#EndSARS Movement: Of Idea, Essence and Goal Actualization.

 #EndSARS Movement: Of Essence and Of Goal Actualization.

I feel moved to pick of my rusty pen from where I dumped it years ago. It’s been quite a while that I had gotten to write anything, so permit me if I have forgotten to how to write like a writer. This piece is just me bleeding my heart through my pen or rather my phone’s keyboard.

The recent happenings in the country needs no emphasis. A dark cloud has been cast over the geographic space that has for many years held the undeserving title of “A Nation” , with a back cover of “One Nigeria” that is representative of nothing in the story within the pages of the book. 

The youths of this pseudo nation came with a beamer of hope; Hope that like the Olympic torch, lite up the hopes of even the most skeptical mind that perhaps, just perhaps, Nigeria is auspicious. The torch of hope that casted a beam of light in the non ending tunnel of darkness in which Nigeria as a nation and people had for this long sojourned.

The #EndSARS movement was one that for once since I became self aware, made me proud of being a Nigerian born into my generation. I am one of those that, having looked clinically into the Nigerian diseased nature, had concluded logically, that there is no hope for the Nigeria. Not to long before the #EndSARS protest, I was having a discussion with some people at a restaurant and I told them: “There is no hope for this country, Monday will always be better than Tuesday and Tuesday will be better than Wednesday. The situation will only get worse”. The precinct for the hopelessness I felt in Nigeria is majorly the attitude and mindset of the youths. 

But like the stroke of a magic wand, boom!! The EndSars movement, and I found myself jumping in ecstatic excitement at the hope for a New Nigeria. The youths of Nigeria came out and have been coming out en masse to demand for a better Nigeria. The demand for an end to the atrocities of the killer SARS unit of the police gradually yet rapidly metamorphosed into a demand for an albeit better Nigeria. This to me was and is a heart warming occurrence. I am a massive supporter of the protest and I myself have made myself available for protests.

My coming out to join the protest was objective. Written on my placards are wordings meant to give purpose more to the protesters than it is to send a message to the oppressive political elite. My placards bears inscriptions like; “What is SARS? SEVERE ANOMALY and ROT in the SYSTEM, #EndSARS”. “Corruption is Lawmakers bogus pay packages, End SARS in the Legislature”. “The Judiciary is key to a sane society, End SARS in Judiciary”. “Let’s stay Focused in our demands: 1. 5 for 5, 2. Electoral Reform, 3. We bear it in mind and prepare for 2023 political revolution via ballot”. “If this Movement does not result to a change in the system come 2023, it was a waste, “PoliticalRevolution”. 

I joined the protest more to play my little part in giving direction and achievable purpose to the protest. SARS is not an isolated malaise. SARS is an integral component of a virus infested and saturated system. This is why I construed SARS to mean Severe Anomaly and Rot in the System, in order to encapsulate what we are dealing with. When we understand what we are dealing with, then we can plan the prescription and dose for treatment.

Now to my purpose of picking up my pen back from the cobweb drawer. I want to dish out some food for thought to my fellow vibrant, optimistic yet recently devastated Nigerian youths. In our present situation of hope, devastation of hope and resurgence of hope, flaring tempers, watery eyes and melted hearts occasioned by the shameless massacre of armless and innocent “leaders of tomorrow” by a coalition of gutless blood sucking demons both in Agbada, mufti, black uniforms and military regalia, we must begin to think realistically, circumspectly and objectively.

I want us to ask ourselves these few questions:

1. Why are we protesting? What is the goal?

2. What is the most feasible way to achieve our goal.

3. The blood of our fallen heroes especially at Lekki tollgate must never be vain. How do we make that happen? What is the best possible way to make it happen?

I was having a discuss recently on a youth platform and it was all steam from venting tempers, steam spewing without direction nor purpose that it can not be used to boil anything. I understand the devastation. I am devastated also. Going online social media these few days is a full bouquet subscription to depression. We don’t want the blood of the slain to be in vain. We all want to do something fast. Hence my question. What is that something that will yield the desired effect? Let’s briefly analyze our possible options given the dice on our hands.

We can continue the protests on the streets. We can come out in numbers so large and ask them to kill us all.  Guess what that will lead to? They will kill us all. The shameless deployment of military and the reprehensible and disgusting lekki tollgate massacre is an indication to the reality that these blood sucking political class has the capacity to oversee the massacre of millions of people if that is what is necessary to keep them in power. This is Africa. This is not a place where peaceful protest work. 

I learned that one of the current ministers in Nigeria, talking about the recent happenings in the country allegedly described it as “youths catching fun”. Imagine that. Youths getting killed by Government sponsored forces is “fun” to these people. Is it not also “FUNny” that the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo Olu, came on National Television to say that no lives were lost in a massacre despite brazen evidences? These men do not care how many people die. The late Pop King, Michael Jackson already said it; “They don’t really care about us”. The only way to get government attention especially in Africa is by commensurate violence or by politics (Votes). Peaceful protest does not work anywhere in Africa. Show me one that worked. Peaceful protest only works in a sane society. Nigeria is a mad society. Only thinking about the happenings in Nigeria is enough to inflict you with insanity.  Is it not ironical that BokoHaram members and Bandits are treated like Kings in a country that massacres armless peaceful protesters? This is the reality of the space in which we find ourselves by a misfortune of birth.  

What then is the next possible line of action for we the youths? Do we now go violent? Going violent will be like a dog suggesting bad names to someone that had been looking for a bad name to give it in order to kill it. People that are already sponsoring thugs and hoodlums to both attack peaceful protesters and dent the public image of the protest in order to send in their killing machines on peaceful protesters. What will then happen if we decided to “fight them”. They will deploy fighter jets and RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades). Already the APCs (Armoured Personnel Carriers) have been rolled out. Going violent is the signal they need to rain the pre-planned terror on us. Least you may not have noticed, what we are into as a country has no form nor likeness of a democracy. Rather it has the dominant gene of the opposite situation in it’s DNA. Like I have fore-mentioned, these men are no longer human beings. Many of them feast on human flesh and blood. They don’t care if a million of us are killed in cold blood. They don’t care if this degenerates into a crises situation or even a civil war at that. This is Africa.

There is this rather fabulous hope that maybe if we keep protesting in the way we are currently going about it, maybe the almighty protectors of the world, the United States of America or the United Kingdom or the United Nations or any other Foreign knight in shining armor will come to our aid. We are forgetting too quickly that these foreign knights that we are looking to and hoping that they will come to our rescue actually played a crucial role in landing us into the situation we are in today. These foreign powers cares nothing about us. Like in the case of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, to them, what is happening here is just black men killing black men. Especially now that they are focused on the American Elections. Their only interest in Africa is their interest in Africa, that is well served by the present state of Africa. Let’s not be deceived.  We are on our own. 

And if there is ever a chance that these foreign elements will intervene, there are more chances than not that it will only make the situation worse by escalating the crisis. Remember Syria, Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan etc. We should begin to forget about these foreign elements that will instigate wars and supply weapons to both warring factions; just to serve their personal interest. 

What other options are we left with to make sure that our massacred martyrs didn’t die in vain? Maybe we should keep tweeting #EndSARS and #LekkiMassacre and keep them trending. I wholeheartedly agree to this. But the motive or idea behind it maybe what I do not agree with. Tweeting about and trending #EndSARS and other hashtag associated with our struggle may as well pass as an exercise in futility. Our target audience or rather target object are stone hearted vampires. People that are not moved by the sight of blood can not blink at the sight of tweets and trends. Also as aforementioned, the international audience we are hoping to reach may just be clinging to a smoke screen, a false hope. The knight in shining armor mentality is only a fancy idea deprived of the realistic obvious. THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US. 

I am in no way attempting to paint another hopeless scenario here but let’s face it. What now is the most feasible way forward. In my little way, this write up like I earlier stated is not for naysaying but to proffer a way forward as already proffered and alluded to by deep thinking Nigerians. Before our candle of hope gets burnt out in candle light processions in honor of our fallen and yet to be fallen heroes, while our hearts melts like molten lava as our blood boils and erupts through our eyes as discolored tears, let us with our last flicker of hope and drop of strength, come back to the drawing board and strategically plan to win this war with the most feasible and achievable technique and approach.

