RUGA: Only unilateral implementation suspended, not scheme – Memo

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Toyin Falola

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Salimonu Kadiri

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​​Thank you Professor Toyin Falola for posting this link, which contents can best be understood if one read the online Nigerian Vanguard of Saturday, 6 July 2019. Therein, it was stated, "Sources said that the President's discovery that the Ruga programme was not aligned to the NLTP infuriated him more. As if that was not bad enough, officials in the presidency also discovered that the contract sums allocated for various aspects of the Ruga programme, were heavily overpriced.
​For instance​, purchases of solar panels were put at ten million naira each, while boreholes were also to be procured at an average cost of N20 million each. We also gathered that some top officials who pushed the programme appeared to be in haste for pecuniary reasons. Another top official who participated in the Ruga project said that the Otobi Benue project, which sparked the outrage across the country, for instance was not even designed to be a Fulani Ruga." The report was compiled by Emmah Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief, Peter Duru and Femi Bolaji. https://vanguardngr.com/2019/07/revealed-how-plan-to-fleece-govt-bungled-ruga/ 
Herdsmen along with their cows wait for buyers at Kara Cattle Market in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 10, 2019. – Kara cattle market in Agege, Lagos is one of the largest of West Africa receiving ...
​May I recall that between December 2011 and March 2014 there were violent clashes between Fulani and Tiv people in Benue leading to destruction of properties and homes, as well as many, wounded and dead people. The Sultan of Sokoto visited the Governor of Benue State in May 2012 to find a peaceful solution to the internal strife. He tried in vain to meet the then President of the Senate, David Mark, for a joint effort to stem the fighting. At that time, the crises in Benue State were projected as conflicts between local crops' farmers and herdsmen whereas, it were as a result of Tiv extortionist touts demanding payments from herdsmen for grazing their cattle in wild bushes. It was the belief that the incessant fights between the Fulani and the Tiv in Benue were caused by herdsmen's encroachment on farmlands that made some delegates at President Jonathan's 2014 National Conference to raise the issue of reviving cattle routes and grazing reserves that had been obliterated by urbanisation. Delegates at that Conference unanimously agreed that it is a shame in the 21st century to be talking about cattle routes and grazing reserves instead of establishing ranches in Nigeria. As I have pointed out elsewhere, it was from the report of President Jonathan's 2014 National Conference that Buhari's regime has snatched the idea of ranching called National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) approved by all the Governors of the 36 States in Nigeria who are members of National Economic Council under the Chairmanship of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. It may be added that what is projected as herders/farmers clashes today was rampant during the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan. 

​Buhari was aware of NLTP under the auspices of NEC and chaired by his vice, Yemi Osinbajo but not RUGA. Who are the bains or persons behind RUGA? This is the question our respected intellectuals should help us, laymen answer instead seizing RUGA sudden appearance to ventilate their prejudice against their fellow human beings, whose ethnic identity they are not even sure of, if it is Fulani or Fulani-Hausa. Public Servants in Nigeria have always rigged national economy to serve their personal interests, at the expense of the masses, they are employed and over-remunerated to serve. The immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe, was from Benue State. After Buhari had dissolved his cabinet, the permanent Secretaries in the Ministries, including  Agriculture and Rural Development, by convention took over the functions of Ministers. Although I do not know the name of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development during the propagation of RUGA, I doubt if he is an Hausa or a Fulani-Hausa person. He is probably not a Northerner. Generally, there is no ethnic division among public officials when it comes to stealing public funds meant for socio-economic welfare of Nigerians. Moses Ochonu has alleged that thousands of people are in IDP camps in Benue, Plateau and Adamawa as a result of herdsmen onslaught without care. In Adamawa, the cause of people living in IDP camps is due to Boko Haram insurgency. In Benue and Plateau, the main reason for people living in IDP camps is the fracas caused by those who declared themselves as indigenes of the states declared the Fulani people as non-native settlers with no rights to land ownership. In the ensuing violence both Fulani and indigenes became residents of IDP camps. However, the Federal government gave ten billion naira (N10 billion) for the maintenance of IDP camps in Benue and Plateau States last year.

