HungerBAD:
Noise.

He who must seek equity,must come with clean hands. Stella your hands are not clean,so respect yourself.

The EFCC is still cooking your charges(soup),and they have gone to the market to Buy Maggi to add to your soup,so it can taste sweet.

Until then,be patient Madam.

HungerBad It could be because of you are hungry that has turned you to stupidity. Honestly you are very stupid for concluding and condemning the lady without trial. Is it a bad thing for one to serve ones fatherland? what makes you think that you are cleaner than this lady? You guys should stop all these nonsense you do because the online platform shields you.

AtlanticBreeze:
This is unbelievable. This is illegal.. How can there be two governors in a state in a matter that is on appeal? I guess he has entered into a deal with APC.. APC will totally destroy this nation..

This is not unbelievable as the court gave a clear directive on the matter. Ikpeazu has the right to appeal the judgment but he is also to obey the subsisting order if at the end of the day his appeal is adjudicated and he wins he will come back. The high court judge gave succinct unambiguous ruling on the matter.

kogistar:


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/n-delta-new-militant-group-emerges-demands-sovereign-state/

This group is really a fake group formed by APC to distract NDA and other serious agitators of freedom. They claim to be NDA brothers in order to draw them out and expose them to the government for annihilation. From intelligence gathering, APC wants to install a Pseudo militant group to act as if they are with the militants but their goal is to identify the militants and quell the voice of agitation for equity and fair play, but their modus operandi have been exposed.

