₦airaland Forum

Guestlander:
Why are ibos crying more than the bereaved? My own response to the herdsmen problem is far more radical than anything an osu can come up with.
Why are they not concerned about the problem as it affect their own region? Are there no herdsmen in the east?

Northern leaders even the Sultan of Sokot visited the SE to beg because of the world wide escalation of the attack...compare that with those of you cowards that prefer to hide the attacks...because of Ilorin style...Show me the pictures where the northern leardership came to SW to beg, other than when Buhari came to warn Lam Adeshina...Abobakus have accepted the tag...associated with them..

Guestlander:
They are hypocrites. It runs in their blood and that is the reason no one cares about what they think.

The problem with your people is that you compare an incident with multiple incidents that happen in your region...

Just like the news "Okada man beheaded in Ogun, heart, kidney also removed" which happens everyday in SW...you will comapre it with Okija shrine which is one off...

http://punchng.com/okada-man-beheaded-in-ogun-heart-kidney-also-removed/

...please be human enough to call a spade a spade. The topic is that herdsmen are rampaging thoughout SW...Deal with it...

oodualover:
Osu, I don't comment on your Biafra thread

Afonja Abobaku..so be it.

oodualover:
Of course, anybody that does not support a flattheaded pigs is a muslim. Jonathan won 40 percent of SW votes, so I don't expect all Yoruba to support Buhari. Don't worry, e go do una like film trick next year.

What is worse than how we have been for 50 years after the civil war?

The only new thing will be to have an emir like you have in Ilorin...

oodualover:
That was not the last attack. Your people were killed last year and none of Your people did anything about it. In fact, there were stories that your effiminate men were divorcing their wives because they were raped by Fulanis.
Mind your business and stop poking your nose into Yoruba land

Liar post the attack? You have had several attackes within few months and you are not even making any comments or finding solutions.

Promise you will mind your business and stop poke nosing into IPOB, Kanu and Biafraland, and we will do the same.

Rolings:
They have not had banditry so bad and not herdsmen attack. Criminal is a crime without tribal or religious coloration . If you have been hiding your head in the sand I advise you to start giving yourself good advise.

I guess the criminals are Yorubas, Igbos, Ijaw or Tivs...Continue hiding your head deeper in the sand. Na you sabi..

oodualover:
Who da hell is this? What exactly is wrong with you ibos in the head? Who told you flattheads Yoruba regret voting Buhari? Why are you ibos this develish? It is only ibos that think Yorubas regret voting Buhari. It is only ibos that think want 'forgiveness' from other people because we did not vote for that ineffectual baboon call Jonathan. Let me put it into your flatthead that Fulani attacks did not start today. As I write, they are killing people in your land. Your people don't feel for not that animalistic Jonathan.
Face your land and leave Yoruba people alone

Have you not seen the video of your youths cursing Nigeria and some of its main leaders?...Was it not frustration by your god Buhari that made them lead the curse session? Ogbeni, lying will not make you, Yoruba muslim, right

oodualover:
Wetin concern me with Biafra and cownu? The fact here is that Fulani are killing your people in your land, and you crying about attacks in Yoruba land. Shame no una body. Be crying on top Yoruba matter while you ignore attacks going on in Enugu

The last major attack was in Nimbo/Nsukka...in 2016. There was outrage worldwide like never before. There was more than 16,000 comments in Vanguard and thousands of comments in other social media outlets...Several northern leaders visited the SE to beg the leaders. The same cannot be said on attacked in SW. So where are they killing people in the SE on a daily basis like they do in the SW at the moment?

Rolings:
Nothing like yoruba Muslim.
These are all propaganda from Vanguard newspaper.
all these are isolated cases which does not condemn an entire tribe to be killers . Yes killer herdsmen are on the prowl and have been for years now what then is different? When the number of lives unfortunately lost the the crisis have been on the decline since 2015 .
What is different is the restructuring gang will do anything to blackmail others into accepting their own version of restructuring .

Zamfara governor who said they have not had it so bad...is also doing propaganda? You see, it is most foolish to continue hding your hide in the sand...