The problem with Nigeria is a virus that has colonized the system. We are dealing with an established rotten system. SARS is only a part of that system that can not be dealt with individually. As the protest continues, we have seen a barrage of demands made by protesters. From addressing the corruption in the National Assembly, to addressing underdevelopment and then generally to ending bad government. The issues on ground are enormous making the demands voluminous and seemingly unachievable by a single fell swoop approach of protest. Some quarters are coming up with the idea of addressing the issues one after the other, meaning we shall be singling out issues and having multiple protest on each issue. How realistic is that? How long did it take us to come to a position of having this protest. Protest is not an easy nor desirable activity on a normal day. It is exhausting and tiring even as it is essential. 

I am not seeing the possibility of we coming out to protest against every single issue bedeviling this country. They are enormous. From the top to the bottom. The issue at the spare head of the current protest is that of police atrocities and we are demanding for SARS to be ended. Superficial as it may be, SARS has been disbanded. But the fact remains that we still need a special unit to tackle special security challenges, hence the formation of the equally rejected SWAT. We are rejecting SWAT because we are aware that it is merely a change of badge with the same people. But even given a situation where all the officers in the defunct SARS unit are withdrawn as promised, the new officers that will replace them will definitely be taken from the same police force that also has the severe symptoms of the rotten system. Let me ask, are ALMOST all police men not like SARS men in their own rights? SARS officers are simply police officers with more jurisdiction and power to do the kind of things they do, hence the kind of things they have been doing. They are all abusing the level of power at their disposal. 

Perhaps this is why we are calling for a total reforming of the police system. Good and fine. The political juggernauts have started making moves towards that; even though we do not trust them. But why don’t we trust them? Is it not because we are singling out the police component of the rotten system to change? And we may or may not know that we are asking the system to change a component of the system that is vital to the functioning of the system. We know that the people whose responsibility it is to reform the police will not willingly do so because the present situation of the police is favorably to them. So what are we really doing? Asking the system to commit suicide?

We keep protesting with the #EndSARS spare head thereby given the system the opportunity to tag us as trouble makers. They have been setting up one committee after the other to address the demands of protesters. Even as we have known from experience that those are mere razzmatazz; but they can well say that they are doing something hence what are we still protesting for? Drop sentiment and ask yourself, what are you still protesting for? #EndSARS? EndSWAT? How? For them to kill all the police officers and create new ones? New ones from where? From heaven? For the IG to resign? Or for something in the cloud to shift and say “Behold, the police have now been reformed, better welfare will now given them, better salaries will now be given them etc” before we leave the streets.

 But wait a minute, are these not the same police we are fighting for, the same policemen we see physically and on numerous videos making rounds, shooting at us and leading thugs to hack us? If they have been maltreated for years, why don’t they protest and speak for themselves? If policemen goes on protest, who will shoot them? How much is the salary that they are afraid to loose by seeking a better welfare for themselves? What about the Army? Are soldiers not facing the same maltreatment that we the common man in Nigeria face from the system in Nigeria? It will shock you that asides the god-fearing few, an average policeman may rather the system remain the way it is than to have the reforming that we are demanding for them. They make more  money from extorting the masses on the streets than any salary you think they should be paid.

Least I digress too much from the sequence of points. Back to the issue of “Why are we protesting”. It is obvious that the protest have gone beyond addressing police brutality and have transcend to other numerous issues that have been summarize into bad Government hence the hashtag #EndBadGovernment. To me, this is a very good one as I have always wanted the people to see the overall picture. The problem with SARS and the police is a reflection of the problem in the government or more appropriately, a problem in the system. But my concern is, we are still using the spare head of #EndSARS to address the issue of a bad government. I think it’s high time we called the problem by it’s tribal name. I personally prefer tweeting with the hashtags #EndBadGovernment #RestructureNigeria #ReconstructNigeria. I add the hashtag #EndSARS for audience sake. So that as I reach the audience, I present the real issue on a broader view. 

Ending bad government or ending the SARS (SEVERE ANOMALY and ROT in the SYSTEM) will invariably stream down to address all the other issues that needs to be addressed. Now my point is, now that we know that what we need to end is way more than police SARS, now that we know that we need to change and redirect the course of our country, which I believe is the reason why we throng the streets in protest in defiance of flying bullets by security forces and rampaging hatchets of government sponsored thugs,  now that we know that we need to #EndBadGovernment, how then do we go about it? This is why I have taken my time in this write up to analyze the apparent ways we may likely want to go about it.

The most feasible and achievable way to address the overall malaise, the overreaching problem, and the overall demand for an end to bad Government in Nigeria is by using our votes come 2023 elections to bring about a total and complete system overhaul, a total system formatting, a complete system flush. If we can keep the fire burning, if we can keep the awareness up on social media, if we can keep trending the hashtags but more importantly, also begin to create the awareness for what we need to accomplish come 2023 elections or any future elections; even as we tweet and come out physically to protest when possible (But never to make ourselves available to be used for target practice by blood sucking vampires anymore). The essence of the protest, both physical and online should be to keep the fire burning in our hearts so as to drive us into doing the needful.

What we need to do now is to begin to do the work necessary to achieve a complete flushing of the political system in Nigeria. I call it Political Revolution and I think we should make it trend along side the #EndSARS hashtag. Let us keep refreshing our minds and the minds of anyone we can on what we need to do come 2023 elections. We need to rid the system of any and everyone, including their families and friends, anyone who has ever held any position of government or political appointment in this country from 1960 till date, we need to make sure that they never rule over us again forever. They are the pathogens that carry and transfer the virus that has infested the system of the country. The are the cancerous cells. They are the ones that “knows how it is done”. And it is this “How it is done” that has left us in this state we are. We do not need people that knows how it is done-  the Nigerian Modus Operandi. In the New Nigeria we hope to achieve, we only need people that knows “How it should be done”. We do not need people who knows our history. Our history is bedeviling. We don’t want to know what Shagari did to Awolowo nor what Ojukwu did and Gowon didn’t do. That is their story to live and die with. We only need people whose only care is about how our future should be. We will write our own story of how we built Nigeria into a global spectacle.

What we need is a complete youth take over. Let the old ones sit and watch us rule. We don’t even need their guidance. Since 1960 they have been guiding the country, where have they guided it to? There are workable templates of Government around the world from which we can copy. They will only guild us back to the doom days. We need to set the ball in motion now. I have mentioned this to quite some people who have responded with “2023 is too far”. They think that 2023 is too far because they do not realize the extent of work that is needed to achieve this goal of a system overhaul. We the youth need to start now to build our own political enclave and it’s structure. Always bearing in mind that no past political affiliate would be allowed entry. It is paramount to the objective. 

We need to start creating aware from our neighborhood down to the villages. Imagine the extent of work involved in taking this awareness down to the nook and cranny of Nigeria. 2023 is actually too close. We must begin to act now and fast. 

We must never let the blood of those killed to be in vain. And if we don’t achieve this systemic flushing, that will sadly be the case. Because they System will readjust and continue. More than our numerous demands and even arguably greater than the #EndSARS demand, we should be focused and demand for an Electoral Reform. The political class have been making the guise of addressing our demands. Let them address the demand for Electoral Reform. It is more measurable the progress in that direction. It is a more realistic and appraisable demand. If we can achieve Electoral Reform and achieve our own political structure with the current mindset of the youths, then we can cry GLORY! For then has the battle been won.

In conclusion, the way forward is forward. It’s ahead of us. A new NIGERIA is possible but it’s has to be a New Nigeria indeed. We must get rid of the old elements, the old system and the old structures. No more recycling problem to solve problem. We say “WE MOVE” And move we must. We must flush the system completely; of all past and present political office holders and affiliates. We must achieve this with our votes. We must create the platform to make our votes count more through the necessary Electoral Reforms. Then we must come out for the final protest, with our votes, to bring about the Political Revolution critical to actualizing our dreams of a NEW NIGERIA. We don’t want a better Nigeria. we want a NEW NIGERIA. Everything Nu Nu (In Charles Okocha's voice)

So help Us God. 

Of Africa and the Ape men. By Chibykes Mahatma

Let me give an illustration. 

The white man made the car and put a seat in front with one seat belt.  Just one seat for one person with one seat belt. 

