The question is, why are we experiencing a steady surge in the presence of foreign Fulani Herders in Nigeria in recent times. The answer is simple. But it will amaze you, and at the same time, put a lie to the vaulting conquest ambition of Miyetti Allah and the empty boast of the racist Professor Ango Abdulahi, the former VC of ABU. In addition, it will put to rest if you have ever entertained any misgiving about your decision not to cede any of your lands for cattle colony or settlement. Because the intended occupiers are not the Stick and Can of Water carrying friendly Fulani you and I knew when we were growing up.
Today, there is an unnoticeable dramatic shortage of Nigerian Fulanis willing and available to engage in cattle-herding the nomadic style reminiscent of the old. A majority of them of the modern era are highly educated and gainfully employed in government and in the private sectors. Some of them are money changers and commission agents. And the majority of the up and coming generations are western-educated. Some of them obtained their Ordinary Level and A-Level Diploma in the UK, while the majority of them obtained their bachelor and graduate degrees in the UK, Switzerland, and the United States of America. So, that ready pool of young unlettered Nigerian Fulanis, available for nomadic herding or enlisting as mobile killing warriors against native landowners are no more. Kidnapping, maybe. Cattle-herding? Forget it. So, Miyetti Allah doesn't have the population at home to do its dirty job or fight its unGodly fight. By the way, remember, the Ezon (Ijaw) tribe is actually ahead of the Fulani in terms of population. So, what the heck is Miyetti Allah boasting about? Who is going to fight your war? Nigerian Armed Forces? Or the West African Fulani Forces of Professor Ago Abdulahi? Now you know better.
Governor El-Rufai is Right. And the President is right. The Killer-Herders are not the Fulani of Nigerian heritage. They are the hired and imported mobile warriors brought into Nigeria by faceless Nigerian Cattle owners. So, if by any error or omission, you surrender your land, you are doing so at your own peril. If these foreign Fulani Cattle Herders exhibit no sense of constraint in killing you, killing your harmless children and rapping your defenseless wives to death now (even as illegal immigrant workers) why would they be afraid to repeat the same if they are legally settled in your land by the Buhari's government? And why would they be afraid to depose your traditional ruler and impose one of their owns in his place? This is no fable or fairytale. It is fact-based. And it is happening now. A few weeks ago, Professor Ango Abdulahi boasted that they have the West African Fulani Fighting Forces, they would not hesitate to unleash if push comes to shove. He is right. Some of them are the 500 unknown soldiers who invaded the Nimbo Village in Enugu State in the early morning of April 25, 2016, and hacked to death every human being onsight and disappeared into the tin air. They came without notice and they disappeared without notice. If they had wanted to sack the traditional ruler of Nimbo Village and impose one of their own, they would have succeeded. But unfortunately, they don't have the standby forces to sustain permanent occupation or replicate a victory of that magnitude all over the Middle-Belt and the entire Southern region of Nigeria simultaneously. And that is the Miyetti and the Professor's dilemma they are concealing with bogus braggadocio.
If the Professor and the Miyetti Allah have become so infatuated with their vaulted war prowess of the 18th Century and embark on a unilateral imposition of a vigilante on Nigerian communities: confiscating, and occupying their land by force, they are inviting war they cannot win. And, if they are banking, of course, on the strength of the West African Fulani Mobile Forces and the support of President Buhari War Chest and our highly regionalized security apparatus, they would be making a huge mistake. It would lead to a West African Inter-Tribal War, the end of which no one can predict.
Therefore, the earlier Miyetti Allah and Professor Ango Abdulahi and their enabler cowards at the Ministry of Agriculture free their minds of a Cattle Colony in every nook and corner of Nigeria, the better for everyone. Senegalese, Guinean, Malian, Nigerien or Central African Fulani extractions are not welcome here. I love my Nigerian Fulani brothers. But the ones El-Rufai, President Buhari, and the unknown staffers of the Ministry of Agriculture are importing are enemy combatants. They are barbaric and they are heartless. I am not agitating the dismantling of Nigeria, but I will not stay silent when an administration that cannot even protect the citizens of the President's home state is about turning Nigeria into a war zone courtesy of killers without conscience. It won't work.