Guestlander:
This is why I know without doubt that many of you have no brains at all.
What is the true percentage of Osu contributions to the above mentioned sectors? What is the total value of these sectors to the Nigerian economy?
You need to give me the right answers to these before we know the extent of what you control. But we all know that is not the osu way.
Just throw out stupid statements like we control Abuja to Zaria. That is enough for osu.

I can't see why are drooling...splashing saliva everywhere...

Why not tell the percentage yourself...

The powerful people are those who want to leave and stay on their own, like Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda...not big for nothing country lead by clueless people and unity beggars. If you contribute more why not support referendum so those not contributing can leave...You parasite will soon start shouting Burutai and python dance...Parasites and cowards everywhere.

oodualover:
Leave them to be mastubating on top Yoruba matter while their men keep divorcing their ugly women because Fulani rape them

Swear you don't mastubate on Kanu, Biafra, IPOB and Igbo matter...?

Guestlander:
You are Osu and you live in an environment today where there's a limit to what you can achieve.(Whether You accept it or not) You don't even have any control over the land on which you are standing to post the gibberish you post on nairaland. Your children also you will grow up in the same environment, but your greatest worry is "Afonja" because you have akamu in your head instead of brains.

...you also control the prices of motor and spare parts for industrial machineries...price of cars and trucks, cosmetics, building materials, electronics, pharmacetuical product, clothes...industrial chemicals, etc, etc...? You realy need more education as you have no idea what destiny means, ogbeni.

Guestlander:
You have no control of anything. We know the game, put a token osu in a position of power and watch his unthinking fellows believe they run things. We saw this clearly under Obasanjo and Jonathan.
Who cares about installing an emir when your subjects have no power to determine their own destiny.
Keep your brain under your seat and keep shouting Afonja.

How have you determined your own destiny? I hope you know the meaning of destiny?

You also control the prices of motor and spare parts for industrial machineries...price of cars and trucks, cosmetics, building materials, electronics, pharmacetuical product, clothes...industrial chemicals, etc, etc...?

Guestlander:
We captured iboland, killed three millions of their women and children, chased their leader into exile, render them politically impotent and unable to control their own destiny. Sounds familiar?
Osu baboons must worry more about his Yoruba masters.

Afonga coward..you only have mouth...What happened before you captured Igboland?

Who is controlling NPA, CBN, NNPC?, Stock exchange...? Who is controlling Nollywood? You? Is that how to control your destinies...Go school afonja barbarian and get more education!

Name one Emir in Igboland...? More than 80% of your Obas are Muslims...conquered people...It was either the Koran or the sword...

Guestlander:
3 million ibos dead! That is more than the population of some countries and you are here bitching about Yoruba.

Yorubas didn't die in Ilorin, Oyo, ogbomosho and Ife wars..abi?

"We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir. We took that ancient town away from the barbarian yoruba and their filthy pagan gods. We liberated all these places and all these people by imposing islam on them by force.
It was either the Koran or the sword and most of them chose the Koran." Alhaji Aliyu Gwarzo

Guestlander:
We all know Nnamdi Kanu is dead and gone. Many of his supporters were also sent to untimely graves.
This is what you need to worry about and let Yoruba worry about their own problems.

I respect your courage to come out...Most of your brothers are still in hiding...monitoring the thread..."Where is Nnamdi Kanu". What message do you have for those little cowards?

Remember Abiola, Bola Ige, Kudirat have also died and gone...Always remember that

adadike281:
Tinubu, should cover his face in shame. coward of d highest order!

As we speak Tinubu is in Zamfara or Kano campaigning for Buhari.

Buhari is a better leader than Tinubu in this regard. As a top SW leader, Tinubu should be seen visiting the Sokoto and Kano with delegation from the SW, finding solutions to the herdsmen attacks on his people in SW...like Buhari did, when he visited Lam Adeshina in Oyo state, to ask that Oyo people should stop killing his Fulani people.

