Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
Mukhtar Dan'Iyan
did not even consider them serious enough to give a serious excuse.
M<
----- Original Message -----
From: OKANLA <noa...@worldnet.att.net>
To: Mukhtar Dan'Iyan <Dan...@prodigy.net>; Leke Adeofe <lad...@yahoo.com>;
Adey Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu>; <naij...@esosoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
> You guys should at least recognize the effort of the Emir on the side
of
> fairness. At least he diplomatically told them he can't help their cause.
>
> Noa
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mukhtar Dan'Iyan <Dan...@prodigy.net>
> To: Leke Adeofe <lad...@yahoo.com>; Adey Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu>;
> <naij...@esosoft.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
>
>
> > Leke,
> > This crowd is obviously a rented one, if they do not even know
> that
> > Abacha is from Borno and not Kano, then you can only begin to wonder at
> the
> > level of understanding they have on the issue they are allegedly
> > demonstrating about.
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Leke Adeofe <lad...@yahoo.com>
> > To: Adey Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu>; <naij...@esosoft.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 3:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
> >
> >
> > > Netters:
> > >
> > > The mail below should help make clear why OPC
> > > appears to be popular in the SW, at least among
> > > common folks. 1000 people matching for Mustapha
> > > and little Abacha. 1000 people! Why? Mustapha and
> > > others did not do the crime? Or, even if they
> > > did, so what? Or, they might have done the crime
> > > but the evidence is tainted? Nothing clear except
> > > that they want the accused released. Who, I pray,
> > > do you think these 1000 people hold responsible
> > > for their innocent sons in jail? Netters who do
> > > polling should help out here: If 1000 people can be
> > > motivated to demonstrate for a cause, given the
> > > population of Kano and the influence of the city, how
> > > many can we assume to be supporters of the cause?
> > > There is enough anger here to perpetually cause riots.
> > > And the victims would be Yoruba. And, as with the
> > > Kano "riot," Yoruba in police and army barracks would
> > > be dragged out and killed. No wonder some Yoruba
> > > think they need a standing force to defend them.
> > >
> > > Soon, Yoruba have to ask themselves if Nigeria is
> > > worth saving and whether Obasanjo's Presidency is
> > > not too much pain in the ....
> > >
> > > --- Adey Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu> wrote:
> > > > Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
> > > >
> > > > 11:41 a.m. Dec 01, 1999 Eastern
> > > >
> > > > KANO, Nigeria, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nigerian police
> > > > dispersed a march in
> > > > the northern city of Kano on Wednesday by more than
> > > > 1,000 supporters
> > > > of the detained son of late dictator Sani Abacha
> > > > amid fears that the
> > > > protest could renew ethnic conflict.
> > > >
> > > > Kano has been tense since rioting last week between
> > > > northern Hausas
> > > > and Yorubas in their southwestern stronghold of
> > > > Lagos left at least
> > > > 100 dead.
> > > >
> > > > "We had to stop this rally for fear that terrorists
> > > > could take
> > > > advantage of this situation to cause problems,'' a
> > > > senior police
> > > > officer told reporters. "Ordinarily we would not
> > > > have stopped it.''
> > > >
> > > > There were no reports of injuries.
> > > >
> > > > Police moved in after the group had appealed to the
> > > > Emir (traditional
> > > > ruler) of Kano to secure the release of Mohammed
> > > > Abacha and his
> > > > security chief Hamza al-Mustapha, both of whom are
> > > > from Kano.
> > > >
> > > > They are on trial for the murder during military
> > > > rule of the
> > > > wife of Moshood Abiola, the late Yoruba opposition
> > > > leader and
> > > > presumed winner of 1993 presidential elections.
> > > >
> > > > Emir Ado Bayero told the demonstrators he could do
> > > > nothing to
> > > > help them since doing so would amount to contempt of
> > > > court.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights
> > > > reserved.
> > > >
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place.
> > > Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
> >
> >
>
OKANLA
When you write like this, you made one wonders about your sincerity on some
issues especially bordering on Yoruba Nationalism and their leaders. You
always claim to have better information than anyone else. I do not think it
is a sign of good character. I really am not interested if you have lived
all your life in Lagos or if you disliked the Yorubas now because of their
recent politics. It is immaterial. Those who believe in God know that what
will be will be. If it suits God to break up Nigeria it will break up,
otherwise, no OPC, no Oligarchy, no Obasanjo or an Ojukwu can keep it one.