But a black man taxi driver will be gorilla enough to tell two people to come sit in front and still pay him money. 

OK.  That's not the problem. See the main problem. 

Then the persengers,  black men,  will be monkey,  chimpanzee and every other thing that have not fully evolved enough to agree to sit two people in front and still pay money on it. Two adult monkeys sharing one seat, not minding for their lives since they can't share one seat belt. Meanwhile the driver will have his own seat belt buckled. 

Then the white man will call us monkeys and we will be crying racism. 

AFRICANS, ESPECIALLY NIGERIANS, WE ARE APES. 

How I wish I wasn't an African.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF A POISONOUS DWARF AND THE LYING WORDS OF AN UNREPENTANT SON OF PERDITION by FFK

Two days ago Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the following.

"100 billion naira and $289 USD million was withdrawn in cash by President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks before the presidential election ostensibly for security. This was unprecedented stealing and it led to the economic recession that we are suffering today".

Sadly the wild, baseless and frankly absurd allegations and willful and premeditated display of perfidy did not stop there.

A few weeks earlier Osinbajo had said the following:

"President Goodluck Jonathan did not put in place ANY infrastructural development in his last 5 years".

This is yet another unmeritorious and unworthy clangger!

The truth is that I am fed up with this despicable little man's horrendous lies. If he is not lecturing, talking down to or insulting the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Christian leaders or trying to convince the world that there is no islamisation agenda in Nigeria he is resorting to the most disgusting and shameful mendacities.

The truth is that there is nothing worse or more repugnant than a pernicious liar and a sanctimonious and self-serving dwarf that thrives in double standards and hypocrisy.

Osibanjo never saw fit to publicly condemn the stealing of the Ikoyi/Osbornegate billions, the SGF grass cutting stealing, the $26 billion USD NNPC contract scam or the Mainagate scandal.

Instead he always saves his perfidy and lies for President Jonathan and the leaders of the PDP.

He never condemned the slaughter of thousands of Christians (including clerics) and hundreds of Shiite Muslims in the north.

He never condemned the mass murder of IPOB and Biafran youths. He never condemned the obvious Islamisation and anti-Christian policy of the Buhari regime.

He never condemned the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the Fulani herdsmen.

He never condemned the relentless persecution and violation of human rights and civil liberties that the opposition have been subjected to for the last two and a half years.

He never condemned the northernisation of governance in Nigeria and the fact that his boss President Buhari had directed the World Bank to only develop the north and to ignore the south. 

He never condemned the fact that southern Nigeria and the Midddle Belt are effectively under occupation. 

He never condemned the fact that every single security agency in the country and every branch of the Armed Forces except for the Navy is headed by a northern Muslim.

He never condemned the fact that the army attacked Nnamdi Kanu's home, murdered 26 people in cold blood, killed his dogs, burnt his cars and "disappeared" him.

He never condemned the fact that the wives and children of opposition members and perceived enemies of the government are being killed, detained, maimed, rounded up, tortured and  harrased by Buhari's goons and security agencies.

He never condemned the fact that his own colleague, a female pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), was murdered in cold blood by muslim fundamentalists in the north just over one year ago.

He never condemned the censorship of the press, the intimidation and blackmailing of newspaper publishers and editors and the threats issued against the owners of radio and television broadcasting stations.

He did not condemn the planned clampdown on the social media over the next few weeks and months.

He did not condemn the systematic and insidious adoption of a culture of fear and silence which is being foisted upon our people.

He did not condemn the bombing of predominantly Christian IDP camps by Muslim Air Force officers.

He did not condemn the wholesale slaughter of the innocent Christian indegenous populations, including women and children, in Plateau state, Benue state, Southern Kaduna, Kebbi state, Borno state, Adamawa state and elsewhere in the north by Janjaweed-like Fulani militants.

I could go on and on.

Osinbajo, our supposedly learned, God-fearing, pious, humble and righteous Pastor and Professor of Law, has not deemed it fit to condemn anything that is evil or reprehensible that goes on in our country!

All he did and has done was go around calling Buhari his father, running his mouth off against CAN, the Church and Christian leaders and insulting President Jonathan and other members of the resistance and the opposition.

The truth is that I have lost all respect for this man. That is a pity because I have known him for over thirty years and have always held him in high esteem.

Yet sadly that has all changed because I never knew that below the surface he was nothing more than a gutless coward and quisling who, like Christopher Marlowe's  Dr. Faustus, had sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and power. 

I never knew that he was the sort of man that would sit by  idly and quietly whilst his own southern people and members of his own Christian faith are being humiliated, cheated, persecuted, enslaved, marginalised, slaughtered and, in some cases, being subjected to ethnic cleansing.

As far as I am concerned Vice President Osinbajo is not just a deceitful, mendacious and poisonous dwarf but he is also a lying imp and devlish little midget who has been overwhelmed and possesed  by a stunted, crude, cowardly and servile evil spirit.

The truth is that he would kill or sacrifice anyone, no matter how close they are to him,  just to please his boss Buhari.

I stopped regarding him as a believer the minute he bowed his head and went on bended knee before Baal's Prophet and the minute he opted to be the running mate to the greatest enemy of Christ's Church in Nigeria.

The fact of the matter is that, in my view,  the Vice President is not a Christian let alone a Pastor. He ceased being one long ago.

Like Judas Iscariot he has betrayed Jesus Christ in return for thirty pieces of silver and he has assisted those that have continuosly insulted and sought to undermine the Christian faith in Nigeria.

His is nothing less than a hideous, horrific and monuemental Shakesperean tragedy that shall not end well.

Permit me to close with the following.

The lack of sense that some commentators in Nigeria consistently display never ceases to amaze me. They claim that it is fair game for the likes of Osinbajo to keep calling Jonathan  and opposition leaders looters and thieves but that it is wrong, disrespectful and  unfair to call him a lying dwarf for saying so!

This is nonsense. And those that hold that view should mark this: the more bricks Osinbajo and his boss throw at us the more they will get in return.

We cannot be intimidated by them and we shall not be cowered into silenced.

Being a Vice President is one thing but allowing yourself to degenerate into a willing tool and servant of Baal and debasing yourself into what is nothing more than an unrepentant son of perdition is quite another.

I suggest that both Osinbajo and Buhari leave Jonathan  and the PDP alone and clean up their own filthy mess! They have just over one year left to do so.

THE SLAVES OF NIGERIA (By FFK)

Many years ago the irrepressable Hausa leader who hailed from Kano and who was the  founder of the radical leftist political party called NEPU, Mallam Aminu Kano, said,

"Until the Fulani Emirs are toppled northern Nigeria will not know peace".

History has proved him right. The feudal structure of the north and its deeply conservative ethos has resulted in nothing but retrogression, poverty, disease, radical Islam, terror and killer herdsmen.

Yet the problem goes much further than the north: it extends to the whole of Nigeria. Worse still it has  affected the pysche of the Nigerian people and left them with a very low self-esteem.

We have become victims and casualties of our modern  history and little more than miserable serfs in a Fulani-controlled artificial, man-made vassal state which deems non-Fulanis as nothing more than the biblical "hewers of the wood" and "drawers of the water". 

In our very own eyes we are nothing and in our hearts we believe that the Fulani are everything. We bow and tremble before them, we jump when they sneeze or express their displeasure and we smile and commend them when they commit all manner of abominable atrocities and slaughter.

The bitter truth, which few wish to hear and even fewer are prepared to acknowledge, is that the fundamental problem of the Nigerian is that subconciously he has accepted the erroneous and false notion that he is a slave to the Fulani.


He has been robbed of his identity, history and culture. He does not know where he is coming from or where he is going.

He suffers from a grave, crippling and debilitating inferiority complex which has robbed him of his ability to think in a rational way or protest any act of injustice and barbarity that he or she is subjected to by his Fulani slave-masters.

This applies to every Nigerian both from the north and the south. The challenge of our time is to shatter that notion, free their minds and break their chains in spite of their weakness and their reluctance to fight for their own freedom.

For example look at a man like General Yakubu Gowon our former Head of State. The Fulanis have been slaughtering his Plateau people for years yet he cannot bring himself to condemn them publicly.

Instead he says things like "restructuring Nigeria is impossible" which is exactly what the slave masters want to hear.

