What can save Nigeria?

[Victor Okafor]

Colleagues, what do you think of this?

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies (DAAAS)

Eastern Michigan University

Email: vok...@emich.edu

https://www.emich.edu/aaas/faculty/v-okafor.php

https://www.facebook.com/DAAASEMU/

Tel: 734.487.3463 

Food for Thought: 

“I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by  the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior,  and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don’t do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won’t be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

He seems to be reading from a well-prepared anti-Fulani script, and there are some gullible people, useful idiots and bigots who believe just about anything that the Oyibo says. 

How does the propagandist know that “ It’s the Fulani” ?

Where is the evidence, the incontrovertible evidence, the proof.?

Yeah, and he would build three thousand houses for a Billion Naira. What kind of houses? I bet  that if he could build three thousand then a Chinese construction firm would build thirty thousand for the same price tag.

BTW, instead of divide and rule, by sowing the seeds of enmity towards one particular people, the Fulani, Nigeria’s.Christians could join forces with Nigeria’s Muslims and pray collectively to  live together in peace harmony in their Nigeria, the country that they love and  have in common….

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Cornelius,

Try to educate yourself on the discourse from and about supremacist Fulani discourse in contemporary Nigerian history.

Are you aware of the Fulani militia,.agents of ethnic cleansing in the Middle Belt?

What do you know of Miyetti Allah, the Fulani group who  recurrently justified their massacres, without any pushback from the govt, but support for their stance, a situation recurrent in the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani man?

What's your view about the recognition from Sheikh Gumi about a branch of the  terrorists torturing parts of the North as Fulani, like himself, I expect, and his insistence  that they are people whom the govt should negotiate with and integrate into the national budget?

What's your opinion on the Northern elders  group who recently declared that these terrorists be put on the govts payroll?

What's your view of Nuhu Ribadu, likely a Fulani, and  National Security Adviser, whose  office was described as unilaterally  carrying out such an initiative by arming Miyetti Allah members in Kwara, an association his office is yet to deny weeks after?

Are you aware of the growing pushback by Hausa against Fulani domination, amidst efforts to decouple Hausa identity from the terrorist culture of known Fulani bandits?

Try and educate yourself on Nigerian politics they way you do about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis instead of remaining stuck in dismissive responses devoid of information.

I would appreciate a specific, informed reply, addressing specific issues, and possibly addressing the qs I have asked,  demonstrating that you aware of the unfolding history informing the contemporary Nigerian discourse on terrorism by violent Fulani as attested by Fulani people themselves and other Nigerians.

Thanks

Toyin

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[Victor Okafor]

With all due respect to you, your response comes across as propagandist. You need to evaluate information on the basis of some yardstick, not just for the fact of it coming from an "Oyibo" (which, I grant to you, does happen most often through victims of colonial mentality) or on the basis of it coming from someone who looks like you or anyone else. For you to dismiss with a wave of the hand, the charge that he made against the well-known nomadic Fulani bloody incursions across the Sahel and within Nigeria is indicative of either of one of two factors: (1) you have intentionally turned a blind eye to reality for for political reasons, or (2) you have not kept up with information that has been pouring out the Sahel about similar nomadic Fulani bloody incursions for land grabbing and ethnic cleansing.

Second, what did you hear on the video clip about the inflated building contracts that came to you as new, strange or incredible about the way that some governmental officials in Nigeria do go about their jobs? Check with EFCC. What unit measures did you apply to arrive at your conjectural rebuttal data?

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

''the well-known nomadic Fulani bloody incursions across the Sahel and within Nigeria... information that has been pouring out the Sahel about similar nomadic Fulani bloody incursions for land grabbing and ethnic cleansing.''

What are the implications of this reality?

Toyin

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