different rules be it one nigeria or two. |
isnt the oil offshore? so how can it be a curse ? we didnt forget kofi annans sons oil deals when his father was heading the UN. So even if the elite in ghana were chopping oil money the general public would never know cause its not oil spills are polluting the crops kills their fish, causing disease like niger delta, angola, sudan etc. |
theres too much toto in delta i mean really like this isnt new news i have ALOT uncles who have various children by women from delta esp asaba. if theres anything nigeria is worth is the many slutty girls round nigeria |
i dont see the difference beween both they dont know how to govern multi religous society. |
fstranger1:no hausa or ibos |
jason123:I dont know for some people sef Lagos DEF CAN be like Jos in the future i dont doubt it but it will change from religion to str8 ethnicities. i dont know what outsiders obsession is with lagos and sw in general - it can never be christian or muslim region it can ONLY be yoruba. |
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