​Due to many years of constant environmental degradations, Benue people have had to suffer severe annual flooding rendering many residents homeless. In 2012, the Governor of Benue State was Gabriel Suswam and the President of Nigeria was Goodluck Jonathan. The flood disaster of 2012, in Benue, caused the federal government to pay five-hundred million naira direct to the government of Benue State for flood victim's reliefs. Relief materials worth millions of naira were donated to Benue through Benue State Committee on Flood Disaster Relief Management and whose Chairman was Theophilus Adzaagee. However, flood victims were neither resettled nor given money or material relief as Mr. Adzaagee attributed that to lack of comprehensive data!! In April 2013, fire gutted the stores of where relief materials meant for the flood Vitims were kept at the Lokal Government Education Authority in Wukuru, Makurdi. The Governor of Benue State then, Gabriel Suswam, promised that his government would construct drainage canals to check future flooding of the affected areas. When he left office after eight years in 2015 no drainage canals were constructed and the flood came again to sweep away humans and animals in Benue, in 2016. Gabriel Suswan is currently being prosecuted by the EFCC in court for swindling Benue State billions of naira, including ecological funds. Since consequences of ecocide is much more greater than genocide, ex-Governor Suswan of Benue ought to be tried for committing ecocide against the people of Benue. But we are in Nigeria, where swindlers can defend their crimes as Fulani persecution. RUGA is gone for ever, even though it is diplomatically said to be in suspence. National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) as approved by all the 36 States' governors in Nigeria, who are also members of National Economic Council, whose Chairman is vice President Yemi Osinbajo, must be implemented if Nigeria in the 21st century must abolish nomadic pastoralism.
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This apologetic response has again tried to defend and rationalise what is known to many: criminal acts by people who cannot be satisfied by the proceeds of their legitimate occupation of cattle rearing, and an  absent government with a head who lacks capacity to rein in civil servants who  try to cut corners. The Punch on Saturday reported about a 66 years old man who was shot dead by Fulani herdsmen for daring to resolve a conflict that bothered on the incursion of these people to Orin farm settlement. Despite this incontrovertible evidence and many more, it is rationalisation and defense of evil  ad infinitum. by Alagba Salimonu Kadiri. But as our people will say, 'Were ti wo oja, there is no amount of rationalisation that can repudiate or change the reality that the Government is not doing what it should to to arrest leaders of Myetti Allah who have owned up to leading attacks on human beings in defense for the loss of cattle. No rationalisation and no defense will be acceptable.  

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Salimonu Kadiri

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Jul 9, 2019, 5:26:27 PM7/9/19
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​Femi,
​I will be very grateful if you can direct me to the link to Saturday Punch about the slain 66 years old man by Fulani herdsmen.
You wrote further, "...the Government is not doing what it should do to arrest leaders of Miyetti Allah who have owned up to leading attacks on human beings in defense for the loss of cattle." I will very much appreciate if you can tell me the names of Miyetti Allah's leaders that have admitted to killing human beings in retaliation for lost cattle. Don't forget to state place, time and date of admission to such crime. Goodnight.
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Salimonu Kadiri,

You have thrown this challenge before-

"I will very much appreciate if you can tell me the names of Miyetti Allah's leaders that have admitted to killing human beings in retaliation for lost cattle. Don't forget to state place, time and date of admission to such crime."

And I have responded in a definitive manner but you keep pretending not to see my response.

Here it is again-

"Partial Timeline:Declarations of Responsibility for and Justification of Massacres in Nigeria by Right Wing Fulani Groups"

I eagerly await your analysis.

These are facts known to everyone.

But since you want to pretend they dont exist, I ma happy to tabulate them.

Thanks

Toyin



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Femi Segun

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Alagba Salimonu Kadiri,
I don't intend to serve as a Secretary to anyone who is not interested in confronting reality. But since you asked, here is the link:
Notwithstanding this painful story, I know you will still say it is not true. You will amplify the suspected and exonerate the killers because they are the tribesmen of your beloved Presidet, who can do no wrong. Eni bakan lo mo.   


