Oshigun: Striking out posts like a juvenile delinquent yet you can't even quote a post properly and I had to do it for you. Goes to show how confused you are mentally.
You started this thread same as Igbores alone have literally started millions of thread like this in the past few weeks with some being fake and fabricated news from Igbo blog sites. When have you people ever loved Yorubas that much to always be the only ones to consistently start these Yoruba-Fulani threads here?
These threads are your call to your fellow hateful Igbos to gather and congregate. They, alone and not Edos or Urhobo or Idoma, would then duly show up and sit on those threads you and other Igbos started mischievously to use in taunting Yorubas.
It is despical and the behaviour of people with serious mental issues. The poster you respond to is only taunting you in return , ala mind your own business, because of your own obsessive madness over Yorubas you don't appreciate
vannessa7: Go to facebook and search for igbo Muslim forum and igbo Muslim ummah, look through their post and confirm that muric is right, igbos are the most intolerant tribe in nigeria, with their mouth and hatred they have sowed the seed of hatred in every one's heart, it's either your way or no way, close minded and the Jesus they are serving is nothing like them he was love personified My husband is a Muslim preacher and at their programs igbos convert to islam regularly, some even wrote books of their conversion experience, stay there, Islam is about God whom you are trying to get to through Jesus, God will always win because even Jesus bow down to God everyday, bad Muslims and terrorist will still not make islam to be what it is not and it won't disappear, the earlier you accept that the better
That group is mostly made up of Hausa people and Yoruba muslim, with 1 or 2 confused Igbo Muslim
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday spoke on the farmer-herder crisis, urging state governments to convert unoccupied public lands to ranches for herdsmen.
He also enjoined the Federal Government to convene a meeting of all state governors, security officials, traditional and religious leaders, including representatives of herders and farmers, to find solutions to the lingering conflict.
In recent times, nomadic herders have been accused of trespassing on farms and destroying crops with their cows in several parts of the country, particularly in the South-West.
Some herdsmen have also been accused of raping, kidnapping, and killing in host communities.
Many leaders in Yorubaland, including a chieftain of the socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, had criticised Tinubu for failing to speak on the crisis due to political reasons.
It was not the first time, though, that the APC leader would make such a call.
He had in October 2018, while addressing a National Summit jointly organised by The Nation Newspapers and Television Continental, called for the conversion of unoccupied land to grazing reserves as a way of resolving the herdsmen violence.
He reiterated his position on Saturday, noting that the crisis had taken on violent dimensions.
The APC leader said the crisis had cost too many innocent lives and destroyed the livelihoods of many.
He said although there had been sporadic disputes in the past, the current crisis was more serious, noting that economic and climate change factors, the proliferation of weapons, generalised increase in criminality, and the weakening of social institutions were all playing a role.
Tinubu said increased security measures alone could not solve the farmer-herder crisis, recommending that after the Federal Government had convened a security summit involving all the stakeholders, the state governors should convene follow-up meetings in their states to adopt the solutions suitable for their states.
He said, “Governments need to employ new technology and equipment to enhance the information gathering/surveillance and response capabilities of law enforcement.
“Help the herders’ transition to more sedentary but more profitable methods of cattle-rearing. Unoccupied public land can be fenced into grazing areas or ranches and leased to herders on a very low-cost, nominal basis.
“The leasing is not intended to penalise herders. Rather, the nominal fee is intended to ensure the herders are invested in the project and incentivised (by reason of their investment) to use the land provided. This aspect will also mitigate any resentment over herders being given land for free.
Government, in turn, being a responsible lessor, must help with supplemental feed and water in these areas. This will enable herders to better maintain and care for their livestock, thus enhancing their incomes.
“Herders can augment income by becoming suppliers to the leather goods industry. Additionally, herders can also develop a more symbiotic relationship with farmers by, for example, trading animal compost to the farmer in exchange for animal feed.”
Correspondingly, Tinubu said governments should assist farmers to increase productivity by supporting or providing subvention for their acquisition of fertiliser and machinery.
