Nurudeen, 

You're guilty of the age-old sin of selective perception. The "communal clash" comment of the IGP was appropriately met with outrage and derision and he apologized to the Benue people during the town hall in Makurdi and said his statement had been misquoted. And of course, you conveniently left out the fact that Miyetti Allah publicly and repeatedly claimed responsibility for the mass murders, saying it was revenge for the theft of 1000 herdsmen cattle when the herdsmen were allegedly migrating through Benue communities to Nasarawa. The same way they arrogantly claimed responsibility for the Agatu massacre of over 500 people and also claimed that it was payback for cattle theft and for the killing of one of their kinsmen. 

A group of people have confessed to a genocidal crime but you are here duplicitously and mischievously saying we should wait to unravel it before we ask for justice and deterrence. How about asking the law enforcement agencies to arrest the Miyetti Allah officials that have been making the TV and media arounds and organizing press conferences to boast about the killings? How about asking the president to set up a military task force or declare a military operation to deal with this menace of armed herdsmen killings--similar to what he did in the south with a much lesser security threat? Where is your humanity? 

And who are you to tell the Benue people how to solve a problem that has taken and continues to take the lives of their people? Only yesterday, the armed herdsmen militia killed an additional 8 people in three local governments of the state. And you say a state facing genocide in the hands of an armed, murderous herdsmen militia, whom the government would not disarm or excoriate or arrest, has no right to ban the activity (open grazing) that is the cause of these mass killings? You're are talking like Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the terrorist group which threatened Benue state with punitive actions for passing the anti-open grazing law and proceeded to carry out the threat by unleashing its genocidal militia on the state. You should know better than to repeat and reinforce the violent, arrogant, threatening rhetoric of that terrorist organization, which is constantly telling Benue and other states to either drop anti-open grazing laws or face an escalation in the crisis--a direct threat of violence that people like you would rather lionize instead of condemn. Are you not by your claim that the anti-open grazing law in Benue will escalate the killings endorsing that odious, threatening, and violent rhetoric of impunity?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:24 AM, 'Nuruddeen Abubakar' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

"The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs."

Protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of government. However, this anti intellectualism is sadning. Two unrelated issues have been mixed up.Denying others the right hold contrary view without aducing any reason is unacademic. There are concurrent killings in other parts of Nigeria where the Fulani are victims, and in greater numbers too. The Governor of Bebue claim they are herdsmen. The Inspector General of police that they are communal clashes. Is it too much to wait and unravel the truth?

Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani more primitive than nomadic agriculture practiced by the vast majority of the people of Benue and Nigeria? A national challenge cannot be solved in the way and manner of the Benue approach. It just spews  more problems. May be we need to listen to the Governor of Plateau state and other stake holders.

 

On Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:16:35 PM GMT+1, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Under President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria was a Banana Republic where simians held the courts. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is fast degenerating into a Latrine Republic (apology to Trump's shit hole) where maggots rule. President Buhari's visit to Benue would have been a symbolic gesture without any positive effect on the victims and their relatives. Buhari has surrounded himself with callous people. Show me your friend and I will tell you the type of person you are.

In October 2016, the wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari alerted the nation about the hijack of her husband's government in a BBC Hausa language broadcast but none of us listened to her. Here follows excerpts from the BBC interview with Mrs. Aisha Buhari.

BBC - Almost two years after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into this government, it appears as if things are not going on well, the people are complaining: where do you think the problem is?  

Aisha Buhari - .... I think so far so good. The only thing that almost everybody is not happy with, including myself, is on those that really suffered for this journey and now people who do not even have registration cards, are guiding us, which is so unfair and unfortunate for the journey that we started for more than thirteen years ago. People who never knew about APC manifesto, what APC campaigned for and promised the people are in the government. People were just sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position. They don't have a mission or vision of our APC, you understand what I mean? 

BBC - Whose falt is this?

Aisha Buhari - It's the fault of 15.429 million people because they are the one that brought in the government. It's their fault. They should protest, the 15.429 million that voted for Buhari and APC. 

BBC - As his wife, what will be your advice to him going forward?

Aisha Buhari - My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should strengthen the party and who ever is not part of the party should not have control over fifteen point something million people. We are in a democracy, not military era, so we have to play it well and leave a legacy.

Aisha also declared in the interview that if things did not change she would not go out to campaign for her husband in 2019 as she did in 2015. 

When this interview was relayed on BBC, Buhari was on a State visit to Germany where he was confronted to react. In the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, both of them women, Buhari drew the locker room joke, my wife belongs to the kitchen, living room and the other room. It was a perfect distraction from the issue of non-elected people that are ruling Nigeria in the name of Buhari. Instead of trouping out in protest to reclaim their mandates for change, Nigerians, especially the intellectuals kept quiet and allowed the old and the new PDP to seize control of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in Nigeria.

Some have accused Buhari of being too provincial and nepotic in his appointments to strategic positions, especially, in the presidency, but that should not have mattered if his appointees are competent and nationally orientated in their services to all Nigerians. Judging by certain events that have occurred in Buhari's presidency, there is reason to doubt his mental ability to rule Nigeria. To begin with, President Mohammadu Buhari forwarded the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. The DSS, whose Director General is an appointee of the President, and which is an agency under the President sent a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu, as a substantive Chairman, on the ground of lacking integrity. The senate, accordingly, refused to confirm the appointment of Magu. President Buhari reacted by asking his Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to investigate the DSS allegations against Ibrahim Magu. Since the President re-submitted the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate, it must be assumed that Malami's report exonerated Magu of the allegations levelled against him by the DSS. Once again, the DSS wrote another report to the Senate to negate President Buhari's recommendation on Magu to the Senate. By standard practice, nominees of the president get security clearance before their names are sent to the National Assembly for confirmation and where the President decides to act against the recommendation of the DSS under him, the latter cannot challenge the President by openly opposing his choice at the National Assembly. When Buhari was on medical vacation, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, said that as long as Buhari is the President and he is vice President, Ibrahim Magu will remain the Head of EFCC. On Magu, the Minister of Justice countered the Acting President, saying Osinbajo is on his own. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/235975-magu-osinbajo-is-on-his-own-attorney-general-malami-says.html. As of date, Magu is still acting Chairman of the EFCC and his traducers, the DSS headed by Lawal Musa Daura and Attorney General Malami are still holding their positions under Buhari. There had been reports where the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had used the constitutional power confer on him to arbitrarily withdraw cases of corruption being prosecuted in courts by the EFCC. 

In Lagos, at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, the EFCC on 12 April 2017 found the sum of $43.4 million, £27,000, and N23.2 million cash in a four-bedroom apartment located at 16 Osborne Road. It was alleged that the apartment belong to the National Security Adviser to President Buhari, Babagana Monguno. However, the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, claimed that the money belonged to his agency for an undisclosed operation. After a report of an enquiry set up by President Buhari, he suspended Ayo Oke as DG of NIA. Similarly, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal was alleged to have awarded his private company a contract to cut grass around internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Borno for N270 million. Subsequent enquiry proved the allegation right and Babachir Lawal was suspended from office. Both Lawal and Oke were dismissed from office and replaced on the same day.  However, on 21 November 2017, EFCC officials armed with both search and arrest warrants were prevented from arresting former DG of  DSS under Jonathan and DG of NIA, Ayodele Oke, on account of the over $43 million found in a private apartment in Lagos. The President has shown no public interest in the case. 

