A MUST READ by Guest writer Ena Ofugara
1914 vs 1990... I WISH GIDEON ORKAR, OGBORU and Co UNDID LORD LUGARD'S ERROR. WE NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE WORDS "BOKO HARAM"
Lord Lugard, 1914. Amalgamation seems to me one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen problems heaped on us.
"But what is the problem with Nigeria? Is it Islam? Many Yorubas are Muslim". Even Christians in Ketu look forward to Ileya a Muslim celebration.
The Middle Belt also has a huge Muslim population. They do not fight their Eastern (ibo and Western (yoruba) neighbours.
All the real problems in Nigeria you can trace to Fulani and their Hausa conspirators
Their cattle herders wake up and slaughter Benue people in hundreds with many saying "walahi it is only 12 people I killed". They just butcher cattle and tired of that meat, decide
they want human meat this time and wreak havoc on sleeping Middle-belters and turn JOS, Nigeria's most "oyibo friendly" locale to a plateau of blood.
These same Fulanis go on to kill local villagers even in the South South, cutting off hands and butchering farmers even when their cattle ate the crops of the farmers. And I am talking in distant South South like Delta and Edo states. These Fulanis bring their death there.
Indeed most police and soldiers are of Fulani/Hausa descent (Hausa being co-conspirators) and so when the Kwale farmer is stabbed and killed after the cattle ate his peaceful "igbo" and yam farms, the police and army move in to ensure the locals do nothing to bring about justice. The town Imam summons the soldiers and the villagers are arrested instead.
If I Ena Ofugara is seen with a nailcutter, I would be arrested as holding a dangerous weapon. But Hausa Fulanis walk with knifes and daggers everywhere. They say it Is for their Suya. Why do not they walk with the Suya table and tray as well? Why just the daggers?
When the Isoko man leaves his "opia" (machete/cutlass) at home is it not so when he loses his temper, he has to "to'l'opia" which is go pick up his machete which gives his opponent time to run and he time to rethink and cool down and even not find the cutlass?
But the Hausa/Fulani, once he gets annoyed, the dagger is in his waistband and he murders in seconds and the Imam of his mosque orders his release by the Fulani dominated police force.
Yes. As election results come in, annoyance that would make Ibos, Yorubas, Middle belters and South south scream and shout and burn a few houses and cars, Hausa Fulani reach to their waist and bring out the dagger and begin to kill Ibos, Yorubas, Urhobos and anyone who do not know the five Pillars of Islam.
Then of course CPC now APC (Buhari's party) will go ahead to bail all 600 killers just as they do to herdsmen who kill in Port Harcourt and Uyo.
Yoruba Muslims do not keep a dagger with them. The only thing around their waist may be a "salami" or juju for their protection not aggression.
Reading through accounts of Nigeria's history, I realize that Ogboru and Gideon Orkar are the true visionaries with their 1990 coup which now shows to have had all the right ideas.
In hindsight many Nigerian see this as true. The states they excised (cut off). Are the problem states of Nigeria. By now, Borno, and such Boko Haram infested States and their conniving governors can choose to study only Arabic for all we care and marry off their 6 years old girls while the rest of Nigeria faces challenges of the 21st century. Yes Ogboru, Umukoro, Orkar and co risked their lives to save us from this menace.
If only I had the power to rewind time and change an event, I would go to Lord Lugard in 1911 and ask him to concentrate on his then girlfriend and have her name their baby "Nigger Area" (Yes Niger is a stylish inflexion of the derogatory "Nigger" so we really are "Nigger area" turned "Nigeria") and forget joining peace-loving people of the South to automatic killer Fulani immigrants from Futa Jallon and Sudan of the North.
But if my time machine cannot go that far back, then 1990 would be a fine stop and ensure that Gideon Orkar and Ogboru's coup succeed so we can be rid of these people who have no respect for human life. Who value cattle more than human life. Whose governors and presidential aspirants never condole with families killed...in fact they never mention them in speeches. Their target as always is the seat of power.
By now they would be ruling themselves according to whatever books or Hadiths of their choice. They can be amputating all their hands and slaughtering girls for joining facebook as done in some countries in the Middle East. They would be free to do whatever and bomb American Embassies and have no one to kill except themselves when Obama Kills Osama. A girl writing against the Prophet in Holland will not lead to killings of Southerners.
They would need Visas to come down south and they would abide by our code wherein you keep knives and daggers at home. Like American Muslims, they would conduct and comport themselves or go to jail or be thrown out of the country.
