Nigeria
has been reduced to a killing field no thanks to Fulani aggressors who think
that the entire geographical entity called Nigeria is an extension of the
Caliphate built by their great warrior, Uthman Dan Fodio during the Jihad war
ostensibly to Islamise Nigeria. It is this madness borne out of sheer
ignorance and vainglorious arrogance that Nigeria is their land that makes
them invade farmlands belonging to other Nigerians to kill and maim people with
impunity just for their cattle to graze on other people’s crops.
The
horrendous killing of innocent Nigerians across the country by recalcitrant
Fulani herdsmen who now bear lethal arms such as AK 47, Pump Action and other
dangerous weapons, is outrageous and condemnable, to say the least. Indeed, the
manner in which the herdsmen are killing people and raping women and girls on
their farms these days is benumbing and wholly unwholesome. What started like
a straw of fire in Ohoror in Afeitere Community in Ugheli North Council of
Delta State in 2006 has spread all over the country with the Federal
Government keeping mum as though nothing is happening. In 2014, the convoy of
the then sitting governor of Benue State, Hon. Gabriel Suswam was waylaid by
rampaging Fulani herdsmen with the diabolic intention of killing the governor.
The wanton and reckless killing of Tiv farmers by Fulani herdsmen is ongoing.
In Jos North local government area of Plateau State,
the Fulani whose plot is to exterminate the entire Berom tribe who are the true
owners of the land are no longer pretentious over their wicked intention.
Ripples of the Agatu massacre in which a peaceful community in Benue State
was recently invaded by Fulani irredentists with untold magnitude of deaths
involving both adults and children are yet to settle down. In the midst of all
this, the same Fulani herdsmen are still battling with Awgu farmers in Enugu State
over which 76 farmers are detained in Umuahia. What really do the Fulani want
in Nigeria?
Do they want another civil war?
And Nigerians are yet to hear this government of change condemn with vehemence this degree of anomie which has entombed the Nigerian landscape like a volcanic eruption. The Fulani massacre is not just another disturbing specter of violence orchestrated to dent the contours of the nation, but part of the general air of insecurity and vendetta ravaging this misbegotten country. Since former President Goodluck Jonathan was declared winner of the April 2011 Presidential election, those who think they possess the divine right to rule Nigeria in perpetuity started a campaign of violence and vowed to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan. This is the genesis of the nebulous and senseless Boko Haram insurgency in the country. As we write, there are pockets of killings going on in Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Nasarawa and Kwara anchored by these same Fulani elements. As though Nigeria is prosecuting a conventional war, Boko Haram whose cardinal mission is to halt the advancement of Western education in Nigeria and Islamise the entire country has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced over two million Nigerians in the North east.