On 30 August 2017, the Minister of State in the Oil Ministry, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu wrote a secret memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, was involved in illegal practices and insubordination. The letter which was leaked to the online media on October 3, 2017, revealed that Dr. Ibe Kachichwu decided to write the memo to the President after all efforts by him to talk to the President face to face were blocked. Until, on and after, 3 October 2017, there was no reaction to Dr. Ibe Kachikwu's memo to the President on how the engine or heart of the Nigerian economy, oil, was being mismanaged. Did the President, who is also the substantive Oil Minister, receive the memo or not? If yes, why did the President keep silent over it? If no, who received the memo in the Presidency and kept it from the sight of the President? Despite the media noise for some days, Buhari did not make any public statement on the memo of his subordinate in the Oil Ministry till date.

Abdul-Rasheed Maina was former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, under President Goodluck Jonathan. He was found culpable with others to have looted the pension fond of billions of dollars during the era of the much regarded docile President Jonathan in 2013. Maina fled the country and Jonathan dismissed him from the service for absent without leave. Suddenly, Abdul-Rasheed Maina was recalled and reinstated into the civil service and posted to the Ministry of Interior as Assistant Director from 28 September 2017. When the Premium Times in Nigeria blew out this news, it was discovered that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Interior, Abdul-Rahman Dambazu; Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and Director General of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura masterminded not only Maina's recall and reinstatement into the service but also offered him SSS-police protection. Buhari ordered immediate dismissal of Maina who disappeared from the country under the purview of the DSS despite the fact that the EFCC had declared him wanted for billion dollars fraud from the pension funds. The facilitators of Maina's escape are still in office around Buhari who came to power under the promise of change and fighting corruption.

In a resent interview in Sahara Reporters, a 92-year-old, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai said among other things, "I believe there are five important ingredients necessary for successful political leadership, and these include capacity, competence, vision, planning and integrity. In my opinion, our present national leadership is totally lacking those ingredients. All of them are inherent, they cannot be bought or borrowed...." Tanko Yakasai observation about Buhari, if true, may be a consolation for those of us who are disappointed about the outcome of his regime so far. The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs. In his book titled : The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, published in 1922, the first Governor General of British Colonised Nigeria, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard wrote, "He (the African Negro) lacks power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or of business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility. ....//... He has the courage of the fighting animal - an instinct rather than a moral virtue (p. 69-70)." Looking at Nigeria's leaders today we must regret that his recorded observations on the qualities of Black Africans are correct. 

S. Kadiri

 

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If President Buhari can take his son to Germany for health treatment (no one's son should die, before anyone misinterprets me), I need to be educated why President Buhari cannot visit Benue State to empathize (lower than sympathize) with those who have lost their own sons and daughters.

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Nurudeen followed the same line of argument with Professor Ibrahim Jibrin  and this is scandalous, terrifying and grossly unfortunate, especially coming from people who ought to know enough to maintain some degree of empathy. The first mistake in warfare is to assume that you are more powerful than your opponent. If we don't stem this tide and continue to surreptitiously project ethnic or religious supremacy, no one can correctly determine the outcome. In situations like this, one would expect opinion leaders to maintain balance of reason through mobilisation of critical stakeholders to chart a path of peaceful resolution. By pointing fingers and talking down on people as if it is a relationship of Citizen and Subject, people will be forced to defend their identity, regardless of the glaring misuse of state security.

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

Nurudeen, 

You're guilty of the age-old sin of selective perception. The "communal clash" comment of the IGP was appropriately met with outrage and derision and he apologized to the Benue people during the town hall in Makurdi and said his statement had been misquoted. And of course, you conveniently left out the fact that Miyetti Allah publicly and repeatedly claimed responsibility for the mass murders, saying it was revenge for the theft of 1000 herdsmen cattle when the herdsmen were allegedly migrating through Benue communities to Nasarawa. The same way they arrogantly claimed responsibility for the Agatu massacre of over 500 people and also claimed that it was payback for cattle theft and for the killing of one of their kinsmen. 

A group of people have confessed to a genocidal crime but you are here duplicitously and mischievously saying we should wait to unravel it before we ask for justice and deterrence. How about asking the law enforcement agencies to arrest the Miyetti Allah officials that have been making the TV and media arounds and organizing press conferences to boast about the killings? How about asking the president to set up a military task force or declare a military operation to deal with this menace of armed herdsmen killings--similar to what he did in the south with a much lesser security threat? Where is your humanity? 

And who are you to tell the Benue people how to solve a problem that has taken and continues to take the lives of their people? Only yesterday, the armed herdsmen militia killed an additional 8 people in three local governments of the state. And you say a state facing genocide in the hands of an armed, murderous herdsmen militia, whom the government would not disarm or excoriate or arrest, has no right to ban the activity (open grazing) that is the cause of these mass killings? You're are talking like Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the terrorist group which threatened Benue state with punitive actions for passing the anti-open grazing law and proceeded to carry out the threat by unleashing its genocidal militia on the state. You should know better than to repeat and reinforce the violent, arrogant, threatening rhetoric of that terrorist organization, which is constantly telling Benue and other states to either drop anti-open grazing laws or face an escalation in the crisis--a direct threat of violence that people like you would rather lionize instead of condemn. Are you not by your claim that the anti-open grazing law in Benue will escalate the killings endorsing that odious, threatening, and violent rhetoric of impunity?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:24 AM, 'Nuruddeen Abubakar' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

"The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs."

Protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of government. However, this anti intellectualism is sadning. Two unrelated issues have been mixed up.Denying others the right hold contrary view without aducing any reason is unacademic. There are concurrent killings in other parts of Nigeria where the Fulani are victims, and in greater numbers too. The Governor of Bebue claim they are herdsmen. The Inspector General of police that they are communal clashes. Is it too much to wait and unravel the truth?

Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani more primitive than nomadic agriculture practiced by the vast majority of the people of Benue and Nigeria? A national challenge cannot be solved in the way and manner of the Benue approach. It just spews  more problems. May be we need to listen to the Governor of Plateau state and other stake holders.

 

On Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:16:35 PM GMT+1, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Under President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria was a Banana Republic where simians held the courts. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is fast degenerating into a Latrine Republic (apology to Trump's shit hole) where maggots rule. President Buhari's visit to Benue would have been a symbolic gesture without any positive effect on the victims and their relatives. Buhari has surrounded himself with callous people. Show me your friend and I will tell you the type of person you are.

In October 2016, the wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari alerted the nation about the hijack of her husband's government in a BBC Hausa language broadcast but none of us listened to her. Here follows excerpts from the BBC interview with Mrs. Aisha Buhari.

BBC - Almost two years after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into this government, it appears as if things are not going on well, the people are complaining: where do you think the problem is?  

Aisha Buhari - .... I think so far so good. The only thing that almost everybody is not happy with, including myself, is on those that really suffered for this journey and now people who do not even have registration cards, are guiding us, which is so unfair and unfortunate for the journey that we started for more than thirteen years ago. People who never knew about APC manifesto, what APC campaigned for and promised the people are in the government. People were just sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position. They don't have a mission or vision of our APC, you understand what I mean? 

BBC - Whose falt is this?

Aisha Buhari - It's the fault of 15.429 million people because they are the one that brought in the government. It's their fault. They should protest, the 15.429 million that voted for Buhari and APC. 

BBC - As his wife, what will be your advice to him going forward?

Aisha Buhari - My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should strengthen the party and who ever is not part of the party should not have control over fifteen point something million people. We are in a democracy, not military era, so we have to play it well and leave a legacy.

Aisha also declared in the interview that if things did not change she would not go out to campaign for her husband in 2019 as she did in 2015. 