My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is that one may quarrel with your politics but your sagacity is never in doubt. Even those who don’t see eye to eye with you agree that you are imbued with unusual native intelligence, uncommon people skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more than any other person, has been the game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to direct this letter to you. My singular purpose is to tug at the strings of your heart. I am not writing to appeal to partisan considerations but to see, if per chance, I can pour out my heart to you in a manner of speaking. God has blessed you even beyond your wildest imagination. You have installed Senators and Governors. You have removed Governors and even a President. You have also installed a President. There is nothing you have wished for or desired that you didn’t get. Fortune has smiled on you. Goodwill follows you everywhere you go. You have done very well- more than most men ever will. However, there is one area that is begging for your urgent attention. This area may well define you and all you have ever achieved. This matter, in my opinion, is the only difference between you and the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Let me restate for the purpose of emphasis that this is the area in which the late sage and Leader of the Yorubas stand head and shoulders above you. It is the reason his name has been a constant denominator in our regional and national politics. It is the reason politicians, friends and foes invoke his name for political advantage and personal glory. It is also the reason why we can’t stop talking about him almost thirty years after his death. What will anyone say about you thirty years after you have transited? Asiwaju Sir, you may be wondering what I’m talking about? It is the issue of legacy. According to Peter Strople, ‘Legacy is not leaving something for people, it is leaving something in people’. Legacy is building something that outlives you. Legacy is greater than currency. In the words of Leonard Sweet, ‘ What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy’. You can’t live forever, Sir. No one can. But you can create something that will. Enough of speaking in parables- I shall now speak plainly. When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism. It was your belief then that the Yoruba nation will fare better under a restructured arrangement than under the type of unitary government we run while pretending by calling it a federal government. Everyone knows that there is nothing federal about our government at all. If truth must be told, the Yoruba nation has fared very badly since the advent of our new democracy. And this is not about holding power at the centre. Let me bring this home: someone passed a comment recently that he would want Biafra to become a reality because he knows the Igbo nation will survive. That comment led me to deeper introspection as I wondered if the Yorubas can truly survive. Let me cite my first example. From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any serious industry or manufacturing concern owned by a Yoruba person. I am not talking about portfolio businesses or one-man business concerns. Most industries in Oyo State are owned by the Lebanese. The native business and industry gurus who dominated the landscape- Nathaniel Idowu, Amos Adegoke, Lekan Salami, Alao Arisekola, Adeola Odutola, Jimoh Odutola, Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni and others- are all gone with no credible replacements. I’m sure you remember the tyre factory of the Odutolas and how Jimoh Odutola was even asked by the Governments of Kenya and Ghana to set up a similar factory in their countries. Chief Theophilus Adediran # Oni , popularly called T.A # Oni & Sons started the first indigenous construction company in Nigeria. He willed his residence- Goodwill House, to the Oyo/Western state government, to be used as a Paediatric Hospital, which is now known as T.A Oni Memorial Children Hospital at Ring Road in Ibadan. This sprawling family Estate and residence was cited on a 15acre piece of land, 65 rooms, with modern conveniences, Olympic Swimming Pool and stable for Horses, etc. People like Chief Bode Akindele started companies like Standard Breweries and Dr Pepper Soft drink factory at Alomaja in Ibadan. Broking House built by the late Femi Johnson, an insurance magnate, still stands glittering in the mid-day sun as an epitome to a rich history that Ibadan has. The most serious and only notable Yoruba entrepreneur we have now is Michael Adenuga. I say this quite consciously because most of the other names are oil and gas barons. Most of what stood as testaments of industry in Oyo State are gone- Exide Batteries, Leyland Autos and many others. In its place are shopping malls and road side markets but no nation develops through buying and selling alone- especially when you’re not actually producing what you’re selling. Hypermarkets and supermarkets have taken over because of the need to feed our insatiable consumer-appetite and foreign tastes. In one instance, an ancient landmark in the form of a hotel was demolished to pave way for a mall. That is how low we have sunk. If our past is better than our present- if we always look back with nostalgia frequently, then there is a problem. The case of other states is not different. Osun’s case is pathetic. Ditto for Ondo and Ekiti. Ogun State can boast of some factories at Sango-Otta and Agbara axis but most of them are not owned by the Yorubas. There is no significant pharmaceutical company owned by any Yoruba except for Bond Chemicals in Awe, Oyo State- and its wallet share is very insignificant. For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don’t forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective. Asiwaju, I will like to also talk about the state of education in the Yoruba nation. Our education has gone to the dogs. We have a bunch of mis-educated and ill-educated young men and women roaming the streets. Ibadan, for instance, had the first University in Nigeria and the first set of research centres in Nigeria ( The Forestry Research Institute, the Cocoa Research Institute (CRIN), The Nigerian Cereal Research Institute Moor Plantation (NCRI), the NIHORT (Nigerian Institute of