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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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​Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, 

​Don't you think you are parading fake news concerning Fulani Herdsmen Terrorism in Nigeria with the link posted by you below?
​S. Kadiri


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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Thanks, Salimonu.

I wonder too.

The recurrence of such news, escalating since Buhari's 2015 ascension, reported in Nigerian news media and reinforced by international  terrorist watch agencies that give precise statistics of these attacks and killings by Fulani militia, described by these agencies as the 2nd or third most lethal terrorist group in the world baffles me.

I am also concerned about the nation wide mobilization agst Fulani herdsmen, of which the SW Amotekun outfit is the most prominent.

Some people on social media are even beginning to describe the Buhari govt as a terrorist govt.

Can you imagine?!

de tin tire me.

The reporter does not even seem to have the courage to state exactly what was stated by those whose account they are reporting, which should be, 'Fulani herdsmen are described as ...'

but it no longer allowed to string together 'Fulani' and 'herdsmen' in an expression when dealing with accounts of violence and terrorism.

Self censorship?

Who are the ghosts carrying out this carnage that for years had the full support of Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation and on whose behalf the Buhari govt has spoken?

 

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​Oluwatoyin, please don't allow your hatred for Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria to blur your sense of reasoning and justice.  To begin with the File Photo of a Herder accompanying the article has nothing to do with the report of the herdsmen's purported atrocity directed at the traditional ruler's family. The file photo of the herder did not depict him as aggressive and combat ready since he hung his rifle loosely around his neck and shoulder with the mouth of the pipe to the gun not facing the front but back. The file photo actually project the herder as a careless defender and not as an extremist and violent prone attacker.
The expression *suspected Fulani herdsmen* used in describing the purported attackers of traditional ruler's home, is an indication that the true identities of the attackers are not known. The reporter wrote, "The herdsmen allegedly raped the traditional ruler's wife and two of his in-laws and destroyed crops stored in the barn." With this report, one is made to believe that the traditional ruler stood-by to witness the rape of his wife and two of his in-laws as well as the destruction of crops stored in the barn by the suspected herdsmen. However, the reporter in the next breath quoted the victim as having said, "The traditional ruler, Tyoor Chado said the herdsmen numbering about 11 attacked his residence around 2am. The livestock guards ….. told me they (his wife and in-laws) were tortured, raped but not killed. He further said the herdsmen used cassava, melon and yam from his barn to feed their animals." It is remarkable that Tyoor Chado could count the number of the attackers in a dark early morning, at 2am. It was the livestock guards who found his wife and the two in-laws and reported that they have been tortured and raped, thereby contradicting false impression earlier that the traditional ruler saw his wife and his two in-laws raped. We are now being made to know that the suspected Fulani herdsmen did not destroy crops stored in the barn, rather they fed their animals with cassava, melon and yam stored in the barn, implying that  the suspected herdsmen had their cattle with them at the scene of the crime. With that evidence their chance of escaping from arrest must have been very small since walking on foot with the cattle from the scene of crime after 2am could not have been so far away at dawn. Then if livestock guards found Tyoor Chado's wife and his two in-laws,  where are the suspected Fulani herdsmen and their cattle?
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Another indefensible defense from Alagba Salimonu Kadiri. We are here again. :" The file photo of the herder did not depict him as aggressive and combat ready since he hung his rifle loosely around his neck and shoulder with the mouth of the pipe to the gun not facing the front but back' And who authorised him to carry the rifle, with which he and his kinsmen constantly unleash mayhem on innocent citizens? If a farmer carry that same rifle in Imesi Ekiti, the Police would arrested and charged him with illegal possession of arms. Amotekun is coming for them. It is a matter of time. 


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​Femi Segun,

​Treasury plunderers in Nigeria use part of their looted national patrimony to build mansions and gated homes with fenced walls higher than the demolished Berlin wall. In addition they employ security guards armed with assorted life-quenching weapons. In the good old-days a herdsman was equipped with a machete to cut down stems of trees for the cattle to feed on the leaves and a rod (stick) to whip a diverging cattle into the flock. With the emergence of cattle rustlers (thieves) in Nigeria herdsmen started carrying guns to defend their cattle. If looters are permitted to equip their security guards, why should herdsmen not be permitted to carry guns to defend their cattle from being stolen by rustlers? However, I am against the primitive nomadic pastoralism still being practised in Nigeria in the 21st century. It should be replaced with ranches side by side with Amotekun.
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Dear Salimonu,

It is deeply disturbing that these stories seem to have been continuously fabricated for years inside and outside Nigeria  against  Fulani herdsmen.

The Nigerian fabricators may be working to embarrass the nation's Fulani national ruler.