When this interview was relayed on BBC, Buhari was on a State visit to Germany where he was confronted to react. In the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, both of them women, Buhari drew the locker room joke, my wife belongs to the kitchen, living room and the other room. It was a perfect distraction from the issue of non-elected people that are ruling Nigeria in the name of Buhari. Instead of trouping out in protest to reclaim their mandates for change, Nigerians, especially the intellectuals kept quiet and allowed the old and the new PDP to seize control of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in Nigeria.

Some have accused Buhari of being too provincial and nepotic in his appointments to strategic positions, especially, in the presidency, but that should not have mattered if his appointees are competent and nationally orientated in their services to all Nigerians. Judging by certain events that have occurred in Buhari's presidency, there is reason to doubt his mental ability to rule Nigeria. To begin with, President Mohammadu Buhari forwarded the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. The DSS, whose Director General is an appointee of the President, and which is an agency under the President sent a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu, as a substantive Chairman, on the ground of lacking integrity. The senate, accordingly, refused to confirm the appointment of Magu. President Buhari reacted by asking his Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to investigate the DSS allegations against Ibrahim Magu. Since the President re-submitted the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate, it must be assumed that Malami's report exonerated Magu of the allegations levelled against him by the DSS. Once again, the DSS wrote another report to the Senate to negate President Buhari's recommendation on Magu to the Senate. By standard practice, nominees of the president get security clearance before their names are sent to the National Assembly for confirmation and where the President decides to act against the recommendation of the DSS under him, the latter cannot challenge the President by openly opposing his choice at the National Assembly. When Buhari was on medical vacation, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, said that as long as Buhari is the President and he is vice President, Ibrahim Magu will remain the Head of EFCC. On Magu, the Minister of Justice countered the Acting President, saying Osinbajo is on his own. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/235975-magu-osinbajo-is-on-his-own-attorney-general-malami-says.html. As of date, Magu is still acting Chairman of the EFCC and his traducers, the DSS headed by Lawal Musa Daura and Attorney General Malami are still holding their positions under Buhari. There had been reports where the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had used the constitutional power confer on him to arbitrarily withdraw cases of corruption being prosecuted in courts by the EFCC. 

In Lagos, at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, the EFCC on 12 April 2017 found the sum of $43.4 million, £27,000, and N23.2 million cash in a four-bedroom apartment located at 16 Osborne Road. It was alleged that the apartment belong to the National Security Adviser to President Buhari, Babagana Monguno. However, the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, claimed that the money belonged to his agency for an undisclosed operation. After a report of an enquiry set up by President Buhari, he suspended Ayo Oke as DG of NIA. Similarly, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal was alleged to have awarded his private company a contract to cut grass around internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Borno for N270 million. Subsequent enquiry proved the allegation right and Babachir Lawal was suspended from office. Both Lawal and Oke were dismissed from office and replaced on the same day.  However, on 21 November 2017, EFCC officials armed with both search and arrest warrants were prevented from arresting former DG of  DSS under Jonathan and DG of NIA, Ayodele Oke, on account of the over $43 million found in a private apartment in Lagos. The President has shown no public interest in the case. 

On 30 August 2017, the Minister of State in the Oil Ministry, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu wrote a secret memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, was involved in illegal practices and insubordination. The letter which was leaked to the online media on October 3, 2017, revealed that Dr. Ibe Kachichwu decided to write the memo to the President after all efforts by him to talk to the President face to face were blocked. Until, on and after, 3 October 2017, there was no reaction to Dr. Ibe Kachikwu's memo to the President on how the engine or heart of the Nigerian economy, oil, was being mismanaged. Did the President, who is also the substantive Oil Minister, receive the memo or not? If yes, why did the President keep silent over it? If no, who received the memo in the Presidency and kept it from the sight of the President? Despite the media noise for some days, Buhari did not make any public statement on the memo of his subordinate in the Oil Ministry till date.

Abdul-Rasheed Maina was former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, under President Goodluck Jonathan. He was found culpable with others to have looted the pension fond of billions of dollars during the era of the much regarded docile President Jonathan in 2013. Maina fled the country and Jonathan dismissed him from the service for absent without leave. Suddenly, Abdul-Rasheed Maina was recalled and reinstated into the civil service and posted to the Ministry of Interior as Assistant Director from 28 September 2017. When the Premium Times in Nigeria blew out this news, it was discovered that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Interior, Abdul-Rahman Dambazu; Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and Director General of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura masterminded not only Maina's recall and reinstatement into the service but also offered him SSS-police protection. Buhari ordered immediate dismissal of Maina who disappeared from the country under the purview of the DSS despite the fact that the EFCC had declared him wanted for billion dollars fraud from the pension funds. The facilitators of Maina's escape are still in office around Buhari who came to power under the promise of change and fighting corruption.

In a resent interview in Sahara Reporters, a 92-year-old, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai said among other things, "I believe there are five important ingredients necessary for successful political leadership, and these include capacity, competence, vision, planning and integrity. In my opinion, our present national leadership is totally lacking those ingredients. All of them are inherent, they cannot be bought or borrowed...." Tanko Yakasai observation about Buhari, if true, may be a consolation for those of us who are disappointed about the outcome of his regime so far. The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs. In his book titled : The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, published in 1922, the first Governor General of British Colonised Nigeria, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard wrote, "He (the African Negro) lacks power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or of business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility. ....//... He has the courage of the fighting animal - an instinct rather than a moral virtue (p. 69-70)." Looking at Nigeria's leaders today we must regret that his recorded observations on the qualities of Black Africans are correct. 

S. Kadiri

 

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If President Buhari can take his son to Germany for health treatment (no one's son should die, before anyone misinterprets me), I need to be educated why President Buhari cannot visit Benue State to empathize (lower than sympathize) with those who have lost their own sons and daughters.

Am I naïve?

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Toyin,

You have gone far astray - unnecessarily. We're not interested in kitchen psychology or some pseudo psychoanalytic biography of  His Eminence the Emir of Kano  or the figments of your virile  imagination hard at work on his motivations. Nor is it about any problematization of his earlier roles in the finance or marriage sector.  It's not about expunging the giant gnat from your own eye, either.

What we're talking about is this : You said (rather callously reasoned) that "The story of loss of lives, and of that magnitude, by Fulani herdsmen, is a lie."  

Perhaps , you are the one who should volunteer as a guinea pig for a lie-detector test, just to assure yourself that you are or are not telling the verifiable  truth, or what you yourself believe to be true , me sitting here, stupid, you sitting there in Lagos like a patient etherized upon a table in a Cape of No Return Hospital in Nigeria...

Did you read Dr. Tilde's "Mambila Genocide: Emir of Kano Didn't Lie, Mr. Governor"

http://fridaydiscourse.blogspot.com/2018/01/mambila-genocide-emir-of-kano-didnt-lie_18.html

The next time, you could to respond to some of what  he said...

In the meantime beware of Islamophobia and take the cue from a brave brother like Fela:

Well well, na true I want talk again o

Na true I want talk again o

If I dey lie o

Make Osiris punish me

Make Ifa dey punish me o

Make Edumare punish me o

Make the land dey punish me o

Make Edumare punish me o

I read dem for book ee-o

I see so myself ee-o

Well-ee well-ee o

Well well… well well!

On Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:04:51 UTC+1, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:

Thanks, Cornelius and Chidi.

I thought slander involved presenting false information. Did I provide any false information on Sanusi? In presenting my case, was I unjust to him, imputing values not related to his history?