Horticultural Research), the NISER (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research), IAR&T (Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training), amongst several others). Ibadan was the bastion of scholarship with people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, D.O Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola as residents. In the May/June 2015 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Abia came tops. Anambra came 2nd while Edo was 3rd. Lagos placed 6th while Osun and Oyo was 29th and 26th. Ekiti was 11th, Ondo State was 13th and Ogun State was 19th. In 2013 WASSCE, only Lagos and Ogun States were the Yoruba States above the national average. If we do an analysis of how Lagos placed 6th in 2015, you will discover that it was substantially because of other nationalities resident in Lagos. For proof, please look no further than the winners of the Spelling Bee competition which has produced One-Day Governors in Lagos State. Since inception in 2001, other nationalities have won the competition six times (Ebuka Anisiobi in 2001, Ovuwhore Etiti in 2002, Abundance Ikechukwu in 2006, Daniel Osunbor in 2008, Akpakpan Iniodu Jones in 2011 and Lilian Ogbuefi in 2012). Sir, there is something seriously wrong about our state of education. From the vintage times of Obafemi Awolowo who initiated ‘free education’, we have regressed into a most parlous state. Let me talk about roads, housing and infrastructure . The first dualized road in Nigeria, the Queen Elizabeth road from Mokola to Agodi in Ibadan was formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth in 1956. The first Housing Estate in Nigeria is Bodija Housing Estate (also in Ibadan) which was built in 1958. The state of roads in the Yoruba nation has become pathetic. Our hinterland are still largely rural. Even some state capitals like Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti are big villages when you compare them to towns in the South East. How many new estates have been built over the last decade? Even Ajoda New Town lies in ruins. We have abandoned the farm settlement strategy of the Western Region and only pay lip service to agriculture. Instead of feeding others like we once did, others now feed us. We plant no tomatoes, no pepper and the basic food that we require. The Indians have bought the large expanse of water body that we have in Onigambari village. The water body in Oke Ogun of Oyo State can provide enough fish to feed the whole of the South West. From being a major cocoa exporter many years ago, one can point to just a few vestiges of factories that still deal with Cocoa in the Yoruba nation. 80% of Cocoa processing industries in the South West have been shut down. The Chinese have taken over the cashew belt at Ogbomoso in Oyo State. They have even edged out the indigenes as brokers. They now come to the cashew belt to buy from the local farmers, sell on the spot to other Chinese exporters who now process the cashew nuts and import them back into Nigeria at a premium. Sir, there are only 7 major cashew processing plants in Nigeria and you can check out the ownership. The glory has departed from the Yoruba nation. Apart from Asejire, Ede, Ikere Gorge and Oyan dams built ages ago, where are the new dams to cater for increased population and water capacity for the Yoruba nation? How have we improved on what our heroes past left us? Maybe apart from certain areas in Lagos State, others can’t even supply their citizens with pipe-borne water. Our youth which we used to take pride in are largely a mass of unemployed and unemployable people. Have you noticed the abundance of street urchins, area boys, touts and ‘agberos’ that we now have all across the Yoruba nation? Have you noticed the swell in the ranks of NURTW (I mean no disrespect to an otherwise noble union)? Have you noticed the increase in the number of Yoruba beggars? There was a time that it was taboo for a Yoruba man to beg- but no more. The spirit of apprenticeship is dead. There was a time that people who learn vocational skills celebrate what we referred to as ‘freedom’. While that is largely moribund now in the Yoruba nation, the Igbos still practice it with great success. The only thing we can boldly say the Yoruba nation controls is the information machinery- the press. We own largely the newspapers- the Nation, Punch, Nigerian Tribune, TV Continental and a few others. It is because of our control of this information machinery that we have rewritten the narrative in the country with the misguided self-belief that things are normal and we are making progress. A look beyond the surface will prove that this is so untrue. We are largely divided. For the first time in the history of the Yoruba nation, religion is about to divide us further- and it is starting from Osun State. You are married to a Christian. My own father-in-law is an Alhaji. That is how we have peacefully do-existed but the fabrics are about to be torn to shreds because of poor management of issues. Afenifere has been reduced to a shadow of itself. OPC that once defended Yoruba interests has gone into oblivion. Yoruba elders have been vilified in the name of politics and partisanship. It is no longer news to see teenagers throwing stones at their elders because of their political indoctrination. Even under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Yorubas never belonged to just a single party- yet our unity was without blemish. Now, our values have gone down the drain. Asiwaju, I believe I have said enough. The task is Herculean but I believe Providence has brought you here for such a time like this. It is time for the Yoruba nation to clean up its acts. What do we really want? How can we quickly right the wrongs? The Yoruba nation is in a state of arrested development. The Yoruba nation is gasping for breath and crying for help. Will you rise up to the occasion? I am aware you understand that all politics is local and charity begins at home. Our fathers gave us a proverb: ‘Bi o’ode o dun, bi igbe ni’gboro ri’. I know there are no quick fixes but I also know that if there is anyone who has the capacity to do something about our current situation, that person is you. This should be the legacy you should think of. Your legacy is our future. Yours Very Sincerely, By Bayo Adeyinka