SouthEastFacts:
One thing I am so sure is that those Cowards won't hit the SS/SE for now. Maybe after 2019 if Buhari is returned. But before then, the entire SW had been turned to an Emirate.

They brought this upon themselves. They should enjoy the change.

Have you seen any of them commenting yet...?

They have all gone into hiding...

I won't be surprised if one of them opens a thread asking about Nnamdi Kanu...to divert attention from this important thread and profer solutions.

Most of them right now.

Most Yoruba Muslims are saying these are fake incidences...

…Herdsmen attacks sweep through South-West By Dayo Johnson – Regional Editor, South-West, Gbenga Olarinoye – Oshogbo, Ola Ajayi – lbadan, Daud Olatunji – Abeokuta, Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti

THE rapacious activities of herdsmen in the South-West have left tales of woes and many persons, including aged farmers, hacked to death on their farms while their wives and female children are not only raped but also butchered and vital body parts carted away. Annoyingly, the families of those murdered on their farms were left to bury their dismembered bodies and made to live with such a bad memory. Also destroyed in the geo-political zone are hundreds of hectares of farmlands and in many cases cash and food crops burnt. Herdsmen are also accused of rampant kidnapping of residents.

Florence attacked by suspected herdsman on her farm in Ondo Farmers are abandoning their farms in droves because of the unending activities of herdsmen who lead their cattle to graze on the farmlands. Notable personalities such as a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Olu Falae, had suffered untold hardship in the hands of suspected herdsmen. His massive farm, located at Ilado in Akure North, Ondo State, has been set ablaze by the assailants many times. He was equally kidnapped in broad daylight while on his farm and spent days in captivity only to be released 96 hours after a ransom of N5million was paid. Whereas seven of his abductors were caught, prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment, most of those who attacked other victims were never apprehended not to talk of being brought to justice.

On the recent attack of his farm, Falae had said, “They burn my farm every year so that fresh grass can grow for their cattle to eat. This is the third time they’ll be setting my farm ablaze”. In another act of impunity linked to herdsman in Ondo State, a 28-year-old mother of two, Florence Godday, was attacked by machete wielding herdsman who she claimed nearly raped her on her farm in Igbo Abo, near Osi community in Akure North. Speaking on her ordeal, the woman explained that she was working alone on her farm on the fateful day when the herdsman attacked, gagged her and tore her clothes preparatory to raping her. She narrated that the gag miraculously slipped from her mouth following which she raised the alarm to attract nearby villagers.

The attacker fled but not before dealing her machete blows. “I can’t really explain the motive behind the attack by the herdsman, maybe to kill me or to rape me, but he had removed my wrapper and blouse before I could raise the alarm and he dealt machete blows on me”, Florence said. The husband, a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Thomas Godday, mobilised and got the suspect arrested but he was later set free by the state Police Command which described him as a scavenger who attempted to sexually abuse the woman and injured her in the process. The police denied that he was a herdsman but a northerner.

A suspected herdsman, who allegedly stabbed a driver, Victor Ajisafe, at Road Block area of Ibadan Garage in Akure South, has not been apprehended almost a month after the incident. Ajisafe was said to have met his untimely death after a minor disagreement between him and the herdsman. The wife of the deceased, Oluwatoyin, said, “We appeal to government and the police to arrest the Fulani herdsman who killed my husband in his prime. He must face the consequences of his action.” Last December, some farmers in Arodoye community in Akure South took time off their farming activities to celebrate Christmas and New Year with their families only to return to discover that their over 200 hectares of farmlands had been attacked by herdsmen whose cattle fed freely on the crops. A 65-year-old woman, Patience Salami, who was met on one of the farmlands by the rampaging herdsmen, was murdered; her body dismembered and parts like the tongue, breasts and private part carted away.