What has my Lagos armchair got to with my assessment of Sanusi, in today's information age? From what I have written its clear I am informed abut his multiple roles, as public commentator to activist to CBN governor to Emir. The only one I did not mention is his prominence as an Islamic scholar.

Sanusi's complexity is what makes him Sanusi. That complexity is a demonstration of serious agency grounded in a strong self definition as Fulani within Nigeria's ethno/religious complexity. The problem, might be, like people like such other other Northern Muslim and perhaps Fulani intellectuals like Adamu Adamu and Aliyu Tilde,  their understanding of what it means to be Fulani or Northern Muslim is not deep enough to mobilise their creative powers maximally, a factional narrowness leading a bright mind like Adamu Adamu unable to rise beyond serving narrow ethnic interests, hobbling these figures  at a time when the region needs direction to enter modernity even more than the South.

Sanusi would have earned an eternal place in history if he stuck through the storm thrown at him in attack of his reformist aspirations of Northern Muslim social organization as Emir of Kano, in which such an inane thing as his internet bill was being invoked in relation to a man with the potential to operate as a global executive and a scholar at the intersection of Islamic thought and the contemporary world at a time when such competence is in dire need. I wonder if he could have used his eloquence to defeat those arrayed agst him in a struggle in which he called out a Northern governor for superstitiously describing a disease outbreak in his state  as due to moral laxity when in fact adequate medical processes were not applied to the situation.

Nimi Wariboko makes the following point in his The Principles of Excellence, although I'm not sure if I have coupled together his lines from different parts of the text to give a succinct  idea of a concept it took a number of paragraphs  to elaborate:

                                        The Kalabari will say "tombo tombo so", "let a person become a person", when a person

                                                 is called to rise up to an event, to be faithful to  its expected and unexpected demands, the

                                                demands of  a moment in which a person decides his or her identity,  the crucible of the

                                                extraordinary in which true maleness or femaleness emerges.

in which 'so' is the Kalabari conception of the realized potential of the individual, those aspects of their possibilities they have been able to bring into existence, while 'So' is the divine plenitude representing further possibilities available for actualization. 

Sanusi is clearly a man who is able to sense his potential but might not how how best to realise it, a  caged tiger, like the tiger of Borges " Inferno, 1,32" who resented his prison cage, yearning blindly for the glorious freedom of a powerful beast in its wild habitat but not knowing what exactly he wanted bcs he had never lived such a life, having been brought up in captivity, until God revealed to him in a dream the purpose of life and its role in the scheme of the universe, a revelation he identified with in the dream but which he forgot on waking,  the knowledge revealed being beyond the capacity of his mind to retain, leaving him with a vague restlessness, "a powerful ignorance".

On becoming CBN governor, Sanusi rode high on the spectacular bank reforms he initiated and from that platform, he spoke out recurrently and loudly on sweeping policy issues of the nation as a whole, an approach some described as valuable for a man in private life or even in politics but not for a central bank governor, though he was saying things Nigerians wanted and needed to hear.

Should he have resigned to make those pronouncements? Should he have operated as an activist  after his tenure had expired, using the prominence he gained from that position to magnify the reach of his voice?

Did he need to stay on in that job after being asked to resign by GEJ, entering into a public contest of will with the President or resigned and dramatized his resignation as a response to overbearing executive intimidation and overreach, using that martyr status as  a platform to jump start an activist career even as he escalated his international prominence as a reformist central bank governor in a corrupt environment, particularly since the tipping point in his conflict with GEJ came about from Sanusi's allegations suggesting massive fraud in NNPC, a person who would always be in demand as a global financial consultant, having won an award from outside Nigeria as central bank governor of the year, if I  recall correctly, a voice in the development of alternatives to capitalism as represented by his championing of Islamic banking in an era in which the Islamic contribution to world civilization is under attack by Islamic terrorists and anti-Islam scepticism?

He stayed on and GEJ outmaneuvered him, suspending him from work in order to investigate claims of financial impropriety GEJ claimed,  a move that might have been possible bcs the governors might have seen him as a threat to their own ambitions, being people without the national platform he was using with such visibility.

He then got the job as Emir of Kano, using that again to pursue a reformist agenda desperately needed  by the Muslim North, but not before perpetuating the tradition of marrying young girls  which contributes significantly to poverty and social disruption in the region through non-education of girls and breakdown of their reproductive organs due to strain from the strength of their bodies not being fully formed before being exposed to vigorous sexual and reproductive demands, problems which his 19 year old bride is not likely to suffer from on account of his wealth and exposure  but an act which represents  a negative example to the people he eventually preached to.

We now have this story of his being the lightning rod for Miyetti Allah apex leadership that never speaks in spite of the massacres carried out by its members, leaving that to lower level leadership, until this latest climatic pint in their murder campaign.

While Shehu Sani,  Kaduna state senator, has been known to  at least convene a meeting with his fellow Fulani to discuss with them the allegations agst them and their own grievances, while Comrade Mohammed Kudu Abubakar, Deputy National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, insists the herdsmen must respect the laws of their  hosting states and should be declared terrorists for their recurrent massacres, Sanusi is silent and inactive until he becomes the Miyetti Allah mouthpiece justifying massacre in Benue by pointing to a preposterous  claim of another massacre in Taraba.

This latest development is  pathetic. The man is fragmented and his environment is not helping  him achieve integration. He might be able to achieve that integration only through rebellion agst the negativities of that environment but he does not seem ready yet to pay the price, nor does he seem to have worked out how to proceed diplomatically on the reformist mission while not seeming to publicly break ranks with the representatives of the system he wants to reform,  having yearned for the emirship for most of the life according to one view.

toyin

On 18 January 2018 at 11:13, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:

Toyin,

When you rake up a whole long paragraph of what from your point of view are his misdeeds,  you are guilty of slander whether your accusations are factual or not.

Just like Shakespeare's Prince Hal before being crowned Henry V, as a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi may have  a chequered past but as a  religious leader in Nigeria the revered Emir of Kano Emir Muhammadu Sanusi is second in importance, only to the current  Sardauna of Sokoto, Sa'adu Abubakar . And now to add insult to injury  sitting on your armchair in Lagos you dare say  of the Emir of Kano , "Sanusi is a man in search of an identity."

I'm still learning about the matter : here is some food for thought : Mambila Genocide: Emir of Kano Didn't Lie, Mr. Governor

On Thursday, 18 January 2018 06:11:58 UTC+1, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:

Cornelius,

So, were you in Taraba yourself ascertaining the facts of the case? Are you not in Europe?

What makes you think Sanusi's story is credible? It is not, for the reasons I have given.

The account by the Taraba state govt and CAN Taraba, describing a clash between Fulani and Mambila ethnicities in which, regrettably, eight Fulani lives were lost, is more credible than Sanusi's unrealistic tale, particularly since the Taraba state govt described the specific steps taken by them to address the issue while Sanusi wants us to believe that he responded to a tragedy of the magnitude he claims by reporting his findings to the fed govt and thence keeping quiet in the face of the infamy Fulani herdsmen, militia and supporting Fulani politicians are steadily amassing in Nigeria.

How did I slander Sanusi? Did I state anything about his history that is not factual?

Sanusi is a man in search of an identity. If he is to have a significant place in history, he needs to reconcile his paradoxes. It is self contradictory to aspire to reform Northern Nigerian medievalisms and yet marry a nineteen year old girl, in addition to your other wives,  in your 50s as he did. It is self defeating to claim to be a financial reformer as Nigeria's chief central banker and yet give out huge sums of Nigeria's money to constituencies chosen, most likely, by you alone, constituencies largely represented by your own ethno/religious enclave, the largest of these beneficiaries  eventually awarding you a controversial emirship. It is self contradictory to claim to be an arbiter for justice as in his essay lamenting how Igbos have been systematically punished through structural exclusions for their role in the civil war and yet use yourself in legitimizing Fulani terrorism, basing your intervention on a ridiculously obviously lie.