Cattle would be carried in trailers to destinations and grass brought to them and not criss-cross people's farms and then murder them. Yes IT WOULD BE A CRIME TO WALK CATTLE ALONG MAJOR ROADS CAUSING DEATH TO MOTORISTS.
"Allah Akbar" will be a shout of praise for when God is good and not when little children are killed.
Yes, Borno and co would be their own country and we our own.
But by God, we would be rid of the menace of Boko Haram.
Lord Lugard, 1914. Amalgamation seems to me one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen problems heaped on us.
"But what is the problem with Nigeria? Is it Islam? Many Yorubas are Muslim". Even Christians in Ketu look forward to Ileya a Muslim celebration.
The Middle Belt also has a huge Muslim population. They do not fight their Eastern (ibo and Western (yoruba) neighbours.
All the real problems in Nigeria you can trace to Fulani and their Hausa conspirators
Their cattle herders wake up and slaughter Benue people in hundreds with many saying "walahi it is only 12 people I killed". They just butcher cattle and tired of that meat, decide
they want human meat this time and wreak havoc on sleeping Middle-belters and turn JOS, Nigeria's most "oyibo friendly" locale to a plateau of blood.
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| Nigeria's amalgamation day in 1914. |
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| Lord Lugard. |
Indeed most police and soldiers are of Fulani/Hausa descent (Hausa being co-conspirators) and so when the Kwale farmer is stabbed and killed after the cattle ate his peaceful "igbo" and yam farms, the police and army move in to ensure the locals do nothing to bring about justice. The town Imam summons the soldiers and the villagers are arrested instead.
If I Ena Ofugara is seen with a nailcutter, I would be arrested as holding a dangerous weapon. But Hausa Fulanis walk with knifes and daggers everywhere. They say it Is for their Suya. Why do not they walk with the Suya table and tray as well? Why just the daggers?
When the Isoko man leaves his "opia" (machete/cutlass) at home is it not so when he loses his temper, he has to "to'l'opia" which is go pick up his machete which gives his opponent time to run and he time to rethink and cool down and even not find the cutlass?
But the Hausa/Fulani, once he gets annoyed, the dagger is in his waistband and he murders in seconds and the Imam of his mosque orders his release by the Fulani dominated police force.
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| Lord Lugard. |
Then of course CPC now APC (Buhari's party) will go ahead to bail all 600 killers just as they do to herdsmen who kill in Port Harcourt and Uyo.
Yoruba Muslims do not keep a dagger with them. The only thing around their waist may be a "salami" or juju for their protection not aggression.
Reading through accounts of Nigeria's history, I realize that Ogboru and Gideon Orkar are the true visionaries with their 1990 coup which now shows to have had all the right ideas.
In hindsight many Nigerian see this as true. The states they excised (cut off). Are the problem states of Nigeria. By now, Borno, and such Boko Haram infested States and their conniving governors can choose to study only Arabic for all we care and marry off their 6 years old girls while the rest of Nigeria faces challenges of the 21st century. Yes Ogboru, Umukoro, Orkar and co risked their lives to save us from this menace.
If only I had the power to rewind time and change an event, I would go to Lord Lugard in 1911 and ask him to concentrate on his then girlfriend and have her name their baby "Nigger Area" (Yes Niger is a stylish inflexion of the derogatory "Nigger" so we really are "Nigger area" turned "Nigeria") and forget joining peace-loving people of the South to automatic killer Fulani immigrants from Futa Jallon and Sudan of the North.
But if my time machine cannot go that far back, then 1990 would be a fine stop and ensure that Gideon Orkar and Ogboru's coup succeed so we can be rid of these people who have no respect for human life. Who value cattle more than human life. Whose governors and presidential aspirants never condole with families killed...in fact they never mention them in speeches. Their target as always is the seat of power.
By now they would be ruling themselves according to whatever books or Hadiths of their choice. They can be amputating all their hands and slaughtering girls for joining facebook as done in some countries in the Middle East. They would be free to do whatever and bomb American Embassies and have no one to kill except themselves when Obama Kills Osama. A girl writing against the Prophet in Holland will not lead to killings of Southerners.
They would need Visas to come down south and they would abide by our code wherein you keep knives and daggers at home. Like American Muslims, they would conduct and comport themselves or go to jail or be thrown out of the country.
Cattle would be carried in trailers to destinations and grass brought to them and not criss-cross people's farms and then murder them. Yes IT WOULD BE A CRIME TO WALK CATTLE ALONG MAJOR ROADS CAUSING DEATH TO MOTORISTS.
"Allah Akbar" will be a shout of praise for when God is good and not when little children are killed.
Yes, Borno and co would be their own country and we our own.
But by God, we would be rid of the menace of Boko Haram.