This is one of the most shameful and retrogressive assertions in contemporary Nigerian history and sadly it comes from a man who claims to pray. 

Has Gowon forgotten that Bible says "with God ALL things are possible?"

Again hear what Gowon had to say about the cause of the Nigerian civil war 47 years after it ended.

He said Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra, caused the civil war by lying about what transpired in Aburi. This is false. Ojukwu told no lie.

Gowon agreed to all the terms in Aburi but when he got home he reneged on the agreement simply because the power behind the throne and the de facto leader of Nigeria, a Fulani army officer by the name of General Murtala Mohammed who led the July 29th 1966 northern officers "revenge coup" and who put Gowon in power, said so.

Gowon's concessions at Aburi were unacceptable to the Fulani ruling class so the whole thing was thrown out of the window. This is what led to the civil war.

Sadly the tales of woe and servility do not stop there. Look at a man like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has suffered every form of insult and indignity over the last two years from the Fulani CPC and President that he helped put into power in 2015.

He literally helped to enslave his Yoruba people and fellow southerners and he consolidated and fortified the relentless subjugation, bondage and humiliation that the people of the Middle Belt have been subjected to by the Fulani for the last 100 years.

Yet despite that he now says he still "has confidence in Buhari". Poor him.

Does slavery and the selling of one's soul, heritage and kinsmen not have limits?  Is there no pride and dignity left?

Must some live on their knees and lead others into servitude and perdition? By the time Buhari finishes with him he will wish he had never been born!

By the time the Fulani finish with Nigeria we will all be speaking Fufude and have a cow in our back yard.

Permit me to conclude this contribution with perhaps the most graphic and appauling example of crawling servility and protecting and serving the master's agenda. 

This was provided by none other than Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who went to Lagos and told a gathering of Christians that "nobody can Islamise Nigeria".

That is exactly what the leaders of Egypt and Turkey once said.They both used to be 99% Christian until they let down their guard. Now they are both Muslim countries with tiny Christian minorities that suffer untold hardship and persecution. 

Leaders must LEARN from history and STOP IGNORING it.

The truth is that Osinbajo betrayed the Church by pairing with a man who HATES southerners and Christians but because that man is a Fulani it did not matter to him.

He went on bended knee and served his principal as if the man were God. And for him he was prepared to betray not just his kinsmen and peiple but also his faith.

And the result is as follows: under Buhari the head of EVERY military and security agency in our country except for one is headed by a northern Muslim and every parastatal in the energy sector is headed by a northerner.

Finally consider this:

The D-8 countries are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. They all have one thing in common: ISLAM.

Osinbajo talks down on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for raising the alarm of islamisation. Nigeria is now a member of EVERY international Islamic organisation yet, according to him, there is no islamisation agenda!

Are we to keep quiet until they either pull down every Church or announce it officially? Somebody needs to talk to the VP.  He has forgotten why he was named the running mate to Buhari instead of his mentor, Bola Tinubu.

He needs to study the book of Esther before it is too late!

May God deliver us from these slaves and their relentless masters!

Such is the disgust that many feel about the shameful behaviour and self-serving utterances of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the President of CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, was constrained to warn him and advise him to educate himself and stop attempting to prove his loyalty to Buhari by slamming Christians in the country. Ayokunle has displayed courage and fortitude by offering this timely admonition. Let us hope that Osinbajo listens.

Permit me to conclude with the words of President Abraham Lincoln. He said,

"to sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men".

The Nigerian people have much to learn from this great man's insight and wise counsel. May God grant us courage and faith.

FEMI FANI KAYODE : The Lion of The East 2

THE LION OF THE EAST (PART 2)

Those from outside Igboland that say that they do not want Biafra have missed the point. It is for the people of the east to make that call and to make that decision and not for you.

What you believe is good for the Igbo or what you prefer for them is neither here nor there. Ultimately it is only THEIR choice and THEIR decision, which can only be made and established in a free and fair UN-sponsored and conducted referendum, that matters.

And in that referendum every single Igbo person, whether they be a traditional ruler, a chief, a wealthy business man, a pauper, a prince, a governor, a legislator, an elder-statesman, a student, a trader, a hairdresser, a bus-driver, a houseboy, a lawyer, a dancer, a singer, a landlord, a tenant, a judge, a clerk, a fisherman, a farmer, a taxi-driver, a secretary, a banker, a writer, a mortuary attendant, a pimp, a prostitute or a jobless man or woman only has one vote.

It is either "yes" or "no". No single vote is more important than the other and each vote carries the same weight.

The arrogance of those that beat their chests and believe that they know how that vote or referendum will ultimately go is second only to the short-sighted fools in the British media and political class who never believed that the United Kingdom would vote for BREXIT and opt to leave Europe.

It is also similar to the willful blindness and self-inflicted delusions of the Obama and Clinton-controlled liberal-left of American politics who swore and honestly believed that Donald Trump would and could NEVER win the presidential election of 2016. They forgot the "God factor" in all matters touching and concerning the destiny of nations and men and what a shocker they got!

Those in igboland that say they are the true leaders of the Igbo and that their people do not want to leave Nigeria and establish their own country may get the biggest surprise of their lives when the time comes.

And not one of them can defeat Nnamdi Kanu in a free and fair election ANYWHERE in Igboland today. If they doubt that perhaps they should try putting it to the test.

The great black American freedom fighter Malcom X said "the price of freedom is death". The 3 million Igbos that died in the civil war paid that price.

The hundreds of thousands of Igbos that were slaughtered in pogroms in the north in the mid-60's, during the civil war, in the '70's, in the 80's, in the '90's, in the 2000's and indeed right up until today paid that price.

The thousands of young and courageous IPOB men and women who were massacred by security forces in the streets of the east and in the sanctity of their homes over the last two years have paid that price.

The hundreds of Igbos that have been killed by state-protected Fulani militias and herdsmen in their villlages and on their farms in the last two years have paid that price.

Then came the threat of genocide and carnage from the Arewa Youth when the Igbo were told that they must leave the north by Oct. 1st 2017 or suffer another whirlwind of slaughter and pogroms.

Those that will be killed in the north after that date and once that deadline has expired will also have paid that price.

Given all this I have one question to ask: if the Lord, in His infinate wisdom and mercy, can raise a deliverer like the great Sir William Wallace to liberate Scotland from the English in 1297 why would He NOT raise a Nnamdi Kanu to deliver the Igbo people after they have been subjected to genocide, mass murder, wickedness and injustice at the brutal hands of the Nigerian state for the last 57 years?

If the Lord can raise an Oliver Cromwell to deliver the people of England from the tyranny of the Crown in 1642 why would He not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?

If the Lord can raise a George Washington to fight for American independence from the subjugation of the British Crown in 1775 why would He not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo  in 2017?

If the Lord could raise a Maximillien Robespierre and Marat for the French people against the Bourbon royal family in 1789 and a Vladimer Lenin and Trotsky for the Russian people against the Romanov royal dynasty in 1917 why would he not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?

If the Lord could raise an Emeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu to deliver the Igbo people from total elimination, annihilation and extermination in 1967 why would he not raise a Nnamdi Kanu to deliver them from tyranny, mass murder and threats of genocide in 2017?

And the comparisons with Ojukwu are interesting. Both come from a royal and noble lineage and bloodline. Both went to some of the best schools and universities in the United Kingdom.

Ojukwu was at Oxford whilst Kanu was at the Metropolitan University (after finishing his first degree at Nsuka).  Both were well educated and enlightened enough to recognise the chains of tyranny and both had the mettle and the courage to cultivate a firm resolve to stand against it.

One did so in the filed of battle when his people were subjected to genocide, denied the right of self-determination and attacked whilst the other did so through aggressive political activism and without firing a shot. Both are endearing, charming, handsome, charrismatic, articulate and profound.

Finally, like all human beings, both are fallible and made one or two mistakes and errors in their careers by what they said about others from time to time. This is to be expected because they are both human.

Yet it is not what they say about others that matters but what they represent. And what they represent, which is essentially the protection of the weak from the tyranny and barbarity of the strong,  is not only wholesome and righteous but also noble, honorable and worthy of emulation.

