Four hundred people were killed by meningitis in our
country in the last few days.
Twenty two girls were abducted by Boko Haram in Borno
state four days ago.
Ten people were killed by Fulani herdsmen in Cross
Rivers state three days ago.
Two more people were killed by another set of Fulani
herdsmen in Kwande, Benue state two days ago.
Worse still suicide amongst Nigerian professionals
(including bankers, lawyers and doctors) and members
of the middle class as a consequence of the harsh and
intoleralble economic conditions that they are facing has
reached alarming and epidemic proportions.
Sorrow, carnage, tragedy and affliction has struck our
nation in the last few days and weeks yet we have not
heard ONE word about any of them from our ailing
President.
Not a word of commiseration. Not a word of
encouragement. Not a word of regret. Not a word of
remorse. Not a word of condolence. Not a word of
comfort. Not a word of reconciliation. Not a word of
confidence-building. Not a word of bridge-building. And
not a word of concern.
Not only is this unacceptable but it is also shameful even
by his standards. Instead of comforting our people he
appears to be more concerned with attempting to
silence all credible opposition, destroying the PDP,
cowing the media, weakening the south, decimating the
Middle Belt, humiliating the Igbo, intimidating the
Christians, exterminating Shiite Muslims and
undermining the power and authority of both the
Judiciary and the National Assembly.
This is particularly the case with the Nigerian Senate
whom the President and his men evidently have nothing
but disdain and contempt for.
Things are so bad that some around the President are
even openly calling for the scrapping of the entire
Senate! All because they cannot pocket, cage or control
Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senate Deputy
President Ike Ekweremadu.
Clearly in Buhari’s world the concept of separation of
powers, the rule of law, respect for court orders, the
imperatives of tolerance, religious plurality, the
accomodation of dissent, the protection of civil liberties
and the freedom of speech simply do not exist.
To him all dissent, all contrary views and all opposition
must be utterly crushed and he will use any sadistic and
hungry little monkey that he can find or any desperate
and ageing neanderthal clown that is willing to achieve
that sinister and nefarious objective. Professor Itse
Sagay SAN are you there?
Quite apart from that let us consider the sorry plight of
Buhari’s own core north. Affliction seems to be stalking
the region and frankly this has been the case over the
years and indeed from day one.
The first is stark poverty. Then came barreness. Then
came lack of productivity. Then came famine. Then
came illiteracy. Then came Maitatsine.
Then came polio. Then came leprosy. Then came infant
mortality. Then came drug abuse. Then came Benilyn
addiction. Then came gutter, glue and soakaway sniffing.
Then came child marriage and paedophilia.
Then came VVF (vegico vaginal vistula). Then came the
cripples. Then came the beggars. Then came the
almajiris.
Then came Boko Haram. Then came the Fulani
herdsmen. Then came lassa fever. Then came
meningitis. The list goes on and on.
To compound the problem and to add to the appauling
situation comes the manifestation of crass ignorance.
For example, as his own peculuar contribution to the
quest for a solution to the problem, Abdul Aziz Abubakar
Yari, the Governor of the core northern Zamfara state,
said “type C meningitis is God’s punishment for our
many sins”.
He said, “God took away the type A one which has a cure
and gave us type C which has no cure because of our
sins”.
He concluded by saying,
“How can you expect such things not to happen when we
indulge in adultery and other sins?”.
This is surely one of the best examples of a 6th century
explanation for a 21st century problem that I have ever
heard.
Such words and such a display of ineptitude and
insensitivity coming from the leader of one of the most
important northern states is shameful and unacceptable.
No vaccines have been provided by the State or Federal
Government to prevent or arrest the scourge and neither
has any care been provided for the afflicted and this is
the best and only contribution that the Governor of one
of the worst hit states can make?
Worse still the only thing that Buhari’s struggling
Minister of Health has said is that the Federal
Government needs to borrow one billlion USD to stop the
spread of meningitis. Clearly we are in serious trouble.