The man has great potential but he suffers from self disruption.

thanks

toyin

On 17 January 2018 at 23:17, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:

Almost like putting a questionable  value  lives of the Fulani herdsmen killed, in response to the report of Fulani herdsmen  lost 1,000 Persons, 2 million Cows, such a horrendous national tragedy, sitting there in luxury and comfort in Lagos, far from the scene of the crime,  in the name of all the dead and injured, you honestly  want us to  believe - to  take your word as true that, "The story of loss of lives, and of that magnitude, by Fulani herdsmen, is a lie." ? Could you care to give us an accurate body count?

Secondly, your  talk of  "Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the most consistently vocal non-politician Fulani in Nigeria" Do you feel that  this is the public place for you to wilfully slander and vilify the Venerable Emir of Kano because you regard him as a non-political figure? He certainly has a large following.

As to appetite for beef. Maybe something for you to agree with: Cemeteries.  From the  GBS Vg point of view : Graveyards

Adios amigo...

On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:23:32 UTC+1, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:

The story of loss of lives, and of that magnitude, by Fulani herdsmen, is a lie.

This strategy of lying is standard when the Fulani terrorists  want to justify their massacres of innocent populations in the face of national outcries over such barbarism.

This particular lie has been mutating since it was introduced by Sanusi lamido Sanusi to justify/ excuse the recent massacre in Benue by Fulani terrosts

Identifying himself as a patron of the Miyetti Allah/MACBAN,, the Fulani cattle herder's  association at the heart of this crisis, he claimed 800  Fulani were killed in Taraba and that he furnished the govt with the information, but the govt did nothing.

The Taraba state govt and  CAN Taraba promptly called him out on his lie.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the most consistently vocal non-politician Fulani in Nigeria, the man who, immediately he became  CBN governor enacted controversial sweeping changes that destroyed some banks and led executives like Cecilia Ibru to forfeit huge assets including their banks, the same man who practically ran a parallel govt as CBN governor, making regular public pronouncements as to how the country is or should be run in terms of structural changes to the system, so much so he was being touted as Presidential material, the man who fought then President GEJ to a standstill , the man who told the President publicly that the President could not remove him when the President asked him to resign over allegations of conniving with the political opposition, the person, who, for the first time perhaps in the CBN's history, dished out huge sums of money, largely to Northern Muslim states, and particularly Kano, defending that as corporate social responsibility when he was challenged,   the same person whom GEJ could remove only by suspending him when he was out of the country, the President claiming he was being investigated for his management of bank finances,  the same man who survived that political defeat by being made made Emir of the same Kano to which he had donated such huge sums, his coronation possibly upstaging an anticipated heir, the son of the immediate past Emir,  the same Sanusi, who, as Emir, rocked the Northern Muslim establishment by repeatedly, loudly  and radically advocating drastic reforms in the  Northern Muslim social system  which he described as backwardly medieval, only to be silenced through concerted blackmail in which he was reminded of the dethronement of his father as emir even as a probe into his use of the Emirates finances was announced as about to be instituted,  an initiative that was dropped after it was clear Sanusi had got the message, following which he was cured of his  reformist aspirations,  the same corporately suave, internationally visible central bank governor and outspoken royal leader Sanusi  could not call even a press conference with the Nigerian media talk less adding the international media to report to the world and demand justice for a grievous act of such massive proportions as the massacre of 800 of his people in the face of the rising profile of Fulani as greedily bloodthirsty people and desperately cunning  land grabbers following  Fulani generated massacres leading almost a year ago to  Ekiti state anti-open grazing law and a recently instituted similar law in Benue but emerges with this story after the outburst of national horror following the savagery of what is being described as the latest round of Fulani generated ethnic cleansing in Benue even as the Fulani President of Nigeria looks on in tacit support that includes never apprehending, talk less prosecuting his kinsmen as they publicly call press conferences to justify their actions after each new massacre?

Haba!

Impunity can be taken only so far.

After some time, it becomes madness.

The same goes for this kangaroo revision of the Sanusi introduced strategy narrative by Benue MACBAN.

These are people whom the entire country has steadily become restive about on account of the escalation of their terrorist activity after their kinsman, Muhammadu Buhari, became President, ceding the leadership of all the nation's security services to his kinsmen, services that arrest only people who try to protect themselves from the nation wide scourge of the Fulani militia's successive massacres, from the Middle Belt to the South East.

Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose boldly instituted an anti-open grazing law and created an armed policing unit to enforce it, open grazing being a primary vehicle for individual and group terrorism by either violent herdsmen or the sophisticatedly  armed militia associated with them, their military wing who carry out massacres across the nation.  The terrorists have since left Ekiti state alone bcs Fayose is a very dangerous foe and the SW is increasingly mobilising agst the APC coalition that brought Buhari to power, it now being clear that they have been betrayed by Buhari's faction in the APC, the recent inauguration of Gani Adams with his militant credentials as Are Ona Kakanfo, war leader of Yorubaland, sending a strong signal about the orientation of Yorubaland in the current stormy times.

Facing the recurrent massacres by Fulani militia in Benue, after an extensive consultation process with various stakeholders   lasting weeks if not months, the Benue state government banned  open grazing. MACBAN kicked agst he law, vowing to continue business as usual and publicly summoned Fulani to converge in Benue, following which they massacred large numbers, men, women and children in Benue, in the most gruesome manner, later openly justifying the murders, vowing to resist all anti-open grazing laws.

As outrage rises, they manufacture new stories of justification.

In the midst of this hell of state sponsored terrorism, the aggressors are claiming that they lost 1,000 persons and 2 millions cows to Benue militia before the recent massacre by their own Fulani militia, and they kept quiet, raised no alarm, called no press conference to demonstrate how they were being massacred  even though people have been describing them as bloodthirsty landgrabbing aggressors, but are now calling one to make this allegation?

Haba!

The Greeks state 'those whom the gods will destroy, they first make mad'.

thanks

toyin

On 17 January 2018 at 13:08, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:

Consider: In Benue alone Fulani herdsmen  lost 1,000 Persons, 2 million Cows

It is now obvious that  law enforcement is powerless, that unfortunate events are now in control and forcing us to be witnessing the politicization of the cattle industry in Nigeria. Not the politicization of the distribution or the final cost of the finished product that turns up in your pepper soup and no questions about where the cow was born and its/ his/ her long journey to your dinner table. No Sir, the stomachs of Southern Nigeria's beef-eating carnivorous men don't complain or even care to know that blood was shed or how the beef turned up in their stomachs.

I agree with the direction in which you sometimes point with your whole hand, Chidi.

As Bob Marley asked,

"Why can't we roam (oh-oh-oh-oh) this open country? (open country)

Oh, why can't we be what we want to be? (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

We want to be free (want to be free)"

Just as in that Woody Guthrie song "this land is your land" - so too  - as a nationality

Fulani Cattle of whatever breed should be able to roam the open country, on their four legs, ambulating, undulating from state to state, as a right given by man to animal; should be able to graze wherever they want in Nigeria agreed, but not on other people's private property !

Nor should they chew other people's crops with impunity as they are now doing without the express authority of  Human Citizen X, the farm owner's permission.