Few can dispute that the suffering of the Igbo over the last 57 years has been horrendous, disproportionate and barbarous. By any civilised standard it has been totally and completely unacceptable.

Oceans of Igbo blood, including that of infants and babies, have been shed and spilt over those years and that sacred blood not only cries to God in heaven for vengeance but also continues to plague, foul and soil the very foundation of the Nigerian state.
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Not only has no remorse or regret been expressed or displayed for shedding that blood but instead those that have continuosly done so for no just cause for the better part of the last fifty seven years have been handsomely rewarded and well-compensated for their great evil and sociopathic disposition instead of being brought to justice.

When we go out of our way as a people to care for the weakest, the most vulnerable, the most villified, the most persecuted and even the most undeserving in our society it says a lot about us. And when we kill them at will and treat them like animals it means that we are no better than ravenous beasts ourselves.

The truth is that nothing and no-one can stop Nnamdi Kanu because there is a divine element to his meteoric rise.

God Himself has raised, lifted and annointed him and in doing so He has planted a seed, ignited a fuse and unleashed the spirit of Biafra  in the mind, body, spirit and soul of the Igbo nation.

Whatever happens to Kanu today that spirit and that movement will not die but rather go from strength to strength.

The man has died in millions of Nigerians that have remained silent when faced with the tyranny and injustice of today's Nigeria. But not in Nnamdi Kanu. The man has refused to die in him and still lives on.

He has refused to bow to tyranny and he has refused to succumb to the blackmail and intimidation of the state.

He is the Lion of the east: I stand by him, I love him and I salute his courage. O that we had more of his ilk in our shores. May God defend him and may the Ancient of Days guide and protect Him. (CONCLUDED).

Nigerian Government: The true disintegration agent.

THE SIMPLE QUESTIONS.

Why has the Buhari / Osibanjor led administration refused to heed the thunderous call of Nigerians for the restructuring of the country? But instead have positioned themselves against it.
Is it not serve the said they came to serve Nigerians ?
Is it not supposed to be  "Government of the people and for the people?
Now the people, a large majority of the population are saying,  " we want this. We want the restructuring of the country. We want True fiscal federalism". And the "ruling servants" are saying  "No we won't do what you want". Is this still a democratic government or a tyrannical rulership?
Do I see a replay of the Aburi accord episode again?
The question is,  who be Gowon,  who be Ojukwu?
 Nigerians are the later.  Buhari  and Osibanjor and their government are the former.

WHO WANTS TO DISINTEGRATE NIGERIA??

As it stands,  those that wants to split Nigeria and cast us into a tormentous season of crises are not the MASSOB nor IPOB. Not even Nnamdi Kanu nor the Arewa youth forum nor the militants nor any other barking mongrel but President Buhari,  Vice President Osinbanjor,  and all the occupants of the upper and lower chamber of the legislature. In whose hands the powers have been bestowed to steer this ill-fated ship called Nigeria away from the ominous course of imminent wreck. But have chosen to instead step on the pedals of acceleration in the direction of the bermuda triangle.

THE EPILOGUE

Even as we continue our manned  drift towards the bottomless pit, it is our utmost hope that the journey to the pit of hell tarry for just as long as it takes to get to the day Nigerians will again seize power.  2019 general elections is what I speak of.  Then Nigerians will not forget that the present administration are anti-Nigeria. They have told us vehemently that a united Nigeria is not their pursuit. They have made us understand that they are a government of themselves and for themselves.
The crux of 2019 general elections campaign and vote casting will be the need for the restructuring of the nation. The voting pendulum will swing towards who will give the majority of Nigerians what they desire.  Which is true fiscal federalism. Baba and APC have taken their stand on the matter and Nigerians have taken note.  Come 2019 if the doom day tarry,  Baba,  should he be recontesting,  and his APC will stand,  and behind them will stand the Arewa Consultative Forum, the only group that have chosen to stand for nonsensity.  Beside them will stand,  any body or people that have successfully convinced Nigerians that they buy the auspicious idea of True Federalism and will make it the core component of their policy.  And behind them will stand,  yours sincerely and every other Nigerian outside the ACF.
Let the numbers count.  That is if they will allow for a free and fair process.
So help us God.

My Vice President again

Acting president Yemi Osibanjor is just wasting time and playing to the gallery with all these series of meetings he has been holding with different villagers and township people.
"Government will not sit back and watch anyone bla bla bla", yet no single person out of the persons whose arrest have been asked for have been arrested.
Oga, it's not by meetings and reading convulated speeches. If you truly want to save Nigeria,  then start by saving time.  Enough of all these good for media hook ups.  Go and start working on the implementation of the recommendations of the 2014 nation confab.
Even a mad man knows now that that is the only auspicious way forward.  I feel disappointed that an astute man like yourself is resorting to an obvious jourrney of futility.
Abi na plan work?

Open reply to my amiable Vice / Acting President

                                        Prof Yemi Osibanjor - Vice President of Nigeria. 

Vice President Yemi Osibanjor said something. 

He said "millions of people have died for the unity of this country". 

Sir, in as much as I respect your person both for your position as a leader of a country I find myself and an elder and a clergy figure, I must say that it is sad that you have joined those that insist on planting and promulgating falsehood in the minds of shallow minded Nigerians. I don't know if your actions are deliberate or in honest ignorance. But I want to believe that the former is the case. 

My amiable VP sir, contrary to your position and the position of many leaders or more appropriately " misleaders", who are bent on upholding a twist scripted version of history so that the future generation will only see a vague picture of reality, I wish to inform you that there are still a few of us Nigerians that happens to know the truth. Like someone once said, you can deceive some of the people all the time, but you can not deceive all the people all the time. 

I put it to you sir and to every other evangelist of this false gospel, that millions of lives have not been lost for the unity of Nigeria, rather millions of lives have been taken to ensure that a state of servitude and subserviency is maintained. Millions of lives have been taken to instill fear and tame some people to surrender to a existence in semi bondage. 

Sir, if by the millions of lives, you mean the millions of Igbos , innocent men and women murdered in the genocide of 1967 to 1970, it will be a spite on their gave and passing feaces on their rotten corpse to say they died for the unity of Nigeria. Sir, I will assume you don't know that the genocide led by Yakubu Gowon was no where near a battle for unity but a battle for the resource of a region. How will you go to a mans house and murder his family and called that "an act of love"? To keep the nation one. 

The genocide targeted at the igbos started before it was " legalized " in the guise of war. The war was never a battle for unity, but I display of callous hatred and genocidal vendetta. The millions of lives that you talked about was not sacrificed in the same that Jesus the Christ sacrificed his life to unify man to God nor in the way the legendary Inikpi of the Igala kingdom gave her life for her people. These lives you talk about was taken from the owners by force for something they have no understanding of. These are lives of men , women and children who were only but trying to survive a pogrom aimed at them. They died trying to live. Their lives were taken by scavengers who have no love for them but for what lies beneath their soil. 

The millions of lives that was lost Sir, was not for the unity of Nigeria but for an example of man's inhumanity to mankind. Man unkindness to mankind. Mans desperation for resources and disregard for life. And one day, Nigerians will be wise enough to know that even as the Gulf war and the 2001 attack on Iraq has nothing to do with the fight against terror nor weapon of mass destruction, but for selfish gain of some people, same way that the civil war of Nigeria had nothing to do with the unity of a country. But the subjugation and annexation of one region by the other.

I will close by saying, if indeed millions of people have died for the unity of the country, are you not saying Sir, that we have in our hands  a country whose engine is fuelled with blood? A vampire country that requires regular supply of blood from millions of its populace (that coincidentally always comes from a particular region ) to survive? Should we continue to give lives just to keep a vampire alive? I don't think so. I am not an advocate of geographical amputation. But if that is what is needed to save the body, my medical friends will agree that then it becomes not just pertinent but imperative. 

Let me close this write up here so as to give you and your colleagues in government enough time to look at and install the recommendations of the 2014 national Confab.

#TrueFederalism

APC - The dog and its vomit

Before I start I must first apologise for the length of this post. It was actually supposed to be a brief facebook post but..... it just kept coming. Also sorry that I haven't been updating lately. I had to assume a "sit-down-look" stance on many issues.