The victims petitioned the state government, security agencies, the state House of Assembly and the state Ministry of Agriculture on the development. They listed some of the farm produce destroyed by the herdsmen to include cassava, cocoa, cocoyam, yam, vegetables while some part of the cocoa farms were set on fire. Speaking on behalf of the farmers, a victim, who is also a judge of the Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Michael Owoyemi, traced the genesis of the invasion to December 2016 when some herdsmen harvested most of the farm produce in the community while they were away for Christmas /New Year. He noted that the 2016 attack was small compared to the latest assault. Owoyemi explained that the herdsmen returned last December destroying over 5,000 heaps of cassava in his farm. “They took the advantage of the break and brought their cattle and uprooted all the cassava in my farm to feed their cows”, he said. “The herdsmen are determined to send us farmers out of business in the South-West and unless steps are taken by the authorities, the situation may degenerate to ethnic clashes.

What they have destroyed in a twinkle of an eye is worth millions of Naira” Another victim, Gabriel Ikoja, 68, who claimed to have started farming in the area in 1985, said he never experienced the kind of the latest destruction. “We want to call on the state government to emulate Ekiti by enacting a law to control grazing activities because there is no question about the fact that this is becoming a monster, it is getting dangerous while the audacity is very disturbing.” Debtors “They have turned us to perpetual debtors because some of the tools we use in the farms were procured with bank loans. The herdsmen will just get there and destroy our farmlands. The state government should rise up to help us.” The community head, the Olu of Arodoye, Chief Idowu Ajetumobi Fasuyi, said apart from the destruction of farms, most people had fled the community while those that remained had been living in fear. The Senior Special Assistant to the state governor on Agriculture, Mr. Akin Olotu, at a meeting with stakeholders, said there should be a form of identification for cattle rearers and their cattle to distinguish the erring ones in the state.

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu also disclosed the determination of the state government to end clashes between herdsmen and farmers in Ondo, saying plans were underway to resuscitate the ranch established by the Chief Obafemi Awolowo administration in Akunnu-Akoko area of the state. 8-year-old attacker Last week however, some herdsman, said to have been led by an 8-year-old herder, sacked Akure South LGA secretariat. The lad had reportedly led his cattle to feed on a vegetable farm at the back of the council secretariat and, when challenged, he drew out a dagger and stabbed the farm manager.

A fight reportedly ensued and the boy wounded but, moments later, several herdsmen emerged with dangerous weapons, invaded the council secretariat, forcing workers to flee in different directions. Some brides and their grooms, who had come to the council’s registry for the solemnisation of the holy matrimony, also fled on seeing the herdsmen, said to be numbering over 30 and brandishing dangerous weapons. The council boss, Margaret Atere, it was learnt, was ferried out of the council premises by her aides during the incident. For three days thereafter, the workers, out of fear of a reprisal attack, stayed away from work. The state Commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyemi, who led his men and the governor’s Special Adviser on Security to the LGA secretariat to assess the situation, tried to play down the incident which he described as a minor disagreement.

Ogun: Death on farmland The situation in Ogun State is not entirely different from Ondo’s. In January, some suspected herdsmen invaded a farm and destroyed N6.8 million worth of produce. The farm is located in Likosi-Alabata village in Papalanto area of Obafemi-Owode local government area of the state and belonging to one Roseline Ogege. Same month, another group of suspected herdsmen reportedly attacked two female primary school teachers in Onigbedu area of Ewekoro LGA while a farmer was killed on his farmland at Afon in Imeko-Afon LGA in an incident blamed on herdsmen. Both incidents occurred after the state government took measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers and to ensure safety of lives and property and the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, convened a stakeholders’ meeting to discuss the clashes.

The government said the herdsmen attacks affected Yewa North,Obafemi-Owode,Odeda and Ijebu-Ode LGA among others. The Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, who spoke on behalf of the state government, said Yewa North was hardest hit. He, however, vowed that government will invoke the recently passed anti-land grabbing law in Ogun to curtail herdsmen/farmers clashes. Oyo: One killed, hunters deployed Since the latest killing of a farmer in Iseyin by suspected herdsmen, the Yoruba farmers group, Agbekoya, has deployed hunters to areas that appear to be flashpoints. The strained relationship between herders in the state and farmers dates back to many years ago. According to a chieftain of Agbekoya, the influx of herders into Yorubaland was not considered a threat due to the hospitable nature of the people. But as the number of herders grew, trouble started as their cattle increased in number and needed more grazing fields. This informed their movement away from their grazing routes to destroy farmlands.