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/open-letter-asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu/

This write - up is indeed true. The Yorubas are being told the plain truth that while they presently thrive in propaganda via media houses in false believe of being progressives, the Igbos without assess to the media are down doing one thing or the other for community and self development.

Goddex:
The grazing bill debate that was stalled in the plenary of the Cross River State House of Assembly, last week due to power outage resumed this week with the House rejecting the Grazing Commission Bill currently been proposed by the National Assembly.

This is also coming against the background of a request by herdsmen in the state to the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade, requesting the approval of a permanent grazing land for them in the state as a way to avoid clashes between herdsmen and farmers.

The government in a response through the Special Assistant to the Governor on Non-Indigenes and Muslims Affairs, Alhaji Abdulkarim Adam, said that the government has requested the herdsmen to ensure that they promptly report the entrance of any new set of herdsmen into the state to avoid infiltration and breach of security and assured that once they comply, government will consider their request.

But the House of Assembly has totally rejected the idea insisting that even if the National Assembly passes the grazing commission bill into law, it will not be domesticated in Cross River state.

In a motion of urgent public importance initiated by the Deputy Whip of the House of Assembly, Hon. Ogana Lukpata, the members rejected an Open Grazing System in the state and called on the state government and other relevant agencies to give effect to the content of the Resolution.

