₦airaland Forum

On the night of Sunday 21st of January 2018, at about midnight, we got a report that a trailer load of Fulanis invaded our district. They were sighted along the road close to Iluke at the heart of Bunu district.

Bunu is a district in Kabba-Bunu local government area of Kogi state in Nigeria. Amongst her endowments is a large and fertile landmass, peace-loving people and a serene environment, despite the underdevelopment and apparent marginalization, especially in infrastructural facilities. Agriculture is the foremost occupation.

The innocent farmers,traditional leaders and even ,the vigilantes in the village had no prior information or knowledge of this strange migrants' movement into the town. They are in excess of a hundred, mostly women and children, they came in with their food, beddings, herdsmen's sticks, and other household things.

They said; they have a letter of authority (the letter written in Hausa language was sighted and was instructive to their relocating to our land for settlement from a certain seriki in Bwari AMAC and that their male adults were said to be on their way. Another report said; they claimed to be going to another village within our district on the invitation of another seriki, but the said _seriki replied enquiry that he is not aware of their coming.

This worrisome incident happened, after the governor of Kogi State offered Kogi State to be the pilot state for the implementation of "cattle colony" and after various groups in Kogi including Okun Development Association, Bunu Peoples' Forum and Bunu Interest Group came out openly to say NO to cattle colony on Okun land.

The Nigeria constitution does not give freedom to a group of people to settle anywhere they like without consultation with the host community and modalities agreed upon.

We consider this invasion of Fulanis on our land a great security threat to our existence, especially farming,fishing
,hunting, timbering etc at this crucial security moment in which the federal Government of Nigeria confirmed to have identified some terrorists in Kogi,Benue and Edo states respectively.

We, therefore, call on all meaningful Nigerians within and in diaspora, lovers of Bunu people, alongside international human rights and security bodies to come to our aid.

Bunu district,which is made up of forty four villages without a single functioning police station, talk much of an Army barracks. Only two villages have epileptic power supply,while our road networks are poor and nothing to write home about.

If the government can not help us, they should not compound our problems as we are law abiding citizens and don't deserve tension and hostile decisions as our dividend of democracy.

# Bunu People says no to colony.
*Bunu Peoples Forum*

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State must tread softly and ensure adequate and wide consultations on the issue of ceding some lands in the state to the Federal Government for cattle colonies, a member of the House of Representatives has said.

Rep. Tajudeen Ayo Paul Teejay Yusuf (PDP, Kogi), who was reacting to Bello's position last week, said lands are owned by communities and not traditional rulers, saying the PDP would not support any attempt to deny the people their ancestral property.

The lawmaker, who represents Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency, told journalists in Abuja on Sunday that it is in the interest of coming generations that the governor must not only consult with the people but also ensure that they are not short-changed in the process.
“This is beyond politics.

I plead with our governor to please make adequate consultations because traditional rulers are not bonafide owners of land in communities in most, if not all communities across Kogi State,” Yusuf who chairs the committee on capital market, said.

He said it would amount to adding salt to injury for the governor to take such a decision at a time he is sacking thousands of people from the state’s civil service.

“All over the world, teachers are respected because they play a major role in shaping the destiny of future generations but regrettably, in Kogi today, a life of penury and gross uncertainty is their reward.

“In 2016, many voters in Kogi State made the mistake of voting for ‘change’ but they now feel gravely short-changed. We sympathize with many Kogites going through various ordeals, including the recent sack of their family members.

“Without the absolutely stupendous billions of Paris Club refund, bailouts and federal statutory allocations now coming into Kogi from Abuja, the previous PDP administrations in Kogi State were paying workers’ salaries,” he stated.

He added that, “While many critics of the APC administration have attributed the current situation to leadership deficit and blamed people’s harrowing experience on past gullible acceptance of utopian-sounding propaganda and deceitful promises, we feel convinced that there is still cause ahead for hope.”

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seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

Kogi West Rejects Establishment Of Cattle Colonies.

It is not surprising that the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, will quickly but strangely meet with the Minister of Agriculture in order to make our dear Confluence State as a Pilot State for the proposed Cattle Colonies in the country.

The governor's latest shenanigans is not surprising in the sense that money is involved.

The Federal Government will definitely make funds available to Bello to kick-start the pilot scheme in Kogi State.

Therefore, as a true representative of the people of Kogi West senatorial zone and on behalf of my constituents, we warn in strong terms that our soil, land, water and air cannot be used for cattle colonies.

Let it be clear to all the insensitive people behind the idea that Kogi West will resist the establishment of any cattle colony within our domain politically, spiritually,traditionally and with any means available within the ambit of the law.

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oladele97:
Some stupid people who are not worthy of being a chairman of a local government.

abokibuhari:
Thank God but no come from that state, I prefer present venue state to kogi.


Better make fulani they kill us than make bello be our governor

hypemarket:
Yahay Bello? Shey that one be governor?

DEPUTY Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State and former Campaign Coordinator of President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos State, James Faleke, has described as absurd the donation of six Toyota Venza cars and cash gifts of N2 million each by the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to masquerades in his home town of Okene, during the last Ekwechi (masquerade) festival in December 2017.

Faleke, yesterday, said it was indeed absurd that the same governor who has not been able to pay workers salaries for several months and promised to clear all outstanding salaries and pensions last December, without fulfilling same, could go ahead to spend money buying cars for masquerades.

He said: “I, honestly, don’t know what is happening in our state. We thought the governor would heed popular call to settle all outstanding salaries and pensions in the State last December as he promised, after receiving the Paris refunds of close to N12 billion, only for him to pay 40 percent of two months.

“So where did the rest of the money go? Next we heard was the news of the six Venza cars he bought and presented to masquerades in Okene through their minders, along with N2 million cash to each of the masquerades.

“How can one be so insensitive to the welfare, yearnings and aspira-tions of his people?"

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