Wake Up Call For Southern Nigeria [ Analysis of Food Production as Vehicles of Conflict and War in Nigeria]

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

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From: 'femi Olajide' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 08:52

Dear All, 

I read a piece about the strategic war being waged on the South West of Nigeria and the way Southern Nigerian leaders generally have walked and led their people into the trap with their eyes wide opened. 

The salient points of the strategic assault which the writer elucidated but which I will succinctly give my own interpretation to below goes thus:

1. The initial assault started with the over concentration of agricultural production in the south on cash crops for generation of wealth for the federal coffers while food production suffered. Meanwhile the northern states concentrated on food production making the southern states dependent on the northern states for food. 

2. The second assault started with the blockade of all external borders in recent times, especially the southern borders while the northern borders were left porous as a practice run to analyse the flow of food in the sub-region. 

3. The third assault culminated in the destroying of the few food producing agricultural concerns and small farmers' holdings in the south with nomadic cattle herds of the northerners, deliberately to degrade the meagre food production in the south. 

4. The fourth assault was the fermentation of trouble between the northerners and southerners in the south which will culminate in expulsion of the northerners, thereby presenting a basis for the last assault e.g. Shasha incident in Ibadan etc.. 

5. The last assault was the blockade of food supply to the south to force the South to concede to some yearnings of the north e.g. compensation of herdsmen; adoption of RUGA; political concessions etc. 

It may well be a practice run or the real McCoy  by a group or elements from the north, but it has worked like clockwork. Obviously,  the federal government and elements in the south are complicit in the plan. 

Southern leaders will now have to re-strategize and ensure that food production is scaled up and it's place re-evaluated as a priority in their scale of preferences.  

It is clear that if Southerners have instituted blockade of food,  oil or any other essentials to the north,  the federal government would have deployed state security services to the north immediately. 

It is quite obvious that either the federal government is complicit or simply incompetent to handle the situation that can simply escalate to another uncivil war. 

What will happen if the Niger Delta guys decides to go back into the trenches and start blowing up pipelines taking crude, processed oil and gas to the north or some elements from the south decides to confront those causing the blockade directly or all petrol tankers are blockaded from going to the north?  Quite a recipe for total breakdown. 

The federal government has to buckle up or they'll be left with nothing govern! 

Regards,  

Femi Olajide

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:32, 'Abraham Madu' via AfricanWorldForum

<africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

As you ponder your self-defense, keep in mind that these herdsmen terrorists are COWADS. They come under cover of darkness like thieves they are and attack women, children and the elderly, most times with the help of their elements in the Army/Police. Man to man, in the open, they cannot stand you. #ESN/Eastern Security Network. POB! One Family: Family is more loyal and more to be trusted than society (Nigerian society.) Mercy can be found only from the Family, kpọm kwem!

Family/Mercy.

Mercy comes only from the Family. Family is more loyal and more to be trusted than society.

All Hail Bịafra!

Bịafra the beautiful!

Bịafra the land of the Rising Sun!

Long live Maazị Nnamdị Kanụ!

Long live ESN!

Long live IPOB!

Long live Afrịka!

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

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[Ashafa Abdullahi]

I also read a post, most likely by someone from the southern part of the country suggesting that that the food embargo from the North was a reaction to unwarranted attacks on their lives & means of livelihood. Read on too:

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NO SINGLE SOUTHERNER CAN ENDURE HALF OF WHAT THESE NORTHERNERS HAVE ENDURED IN THE SOUTH ALL IN THE NAME OF SEEKING PEACE.

All we have done in the past one year is to burn down the Northern markets in the Southeast, slaughter the Cows and their herders, burn down Mosques and every Quran in it, chase the North away and take over their Properties. 

All these Atrocities has been channelled towards the innocent Northerners in our midst just because we acted based on Fallacy, lies and our personal Hatred for the North. 

We killed Northerners in Abia, did they retaliate? NO

We killed Northerners in Imo, Did they return the favour? NO

We attacked Northerners in Enugu, did they come back for return match? NO

We attacked the Notherners in Ondo, did they attack our people living in the North? NO

We killed and slaughtered many Notherners in Oyo, did they retaliate? NO.

So why are we complaining because they have now reduced the velocity of their food supplies in the South?

If you as  Southerner, have watched your shops in the North get burnt, your Brothers get killed, your church hall destroyed and finally you get evicted from the North, would you go ahead to situate your business in the North?

Do you know how much a trailer cost? It was burnt in the South by hundreds. 

Do you how much a basket of tomatoes cost? It was destroyed in the South by Thousands. 

Do you know how much a cow costs? They were destroyed in the South by Thousands. 

Do you know how much a single human life is worth? They were massively killed in the South. 

We should be happy these Northerners are only withholding their food supplies from coming to the South instead of retaliating. 

No single Southerner can endure half of what these Northerners has endured in the South all in the name of seeking peace.

It's well, food supplies are now scarce in the South, anyone that want an affordable and bulk supply of food stuffs should visit the North and purchase them.

These NORTHERNERS are tired of our outright wickedness and barbaric behaviours towards them.

#Chigozirim

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Sorry Ashafa, but this piece you posted is based on fiction.

If you think otherwise, please provide evidence.

Toyin

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