The people of Oke Ogun area of Oyo State are worst-hit. There is hardly a week that there is no issue between Saki residents and herders. It was gathered that the population of herdsmen has now surpassed that of natives. One of battered victims In a meeting convened by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Odude, he appealed to both parties to live together in peace. Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s representative at the meeting, Mr Segun Abolarinwa, said the peace enjoyed in the state was as a result of the collective efforts of government and security agencies. He said, “We don’t want a repeat of attacks that engulfed states like Taraba, Benue, Enugu and Yobe here in Oyo. We have been living together in peace for several years.

Robbery attacks and violent activities of members of NURTW have stopped and we don’t want anything to rupture the peace. If there is trouble in Nigeria, with the population of about 170 million, where do we run to? EKITI: Despite law, pregnant woman, one other killed In Ekiti State, the anti- open grazing law enacted by the Governor Ayodele Fayose-led government, which initially curtailed the nefarious activities of herdsmen in the state, now appears dormant, especially in the face of current killings allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen. The law, titled, “Prohibition of Cattle and Other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti, 2016,” criminalises grazing in some places within the state and outside certain period in the day. It also prohibited carriage of any kind of weapon by herdsmen. Aside the legal measures against killer herdsmen, local hunters of border communities across the state have been mobilised and empowered with vehicles and funds by Governor Fayose to tackle them. However, in the last two months, several killings and destruction of farmlands have been recorded across Ekiti. In January, a pregnant Tiv woman was hacked to death in a farm settlement located in Orin-Ekiti in Ido/Osi LGA by people referred to as “Bororo herdsmen”. A former Chairman of the LGA, Prince Sanmi Olubummo, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that another victim of the attack was receiving treatment in hospital.

It was gathered that the incident was a reprisal attack. A particular herdsman was said to have been attacked by a group of Tiv natives who were enraged at the damaged done to their farmlands by the cattle of some herdsmen and immediately launched an attack on the cattle. Some weeks ago, another group of suspected herdsmen struck again, hacking to death a father of two, Olayemi Tunde, in Ipao area of Ikole LGA. Olayemi, a motorcyclist, was reportedly killed while returning from his farm. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the deceased had gone to his farm to harvest cassava when he met his untimely death. Following the killings, a security meeting was called by Fayose who proposed that the Ekiti anti-grazing law should be amended in such a way to earn the confidence of herdsmen. The governor said the amendment would provide one year jail term for anyone who kills herdsmen’s cattle, as well as provision of compensation for affected herdsmen. He promised to set up a panel to investigate the root cause of the Ipao attack.

OSUN: 100 acres of farmlands, crops worth hundreds of millions lost In Osun State, there are claims that herdsmen recently attacked two villages and destroyed farmlands worth hundreds of millions of naira. The villages were identified as Oki and Uro in Obokun East LGA. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the attacks occurred on January 20. One of the affected farmers, Prince Patrick Olaniyan, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Administration of The Polytechnic, Imesi- Ile, confirmed that he lost over three hundred thousand worth of crops to the attack. Another victim, Prince Samuel Ajiboye, said his plantain farm was destroyed.

The farm, sited on five acres of land, was, according to him, cleared of the plantain by the cows of the herders before day break. He claimed to have spent over one million naira on the enterprise before the incident. In the case of Pa Joseph Osundare, another staff of the polytechnic, the cassava planted on his two acres of land in Uro and estimated at about five hundred thousand naira was eaten up by the herdsmen’s cattle About 100 acres of mangoes, pineapple, plantain plantations and cassava farms were also reportedly set ablaze in Esa Oke area of Obokun East LCDA) by suspected herdsmen. Some of the farmers, who spoke to our correspondent, put the cost of their economic crops at hundreds of millions of Naira.

