April 25, 2016, armed Herdsmen, about 500 of them, descended on Nimbo Village in Enugu State before dawn. At about 7 a.m, they went about killing and slaughtering every human-being on sight.
Prior to the attack, the Governor was alerted. In turn, he alerted the Commissioner of Police. And Abuja was alerted. But no counter-attack came from the Police or from any of the nearby Military units. The attackers entered the village. They killed. They maimed. And they disappeared, untouched.
Later in the day, the Governor was seen on TV weeping profusely over the sight of butchered cadavers. And as usual, threats were issued.
It was the same story at Aguta village in Benue State and all over the Middle-Belt, South-West, South-East, Mid-West, and South-South too numerous to recount.
These killers, as Governor El-Rufai said a few years ago, are not Nigerians. Agreed. But what the Governor did not tell you is the names of their employers. Who owns the cattle and how did the foreign-killers-herders enter this country.
So, if they are non-Nigerians, trespassing unhinged onto your farmlands and at the same time, killing and raping your wives without mercy, you have every right to defend yourself by any means necessary. And at the stage we are now, you are justified to attack and disarmed first before they attack you. It is called preemptive right. To them, it is about the bottom line - their investments. Your life does not matter.
President Buhari can end it in a minute. They don't carry transistor radio for nothing. He knows his people. And they know and trust him in return.
The lessons I want you to take away from this short piece are these: Before you cede any of your ancestral lands for Ruga, Cattle Colony or Cattle Settlement, remember Nimbo Village. One, they didn't know who attack them, where they came from and by what means they entered the community safely. Two, when the Nimbo villagers called for help, help did not come.
The Cattle-settlers in your community, are not going to be the armed warriors who will attack you unprepared and sack you from your homeland. They are the disappearing 500 who attacked Nimbo, without a trace.
Think about the Middle-Belt and what they have been going through over the years. In other words, if the attackers who invaded Nimbo community had wanted to overthrow the traditional ruler, Othman Dan Fodio style, and impose their emir on them, they would have succeeded easily. And that, my friend, is a page from Uthman Dan Fodio conquest playbook.
It appears simple to you; go and ask the original Kaduna natives, the Kwara people, and the Kogi people. With their folks from Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Chad Republic, they will descend on you as they did to Nimbo villagers and the people of Plateau and Benue, and send you into exile in your own country. It is about trust.
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