E fi epo s'ile ehun pa lapa lapa. Instead of removing the weeds, you are removing a vegetable that looks like a weed. This is the situation with Fulani community in Igangan and Ondo, in the South Western part of Nigeria for that matter.
Violent acts should be dealt with at every level, starting from the Fulanis who kill and maim innocent Nigerians, then locals who go around fomenting troubles. Nobody should be spared. The Lame-duck government of Buhari should not ignore the cry of the people of Nigeria when they are shouting for rescue from the hands of his kinsmen. He should not wait till Fulanis are being attacked before he acts. He did the same in 2019 at the height of Fulani mayhem in the Western part of Nigeria, from Kebbi to Yewa in Ogun State.
Instead of arresting the insecurity situation in Nigeria, especially, the insurrection of SOME Fulani herdsmen in the South Western part of Nigeria, governments (state and federal) are threatening the people who decided to take laws into their own hands. To date, no one has been arrested, let alone brought to book for the murder of a famous Igangan son, Dr. Fatai Aborode. The people of the town have the right to determine who is welcomed in their community. Members of Fulani community/colony across the length and breadth of Nigeria may not all be the ones perpetrating these acts of violence against the people, it is sure they know those doing these acts, and they harbor some of them. They cannot completely absolve themselves of violent acts - when their cattle get into farms and destroy properties, who should take the blame? Their brethren from Niger or Chad?
This is 2021, nomadic cattle rearing is a trade that should be discouraged. Especially, when this practice is inimical to others within the agricultural production sector. How can cattle marauders use their own trade to impoverish others? You destroyed people's farm, they complain, you either kill or kidnap them, the people ask you to leave, you went and shout to your brother who is the commander-in-chief, and he too, foolishly starts shouting from the seat of power in your favor, ignoring the harm you had done as if the Fulanis are endangered species and the rest of us can perish......that is not the way to lead.
Some mischievous people wanted to turn the current situation into a religious issue. This is a cultural and criminal issue. The truth is that no southerner dare commit the atrocities that the Fulanis are committing all over Nigeria, why is Buhari not acting? He is a Fulani, he is yet to berate the Fulanis the way he is has berated other terrorist organizations – this is not leadership, this is weakness. I like many other Nigerians implore him to act, and act the right way and not in support of his kinsmen alone.
The solutions should be discouraging nomadic cattle rearing; ban cattle herd in towns, they cause accidents; if the north wants to preserve the culture, let them restrict the Fulani herdsmen to their domain and not come to the South. I support the ban of any Nigerian group that is using their own trade to impoverish and destroy others. Enough is enough, this is 2021.
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