The international terrorist watch agencies describing Fulani militia as among the worlds two or three deadliest terror groups, on the basis of what they present as meticulous records of their  attacks, displacements, massacres and murders over the years, might  either be drunk on something or trying to topple the govt or trying to divide Nigeria.

In fact, all accounts of Fulani herdsmen terrorism across the country, claims by former head of state OBJ, of Nigerians' fears of Fulanisation and Islamisation , by  former min of defense T.Y. Danjuma, of state assisted genocide , might be rumour mongering, when in fact, nameless and unidentified criminals are to be blamed for the recurrent  massacres justified by Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural organisation, an organisation which even though led by Nigeria's most eminent Fulani, such as the Emir of Kano and the Sultan of Sokoto, could be  trying to cash in on the work of criminals of no connection to Fulani herdsmen. 

The Nigerian govt's  gift of 10 billion to the Fulani herdsmen's organisation MACBAN,  ostensibly to stem kidnapping among their members could  simply be an example of good, nationalistic leadership, not evidence of ethnic supremacist leadership using the nation's money to fund a terrorist group, as some mischievous people think.

Nation wide mobilization agst phantom Fulani herdsmen, Nigerian Catholic church march agst terrorism by Fulani herdsmen, could be seen as projects that should be directed at finding these nameless, unidentified people terrorizing Nigeria.

Thanks for your vision, brother.

I see you suggest ranches alongside Amotekun self defense erected by mischievous SW govs agst Fulani herdsmen terrorism, as Yoruba leaders claim, though the govs are careful not to be so blunt.

Why Amotekun when there is no problem with Fulani herdsmen, as you have been at pains to inform us?

Is the problem not about a national crime wave, which mischievous people, indirectly helped by the actions of the  Presidency, are  attributing to Fulani herdsmen terrorism?

Even the Presidency is guilty in this misconception-the min of dense and IGP of police describing one of the more recent Benue massacres attributed to the Fulani herdsmen- attributed bcs no pictures or video  of them doing it- as the fault of the state for creating an anti-open grazing law agst the herdsmen, when in fact, it could all be the work of nameless criminals pretending to be Fulani herdsmen, criminals leading the govt to such actions as  trying to build enclaves, named ranches or RUGA, for the herdsmen across Nigeria- to better aid ethnic supremacist internal colonization plans through terrorism plans some claim-  and importing grass from Brazil for them, along with trying to commandeer grazing routes  across Nigeria for them.

You have been crying that the problem has nothing to do with Fulani herdsmen, but Miyetti Allah, MACBAN-two prominent Fulani organisations, the Presidency, the governors of different regions, creating or planning to create self help security groups agst the herdsmen, international terrorist watch agencies, the UK Parliament, as indicated by their detailed report on the subject, are all insisting otherwise.

Inflaming the situation are people like the Fulani professor who relatively recently publicly declared that 'Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest' a declaration setting news media on fire in the wake of  recurrent massacres in Benue attributed to  Fulani herdsmen and justified by Miyetti Allah.

Could you please help these deluded people to help arrive at the truth?

Perhaps you could begin by lending  your forensic skills to the DSS to fish out this nameless terrorist group masquerading as Fulani herdsmen.

Meanwhile, if the real Fulani herdsmen were to desist from their noble work of trekking across Nigeria to sell their cows and use trucks instead, it could blunt the efforts of the highly coordinated, nameless and yet unidentified terrorist group/s acting in their name.

Fulani nomadism is a  very old culture which some are claiming is imperiled by modernity even as the nomadic Fulani are themselves trying to settle down across the nation, as some claim, saying it is evidenced by their efforts at brutally forcing themselves on communities across the nation through murder,rape and extortion,  reaching a particularly deadly crescendo in the Middle Belt, with entire communities displaced through massacre, as the herdsmen move into those communities, in the context of Fulani warlords arming and training them to expedite this process, along with its attendant political implications for voting patterns across the nation as the govt declares it is opening the borders to all Fulani anywhere to enjoy facilities being created for them in Nigeria.

The movement from nomadism to transportation by trucks will help bring an end to this crisis threatening to make the country explode.

Those nomads now settled in communities that dont want them, describing them as forcing themselves on them, should please return to their places of origin.

The govt should help with pushing back desertification which could have contributed to what may seem to be a Middle Belt and Southward migration by Fulani herdsmen.

The govt should roll back the deadly policy of making Nigeria a congregation point for Fulani across Nigeria.

Miyetti Allah, MACBAN and other Fulani elite should do their best to create enabling conditions for the Fulani to settle in their traditional homelands in the North, avoiding claims to ownership in the Middle Belt or the freedom to move across Nigerian in ways that work agst the well being of other Nigerians.

The way the current situation is being pursued by the Fulani elite and the herdsmen brings to my mind the Greek adage, 'those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad'.