The House insisted that the state government should outlaw open grazing of Cattle and other animals and interested farmers should engage in close and regulated ranch system under the policy framework of the State Ministry of Agriculture.

A copy of the resolution which was obtained by our House of Assembly correspondent, states that:

i. Cattle rearing or grazing is a specialized and economic culture of the people of Northern Nigeria, just like food crop farming is specialized to the Southern part of Nigeria.

ii. In Cross River State our land tenure system is family inheritance based, and the land is the foundation of all their economic activities, the state government cannot therefore acquire family land and set aside for grazing.

iii. There are so many specialized farmers in the state engaged in poultry, goat, birds, fish and pig farming, who acquire and purchase their own land at prevailing commercial rate without government intervention, the same should apply to cattle grazing.

iv. Under the Cross River State Environmental Sanitation Law, it is unlawful to openly graze cattle or any other animal that is ferocious to human life.

v. The open grazing system is alien to the state livestock economy.


http://crossriverwatch.com/2016/06/cross-river-house-of-assembly-rejects-grazing-commission-bill/

The best legislative resolution in Nigeria this year

KEVIND:
Ijaw Youth Council Regrets Fall of Biafra in 1970, Denounced Their Parents Role During the Civil War
and have publicly denounced the role their parents played against the Igbos in the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War of 1967/70.
Ijaw Youth Council Regrets Their Parents Role During the Civil War and have publicly denounced the role their parents played against the Igbos in the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War of 1967/70.
However, they pleaded for forgiveness, saying if the level of awareness and information technology available today were in the country then, th
Addressing the Ohanaeze Youth Council’s (OYC’s) submit, held in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the President of Ijaw Youth Council, Comrade Udengs Eradiri, said the Niger Delta erred for not supporting the Biafra’s course during the war from 1967-1970, and heaped the blame on lack of awareness and misinformation.
He said, “If we had the type of awareness and information technology we have today, then, we would have stood firmly with Biafra to win the war, but we are working hard to resolve the issue now,” he stated. Comrade Eradiri expressed happiness that not-with-standing their role in the civil war, “Ndigbo voted overwhelmingly for their son, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in 2011 and since then the zone has been supporting his administration.”
He pointed out that Ijaw youths were pleased with their show of love and solidarity, and pledged that Niger Delta youths will support the current Biafra course.
He lamented that the issue of injustice that led to the civil war “is still the same issue bedeviling the country today,” and asked for concerted efforts to address the issues, noting that Nigeria must break up, We are Biafrans.