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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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I commiserate with the Ilori family on this tragic loss.  It is reallyshocking to discover that a community of armed hunters could be treated in such shocking manner and this shows vigilantism may not always provide a solution.  How pa Ilori is left to confront armed men alone while his back up took to their heels without firing a shot at the assailants is doubly confounding.

If there is any truth to the complicity or guilt of rogue Fulani herders in this heinous crime Im sure governor Fayemi will get to the root of it and ensure justice is done.

Let us keep an open mind and await further developments.


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Alagba Salimonu Kadiri,
I don't intend to serve as a Secretary to anyone who is not interested in confronting reality. But since you asked, here is the link:
Notwithstanding this painful story, I know you will still say it is not true. You will amplify the suspected and exonerate the killers because they are the tribesmen of your beloved Presidet, who can do no wrong. Eni bakan lo mo.   



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​As the Yoruba saying goes : ENÍ MÃ RÍRE GBÀ, ÈTÓ NI K'Ó SÉ RERE, meaning who ever wants to receive justice must practise justice. I believe the sad news about the untimely death of Mr. Emmanuel Ilori. May his soul rest in peace.

​In a dialogue, no one is a secretary. We are all exchanging views which may be either correct or wrong. Concerning the death of Mr. Ilori as reported in the Online Punch, I will like to draw your attention to four key-expressions in the Punch report. These are :- Some bandits, dismantling some equipment, Suspected Fulani  herdsmen and unusual appearance.

​At about 10:45pm on Friday night, a hunter named Adeniyi Ajayi called Mr. Emanuel Ilori on the phone. Mrs. Ilori said that her husband had told her that the caller, Adeniyi Ajayi, had told him that some bandits were in the farm settlement, and perhaps dismantling some equipment there. Eight persons including Mr. Ilori were at the farm settlement. While others were detailed to watch at certain points, Mr. Ilori and two others went to the piggery where the bandits were sighted. As Baba (Mr Ilori) entered the place, the suspected Fulani herdsmen opened fire on him. Adeniyi Ajayi, the person that called Mr. Ilori to the scene of incident said, 'I saw unusual appearance' in the farm while hunting. Ilori and two others went to the spot where the suspected herders had been sighted. Ilori was shot dead by the suspected Fulani herdsmen as he attempted to have a dialogue with them. They said the moment they opened fire on Ilori, the other hunters with him scampered for safety because of the superior firearms with bandits.

​Adeniyi Ajayi, according to Rachel the wife of Ilori, had called at 22:45 hours on Friday night to inform him that some bandits were in the farm settlement and, perhaps, dismantling some equipment there. Punch quoted Adeniyi Ajayi as saying, 'I saw *an unusual appearance* in the farmland while hunting. On arrival at the farm settlement, Punch reported that Ilori and two others went to the spot where the suspected herders had been sighted. Some bandits had transformed to unusual appearance and from there progressed to suspected herders that had magically converted to suspected Fulani herdsmen, all within 24 hours. Who were the two persons that accompanied Mr. Ilori to the piggery where Adeniyi had sighted the bandits, unusual appearance, suspected herders, or suspected Fulani herdsmen. Pigs are unclean animals to Fulani people which they will never touch  even with pincers. It is only in a fable one can find a Fulani man where pigs are kept. Being in the night, the best way to describe the identity of the farm's intruders in darkness is unusual appearance as correctly expressed by Mr. Ajayi. Adeniyi Ajayi must have been one of the two persons that accompanied Ilori to the piggery where he was shot dead because he, Adeniyi, was the one that sighted the unusual appearance there. While awaiting police final investigation report on the tragic death of Mr. Emmanuel Ilori, we should expect the police to confirm if any equipment was dismantled in the farm settlement and what kind of instrument; If cows and herders were found near and in the vicinity of the crime; if the herders were Fulani and how many were they; the roles played by Adeniyi Ajayi from the time of his telephone call to Emanuel Ilori at 22:45 hours on Friday night to the time he was shot; and a forensic report on the bullet recovered from Ilori's body if it matches any of the hunter's gun, especially that of Adeniyi Ajayi, present at the scene of the murder. 
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