Its more realistic to learn from states thriving in the desert like Israel than trying to colonize Nigerians under the guise of  problems like desertification.

Nigerians of all political parties are calling for an end to the forced colonial unity of the nation or a renegotiation of rights of various regions, in the conviction  that the govt is being run by a Fulani/Islamist  supremacist terrorist group or that that impression is being created by the govt's actions and pronouncements.

Essay titles like 'Is Buhari a member of Boko Haram [ Islamic terrorist group, the other terrorist group in Nigeria, alongside what Salimonu insists are faceless creatures masquerading as Fulani herdsmen or simply creations of human imagination]?' are no longer uncommon.

Trouble, trouble....is brewing.


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Femi Segun,

Although SK is an unabashed mouthpiece of the herdsmen and their atrocities, he has some good posers for those who blame the Fulani for almost all crimes committed even by their own kinsmen.

I don't believe the Fulani are responsible for some of the atrocities.


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Another indefensible defense from Alagba Salimonu Kadiri. We are here again. :"The file photo of the herder did not depict him as aggressive and combat ready since he hung his rifle loosely around his neck and shoulder with the mouth of the pipe to the gun not facing the front but back' And who authorised him to carry the rifle, with which he and his kinsmen constantly unleash mayhem on innocent citizens? If a farmer carry that same rifle in Imesi Ekiti, the Police would arrested and charged him with illegal possession of arms. Amotekun is coming for them. It is a matter of time. 


On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 10:29 AM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
​Oluwatoyin, please don't allow your hatred for Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria to blur your sense of reasoning and justice.  To begin with the File Photo of a Herder accompanying the article has nothing to do with the report of the herdsmen's purported atrocity directed at the traditional ruler's family. The file photo of the herder did not depict him as aggressive and combat ready since he hung his rifle loosely around his neck and shoulder with the mouth of the pipe to the gun not facing the front but back. The file photo actually project the herder as a careless defender and not as an extremist and violent prone attacker.
The expression*suspected Fulani herdsmen* used in describing the purported attackers of traditional ruler's home, is an indication that the true identities of the attackers are not known. The reporter wrote,"The herdsmen allegedly raped the traditional ruler's wife and two of his in-laws and destroyed crops stored in the barn."With this report, one is made to believe that the traditional ruler stood-by to witness the rape of his wife and two of his in-laws as well as the destruction of crops stored in the barn by the suspected herdsmen. However, the reporter in the next breath quoted the victim as having said, "The traditional ruler, Tyoor Chado said the herdsmen numbering about 11 attacked his residence around 2am. The livestock guards ….. told me they (his wife and in-laws) were tortured, raped but not killed. He further said the herdsmen used cassava, melon and yam from his barn to feed their animals." It is remarkable that Tyoor Chado could count the number of the attackers in a dark early morning, at 2am. It was the livestock guards who found his wife and the two in-laws and reported that they have been tortured and raped, thereby contradicting false impression earlier that the traditional ruler saw his wife and his two in-laws raped. We are now being made to know that the suspected Fulani herdsmen did not destroy crops stored in the barn, rather they fed their animals with cassava, melon and yam stored in the barn, implying that  the suspected herdsmen had their cattle with them at the scene of the crime. With that evidence their chance of escaping from arrest must have been very small since walking on foot with the cattle from the scene of crime after 2am could not have been so far away at dawn. Then if livestock guards found Tyoor Chado's wife and his two in-laws,  where are the suspected Fulani herdsmen and their cattle?

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Perhaps yes. They may not be responsible for all the atrocities but why deny the ones that they are responsible for even in the face of glaring evidence? For example, you might have read in the Punch of Friday last week that gunmen kidnapped  a cattle seller in Ajowa Town in Akoko, Ondo State. That happened right under my nose. Immediately it happened, my younger brother in Nigeria called me. The guy sold cows to me when I buried  my father in 2018. The Fulani people who sell cows to him were the same people who came to organiise his kidnap, not Ebira, Ibo, or any other tribe. They came to the house and shot sporadically in ways that suggested that war has broken out. My uncle told me on phone yesterday that it was a  war-like situation. He told me the marauders could only communicate in Fulani language.  They did not release the hapless guy until the community coughed out over 2 million Naira. Can you imagine that? Yet, Alagba Salimonu Kadiri will stay there in the comfort of his room in Sweden or New York and be saying since they did not come with cows to kidnap, they are not Fulani people. How convenient for people who are not affected by evil to feign ignorance and defend the indefensible. Given the way this government is going, Buhari, by his shameless religious zealotry, nepotism and narrow mindedness might actually preside over the disintegration of Nigeria. Revolution is never planned. It happens spontaneously, especially when nothing meaningful is done to address root causes of disenchantment, provocations and subjugation. 