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I write this piece to ask fellow Nigerians; have we capitulated to the vagaries of those in power and uncouth elders or do we still have any bones in our spine to say NO to injustice and oppressions? Have we murdered our resistance to injustice on the ground of politics and have we allowed well-oiled propaganda machinery to drown our voices? Though the echo of propaganda is loud, has it destroyed our sense of judgment?
Fellow Nigerians, do we fight each other in the media for people that do not care about us? Today fellow Nigerians fight against each other in the media due to political inclinations, tribal sentiment and ethnic bearing. No Nigerian reasons again or subjects discuss to unbiased scrutiny to decipher the intent or likely outcome of the matter, not only for now but in future. The worst hit is the youths. The uncouth elders, even though they know the truth, have consistently spewed lies to the youths and force these lies down the throat of the youths so that the youths will not think and ask the necessary questions. They purposely sow the seed of discord amongst the youths so that the youths will engross themselves in fights they know not the cause so that the uncouth elders will continue to bootie our common wealth.
So in Nigeria today, as an Igbo man or PDP member, if you are not an Igbo or PDP member you do not understand anything; as a Yoruba man or APC member, if you are neither Yoruba nor APC member you are a wailer and should not be listened to. As a Hausa man you must submit to my authority over you because I am born to rule over you if not you cannot exist. Unfortunately these elders forced these ideas into our hearts instead of inculcating the spirit of oneness, equality, creative thinking, nation building, unbiased judgment, leadership and other great virtues that are seen in great nations of the world. We now celebrate mediocrity in the stead of meritocracy as long as it is in line with our ethnic, tribal or political leaning, yet we want Nigeria to develop.
Nigerian youths think! Today many youths are speaking against the faction of NLC that embarked on strike to protest the hike in fuel price, but these are the same youths that congregated to occupy Nigeria in 2012 when another man from the minority was in power to protest the same hike. Hear their justification and you cannot but weep for the Nigerian youths. They say that the past administration could not be trusted but this one can be trusted. I dare ask how do the Nigerian youths think they can trust this regime above the past regime if not what was fed them by the same “elders” and media propaganda? For the records this government has reneged on their campaign promises more than any other government yet you say you can still trust it. I dey look
The government budgeted 500 billion naira for eating Nasco biscuit in schools and the elders are out again to force it into our throat that it is good for us. Let’s I forget they also said that they will pay 1 million extremely poor Nigerians 5000 naira monthly from the 500 billion budgeted and some youths are clapping and happy. Let me ask, are we turning to almajiri system where food is doled out to us by the super-rich – in this case the government? What do we really need is it for them to feed our children biscuit in school or to empower us to be able to take care of our children as we ought to? Again how do they intend to discern the most vulnerable in Nigeria for the 5000 naira a month? How did they determine that they are just 1 million of them? How will they reach them knowing that this class of Nigerians do not have bank account? Assuming there are answers to the questions above, what can 5000 naira afford these poor in a month in present day Nigeria? Is it not better to provide opportunities that will help these “poor” Nigerians get employed and have sustainable sources of income? What does this portend for this country in the nearest future?
Today we are happy that the organized labour has been balkanized in Nigeria and each fraction is singing a discordant tune but do we realize that this will definitely hurt us as a country in the nearest future because a united labour force has provided the checks that the national assembly has abandoned. They have engaged the political class on behalf of the poor masses on obnoxious policies of government. I was once a zonal assistant secretary of PENGASSAN in Lagos so I know how the government feared the labour union and how that fear restricted those in power from carrying out some inhumane policies.
Presently the electricity tariff has been doubled without power and nobody is protesting, the pump price of fuel has almost been doubled and we are clapping for them, the herdsmen are killing fellow Nigerians to take their farmlands by force and we are legislating to superimpose some individuals business above others’ - we are Ok. The refineries are not working as demanded by NUPENG and PENGASSAN in 2012 yet they are not protesting against fuel hike as they did in 2012. They are legislating to impose tax on us using the internet, phone or other means of communication and we are fine. But I dare ask are we going back to primordial age or are we advancing? Judge yourself. Our roads are death traps yet we are dancing for them because we have been turned to almajiris knowingly or unknowingly. Upon all that they lie to us dishonorably and we cheered them. Some people shared the money meant for our security and some of us are cheering them and questioning why they should be brought to book.
Nigerian youth can we stop and think? Can we stop fighting each other based on political leaning, tribal or ethnic sentiment and unitedly fight our common foe? Some individuals have remained in power for more 40 years now and they are not letting go. They will do all possible to divide us so that we will not be able to ask question. They have led us into deeper darkness and supervised our underdevelopment. They do not want us to measure up to our likes in the other nations. They know no other job than politics of lies and propaganda and causing confusion here and there to remain relevant. They ensured the collapse of our educational system yet they got the best of education in their time. Today with first degree you look unfit to look for a good job yet in their time with school certificate they got comfortable jobs. Nigerian youths let us say no to oppressions and injustices, let us jettison quota system and insist on merit and competence. Let us rise up and challenge those obnoxious policies and hold our leaders accountable. Let us demand for quality learning environment, favorable policies that will ensure positive entrepreneurial competition, policies that will encourage home grown economic emancipation.
If it has been alluded severally that the bane of Nigerian development is leadership and we are still have the same class of leadership then we must do something to emancipate Nigeria from the doom of perpetual underdevelopment and the youths must take the lead.
YOUTHS LEADERS OF TOMORROW! YOUTHS LEADERS OF TOMORROW!! YOUTHS LEADERS OF TOMORROW!!!
Tomorrow is now and not next day

I declare that this Plan shall never come to fruition in Jesus name Amen.