Graceland

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 22:25:34 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:

By Chidi Anthony Opara

The herdsmen 

Head to the hinterland

On grazeland grab,

Helped by henchmen

Of the helmsman.

The cows must graze

On the grasslands

Of the hinterlands,

The land owners

Must be helped to their graves.

The colour

Of the Benue river changed,

Its colour now crimson.

(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)

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Nigeria is the headquarter of failure in Africa and capital of hell on earth. The cause of our plight in Nigeria is that we have the most irresponsible government on the planet earth. Thus, it is a mere slogan to state that protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of (Nigerian) government. If the government has been responsible for the protection of its citizens, herdsmen, whether Fulani, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or any other ethnic group in Nigeria will not in the 21st century need to wander randomly across the country to graze cattle for commercial purpose. That is why I have challenged feudal intellectuals, who proclaim the constitutional rights of freedom of movement for herdsmen to wander randomly in order to graze their cattle as they have been doing for centuries, to also move to mud houses with thatched roofs. I am not denying anyone the right to express his feudal views, rather I think it is wicked to advocate that herdsmen should continue to live in the 10th Century while the advocators of feudal life for herdsmen are themselves living in the 21st Century.

You asked, "Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani people more primitive than nomadic agriculture practised by the vast majority of Benue and Nigeria?" Nomadic agriculture is your own invented expression to defend the indefensible nomadic pastoralist. I cannot envisage some Benue men equipped primitively with hoes and cutlasses wandering randomly on foot to Sokoto and on their routes clear bushes to plant yams and sow seeds. In Nigeria, there is something call ancestral land. A Benue man, for instance, cannot just walk into a piece of land in Ibadan with his hoe and cutlass and begin to till the soil for agriculture without permission from the indigenous  people living there. Human head is not only for wearing cap or wrapping it with turban but to think. In the good old days in Nigeria, Fulani could walk into any forest in Nigeria to graze their cattle without apprehension even though the forest land belonged to some people. Nowadays, the owners' of forest-land, conscious of the fact that the herdsmen are going to sell the cattle to meet meat consumption demand in the country, demand payments from herdsmen to graze their cattle in their free growing forest. Herdsmen who are convinced that the forest has not been planted by any human being refuse to pay, which always lead to clashes. Herdsmen have been victims of criminals called cattle rustlers. Thus, herdsmen who before carried only sticks and machetes, the former to flog any deviating cow into row and the latter to cut down leaves for the cattle, now carry AK-47 to defend themselves against armed  cattle thieves. https://www.tori.ng/news/82620/how-i-bought-ak-47-for-n470000-cattle-rustler-confess.html     

How I Bought AK47 For N470,000 - Cattle Rustler Confesses www.tori.ng A cattle rustler who was nabbed in Katsina, has opened up on how he operates, explaining that he bought an AK47 for as N470,000.

Are herdsmen licensed by the government to carry guns? Like many other things in Nigeria, cattle breeding must be modernised and the system of random wandering to graze cattle by herdsmen should be abolished.

S. Kadiri  

 

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"The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs."

Protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of government. However, this anti intellectualism is sadning. Two unrelated issues have been mixed up.Denying others the right hold contrary view without aducing any reason is unacademic. There are concurrent killings in other parts of Nigeria where the Fulani are victims, and in greater numbers too. The Governor of Bebue claim they are herdsmen. The Inspector General of police that they are communal clashes. Is it too much to wait and unravel the truth?

Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani more primitive than nomadic agriculture practiced by the vast majority of the people of Benue and Nigeria? A national challenge cannot be solved in the way and manner of the Benue approach. It just spews  more problems. May be we need to listen to the Governor of Plateau state and other stake holders.

 

On Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:16:35 PM GMT+1, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Under President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria was a Banana Republic where simians held the courts. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is fast degenerating into a Latrine Republic (apology to Trump's shit hole) where maggots rule. President Buhari's visit to Benue would have been a symbolic gesture without any positive effect on the victims and their relatives. Buhari has surrounded himself with callous people. Show me your friend and I will tell you the type of person you are.

In October 2016, the wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari alerted the nation about the hijack of her husband's government in a BBC Hausa language broadcast but none of us listened to her. Here follows excerpts from the BBC interview with Mrs. Aisha Buhari.

BBC - Almost two years after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into this government, it appears as if things are not going on well, the people are complaining: where do you think the problem is?  

Aisha Buhari - .... I think so far so good. The only thing that almost everybody is not happy with, including myself, is on those that really suffered for this journey and now people who do not even have registration cards, are guiding us, which is so unfair and unfortunate for the journey that we started for more than thirteen years ago. People who never knew about APC manifesto, what APC campaigned for and promised the people are in the government. People were just sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position. They don't have a mission or vision of our APC, you understand what I mean? 

BBC - Whose falt is this?

Aisha Buhari - It's the fault of 15.429 million people because they are the one that brought in the government. It's their fault. They should protest, the 15.429 million that voted for Buhari and APC. 

BBC - As his wife, what will be your advice to him going forward?

Aisha Buhari - My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should strengthen the party and who ever is not part of the party should not have control over fifteen point something million people. We are in a democracy, not military era, so we have to play it well and leave a legacy.

Aisha also declared in the interview that if things did not change she would not go out to campaign for her husband in 2019 as she did in 2015. 

When this interview was relayed on BBC, Buhari was on a State visit to Germany where he was confronted to react. In the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, both of them women, Buhari drew the locker room joke, my wife belongs to the kitchen, living room and the other room. It was a perfect distraction from the issue of non-elected people that are ruling Nigeria in the name of Buhari. Instead of trouping out in protest to reclaim their mandates for change, Nigerians, especially the intellectuals kept quiet and allowed the old and the new PDP to seize control of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in Nigeria.

Some have accused Buhari of being too provincial and nepotic in his appointments to strategic positions, especially, in the presidency, but that should not have mattered if his appointees are competent and nationally orientated in their services to all Nigerians. Judging by certain events that have occurred in Buhari's presidency, there is reason to doubt his mental ability to rule Nigeria. To begin with, President Mohammadu Buhari forwarded the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. The DSS, whose Director General is an appointee of the President, and which is an agency under the President sent a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu, as a substantive Chairman, on the ground of lacking integrity. The senate, accordingly, refused to confirm the appointment of Magu. President Buhari reacted by asking his Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to investigate the DSS allegations against Ibrahim Magu. Since the President re-submitted the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate, it must be assumed that Malami's report exonerated Magu of the allegations levelled against him by the DSS. Once again, the DSS wrote another report to the Senate to negate President Buhari's recommendation on Magu to the Senate. By standard practice, nominees of the president get security clearance before their names are sent to the National Assembly for confirmation and where the President decides to act against the recommendation of the DSS under him, the latter cannot challenge the President by openly opposing his choice at the National Assembly. When Buhari was on medical vacation, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, said that as long as Buhari is the President and he is vice President, Ibrahim Magu will remain the Head of EFCC. On Magu, the Minister of Justice countered the Acting President, saying Osinbajo is on his own. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/235975-magu-osinbajo-is-on-his-own-attorney-general-malami-says.html. As of date, Magu is still acting Chairman of the EFCC and his traducers, the DSS headed by Lawal Musa Daura and Attorney General Malami are still holding their positions under Buhari. There had been reports where the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had used the constitutional power confer on him to arbitrarily withdraw cases of corruption being prosecuted in courts by the EFCC. 

Magu: Osinbajo is on his own ... - Premium Times Nigeria www.premiumtimesng.com The endorsement by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo of the continuous stay of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC chairman was not a collective decision, the Minister of Justice ...