Northern Nigeria needs prayer. They need to reach
Prophet T.B. Joshua, Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor
Enoch Adeboye, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Bishop Matthew
Hassan Kukah, Dr. Sign Fireman, Dr. B.O Ezekiel, Bishop
Mike Okonkwo, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Dr. Tony Rapu
and as many other servants of God as possible and get
them to stand in the gap and invoke the Living God’s
power to forgive, heal and bless their land.
They also need as much love and counselling as they
can get.
Yet the truth is that the anger and resentment against
them all over the country is steadily building and
something must be done to assuage the fears and
concerns of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
The predominant view is that we must restructure our
country and, failing that, we must exercise our right of
self-determination and redefine it.
Gone are the days when we dare not speak out openly
about our desire to, if necessary, peacefully redefine
Nigeria, break her into two or more pieces and separate
ourselves from the core north
This is because we are simply fed up with the sheer
barbarity and cruelty of powerful and well-armed ethnic
militias like the Fulani herdsmen, terrorist organisations
like Boko Haram, aggressive, violent, intemperate and
intolerant land-grabbing settlers like the Hausa Fulani
communities dotted all over the Middle Belt and the
south and the excesses and genocidal tendencies of our
northern-led security agencies and Armed Forces.
The Fulani herdsmen slaughtered many Christians in
Southern Kaduna on Christmas eve and on Christmas
day.
They also slaughtered Christians in Agatu last year.
The Hausa Fulani settlers slaughtered sons and
daughters of Ile-Ife in Osun state three weeks ago and
they have been doing that sort of thing in Jos, Plateau
state and elsewhere for many years.
The Fulani militias killed defenceless and innocent men,
women and children in Enugu, Abia, Edo, Delta, Ondo,
Kwara, Ekiti, Lagos, Taraba, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Cross
Rivers, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra over
the last two years.
Anambra, where, according to the women of that state,
mass rape was deployed as a weapon of war by the
Fulani herdsmen, was particularly bad.
To make matters worse our core-northern Muslim-led
security agencies have murdered hundreds of Christian
Igbo youths in the eastern region over the last two
years.
In addition to that our core northern Sunni Muslim-led
Armed forces butchered Shiite Muslims in Zaria two
years ago.
All these atrocities have taken place yet up until today
not ONE person has been arrested, brought to justice or
convicted for these merciless, wicked, senseless and
barbaric acts of terror.
How can one ratoinalise or explain that?
The truth is that the Buhari administration has no
interest in putting a stop to this madness simply
because the perpetrators are, like our President, Hausa
Fulani.
In my view our government values the blood of the
Hausa Fulani more than others and to them no-one else
really matters.
To add to that the Buhari regime is evil, weak,
incompetent, sectional, wicked, divisive, mendacious,
and bereft of any integrity or intellectual pretentions.
This is a government whose sole intention is to turn non-
Hausa Fulani Nigerians into second class citizens and
slaves.
They protect the genocidal maniacs, the killers and the
aggressors and they persecute, torment, incarcerate and
traumatise the victims of aggression.
Whether it be Agatu, Ile-Ife, Southern Kaduna, Enugu,
Abia, Jos or anywhere else the story is the same: the
victims are locked up and the murderous barbarians and
savages that killed them are rewarded.
Like satan himself this administration have come to do
nothing but to kill, steal and destroy. Under their watch
more Shiite Muslims and Christians have been butchered
than at any other time in our entire history outside the
civil war.
Is there any other nation on earth that such evil will be
visited upon its people by its own government and such
a group of rampaging beasts that those people will not
agitate to leave?
Must we put up with this evil and vampire-like Buhari
government with its ethnic and religious agenda forever?
Must we stay with those that hate us and see us as
being worth far less than their cows?
Is it not time to say enough is enough and that, whether
they like it or not, we are leaving? We do not want and
neither do we advocate for violence and we do not want
reprisal killings or acts of vengeance in any shape or
form.
This is because we are men and women of peace and
we are responsible law-abiding citizens.
What we want is our liberty and the right to live in a
country where our values and faith are respected and
where we are free from religious and ethnic
marginalisation, persecution and domination. Is that too
much to ask for?
These are hard questions that need to be answered. And
whether anyone likes it or not, at the end of the day, the
Nigerian people shall answer them.
country in the last few days.