They called on the state government, which leased the farmlands to them at Esa Oke Farm Settlement, to come to their rescue. One of the victims, Mr Sola Obembe, said, “On January 26, our farms were set ablaze by herdsmen and over 100 acres of farmland were burnt with economic trees valued at hundreds of millions of Naira. “Also in Ikoyi town, we had a trial farm of tomato and cucumber of about 200 acres which was also set ablaze. The fire started around 5.30 pm and spread quickly as we have plastic mulch and drop lines all over. Fortunately, some of our workers who live close were still around and they tackled the blaze”.

Osun State Commissioner for Special Duties, who doubles as the Chairman of the Peaceful Co-Existence between herders and farmers in the state, Mr Oguntola Mudsiru Toogun, confirmed the attacks but said about 29 farmers affected at Esa Oke had been paid compensation by the erring herders. He said government was taking proactive measure to foster peace and harmony in the state, assuring that efforts were on-going to sustain peace and avert any clash between farmers and herders.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/rapists-women-killers-men-attackers-farms-walking-streets-free/

Alariiwo:
Why are Igbos so bent on doing attache by force to SS..

You guys belong to different geopolitical zone and have different languages.
Why are these guys attracting violence and destruction to themselves like this?

Is it by force to be biafra?
Why can't igbos go and form their eldorado alone.

Why are the Hausa/Fulanis so bent on doing attache by force to Kwara, Kogi and Benue all in NC?

Afonja ogbeni, you have brain. Use it...

omenkaLives:
Another hero of those imotionally driven things in the making..

Below is part of the interview with Musa.

Do you also feel emotional about his response...or, all you do is to perpetual hide your bruised head under the sand?

Don’t you think that it is because Igbo are agitating for a republic of their own?

No, it is not because the Igbo were agitating for a republic. Igbo are more Nigerian than the North or South West in terms of their commitments to the unity of Nigeria. And this is right from 1950s. They are more committed to the Nigeria project. Let’s even talk of tribe; the Igbo are more committed to national unity. They have never expressed separatist tendency, until after the war because of the effect of the war. They have always been for one united Nigeria than the Yoruba and Hausa that have always been secessionists.

imhotep:
Okosodo is thinking with less than half of his brain

You de mind these people?

okosodo:
Igbos are not a united set of people

Yorubas are united but they have killed themselves more than any tribe in Nigeria. How are they more united then...?

Who killed the following people in SW region?

Bola Ige
Toyin Hamzat,
Funsho Williams
Harry Marshall
Pa Alfred Rewane
Yomi Bamgbose
Gideoan Aremu

MrDude:
Useless absolutely useless... Many of these Abokis are political swindler. He wants to bait up Igbo people, trust these aboki people at your own peril.

Needless to add that I couldn't and wouldn't read any worthless long epistle from a known Jihadist

If they no come trust abooki...na Afonja they go come trust?

O boy you funny, oh...

taiwolomo1:
na una de look for money everywhere na! We value our life bro

That's why una alike one Nigeria...hiding behind other tribes to protect you... yet your hatred and envy is there for all to see. Why.

cruzydal:
GOD BLESS U.. LET THEM KNOW

You are not Igbo

LasGidiOwner:
Ok oo

Ignored!

lathrowinger:
na to show say them nor mumu nah... why will afonja go and die for nothing sake

Why for nothing sake? Say those soldiers no fight...BH for don reach Lagos...#

Na only mouth una get...remind me again the name of that general way run from BK people...E name start with Ransom....

benben1000:
Check the name, it's either SE, SS or North. It can never be afonja. Since this war on Boko Haram started, I have not heard or seen an afonja soldier dead.

This people...ehn..

They go tell you how 100 afonja hunters chased the Biafran soldiers from Ore...and defeated them...

Their mouth...fit uproot trees...

LasGidiOwner:
The whole of Imo state, there is no such beautiful architecture and well kept public school as this. This school can only compete with FUTO and not even the state run poultry farm called IMSU

Owerri is really beautiful..

You may need to ignore that guy who is pissing you off...

Igbos are one....Please continue to feed our eyes with fresh photos...

Thanks.

omenkaLives:
What I see.. .

What I see...