In Lagos, at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, the EFCC on 12 April 2017 found the sum of $43.4 million, £27,000, and N23.2 million cash in a four-bedroom apartment located at 16 Osborne Road. It was alleged that the apartment belong to the National Security Adviser to President Buhari, Babagana Monguno. However, the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, claimed that the money belonged to his agency for an undisclosed operation. After a report of an enquiry set up by President Buhari, he suspended Ayo Oke as DG of NIA. Similarly, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal was alleged to have awarded his private company a contract to cut grass around internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Borno for N270 million. Subsequent enquiry proved the allegation right and Babachir Lawal was suspended from office. Both Lawal and Oke were dismissed from office and replaced on the same day.  However, on 21 November 2017, EFCC officials armed with both search and arrest warrants were prevented from arresting former DG of  DSS under Jonathan and DG of NIA, Ayodele Oke, on account of the over $43 million found in a private apartment in Lagos. The President has shown no public interest in the case. 

On 30 August 2017, the Minister of State in the Oil Ministry, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu wrote a secret memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, was involved in illegal practices and insubordination. The letter which was leaked to the online media on October 3, 2017, revealed that Dr. Ibe Kachichwu decided to write the memo to the President after all efforts by him to talk to the President face to face were blocked. Until, on and after, 3 October 2017, there was no reaction to Dr. Ibe Kachikwu's memo to the President on how the engine or heart of the Nigerian economy, oil, was being mismanaged. Did the President, who is also the substantive Oil Minister, receive the memo or not? If yes, why did the President keep silent over it? If no, who received the memo in the Presidency and kept it from the sight of the President? Despite the media noise for some days, Buhari did not make any public statement on the memo of his subordinate in the Oil Ministry till date.

Abdul-Rasheed Maina was former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, under President Goodluck Jonathan. He was found culpable with others to have looted the pension fond of billions of dollars during the era of the much regarded docile President Jonathan in 2013. Maina fled the country and Jonathan dismissed him from the service for absent without leave. Suddenly, Abdul-Rasheed Maina was recalled and reinstated into the civil service and posted to the Ministry of Interior as Assistant Director from 28 September 2017. When the Premium Times in Nigeria blew out this news, it was discovered that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Interior, Abdul-Rahman Dambazu; Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and Director General of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura masterminded not only Maina's recall and reinstatement into the service but also offered him SSS-police protection. Buhari ordered immediate dismissal of Maina who disappeared from the country under the purview of the DSS despite the fact that the EFCC had declared him wanted for billion dollars fraud from the pension funds. The facilitators of Maina's escape are still in office around Buhari who came to power under the promise of change and fighting corruption.

In a resent interview in Sahara Reporters, a 92-year-old, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai said among other things, "I believe there are five important ingredients necessary for successful political leadership, and these include capacity, competence, vision, planning and integrity. In my opinion, our present national leadership is totally lacking those ingredients. All of them are inherent, they cannot be bought or borrowed...." Tanko Yakasai observation about Buhari, if true, may be a consolation for those of us who are disappointed about the outcome of his regime so far. The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs. In his book titled : The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, published in 1922, the first Governor General of British Colonised Nigeria, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard wrote, "He (the African Negro) lacks power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or of business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility. ....//... He has the courage of the fighting animal - an instinct rather than a moral virtue (p. 69-70)." Looking at Nigeria's leaders today we must regret that his recorded observations on the qualities of Black Africans are correct. 

S. Kadiri

 

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If President Buhari can take his son to Germany for health treatment (no one's son should die, before anyone misinterprets me), I need to be educated why President Buhari cannot visit Benue State to empathize (lower than sympathize) with those who have lost their own sons and daughters.

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Nigeria is the headquarter of failure in Africa and capital of hell on earth. The cause of our plight in Nigeria is that we have the most irresponsible government on the planet earth. Thus, it is a mere slogan to state that protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of (Nigerian) government. If the government has been responsible for the protection of its citizens, herdsmen, whether Fulani, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or any other ethnic group in Nigeria will not in the 21st century need to wander randomly across the country to graze cattle for commercial purpose. That is why I have challenged feudal intellectuals, who proclaim the constitutional rights of freedom of movement for herdsmen to wander randomly in order to graze their cattle as they have been doing for centuries, to also move to mud houses with thatched roofs. I am not denying anyone the right to express his feudal views, rather I think it is wicked to advocate that herdsmen should continue to live in the 10th Century while the advocators of feudal life for herdsmen are themselves living in the 21st Century.

You asked, "Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani people more primitive than nomadic agriculture practised by the vast majority of Benue and Nigeria?" Nomadic agriculture is your own invented expression to defend the indefensible nomadic pastoralist. I cannot envisage some Benue men equipped primitively with hoes and cutlasses wandering randomly on foot to Sokoto and on their routes clear bushes to plant yams and sow seeds. In Nigeria, there is something call ancestral land. A Benue man, for instance, cannot just walk into a piece of land in Ibadan with his hoe and cutlass and begin to till the soil for agriculture without permission from the indigenous  people living there. Human head is not only for wearing cap or wrapping it with turban but to think. In the good old days in Nigeria, Fulani could walk into any forest in Nigeria to graze their cattle without apprehension even though the forest land belonged to some people. Nowadays, the owners' of forest-land, conscious of the fact that the herdsmen are going to sell the cattle to meet meat consumption demand in the country, demand payments from herdsmen to graze their cattle in their free growing forest. Herdsmen who are convinced that the forest has not been planted by any human being refuse to pay, which always lead to clashes. Herdsmen have been victims of criminals called cattle rustlers. Thus, herdsmen who before carried only sticks and machetes, the former to flog any deviating cow into row and the latter to cut down leaves for the cattle, now carry AK-47 to defend themselves against armed  cattle thieves. https://www.tori.ng/news/82620/how-i-bought-ak-47-for-n470000-cattle-rustler-confess.html     

How I Bought AK47 For N470,000 - Cattle Rustler Confesses www.tori.ng A cattle rustler who was nabbed in Katsina, has opened up on how he operates, explaining that he bought an AK47 for as N470,000.

Are herdsmen licensed by the government to carry guns? Like many other things in Nigeria, cattle breeding must be modernised and the system of random wandering to graze cattle by herdsmen should be abolished.

S. Kadiri  

 

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"The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs."

Protecting the lives of all Nigerians is the responsibility of government. However, this anti intellectualism is sadning. Two unrelated issues have been mixed up.Denying others the right hold contrary view without aducing any reason is unacademic. There are concurrent killings in other parts of Nigeria where the Fulani are victims, and in greater numbers too. The Governor of Bebue claim they are herdsmen. The Inspector General of police that they are communal clashes. Is it too much to wait and unravel the truth?

Is nomadic pastoralism practised by the Fulani more primitive than nomadic agriculture practiced by the vast majority of the people of Benue and Nigeria? A national challenge cannot be solved in the way and manner of the Benue approach. It just spews  more problems. May be we need to listen to the Governor of Plateau state and other stake holders.

 

On Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:16:35 PM GMT+1, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Under President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria was a Banana Republic where simians held the courts. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is fast degenerating into a Latrine Republic (apology to Trump's shit hole) where maggots rule. President Buhari's visit to Benue would have been a symbolic gesture without any positive effect on the victims and their relatives. Buhari has surrounded himself with callous people. Show me your friend and I will tell you the type of person you are.