If not that we are living in a mad country. With insane men always manning the wheels of governmental vehicle.
How can you just go against your own words just a couple of years back like a pathetic shameless, underfed dog going back to its vomit, without deeming it fit to apologise to the people for your previous ignorance that led to you deceiving and misleading them?
The same set of hypocritical, selfish, self seeking and self serving power drunks that led the entire nation to march against a policy four years ago are now shamelessly marching the nation towards that same policy. It's like a situation where a driver who is supposed to take his passengers to their destination stubbornly ignored the road signs and road maps, took them through a wrong turn that resulted in them being lost thereby leading to waste of productive time. Afterwards he comes to his senses and as last resort, decided to follow the road map and does so without thinking of doing the needful by apologising to his passengers for misleading them and wasting their time.
Well, it's a typical case of the blind leading the blind. For the passengers being sheepish followers, not thinking of looking out the window to check whether or not they are heading in the right direction, they have themselves to blame.
I am not kicking against the current removal of petrol subsidy, if it is a good step, like the last administration foresaw, it should be taken. My grouse is this: that the men that are supposed to be representing our interest holds us in utmost contempt and total disregard. They think very little of us and our ability to think and use our head for rational thinking. They see us as gullible dummies that will never ask the right questions nor deserve any explanation nor apology for whatsoever action they choose to take.
If this present government is telling us now that removal of fuel subsidy is truly a sagacious and pragmatic policy that will augur well for the nation, then they by their actions and inactions as opposition in the past have held this country four solid years backward.  If they haven't been selfish to smear a sound economic policy with political shit for their selfish power quest, we would have probably gone pass the ugly phase of the resultant effect of subsidy removal and would have by now started enjoying that good future that they are telling us is coming in future. We would have been in the future.
There is also the case of the devaluation of the naira. The same issue of going back to a vomit. Following the plunge in global crude oil price, the past administration as a remedial strategy decided on the devaluation of the naira. But these same self serving government, then - opposition - kicked vehemently against the policy. They picked it up and hinged it on their campaign promises. With their then presidential nominee and now President making a ridiculous promise of equating the naira to the dollar. Now these same people are talking about devaluation of the naira.
I wonder if they were just playing the opposition part by opposing every government policies and move including the auspicious and brilliant ones or they were simply exhibiting traits of economics ignorance, just as the former President Olusegun Obasanjor recently asserted, and is being proved right by their forward and backward haphazard molecular economic motion.
Another issue I have is with the timing of this current petrol subsidy removal by the government of President Buhari. Even though the idea might be good one in the long run but the timing is definitely wrong. Nigerians are already going through a very excruciating period of economic hardship and harshness. The rate of inflation is phenomenal at a time when people are complaining of no money in the economy. There seem to be one constant phrase on the street; "bros, everywhere dry". Subsidy removal at this time is like adding salt to injury. If a man has multiple sicknesses, you don't go treating all at once. Otherwise the man might end up being killed by the drugs itself. That's what the government is doing. Killing the people with medication. We all know the reciprocate effect of petrol increment on the economy. It results to instant inflation. Coupled with the existing momentous inflation already on ground. Little wonder many have described the removal of petrol subsidy by the government at this time as "wicked".
The demand for petrol this period is sky high due to the epileptic, crippled, paralysed and leprose power supply from the national grid. The entire nation have resorted to complete reliance on their generator sets especially businesses and homes. In the face of this exceptionally high demand for petrol and it's perpetual unavailability dubbed scarcity, the best the government could do at this time is to remove subsidy on petrol? Setting the sail propels the boat but when there is a storm setting the sail could be calamitous. For me, this is a calamitous time to inact the policy. Absolutely wrong timing.

THE MURDER OF THE FULANI: YUGOSLAVIA UNFOLDING By Femi Fani-Kayode

The Department of State Security (DSS) have claimed that five Fulani herdsmen were abducted, killed and buried in a mass grave by members of IPOB in Abia state a few days ago. They have also claimed that there were up to fifty more bodies in that mass grave and that they are all Fulani.

The implications of this announcement is obvious. It will create more tension and fear in the land and it will lead to reprisal killings in the north. Violence is never the way out and I have always believed that it has no place in any civilized society. Yet what I find curious about this announcement is the fact that it is unique and historic.


I say this because thousands of Igbos, Yorubas, Niger-Deltans and Middle Belters have been killed by Fulani militants and herdsmen over the last ten months since President Buhari came to power yet the DSS has never announced it and told the country about the details and ethnic identities of the victims.


When one thousand Shiite Muslims were slaughtered in Zaria and buried in mass graves the DSS did not speak. When five hundred Idomas were massacered in Agatu by Fulani militants the DSS did not speak.
When hundreds of southern and Middle Belt farms were raided by AK-47-wielding Fulani herdsmen who murdered, raped, burnt down and took over the land of their victims the DSS never gave us details of the victims or made any announcements.


When our leaders in the south were kidnapped and when men witnessed their wives and children being raped and butchered by the Fulani militias before their very eyes the DSS made no announcements.


When the International Terror Index told the world that the Fulani militias in Nigeria are the "fourth most deadly terror organization in the world" the DSS said nothing and neither did they give us details about their activities or their victims.


Worse of all is the fact that our government and our President, who himself happens to be a Fulani, has never deemed it fit or necessary to condemn the activities of the Fulani herdsmen and militants and neither have they expressed any sympathy or displayed any empathy for their many victims.


Let me be clear: the murder of anyone, regardless of their ethnicity or faith, is unacceptable to me. I deplore murder and violence and in my view the killing of one innocent soul diminishes the humanity of every single one of us as a community and nation.

However it seems curious that the minute that Fulanis are killed in the east the DSS is quick to rise to the occasion and express concern about it whilst they do not express the same concern when Nigerians from other ethnic nationalities are killed by the Fulani in their own homes and land.

Therein lies the double standard and it is sad and unfortunate. Furthermore not only is it very dangerous but it also confirms the view that our government and security agencies are not only partial but that they are also attempting to implement an ethnic and religious agenda.


Three questions must be answered: firstly who is funding the Fulani herdsmen and where do they get their weapons from? Secondly why does our government not only turn a blind eye to the mass murder and genocide that they regularly indulge in but also go out of their way to protect them?


And thirdly why do the government and security agencies have so much hatred and contempt for those that the Fulani regularly target and their victims and why do they believe that those victims do not deserve to enjoy the full protection of the Nigerian Federal Government?


Could it be because they are regarded as slaves and second class citizens? Is Fulani blood and are Fulani lives more important than others? Indeed do non-Fulani lives matter in President Buhari's Nigeria?
Are we compelled to begin a ‘’non-Fulani lives matter’’ movement which is based and fashioned on the ‘’Black Lives Matter’’ movement in the United States of America before we can draw the attention of the world to what is going on in our country?


Is it not obvious and logical that when the security agencies refuse to protect the citizens from the murderous hordes and herdsmen from hell those citizens will eventually seek to protect themselves and go on the offensive? That is human nature and it is to be expected.


Is it not clear to those in power that when a people are convinced that their government is no longer impartial in any conflict and that the security agencies of that government have been directed to go out of their way to actively and openly support those that constantly and regularly slaughter their people it will eventually lead to open war?


Is it so difficult to accept the fact that no government and no force from hell or on earth can compel or intimidate a man into lying down passively and silently watch his family, loved ones and kinsmen being butchered and slaughtered morning, day and night without trying to protect them and without indulging in some form of retaliation?


With the sort of things that are going on in our country today it is time to tell ourselves some home-truths. No-one wishes to accept it let alone say it but sadly war will come to Nigeria again within the next few years. I do not want war and I consider it to be the ultimate evil but I am constrained to speak the truth and say things as I see them.


The fact that a war is coming is a testimony to the fact that we have all failed to manage the peace that God has given us since 1970 and the cessation of hostilities after our brutal civil war. We have failed so badly that the remote and immediate causes of that civil war are back with us today even though we hate to admit or acknowledge it.


Our country is like Yugoslavia unfolding before it exploded and violently broke into five separate countries. All the signs are there. Anyone that knows about the history of Yugoslavia or that is a student of world history will agree with me and appreciate what I am saying.