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SK knows that that herdsmen are in all communities in Nigeria and some rogues (militias) among them have declared war on the indigenes, killing, raping, maiming, plundering and occupying other people's lands and farms.

It's shocking that he does not condemn the atrocities probably because of religious and party solidarity or what does he stand to gain from his stance?


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​Femi Segun, the marauders could only communicate in Fulani language, does your uncle speak Fulani language? How did they express in Fulani language their required ransom, 2million naira to your uncle to understand them? The following links stand to demonstrate the obnoxious political propaganda against the Fulani people as an ethnic group.
Tension is on the rise across the South-South region after herdsmen recently killed more than 14 persons in Avwon, Agadama and Ohoror communities of Uwheru kingdom in Ughelli North Local ...
guardian.ng
​This single person with his cows was portrayed as laying siege on the entire South-South on 19 February 2020.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Thursday attacked the Mbanyiar community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and raped three women including the district head’s wife ...
​This Benue attack occurred on 6 March 2020. The same herdsman who was portrayed as having laid siege on South-South on 19 February 2020 is now being portrayed as many *herdsmen* attacking a Benue community. The Benue herdsman (herdsmen) attacker as portrayed by another online media was not even carrying gun!! ​https://www.tori.ng/news/142759/fulani-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-rape-monarc.html  
The wife of a monarch and two other women have been sexually assaulted by suspected Fulani herdsmen who invaded a community in Benue state.
​As the Yoruba aphorism put it : ENÍ MÃ RÍRÉ GBÀ ÈTÓ NI KÍ O SÉ RÉRÉ, roughly translated to : If you want to receive justice, you must practise justice.
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very insightful analysis from Salimonu.

the stock photo used in these photographs purports to represent the Fulani herdsmen/men in qs.

deep intelligence.



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I recommend Kadiri and his fellow exculpatory  analysts to the seats of justices of the Supreme court of Nigeria. For they all are honorable men.( deliberate echo of Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius caeser !!!)

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SK,

The picture of a herdsman may just have been used to illustrate the story of the attack by his alleged kinsmen but not to affirm that he alone laid a siege to the South South. Haba! Not an insightful analysis or intelligence.

However, many Fulani herders are innocent and peaceful, unlike their murderous militias/bandits. There are also indigenous Middle Belt and Southern bandits whose atrocities may be wrongly heaped on the innocent Fulani.


On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 08:51:34 AM GMT+1, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:


very insightful analysis from Salimonu.

the stock photo used in these photographs purports to represent the Fulani herdsmen/men in qs.

deep intelligence.



toyin



On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 23:58, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
​Femi Segun, the marauders could only communicate in Fulani language, does your uncle speak Fulani language? How did they express in Fulani language their required ransom, 2million naira to your uncle to understand them? The following links stand to demonstrate the obnoxious political propaganda against the Fulani people as an ethnic group.
Tension is on the rise across the South-South region after herdsmen recently killed more than 14 persons in Avwon, Agadama and Ohoror communities of Uwheru kingdom in Ughelli North Local ...
guardian.ng
​This single person with his cows was portrayed as laying siege on the entire South-South on 19 February 2020.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Thursday attacked the Mbanyiar community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and raped three women including the district head’s wife ...
​This Benue attack occurred on 6 March 2020. The same herdsman who was portrayed as having laid siege on South-South on 19 February 2020 is now being portrayed as many *herdsmen* attacking a Benue community. The Benue herdsman (herdsmen) attacker as portrayed by another online media was not even carrying gun!!​https://www.tori.ng/news/142759/fulani-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-rape-monarc.html 

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​The picture of the herdsman has no connection whatsoever with the purported siege of the South-South by herdsmen. Since the person in the photo is not one of the beleaguers, his picture under all reasonable circumstances cannot be utilized to illustrate how the siege of the South-South is being carried out. The person reporting the siege, as a true occurrence, must have seen, at least, a besieger. Why was he unable to show the picture of any besieger? The siege of the South-South by herdsmen as advertised by the Guardian with the picture of an innocent herdsman is nothing but a fable!!! That can easily be discerned by any normal thinking human being, especially, when the same picture has been used as evidence of herdsmen rape in Benue State!!!


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Julius Eto

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SK,

You miss the point because by your logic, an armed robbery should not be reported unless the robbers can be photographed/pictured!

You can use an illustration of a robber or robbers to report a real robbery and this won't make it a fake/concocted story.


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SK did not simply rely on the critique of pictures to question the story.  He also queried the logic of the reportage itself.  Who is saying what.  Who saw what and where the husband of the purported victim was when the event took place. How does the whole piece hang together?

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