Today, there is an unnoticeable dramatic shortage of Nigerian Fulanis willing and available to engage in cattle-herding the nomadic style reminiscent of the old. A majority of them of the modern era are highly educated and gainfully employed in government and in the private sectors. Some of them are money changers and commission agents. And the majority of the up and coming generations are western-educated. Some of them obtained their Ordinary Level and A-Level Diploma in the UK, while the majority of them obtained their bachelor and graduate degrees in the UK, Switzerland, and the United States of America. So, that ready pool of young unlettered Nigerian Fulanis, available for nomadic herding or enlisting as mobile killing warriors against native landowners are no more. Kidnapping, maybe. Cattle-herding? Forget it. So, Miyetti Allah doesn't have the population at home to do its dirty job or fight its unGodly fight. By the way, remember, the Ezon (Ijaw) tribe is actually ahead of the Fulani in terms of population. So, what the heck is Miyetti Allah boasting about? Who is going to fight your war? Nigerian Armed Forces? Or the West African Fulani Forces of Professor Ago Abdulahi? Now you know better.
Governor El-Rufai is Right. And the President is right. The Killer-Herders are not the Fulani of Nigerian heritage. They are the hired and imported mobile warriors brought into Nigeria by faceless Nigerian Cattle owners. So, if by any error or omission, you surrender your land, you are doing so at your own peril. If these foreign Fulani Cattle Herders exhibit no sense of constraint in killing you, killing your harmless children and rapping your defenseless wives to death now (even as illegal immigrant workers) why would they be afraid to repeat the same if they are legally settled in your land by the Buhari's government? And why would they be afraid to depose your traditional ruler and impose one of their owns in his place? This is no fable or fairytale. It is fact-based. And it is happening now. A few weeks ago, Professor Ango Abdulahi boasted that they have the West African Fulani Fighting Forces, they would not hesitate to unleash if push comes to shove. He is right. Some of them are the 500 unknown soldiers who invaded the Nimbo Village in Enugu State in the early morning of April 25, 2016, and hacked to death every human being onsight and disappeared into the tin air. They came without notice and they disappeared without notice. If they had wanted to sack the traditional ruler of Nimbo Village and impose one of their own, they would have succeeded. But unfortunately, they don't have the standby forces to sustain permanent occupation or replicate a victory of that magnitude all over the Middle-Belt and the entire Southern region of Nigeria simultaneously. And that is the Miyetti and the Professor's dilemma they are concealing with bogus braggadocio.
If the Professor and the Miyetti Allah have become so infatuated with their vaulted war prowess of the 18th Century and embark on a unilateral imposition of a vigilante on Nigerian communities: confiscating, and occupying their land by force, they are inviting war they cannot win. And, if they are banking, of course, on the strength of the West African Fulani Mobile Forces and the support of President Buhari War Chest and our highly regionalized security apparatus, they would be making a huge mistake. It would lead to a West African Inter-Tribal War, the end of which no one can predict.
Therefore, the earlier Miyetti Allah and Professor Ango Abdulahi and their enabler cowards at the Ministry of Agriculture free their minds of a Cattle Colony in every nook and corner of Nigeria, the better for everyone. Senegalese, Guinean, Malian, Nigerien or Central African Fulani extractions are not welcome here. I love my Nigerian Fulani brothers. But the ones El-Rufai, President Buhari, and the unknown staffers of the Ministry of Agriculture are importing are enemy combatants. They are barbaric and they are heartless. I am not agitating the dismantling of Nigeria, but I will not stay silent when an administration that cannot even protect the citizens of the President's home state is about turning Nigeria into a war zone courtesy of killers without conscience. It won't work.
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