Consider the dangerous mix. A crumbling economy. An inept, weak, failing and paranoid government. A hungry, angry and increasingly desperate civilian population. An ignorant, obsessive, arrogant, insensitive, corrupt and self-absorbed political class who are out of touch with reality.

The ruthless implementation of an ethnic and religious agenda by a government that refuse to consider the implications of such a course and that have an early-‘60’s mind-set. The growing unrest, ethnic killings and sectarian murders.
An ethnic and religious division within the Armed Forces and security agencies. A relentless clamp-down on and persecution of the opposition and all dissenting voices by the government and the use of fear as a tool of governance and control.


The constant and open abuse of power. The impunity and insensitivity of the Buhari administration to the plight of the masses. The hunger, hardship, poverty and suffering in the land. The failure of the government to get rid of the fuel queues and supply electrical power.


The demonisation of peaceful and law-abiding self-determination groups and the unlawful incarceration of their leaders. The breach of the constitutional rights of the citizens and the ignoring of court orders and judicial processes by the government.


The attempt to intimidate and control the Judiciary and Legislature by the government and so much more. The list goes on and on and history proves that such a mixture of circumstances is dangerous and can only lead to open conflict if not halted.

The country is badly divided today and the people are suffering as never before. The division and hatred amongst some of our ethnic groups has reached pre-civil war levels.
We in the south must prepare for the worse and not be found wanting when the trouble starts. That is my greatest fear. We must not end up like the Bosnians did during the Yugoslavian civil war.


They were the only ethnic group in Yugoslavia that was not prepared for it when the war started. They had no arms, no plan, no allies and no fall back position.
When the fighting started they were caught unawares and for two years they suffered immeasurably for their stupidity and naivety whilst their people were killed like flies and their women and children were raped and enslaved. God forbid this should happen to our people.



The reason that they suffered for two years was because there was an international arms embargo placed on all the ethnic groups and warring militias and armies in Yugoslavia when the war started.
And sadly the Bosnians were the only ones that did not buy and stockpile arms in preparation for war months and years before it actually broke out.


Plagued by a cowardly and weak-minded ruling elite and a naive, self-serving, servile, ignorant and intellectually-challenged middle class the Bosnians just kept talking, writing newspaper articles, appeasing the aggressors and their tormentors, praying and hoping for peace whilst all the other ethnic and religious groups and warring parties were quietly preparing for war. Sounds familiar?


They suffered immensely for their lack of understanding, insight and foresight and their civilian population paid a heavy price. For two years after the civil war started the Bosnians could not even buy a gun or bullet to defend themselves. Their towns were besieged and blown up whilst their women and children were raped, enslaved and butchered.


Their men were rounded up into Second World-like Nazi concentration camps and starved and tortured to death and their dignity and self-respect was taken from them. They Bosnians were turned into an internally-displaced people and their land was transformed into a sea of desperate and suffering refugees.


It was a nightmare from hell and suffering on this scale had not been seen on European soil since the First and Second World Wars. It was after the international community silently watched them being slaughtered by their Serbian and Croatian compatriots for two long years that they were compelled, as a consequence of pressure from the people of the world and on moral and humanitarian grounds, to lift the arms embargo on them so that they could buy arms to defend themselves.


The war dragged on for more years after that but at least the Bosnians, though two years late, were now able to fight back and defend themselves. It took the intervention of NATO, the bombing of Belgrade by the international community led by the Americans and the eventual break-up of the entire country into five pieces to stop the carnage and barbarity of the Serbs and eventually bring the civil war to an end.


It was during that war that the term "ethnic cleansing" was first used by CNN to describe what was being done by the Serbs to the Bosnians, the Croats, the Kosovars and the Monte Negrans, all of whom represented the other four ethnic groups. Eventually the country broke up and each of them got their independence from the dominant Serbs and one another.


If such a thing could have happened in the heart of Europe in the early 1990's why on earth would any reasonably intelligent person dismiss the notion that it can happen here? The only difference would be that if such a thing were to ever unfold in our country it would be far worse than what happened in Yugoslavia due to the sheer size of our population.


The signs are already there and it left for us to recognise them and prepare ourselves for the worse or ignore them and, like the Bosnians, eventually pay a very heavy price. I pray that I am wrong but as far as I am concerned, for Nigeria, the bell is tolling.
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This article corroborates the last post I made on this blog just yesterday night. I am delighted to know that we have a few men whose mind are free and eyes open to the reality facing us. If I do not command enough audience and influence to reach a wider audience , at least FFK does. And it is my ernest prayers that the men who God has given the privilege of respond to this clarion ans awakening call, get the message and act appropriately.
I do not wish to be caught on the Bosnia end of any Nigeria Yugoslavia play back.
See below for pictures of the gruesome activities of fulani herdsmen (a nickname for something bigger) around the country - Nigeria.

.... on the allegedly attack of fulani herdsmen - The script, the Plot and the cast.

This Samson Babalola man should really go have his head checked. It is obvious he is acting the script of some insidious forces with sinister motives that will only culminate in the destruction of an already incendiary nation. And the DSS too are doing a good job of setting flame on fuel. The aim of this script is clear
1. To emasculate international sympathy and in its place elicit indignation for the cause of the IPOB and other related groups. This is a pathetic attempt to give a dog a bad name just to have it killed.
2. To incite hate and resentment and kill any iota of sympathy the IPOB and related groups may have managed to garner domestically.
And consequently knowingly or unknowingly
3. Fuel an ethic crisis similar to the pogrom of 1966 that led to the agitation for Biafra and subsequently the civil war. One would wonder whether this is a plot to set the conditions rolling through which they can "finish the job".
This dramatisation by both the DSS and this script narrator Samson Babalola goes to foster my argument that in Nigeria, killing and destruction of a section of the country is the prerogative of another section of the country. It is the exclusive right of one section to kill at will and the civic duty of the other section to be killed. The sacrificial lamb theory.
Why do I say this? Let's assume the DSS was right that some Fulanis were indeed killed by allegedly IPOB members. For how long have we been hearing true stories with hard evidence of fulani herdsmen killings and destructive activities across the nation? Only recently this spat of massacre, killings and destruction of properties carried out by both allegedly and proven fulani herdsmen have received a kind of boost. There is hardly a week that goes by without news of one fulani herdsmen menace or the other in the length and breadth of the nation. A more critical case as witnessed in Benue State where up to 500 people have been reportedly killed in their own homeland by fulani herdsmen with sophisticated war grade weapons, thousands sacked from their homes and their crops used to feed cattle by these same fulani herdsmen.
In all these the government seem to be silent and adamant over the cry of the people in the wake of these increased hellish activities of fulani herdsmen across the nation. Instead of coming out strong in words and decisive actions against these fulani herdsmen and their barbaric acts of mindless massacre and destruction, we mostly find top government officials passing comments that either shields, support or exonerate the herdsmen. From terming the herdsmen "peaceful", to exonerating the Nigeria herdsmen and blaming "imported herdsmen" for the destruction of lives and properties.  And also postulating policies that one may consider a reward to the herdsmen for the barbaric carnage they wrath on the nation. Such polices like the creation of grazing routes and importation of Brazilian grass as reported. And to further add salt to injury, and pepper to the eye drop, I believe some treacherous elements have decide to employ diversionary measures by employing the likes of Samson Babalola to put up publications painting the Fulanis herdsmen as the actual victims of aggression and not the perpetrators.
But the news of some fulani herdsmen allegedly killed by IPOB members is a case of national security that the DSS is showing particular interest in. And this paid piper Samson Babalola is in the news threatening hale and brimstone. We are not fools Mr Samson. Telling us that other ethnic groups before now condemned the maltreatment of the IPOB and are even looking to stage a solidarity protest or match is a cheap, pathetic and ridiculously devious lie aimed at nothing but mischief. Your purpose and intent is as clear as the sun at noon day to any rational thinker. And your intent is to craftily add fire to the flame of resentment for the IPOB and the Biafra cause in the hearts of other ethnic groups in the country. But sir, your method is not just obviously miserable but scornful to yourself. Only a man devoid of the basic unit of reasoning would be so dumb enough not to see through your glaring obnoxious calumny and decipher your cheap blackmail and insidious motives.
But you put up quite a show though, and for that I say, well done. So many people will surely buy your trash.
And to other hidden and open treacherous elements working frantically to see to it that Nigeria finally goes back to what it was meant to be before the 1914 unfortunate wedding ceremony, I say well done.
And to my fellow southerners, as I have always said and I will always say, WAKE UP!! OPEN YOUR EYES. Shake of the spell. Realise their "divide and rule" antics and emancipate yourself from mental slavery.  The Boko-lani herdsmen are everywhere, we are literally surrounded. Just in case.
I rest my case - for now.