In October 2016, the wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari alerted the nation about the hijack of her husband's government in a BBC Hausa language broadcast but none of us listened to her. Here follows excerpts from the BBC interview with Mrs. Aisha Buhari.

BBC - Almost two years after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into this government, it appears as if things are not going on well, the people are complaining: where do you think the problem is?  

Aisha Buhari - .... I think so far so good. The only thing that almost everybody is not happy with, including myself, is on those that really suffered for this journey and now people who do not even have registration cards, are guiding us, which is so unfair and unfortunate for the journey that we started for more than thirteen years ago. People who never knew about APC manifesto, what APC campaigned for and promised the people are in the government. People were just sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position. They don't have a mission or vision of our APC, you understand what I mean? 

BBC - Whose falt is this?

Aisha Buhari - It's the fault of 15.429 million people because they are the one that brought in the government. It's their fault. They should protest, the 15.429 million that voted for Buhari and APC. 

BBC - As his wife, what will be your advice to him going forward?

Aisha Buhari - My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should strengthen the party and who ever is not part of the party should not have control over fifteen point something million people. We are in a democracy, not military era, so we have to play it well and leave a legacy.

Aisha also declared in the interview that if things did not change she would not go out to campaign for her husband in 2019 as she did in 2015. 

When this interview was relayed on BBC, Buhari was on a State visit to Germany where he was confronted to react. In the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, both of them women, Buhari drew the locker room joke, my wife belongs to the kitchen, living room and the other room. It was a perfect distraction from the issue of non-elected people that are ruling Nigeria in the name of Buhari. Instead of trouping out in protest to reclaim their mandates for change, Nigerians, especially the intellectuals kept quiet and allowed the old and the new PDP to seize control of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in Nigeria.

Some have accused Buhari of being too provincial and nepotic in his appointments to strategic positions, especially, in the presidency, but that should not have mattered if his appointees are competent and nationally orientated in their services to all Nigerians. Judging by certain events that have occurred in Buhari's presidency, there is reason to doubt his mental ability to rule Nigeria. To begin with, President Mohammadu Buhari forwarded the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. The DSS, whose Director General is an appointee of the President, and which is an agency under the President sent a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu, as a substantive Chairman, on the ground of lacking integrity. The senate, accordingly, refused to confirm the appointment of Magu. President Buhari reacted by asking his Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to investigate the DSS allegations against Ibrahim Magu. Since the President re-submitted the name of Ibrahim Magu to the Senate, it must be assumed that Malami's report exonerated Magu of the allegations levelled against him by the DSS. Once again, the DSS wrote another report to the Senate to negate President Buhari's recommendation on Magu to the Senate. By standard practice, nominees of the president get security clearance before their names are sent to the National Assembly for confirmation and where the President decides to act against the recommendation of the DSS under him, the latter cannot challenge the President by openly opposing his choice at the National Assembly. When Buhari was on medical vacation, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, said that as long as Buhari is the President and he is vice President, Ibrahim Magu will remain the Head of EFCC. On Magu, the Minister of Justice countered the Acting President, saying Osinbajo is on his own. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/235975-magu-osinbajo-is-on-his-own-attorney-general-malami-says.html. As of date, Magu is still acting Chairman of the EFCC and his traducers, the DSS headed by Lawal Musa Daura and Attorney General Malami are still holding their positions under Buhari. There had been reports where the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had used the constitutional power confer on him to arbitrarily withdraw cases of corruption being prosecuted in courts by the EFCC. 

Magu: Osinbajo is on his own ... - Premium Times Nigeria www.premiumtimesng.com The endorsement by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo of the continuous stay of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC chairman was not a collective decision, the Minister of Justice ...

In Lagos, at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, the EFCC on 12 April 2017 found the sum of $43.4 million, £27,000, and N23.2 million cash in a four-bedroom apartment located at 16 Osborne Road. It was alleged that the apartment belong to the National Security Adviser to President Buhari, Babagana Monguno. However, the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, claimed that the money belonged to his agency for an undisclosed operation. After a report of an enquiry set up by President Buhari, he suspended Ayo Oke as DG of NIA. Similarly, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal was alleged to have awarded his private company a contract to cut grass around internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Borno for N270 million. Subsequent enquiry proved the allegation right and Babachir Lawal was suspended from office. Both Lawal and Oke were dismissed from office and replaced on the same day.  However, on 21 November 2017, EFCC officials armed with both search and arrest warrants were prevented from arresting former DG of  DSS under Jonathan and DG of NIA, Ayodele Oke, on account of the over $43 million found in a private apartment in Lagos. The President has shown no public interest in the case. 

On 30 August 2017, the Minister of State in the Oil Ministry, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu wrote a secret memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, was involved in illegal practices and insubordination. The letter which was leaked to the online media on October 3, 2017, revealed that Dr. Ibe Kachichwu decided to write the memo to the President after all efforts by him to talk to the President face to face were blocked. Until, on and after, 3 October 2017, there was no reaction to Dr. Ibe Kachikwu's memo to the President on how the engine or heart of the Nigerian economy, oil, was being mismanaged. Did the President, who is also the substantive Oil Minister, receive the memo or not? If yes, why did the President keep silent over it? If no, who received the memo in the Presidency and kept it from the sight of the President? Despite the media noise for some days, Buhari did not make any public statement on the memo of his subordinate in the Oil Ministry till date.

Abdul-Rasheed Maina was former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, under President Goodluck Jonathan. He was found culpable with others to have looted the pension fond of billions of dollars during the era of the much regarded docile President Jonathan in 2013. Maina fled the country and Jonathan dismissed him from the service for absent without leave. Suddenly, Abdul-Rasheed Maina was recalled and reinstated into the civil service and posted to the Ministry of Interior as Assistant Director from 28 September 2017. When the Premium Times in Nigeria blew out this news, it was discovered that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Interior, Abdul-Rahman Dambazu; Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and Director General of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura masterminded not only Maina's recall and reinstatement into the service but also offered him SSS-police protection. Buhari ordered immediate dismissal of Maina who disappeared from the country under the purview of the DSS despite the fact that the EFCC had declared him wanted for billion dollars fraud from the pension funds. The facilitators of Maina's escape are still in office around Buhari who came to power under the promise of change and fighting corruption.

In a resent interview in Sahara Reporters, a 92-year-old, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai said among other things, "I believe there are five important ingredients necessary for successful political leadership, and these include capacity, competence, vision, planning and integrity. In my opinion, our present national leadership is totally lacking those ingredients. All of them are inherent, they cannot be bought or borrowed...." Tanko Yakasai observation about Buhari, if true, may be a consolation for those of us who are disappointed about the outcome of his regime so far. The most tragic thing about the herdsmen in Nigeria is not just the killings in Benue but that there are academics who defend nomadic pastoralism as constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement in the 21st century while they themselves will not accept freedom to live in mud houses with thatched roofs equipped with clay pots and jugs serving as water coolers and reservoirs. In his book titled : The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, published in 1922, the first Governor General of British Colonised Nigeria, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard wrote, "He (the African Negro) lacks power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or of business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility. ....//... He has the courage of the fighting animal - an instinct rather than a moral virtue (p. 69-70)." Looking at Nigeria's leaders today we must regret that his recorded observations on the qualities of Black Africans are correct. 

S. Kadiri

 

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If President Buhari can take his son to Germany for health treatment (no one's son should die, before anyone misinterprets me), I need to be educated why President Buhari cannot visit Benue State to empathize (lower than sympathize) with those who have lost their own sons and daughters.

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That activity with a doll is not sex, it is called masturbation.

CAO.

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