The APC leader also called for the establishment of a permanent panel in each state as a forum for farmers, herders, security officials and senior state officials to discuss their concerns, mitigate contention, as well as identify and douse trouble before it erupts. Also, Tinubu cautioned against fanning the embers of hatred, saying such could worsen the farmer-herder crisis.
“Sadly, others who should know better have incited matters by tossing about hate-tainted statements that fall dangerously short of the leadership these people claim to provide,” he said.
“This is no time for reckless chauvinism of any kind on either side of this dispute. This matter is not ethnic in factual origin or actual causation, although in the minds and hearts of too many, it has become ethnic in recrimination and impulsive action,” he added.
Tinubu also said the situation of the herder was becoming untenable, saying their nomadic ways had increasingly fallen in conflict with the dictates of modern society.
“This way of life is centuries old and steeped in tradition. We can never condone or accept violence as a valid response to any hardship.
“However, we all must recognise and understand the sense of dislocation caused by the sudden passing of such a longstanding social institution,” he said
Meanwhile, commenting on Tinubu’s proposition on the farmer-herder crisis, Afenifere chieftain, Adebanjo, said no state should be compelled to convert any land to ranches.
In an interview with Sunday PUNCH, Adebanjo also urged Tinubu to press for the restructuring of the country.
“No state should be compelled to convert any land to ranches. States should be free to decide if and where there is a need to establish ranches,” Adebanjo said.
He added, “Tinubu should go further to press for the restructuring of the country now, whereby the state governors will be the Chief Security Officers of their states in law and in practice as against the present situation when they have no control over the police.”
In a similar manner, the Secretary- General of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide also disagreed with Tinubu’s suggestion.
Olajide said cattle business should be treated like other private businesses, adding government’s attitude of pampering of herdsmen must stop.
He said, “The pampering of herdsmen should stop. Cattle business is a private business like any other agricultural businesses such as poultry.
“The herdsmen should be treated like other people. Why should the public land be fenced and used as ranches? They should go through the normal processes which other business owners go through if they want land. The land belongs to the people and it is only held in trust by government for the people.
“Everybody should be subjected to the same law. There is no moral or legal justification on why public land should be fenced with public money and used to pamper the herdsmen.”
The YCE secretary also disagreed with the former governor of Lagos State that such land when fenced should be leased to herders at a low-cost. “Why should the charges be nominal? As for me, I don’t agree with that. Everybody should be treated the same way. In as much as government does not convert public land for the use of engineering firms and other businesses, everybody should be treated the same way,” he added.
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Embassy in Benin Republic to offer consular services to Ogun community residents who fled to the francophone country on account of the attacks by herdsmen.
The Director of Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Bolaji Akinremi, said the ministry was expecting a feedback from the mission on the directive.
Residents of Agbon-Ojodu, Moro, Asa, Ibeku and some other villages in Yewa Local Government Area of Ogun State had abandoned their communities and took refuge in neighbouring Benin Republic following incessant attacks by armed herdsmen.
Over 20 persons have been reportedly killed by the criminals who also grazed their animals on farms in the agrarian communities.
Following the failure of the federal and state governments to protect the beleaguered communities, some of their members were said to have sought shelter in Benin.
The Senate had on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to direct officials of the National Emergency Management Agency and Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, to bring back the people.
But Akinremi told our correspondent on Thursday that the embassy had been directed to offer assistance to the people.
He stated, “We have asked our mission to seek them out and also to see to their welfare. The mission is expected to attend to those in distress. The mission would also provide update to the headquarters on the matter.”
When asked what the government was doing to bring the people back, the MFA spokesman, Ferdinand Nwonye, pleaded for time to get the information from the appropriate department.
TheNeededShock: Now the ret@rd wants to deflect....cry all you want, the west won't join you apes in any mischievous war of yours, we'll sort our region out and take responsibility for our own sh!t, because that's what men do, not b!tching about the past and poke noising in other people's business. Fvck off.
