Akeredolu ignores Miyetti Allah, signs anti-open grazing bill into law ( National Mobilisation Against Fulani Herdsmen Terrorism in Nigeria)
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Cornelius Hamelberg
Are the Miyetti Allah conversant with the fine print of the anti-grazing bills?
Some of us are waiting with bated breath for the many inevitable flashpoints/confrontations/ clashes looming ahead...
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is emphatic that “compliance ... shall be given the utmost attention “ but concretely, exactly what does he mean by “Government shall pursue with vigour, through lawful means, to ensure strict compliance.”? When, in fact, by “government” he means his state government - one of thirsty six state governments, in his case a state government that is ostensibly at loggerheads with the Federal Government. In the ensuing conflict that is fast approaching, who will emerge “ victorious” as the overhead boss, State or Federal? President Buhari or the individual or collective known as the “Southern Governors”? The Local Police Law Enforcement or the Federal Military armed to the teeth?
Good fences make good neighbours...
In the democracies, we are familiar with signs such as “Trespassers will be prosecuted “ but what's in stores for the Fulani Herdsmen trespassers whose cows, escorted by armed herdsmen or under paramilitary escort ( to ward off rustlers) actually defy the local state anti-grazing laws? Will they be arrested? Rounded up and escorted to the nearest detention centre? And if that happens, in their absence, who will take care of their cows?
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,
Are the Herdsmen not licensed to carry weapons? If they are not, are they not thereby breaking the law?
I said to ward off not “warn off”, the idea being that the Fulani Herdsmen carry firearms as a deterrent – to ward off their enemies, i.e. potential and actual cattle rustlers...
It also so happens that the man with a gun could be tempted to steal - hold up the man without one, especially in poverty-land.
Instead of thinking that “might is right”, the other people you talk about, those who have become a menace to society, the “terrorist militias” of whatever ethnicity, those guilty of arson, rape, armed robberies, ransom kidnapping, and all those who “massacre communities and take over their lands” should face the full wrath of the law...
Nigeria's commander-in-chief will be the first to readily agree that when he is personally in need of medical attention, it's always something of an emergency and that's why he wastes no time in hopping on board the fastest plane to London, where the best medical attention is available for his presidential self. I asked Professor Google the less than omniscient this question: “At which hospital in the UK does president Buhari receive medical attention?” and I guess Kperogi is either sneering or swearing under his breath,“ Who the heck made Google a Professor? “
I'm still waiting for an answer to both questions.
It's possible that commander-in-chief would receive even better medical attention, halal food etc. at the best hospital in Saudi Arabia, but for his fear that the Nigerian social media would lambast him with questions such as, “Must the national treasury pay all these exorbitant bills for Buhari's medical pilgrimages ?” and “Don't we have better doctors in Nigeria?”
When Goodluck Jonathan & entourage went on a private pilgrimage to the Holy Land where they prayed on the Banks of the Jordan River, Philosophy Professor Segun Ogungbemi had this and more to say, in this thread :
“This is interesting. Don't they have rivers in Bayelsa State where the President can go with other Nigerians to pray? Or don't we have better rivers in Nigeria where the President and fellow Nigerians can go and pray? What is so special about river Jordan in Israel that attracted the President to abandon his high office at this material time to waste Public taxpayers' money in Israel? How many times have we seen the Prime Minister or President of Israel come to Nigeria for such a frivolous jamboree?
I cannot imagine our President will go to a dirty river in Israel when we have better rivers in Nigeria.“
In all of the above, I was just laying the foundations for my one and only question which is, all things considered, with regard to the seriousness of the problems being caused by the Fulani Herdsmen, the stand-off from some Southern State Governors with regard to what's said to be the terrorism of Fulani Herdsmen, the absence of compensation, paying indemnity, damages for criminal acts of wanton death ( murder) and destruction, the Southern Governors defiance about not granting Fulani cattle grazing rights in their state territories, the steady breakdown in what's left of law and order and Nigeria's steady decline into anarchy isn't it about time that commander-in-chief takes the bull by the horns and addresses the nation? I can imagine the kind of reassuring address that he ought to deliver. Any suggestions on what the contents of his speech should be? No big grammar please so that even a dumb Daniel B like me can understand what's being said, would Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju mind rising to the occasion as presidential speech-writer like Jon Favreau and drafting the kind of speech he would like to hear coming from President Buhari, about the solutions to all that's ailing the country, a speech that would not be an exercise in futility?
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Lord Agbetuyi,
“A story is told of Arthur Schopenhauer, the nineteenth-century German philosopher of pessimism. One day he was sitting on a bench in a Frankfurt park. He looked shabby and dishevelled ( as Western philosophers sometimes do!) so that the park-keeper mistook him for a tramp.. He asked him gruffly,” Who are you?”, to which the philosopher replied bitterly, “ I would to God I knew”
( From page 68 of “Why ! am a Christian” by John Stott)
I'm glad to know that you are not a pessimist like Schopenhauer or a rascal like Nietzsche, although I can't exonerate you completely of tendencies of either of those gentlemen when you say that “the army will not take over because their instigators up North will know for sure this move would definitely be the end of Nigeria as we know it “and that if they tried to do so, it would be “ messy, deadly and unimaginably bloody.” - no turning the other cheek or loving the enemy, for Jesus sake Amen, as it is written, " those who take up the sword will perish by the sword”, for talk is cheap and without the s, the sword became the word shalom.
You talk about “ The North” , Okey Iheduru has boasted about the competencies of various Nigerian military officers capable of quelling any Boko Haram / Fulani Herdsmen's insurrection...
Ojukwu and just the other day Harrow too, say the same thing: The military takes over for profit, I .e, they're all in it together, under the same flag: Naira. In the name of self-interest their foremost duty would be to secure the ammunition depots etc, and next, where the holy, precious oil is coming from.....
In 1981, Nigeria had Shagari, the then sleepy Gambia had Jawara who , whilst away in the UK attending the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana suffered an attempted coup. Brother Buhari could suffer the same fate during one of his future visits, either to the United States or to the UK, for his usual check-up. All that's necessary for the coup to take place is that the movement towards the abyss of lawlessness, ransom kidnappings, anarchy, escalates, giving the military every justification to take over and to tell Brother Buhari, for his own convenience, to stay where he is until further notice.
The AU can suspend/ expel Guinea, even put together a force to cause some more bloodshed and commotion over there, but which AU or ECOWAS/ ECOMOG or “ UN or NATO Alliance is going to put a force together to oust any new military leaders of the sleeping giant of Africa?
Yours Truly,
July, 1981, Port Harcourt
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