FIRST, let me say that the plan of the Fulanis to subtly take over Nigeria has been an old plan. Let me also say that, the cattle Fulanis are one ethnic group in Nigeria. Not all the Fulanis are cattle rearers. Only the cattle Fulani are. There are other Fulanis in the Fulani ethnic group who are not cattle rearers. They are called the Town Fulanis. They are not the ones who are asking for the grazing rights. It is unfortunate that Mrs. Kure used her dignified position to take a lead in writing a law that could enable the cattle Fulanis take over Nigeria. We also remember that the Federal Government set up the Nomadic Commission to assist the cattle Fulani on how to go about their business. I served on this Nomadic Commission for more than 3 years in Kaduna. And elderly woman stands outside her house on May 5, 2016 in Nimbo, southeastern Nigeria, where nomadic Fulani herdsman attacked the village. Ongoing clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and farming communities in Nigeria's middle belt and southeast states have accounted for the death and displacement of many people. STEFAN HEUNIS / AFP And elderly woman stands outside her house on May 5, 2016 in Nimbo, southeastern Nigeria, where nomadic Fulani herdsman attacked the village. Ongoing clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and farming communities in Nigeria’s middle belt and southeast states have accounted for the death and displacement of many people. / AFP It is equally strange that Mrs. Kure was writing a law on cattle rearing and grazing in the country without reference to the existence of the Nomadic Commission set up by the Federal Government. This Nomadic Commission is in Kaduna. Let me caution, that cattle rearing is an occupation of one ethnic group. Any attempt to legislate, so that the cattle Fulani be given a legal authority to move into every town in Nigeria and acquire land against the wishes of the people will back fire. This legal backing might bring Nigeria to an end. It is an attempt to give the Fulani grazing rights in every part of Nigeria, in spite of their condemnable atrocities in different parts of the country. As a member of the Nomadic Commission for sometime, we did everything to domesticate the cattle Fulanis. We even wrote books in Fulfude language which we used to teach this nomadic Fulanis in schools set up by the Nomadic Commission. The school is a success so far but the nomadic Fulanis do not want to settle down in one place, so that they can go to school and be domesticated. The attempt to have grazing field in every part of Nigeria, shows that the Federal Government is sponsoring one occupation as a national occupation. Federal Government should know that it is wrong to throw its weight behind one profession. The cattle Fulanis by their nature cannot settle in one place, and therefore cannot be domesticated. And Federal Government has no right to back one profession among many professions in the country. We have the migrant fishermen in the South and also in the North. The government has not considered it necessary to acquire strategic waters in the country so that fishermen could carry on their job. Dangers to Nigeria: I see the move to acquire land compulsorily for only one profession (cattle rearing) as dangerous. Will the Federal Government also acquire rivers and streams wherever necessary so that fishermen in the North and in the South can have fishing rights? No. l think this is another step by the Fulanis to expand to other parts of Nigeria. I recall the struggles of the Fulanis with the Birom people in the North, in Plateau State; they struggled with the indigenous population in Nasarawa, now by their current record they have occupied Bukuru and driven away the indigenous settlers. What happened in Agatu is planned to drive away the indigenous settlers and take the whole place in the name of cattle rearing. Their horrible behaviour: Let me draw attention to their method of operations. They have come as far as to Ndokwa, Balyesa, Enugu, and their method of operation is to kill the indigenous settlers and take over the land. It is a tragedy that the president of Nigeria has not opened his mouth to make a statement condemning the massacre of innocent citizens by the Fulanis. We know that the President is a Fulani man but that is not the reason for him to condemn the Boko Haram and not condemn the massacre of innocent citizens by his own ethnic group, the Fulanis. Many people have been massacred. The President was belatedly forced by the public outcry to make a feeble condemnation. Nigerians are watching to see the next move to acquire land compulsorily. This cannot happen. We are in a Federation and you cannot force cattle rearing on communities by force. Sense of nationalism In Enugu they massacred more than 46 persons in Nsukka, this shows that the Fulanis want to move into locations by force. Let us warn the Fulanis that no ethnic group has a monopoly of violence. Their method of operation is an insult to Nigeria, and all Nigerians must open their eyes and watch the activities of the Fulanis. The President must show a sense of nationalism. He cannot keep silent and pretend that he does not know what is going on. Other ethnic groups in the North, in the Yoruba communities, in the Igbo territories, in the Ijaw territories are watching and will react accordingly very soon. “This nation called Nigeria shall be an estate to us from our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We shall resist any change. We shall manipulate the minorities of the North and declare the South as a conquered territory” Let me draw Mr. President’s attention to a reality. He has his hands on many things in Nigeria. Adding the Fulani problems is not in his interest. The Fulanis want to acquire Nigeria by force. It is the first step towards destroying this nation because neither the Yorubas nor, the Igbos nor, the Ijaws nor the Biroms will close their eyes and watch the cattle Fulanis take over Nigeria. Perhaps there is wisdom in what the American said years ago “that Nigeria will be soon break up”. Prophet Ayodele a few weeks ago had predicted that Nigeria might disintegrate into about six autonomous nations. Let me caution that over the years the Igbos, have been massacred in the North in 1945, 1953, 1960s. These massacres forced Ojukwu to declare that he was going to stop sacrificing the Igbos in the name of Nigerian unity. But let us go back to history and recall the statement made by Ahmadu Bello just the very month of our independence. He said; This was published in 1960 in a magazine. Perhaps the Fulanis are trying to implement of this statement by Ahmadu Bello. The Fulanis are stressing the need for the Northerner to take over the whole country. It is not by massacring the existing population and moving in with their cattle. No. While we encourage the Government to modernize cattle rearing, and encourage the Fulanis to develop grazing in the savannah area of the North, Federal Government can assist them to have professional cattle rearing. This requires heavy investment in the savannah where suitable grass can be cultivated. But let me also remind Mr. President that those who rear cattle in America, Brazil and other places are industrialists who have bought land with their own money. They may be assisted by government to buy lands. Mr. President is well advised to send people to America and Brazil to see how to modernize cattle rearing and do so in Nigeria. In the North grass is abundant. Rearing cattle in the tropical area of Rivers State, Bayelsa, Delta State is a wrong venture because very soon tse-tse-flies will engulf this area and the cattle will begin to die natural death. We are aware that the drying up of the desert is pushing them down South. The situation must be handled with care not by force The Fulanis will not force Nigerians to react accordingly. If the President does not talk, people will talk. And when people begin to talk tension will begin to rise; the problem Nigeria will face will be more than the fuel scarcity which Mr. President has not been able to handle. If he has the intention of the Fulanis to forcefully acquire land, something is wrong. The Yorubas certainly will not watch the Fulani’s invade their county, with the impunity with which the cattle rearers enter other states to kidnap and destroy farms calls for national resistance. The Yoruba’s are meeting. Other ethnic groups will meet and will give the cattle Fulanis an appropriate response if Mr. President does not step into the matter and defend Nigeria. Finally, l want to invite Mrs. Kure and all those who are drafting the said laws on acquiring grazing land compulsorily to refer their case to Nomadic Commission of the Federal Government. I served on the Nomadic Commission Board. Books were written to domesticate the cattle Fulani and send them to school. The Nomadic Commission has registered some successes. But I do not think that the Nomadic Commission has ever recommended that the migrant Fulanis should acquire land compulsorily or settle in the areas compulsorily, by massacring the indigenes of the place. Such a move will lead to a massive resistance. It will also lead to various states expelling the cattle Fulanis from their state unless Mr. President does something that is noble and just. Mr. President swore to protect Nigeria. He should been seen protecting Nigeria. He must not be seen keeping silent and allowing his ethnic group the cattle Fulanis to move into various states and kill people at will. This cannot happen. Nigeria is a Federation. One profession, the cattle rearing, cannot be legislated to be a National profession for which land must be compulsorily acquired. We need lands for agriculture. As cattle rearing is important to the Fulanis, so Agriculture is important to the Yorubas, to the Igbos, to the Balyesa, to Edo people, to Anambra people, to Kogi people. And nobody will fold his hands and allow this massacre to continue. Let the massacre of people at Nsukka be the last. If Mr. President cannot protect Nigeria from his own ethnic group then Nigerians must protect themselves from the Fulanis. Enough is enough. We fought the civil war because the Igbos were massacred several times in the North and the last massacre lead to the civil war, Ojukwu declared that this should be the last time the Igbos will make supreme sacrifice in the interest of one Nigeria. I call on Mr. President to rise up as a President of Nigeria not as a Fulani man and condemn what the Fulanis are doing before it destroys Nigeria.

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