Deflect how? If this news was about MNK, IPOB, won't you yellowbar from wasteland stick your dickkhead into it. Excepting a coward to fight war to liberate himself will be like looking for a unicorn. Don't worry dickkhead IBB already told us what we need to know
TheNeededShock: Below is ngozi from enugu, killed and raped by devilish fulani animals..... they're also doing something similar in the SW but the difference is that we are focusing on our problems and not putting mouth in the issues of others....have you Igbos gotten so mentally conquered that you'd leave the issues in your region and come to the south west and give hot takes on governance, why doesn't anyone call you guys out on this bullshit seriously. Focus on your region.
Really and 2 farmers were killed and butchered by herdsman yesterday in Ekiti
Rossnitti: In fact, if Nigeria breaks up, I'll join the police force of whatever govt LAGOS comes under.
Because I know for damn sure there will be MILLIONS of 'former Nigerians' residing in Lagos who will be PAYING ME BIG TIME to remain there and not be deported to their 'new countries'..
Una want division abi?
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it!
Don't overhype Lagos. Lagos is what it is because of Nigerians, nothing special. If Nigeria split �North will focus on Kano Kaduna and Abuja. East will focus on Enugu and PH. In little time Lagos will be like every other Africa City
moscobabs: Few day ago, picture of Sheikh Gumi went viral when he was negotiating with bandits in the North.
I posted same pictures on facebook and people started making different comments on it. During the arguments, I posted pictures where US representative was negotiating with Talibans
I was surprised when facebook block me for 30days for go against their community standard.
My question is, why is it that I didn't go against facebook community standards when I posted picture of Sheikh Gumi with Bandits but I go against their standard when I post US and Talibans to support my point?
Simple, the picture of Gumi is real and this is not. How hard is it for you to understand.
butterfly777: The Yorubas did not accuse the Ibos on END SARS. That is government propaganda. Don't fall for it.
END SARS was a national uprising against police brutality and government negligence, and everyone knows but, regardless of government trying to manipulate the narratives.
Do you have a proof is a govt propaganda. Or are you trying to accuse the govt for what the didn't do. Even if it was a govt propaganda, they yorubad were used to achieve such aim. I can show you numerous proofs of Yorubas saying it was igbos. That Yoruba Ronu echoed during endsars saga, what does it signify?
butterfly777: You are wrong bro. Stop fanning the embers of division at this strategic time.
Plus, which Yoruba is in trouble. Is it not the same northerners that are busy trying to find ways of bringing their stuff here, while their leaders block them?
And we remain well fed down here. We don't want their dirty stuff anymore.
Is not ember of division when yorubad accused igbos of lagos destruction in endsars. Oga we no do any rally with this people again
Residents of Ondo State of the Ijaw extraction have kicked against the state government adoption of the Odua anthem
The Ijaws urged the state government to immediately put on hold the Odua anthem adoption and conferred with Ijaw leaders to come up with the Ijaw version of the anthem if it must be sung in public places.
It would be recalled that the dissolved State Executive Council last week approved the adoption of the Odua anthem to be sung after the National Anthem at official and public functions.
It said the Odua anthem was meant to project the tradition and culture of the Yoruba tribe.
But the Ijaws described the action as highly provocative and very irritating, saying it portends a deliberate affront to the peace loving Ijaws of Ondo State.
The Ijaws accused Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of running Info without recourse to the pluralistic nature of the State.
Representatives of the Ijaws in the Ondo House of Assembly, Hon. Success Torhukerhijo representing Ese-Odo Constituency, said it was preposterous to adopt an anthem for the state in Yoruba language without thinking of the concerns of the Ijaws where the state has two ethnic nationalities- the majority Yoruba and the minority Ijaw.
Hon Torhukerhijo in a statement issued in Akure said it was a ploy to obliterate the Ijaws from the history of Ondo State.
Torhukerhijo urged Governor Akeredolu to tow the path of his predecessors who he said created a Subordinate Area Council which enjoyed almost equal status with other Local Governments in the state in 1981.
He said the action has put an average right thinking Ijaw man into psychological trauma saying it smacked of lack of social equality and an antithesis to a united, just and free society.
According to him: “It is perplexing that the Governor in spite of his pedigree does not possess the political will for an all-inclusive government and the Ijaws of Ondo State have been consistently subjected to neglect and abandonment on issues of state by his executive and administrative actions.
