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 make himself
available 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, Apostle Suleman, 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 808 Christians in Southern Kaduna on Christmas eve and on
Christmas day.
They also
slaughtered 1000 Christians in Agatu last year.
The Hausa Fulani
settlers slaughtered 30 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 1000 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, bloodthirsty,
genocidal, wicked, divisive, mendacious, narcisstic 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 the Buhari 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.
Source: Daily
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