Frankly Speaking

When the hausa/fulani man say "One Nigeria", it is with the same interpretation with which Pharaoh told Moses "The Israelites must remain one with Egypt "(paraphrasing) .
It's a one-ness for servitude and slavery. For what is a master without a slave.
The most painful part of the Nigerian scenario is, the slaves are to clever and too bewitched that they don't know they are slaves. That's why a Southern man will stupidly sing the one Nigeria pledge.
A country united by the blood of a section of the country that is spilled with more ease than that of a mosquito. In the early days, the sacrificial lambs had always been taken exclusively from the stead of the Ibo race. So it didn't matter to the Yoruba man, or the Jos man or the Benue man that had been one of the blades by which the lambs was slain as witnessed in the 1966 pogrom. It didn't matter cos it was those obnoxious Ibos that are heavily resented and "deserves" whatever they get.
That why I have decided to end my outcry  in the face of the Fulani herdsmen attacks and other "persecution" of mostly the southern parts of the country currently going on. I see the chicken going round to roost. Now the Tiv man is being slaughtered , the Ibo man is being slaughtered , the Idoma man is being slaughtered, the Rivers man is being slaughtered , the Yoruba man is being slaughtered, the Benin man is being slaughtered. The gesture that has being exclusively served to a particular tribe is now being passed round.
Maybe just maybe we will wake up from our disillusionment, maybe just maybe the spell will be broken finally, maybe just maybe we will finally be united by this common problem and rise from our slumber and say "enough is enough ". Now that we seem to have a common problem, maybe, just maybe we will see the need of a common course.
We think we are at peace but the truth is that we are just shifting the doom days to our children. What cowardly parents we are. We are just saving the fight for our children. Cos I believe a generation shall surely come that will be illuminated and brave enough to say "enough is enough, we can't continue to be slaves and sacrificial lambs just for a master slave relationship to continue".
God created the heaven and the earth not Nigeria. This is for those using religious propaganda to deceive the people and make them believe that God made Nigeria to be one. They try to  justify this by saying, "If God never wished Nigeria so, we wouldn't have been brought together ". The senselessness of this justification for the unity of servitude and slavery is best illustrated by saying; "if God never wanted the Israelites to remain in Egypt as slaves, he wouldn't have led Joseph and his brothers into migrating to Egypt ". We are on earth and the bulk of what happens on earth is the doing of men not God. The colonial masters insidiously formed this country. Unless we are calling the British "God" otherwise God had no hands in this marriage of convenience.
If you ask me, I will tell you that the will of God on how the geographical area now called Nigeria showed be is clearly depicted on our map. One look at how the major Rivers partition the land space now called Nigeria is a clear presentation of nature's will for us.

Bem Japhet Audu take on Fulani herdsmen menace

The attack by alleged herdsmen on Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba, Plateau states and other parts of Nigeria is nothing short of WAR. The earlier we accept this and address it the same way we are handling Boko Haram insurgency the better for all of us. It beats my imagination how we choose to refer to these attacks as ‘herder and farmer clash’ when a single attack on Agatu claimed over 300 lives, sacked, burnt and displaced thousands in over 10 villages. Why is the FG so reluctant in calling the herdsmen attacks what it truly is? Who are the “Dogs of War”? is ethnic cleansing a mere clash? By all standards, even by Clausewitz’s conceptualization, the herdsmen attack is simply an act of WAR, heinous crimes against humanity and must be addressed properly, deploying all necessary paraphernalia of the military to end it. The tactics and strategies adopted by the mercenaries who are conscripted by the herdsmen pass for nothing less than WAR. The sophistication of assault weapons used against defenceless indigenous farmers, women, children and the elderly cannot and should not be referred to as mere “farmer/herder clash”. Such euphemism is applicable only where our leaders refuse to be responsible and responsive to their duties.
Yes! It is an internal WAR, imploding within and with an international dimension. The attackers are foreigners, hired and paid in cash or/and cattle. Since 2011 these attacks have followed a particular pattern: they are random, spontaneous and predictable. The herdsmen conscript foreign mercenaries who attack villages, kill and displace villagers then the pastoralists come in and occupy the deserted lands with their herds of cattle to graze. WAR of occupation is what it is, and requires a military solution.

Written by Bem Japhet Audu (Excerpt from facebook)

I have always in my post referred to the crises as that of fulani INSURGENTS. And I use the word insurgents with full knowledge and consciousness of its meaning

PRESIDENT BUHARI: 7 THINGS YOU MUST DO NOW! by Dr Victor Oladokun

President Mohamedu Buhari

I found this on facebook and thought I should share.

PRESIDENT BUHARI: 7 THINGS YOU MUST DO NOW!

Sir, In civilized climes and especially in the event of a catastrophic loss of lives, sensitive and politically astute Presidents fly back from foreign trips or cancel international meetings altogether, no matter how important. Their goal is to take charge of the situation back home and calm the public's fears and concerns. Not you Mr. President. You are about to jet off again.
Two weeks ago, I provided detailed reports about the carnage in Benue State; reports that were later confirmed by the media. Last week, several towns and villages in Adamawa State were sacked by Fulani herdsmen. This weekend, the Rector of Ekiti University announced the destruction of millions of Naira worth of farmland and crops by Fulani herdsmen. Also, this weekend, none other than former Nigerian Senate President David Mark and his security detail were brazenly attacked by Fulani marauders while inspecting Agatu and surrounding areas in Benue State. Such is the defiance, fearlessness, and determination of the Fulani nomads. They really don't give a rat's behind about who is or is not in any convoy.
I have no clue who your advisors are. But this much I can tell you. They are doing a lousy job.
I have been informed by some that you pay no heed to even constructive criticism. I want to believe that in this matter, that will not be the case. I have also been warned that I will be labeled an 'enemy' for stating the obvious. If that be the case, and I hope it is not, then so be it.
However, in my humble opinion sir, wisdom and tact dictate that you do the following -
1. Address the nation directly on TV and radio.
2. Commiserate with affected communities and deliver a message of peace and hope.
3. Promise the rapid delivery of compensation and restitution to the survivors, the wounded, and the families of those who have lost loved ones and livelihoods.
4. Go on BBC and other relevant radio services that Fulanis have a tendency to listen to. Speak to them in their own language, and in no uncertain terms state that this nonsense must come to an end quickly.
5. Set up and empower a Rapid Task Force with a view to stopping future violence and preventing a national conflict that might be much more difficult to contain.
6. Personally visit the affected communities to see things for yourself.
7. As Grand Patron of Myeti Allah, the umbrella association of Fulani cattle herders, meet with the leadership pronto and explain in vivid detail what the consequences of future conflicts could be.
I recall your righteous indignation in 2000, when you stormed Ibadan to meet with Governor Lam Adesina of Oyo State in order to protest the alleged killing of Fulani herdsmen, when the fact of the matter at the time was that the Fulani were the aggressors. Today, there is complete silence from you in particular.
Mr President, you owe it to Nigerians, to the many Fulani herdsmen of no determinate nationality who rampage and roam Nigeria, and to future generations, to be seen at this time to be alive to your responsibilities; to the plight of affected communities in word and deed; and to the security implications of these most barbaric and medieval acts.
So far, you have failed to squash Boko Haram as you had us believe during your electoral campaign. Many now believe the Fulani herders are actually Boko Haram in disguise.
If you have not been told already by the fawning advisors who tend to obsequiously kow tow to Presidents and only tell them what they want to hear, please know this. Today, in the seeming absence of security and the denial by government officials of the massacres by Fulanis, Nigerians in large numbers are talking about the necessity of arming themselves by all means possible. They are beginning to realize that dead men and women do not write history.
Sir, for your good, and the good of Nigerians, I respectfully ask you to act and speak now, before it is too late!
Sincerely,
Dr Victor Oladokun
A Concerned Nigerian