“It is pitiable that the Ijaws with a lot of qualified manpower do not have a Permanent Secretary, no Judge in the State High Court and we are short-changed in every facet of the State public service by Governor Akeredolu’s executive and administrative actions. It is pathetic that we have only one Magistrate Court in the whole of the over 250 communities in Ijaw land and no Magistrate is posted to the place.
interest of the Ijaws in Ondo state in his administrative and executive actions and in all aspects of governance.
“This is intolerable and is outrightly rejected by the Ijaw ethnic nationality.”
Residents of Akinyele local government area of Ibadan says despite the closure of Shasha market owing to an ethnic clash that reportedly left one person dead, they live in fear of reprisal attacks.
The market was closed by the Oyo state government on Saturday after an ethnic clash claimed the life of a cobbler — and with property destroyed.
Apesin Isaac, a trader in the market who spoke to TheCable, said the crisis began on Thursday after the cobbler, who was Yoruba, was stabbed by a Hausa man who used wheelbarrow to help people convey their goods from the market to the main road.
According to him, the cobbler was mediating between the Hausa vendor in the market and a pregnant woman. He said the Hausa wheelbarrow pusher got enraged after the cobbler tried to stop him from attacking the woman. The disagreement was over the amount of money the woman would pay for services rendered by the vendor. According to Isaac, Friday’s clash was not the first between Yoruba and Hausa traders in the market. There has always been tension in the market because of frequent fights between the Hausa and their Yoruba hosts. Before now, we have had clashes as a result of disagreement over who had the rights to collect royalties in the market. We have also had clash over who should have control of the market,” Isaac said.
“Shasha market is a destination point for Hausa traders who bring pepper, tomatoes, cattle and other kinds of goods from the north. They stop here to distribute the goods to their customers. Apart from their Yoruba customers, there are many Hausa in the market who engage in petty trading. They sell cucumber, oranges and vegetables. Over time, they settled in small groups and got accommodation among their hosts.
“When the market got bigger, competition for limited goods and spaces began to sprout. Being the hosts, Yoruba traders think they have the rights to determine who takes what but our people from the north also express their opinion that they are the largest suppliers of almost all goods in the market “On Thursday, the argument between the cobbler and the Hausa man snowballed into violence. The cobbler was stabbed by the Hausa man and taken to a hospital nearby for treatment. He did not survive it however. I was at the market on that day. Because I have a house in the area, I normally leave the market late. Before I left on that day, there were rumours that the cobbler was hit with a fetish object apart from the stabbing.
“When further news filtered in that he might die from the effect of the wound and the charm, tension rose but it did not develop into full-blown violence until Friday morning, when both groups engaged in a bloody clash and destruction of property, including houses belonging to people outside the market,” added Isaac.
Although calm has returned to the area after the market was shut by the state government, Isaac said government action was not enough to quench the hatred both ethnic groups have for each other. He also blamed security forces for taking sides when they arrived at the scene of the crisis.
“The market is closed now indefinitely, meaning that economic activities have come to a halt. Economic activities of most residents in this area are tied to the market. Now, we don’t know when we will resume buying and selling,” he said.
“But like I said, there is permanent tension here. The two ethnic groups don’t trust each other. Any small disagreement could grow into a large crisis. We now live in fear of reprisal. Some youths are threatening retaliation which could degenerate into another problem. They are of the opinion that whenever police and the military came to settle fights between the two ethnic groups, they take side of the Hausa.”
Kayode Olabode, another resident of Shasha community, told TheCable that he has fled the area out of fear if being attacked.
My family is in Lagos but I live in Shasha because of my work. I was on my way out when the crisis began in Friday but with the news I am hearing, I have not gone home. My other friends who also live in that area have all fled. I stay in a hotel now in Ibadan and I will not go back until normalcy returns,” he said.
“The number of people who died in the attack is more than one. Apart from the popular cobbler, some other people were killed and seriously injured. I have pictures and videos sent to me. The government acted too late. People are enraged, serious action must be taken to avert further attack.”
Politics › Re: Suspected Herdsmen Tie Oyo Farmer To Tree, Kill Him With Machete by Youngmaster0(m): 11:38am On Mar 16, 2021