Twenty two girls were abducted by Boko Haram in Borno
state four days ago.
Ten people were killed by Fulani herdsmen in Cross
Rivers state three days ago.
Two more people were killed by another set of Fulani
herdsmen in Kwande, Benue state two days ago.
Worse still suicide amongst Nigerian professionals
(including bankers, lawyers and doctors) and members
of the middle class as a consequence of the harsh and
intoleralble economic conditions that they are facing has
reached alarming and epidemic proportions.
Sorrow, carnage, tragedy and affliction has struck our
nation in the last few days and weeks yet we have not
heard ONE word about any of them from our ailing
President.
Not a word of commiseration. Not a word of
encouragement. Not a word of regret. Not a word of
remorse. Not a word of condolence. Not a word of
comfort. Not a word of reconciliation. Not a word of
confidence-building. Not a word of bridge-building. And
not a word of concern.
Not only is this unacceptable but it is also shameful even
by his standards. Instead of comforting our people he
appears to be more concerned with attempting to
silence all credible opposition, destroying the PDP,
cowing the media, weakening the south, decimating the
Middle Belt, humiliating the Igbo, intimidating the
Christians, exterminating Shiite Muslims and
undermining the power and authority of both the
Judiciary and the National Assembly.
This is particularly the case with the Nigerian Senate
whom the President and his men evidently have nothing
but disdain and contempt for.
Things are so bad that some around the President are
even openly calling for the scrapping of the entire
Senate! All because they cannot pocket, cage or control
Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senate Deputy
President Ike Ekweremadu.
Clearly in Buhari’s world the concept of separation of
powers, the rule of law, respect for court orders, the
imperatives of tolerance, religious plurality, the
accomodation of dissent, the protection of civil liberties
and the freedom of speech simply do not exist.
To him all dissent, all contrary views and all opposition
must be utterly crushed and he will use any sadistic and
hungry little monkey that he can find or any desperate
and ageing neanderthal clown that is willing to achieve
that sinister and nefarious objective. Professor Itse
Sagay SAN are you there?
Quite apart from that let us consider the sorry plight of
Buhari’s own core north. Affliction seems to be stalking
the region and frankly this has been the case over the
years and indeed from day one.
The first is stark poverty. Then came barreness. Then
came lack of productivity. Then came famine. Then
came illiteracy. Then came Maitatsine.
Then came polio. Then came leprosy. Then came infant
mortality. Then came drug abuse. Then came Benilyn
addiction. Then came gutter, glue and soakaway sniffing.
Then came child marriage and paedophilia.
Then came VVF (vegico vaginal vistula). Then came the
cripples. Then came the beggars. Then came the
almajiris.
Then came Boko Haram. Then came the Fulani
herdsmen. Then came lassa fever. Then came
meningitis. The list goes on and on.
To compound the problem and to add to the appauling
situation comes the manifestation of crass ignorance.
For example, as his own peculuar contribution to the
quest for a solution to the problem, Abdul Aziz Abubakar
Yari, the Governor of the core northern Zamfara state,
said “type C meningitis is God’s punishment for our
many sins”.
He said, “God took away the type A one which has a cure
and gave us type C which has no cure because of our
sins”.
He concluded by saying,
“How can you expect such things not to happen when we
indulge in adultery and other sins?”.
This is surely one of the best examples of a 6th century
explanation for a 21st century problem that I have ever
heard.
Such words and such a display of ineptitude and
insensitivity coming from the leader of one of the most
important northern states is shameful and unacceptable.
No vaccines have been provided by the State or Federal
Government to prevent or arrest the scourge and neither
has any care been provided for the afflicted and this is
the best and only contribution that the Governor of one
of the worst hit states can make?
Worse still the only thing that Buhari’s struggling
Minister of Health has said is that the Federal
Government needs to borrow one billlion USD to stop the
spread of meningitis. Clearly we are in serious trouble.
Northern Nigeria needs prayer. They need to reach
Prophet T.B. Joshua, Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor
Enoch Adeboye, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Bishop Matthew
Hassan Kukah, Dr. Sign Fireman, Dr. B.O Ezekiel, Bishop
Mike Okonkwo, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Dr. Tony Rapu
and as many other servants of God as possible and get
them to stand in the gap and invoke the Living God’s
power to forgive, heal and bless their land.
They also need as much love and counselling as they
can get.
Yet the truth is that the anger and resentment against
them all over the country is steadily building and
something must be done to assuage the fears and
concerns of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
The predominant view is that we must restructure our
country and, failing that, we must exercise our right of
self-determination and redefine it.
Gone are the days when we dare not speak out openly
about our desire to, if necessary, peacefully redefine
Nigeria, break her into two or more pieces and separate
ourselves from the core north
This is because we are simply fed up with the sheer
barbarity and cruelty of powerful and well-armed ethnic
militias like the Fulani herdsmen, terrorist organisations
like Boko Haram, aggressive, violent, intemperate and
intolerant land-grabbing settlers like the Hausa Fulani
communities dotted all over the Middle Belt and the
south and the excesses and genocidal tendencies of our
northern-led security agencies and Armed Forces.
The Fulani herdsmen slaughtered many Christians in
Southern Kaduna on Christmas eve and on Christmas
day.
They also slaughtered Christians in Agatu last year.
The Hausa Fulani settlers slaughtered sons and
daughters of Ile-Ife in Osun state three weeks ago and
they have been doing that sort of thing in Jos, Plateau
state and elsewhere for many years.
The Fulani militias killed defenceless and innocent men,
women and children in Enugu, Abia, Edo, Delta, Ondo,
Kwara, Ekiti, Lagos, Taraba, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Cross
Rivers, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra over
the last two years.
Anambra, where, according to the women of that state,
mass rape was deployed as a weapon of war by the
Fulani herdsmen, was particularly bad.
To make matters worse our core-northern Muslim-led
security agencies have murdered hundreds of Christian
Igbo youths in the eastern region over the last two
years.
In addition to that our core northern Sunni Muslim-led
Armed forces butchered Shiite Muslims in Zaria two
years ago.
All these atrocities have taken place yet up until today
not ONE person has been arrested, brought to justice or
convicted for these merciless, wicked, senseless and
barbaric acts of terror.
How can one ratoinalise or explain that?
The truth is that the Buhari administration has no
interest in putting a stop to this madness simply
because the perpetrators are, like our President, Hausa
Fulani.
In my view our government values the blood of the
Hausa Fulani more than others and to them no-one else
really matters.
To add to that the Buhari regime is evil, weak,
incompetent, sectional, wicked, divisive, mendacious,
and bereft of any integrity or intellectual pretentions.
This is a government whose sole intention is to turn non-
Hausa Fulani Nigerians into second class citizens and
slaves.
They protect the genocidal maniacs, the killers and the
aggressors and they persecute, torment, incarcerate and
traumatise the victims of aggression.
Whether it be Agatu, Ile-Ife, Southern Kaduna, Enugu,
Abia, Jos or anywhere else the story is the same: the
victims are locked up and the murderous barbarians and
savages that killed them are rewarded.
Like satan himself this administration have come to do
nothing but to kill, steal and destroy. Under their watch
more Shiite Muslims and Christians have been butchered
than at any other time in our entire history outside the
civil war.
Is there any other nation on earth that such evil will be
visited upon its people by its own government and such
a group of rampaging beasts that those people will not
agitate to leave?
Must we put up with this evil and vampire-like Buhari
government with its ethnic and religious agenda forever?
Must we stay with those that hate us and see us as
being worth far less than their cows?
Is it not time to say enough is enough and that, whether
they like it or not, we are leaving? We do not want and
neither do we advocate for violence and we do not want
reprisal killings or acts of vengeance in any shape or
form.
This is because we are men and women of peace and
we are responsible law-abiding citizens.
What we want is our liberty and the right to live in a
country where our values and faith are respected and
where we are free from religious and ethnic
marginalisation, persecution and domination. Is that too
much to ask for?
These are hard questions that need to be answered. And
whether anyone likes it or not, at the end of the day, the
Nigerian people shall answer them.
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