Whatever is destined for Nigeria i only wish it doesn't cost so much loss of
life.
Back to the issues, when you stated matter of fact here as if your granny's
story is the only true story of what happened in Ajegunle, how about if i
called you a liar, but i will not called you names. For your information my
In-laws lives in Ajegunle, Ago Hausa, and my wife has a junior brother of
twenty something who saw it all. Immediately we read the news on Naijanet,
we called home to confirm their safety and we were told the whole story, I
have read from the newspapers an account of their own version of the story,
that it was the Ijaws who started it all and that the OPC boys were actually
defending themselves, they even believed the OPC action may help reduce
armed robberies in Ajegunle!
Do i believed them, yes, will i share their story on Naijanet to inflame
resident anti Yoruba forces, No. Because i do not believe anyone has the
right take another person's life for any reason except in a state of war. It
is only God who can create or take life.
During the revenge riot in Kano earlier in the year, I called my parents and
their account of the riot was so different and detailed that i can't bring
myself up to sharing it on Naijanet. It sounds too much like the "AWARE"
riots of 1966. Thank God, previous experiences have helped hone the skills
of the Kano branch of the Nigerian Police Force in security and riot
management. Nigeria is in a deep trouble. She has always be and as long as
she remain a fake union it may remain so until it finally fall apart.
Please becareful when you take sides, it may make you sound Partisan.
Noa
----- Original Message -----
From: Mukhtar Dan'Iyan <Dan...@prodigy.net>
To: Leke Adeofe <lad...@yahoo.com>; Omo Ekoile <omo_e...@yahoo.com>; Adey
Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu>; <naij...@esosoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
> Leke,
> My family is in Ajegunle, and has been there for ages, and I can
assure
> you based on what I have been able to gather from them, the OPC rampage is
> unprecedented in the history of that area (my granny has been there since
> Imo River).
> OPC people did not engage in self-defense, they went on a proactive
> search and destroy murder mission. They were going into homes and lining
> people up at night, challenging them to declare their ethnic background,
> those who did not know what the hell was going on and declared their true
> background were murdered on the spot, compounds that had predominantly
Ijaw
> families were raised to the ground after people had been murdered.
> On some streets you had 10 houses, from an initial 20-30 left standing
as
> all the rest were raised for being residences for people of the wrong
> background, needless to say the dead and injured were more than this
number.
> Although I was not there, the incidents of that night reminded me of the
> famous Krystalnecht of pre WWII Germany.
>
> <M
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leke Adeofe <lad...@yahoo.com>
> To: Omo Ekoile <omo_e...@yahoo.com>; Adey Oyenuga <oye...@chapman.edu>;
> <naij...@esosoft.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Nigeria police stop Abacha march amid ethnic fears
>
>
> > SamChuks, Tunde,
> >
> > The Yoruba were the first to be killed in both
> > Ajegunle and Ketu! In the case of Ajegunle, before
> > the involvement of OPC, there had been two major
> > clashes involving massive killings of people from Ondo
> > State. The people responsible were brought in for
> > the massacre. As I write, they are yet to be arrested.
> > The allegation is that the Obasanjo government
> > sent emissaries to them. I guess the government
> > could not pacify and arrest them at the same time.
> > You need to inform yourself about the situation.
> > Yoruba don't need your pity, SamChuks. We will be
> > fine.
> >
> > Tunde, my brother, the situation at home baffles
> > imagination. Thinking about Nigeria these days
> > easily stresses me out. But if Balarabe Musa could
> > claim that the Sharia was superior to the Nigerian
> > Constitution, I should be forgiven for pretending
> > to have doubts about the concept of Nigeria. Many
> > more gifted,talented and patriotic individuals than
> > i am do really have doubts. As for the OPC 2, unlike
> > the Egbesu boys, they have no monied individuals
> > behind them. Yoruba elites are for good reasons not
> > totally satisfied with them. So, you see, unless they
> > enjoy some kind of status, misplaced or not, I cannot
> > explain their confidence. Something about this Gani
> > of OPC reminds me of Adelabu, but i can't put my
> > finger on it yet.
> >
> > Leke
> >
> > Leke
> >
> > --- Omo Ekoile <omo_e...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Leke,
> > >
> > >
> > > What was that "thang" about Yoruba's differential
> > > Justice?
> > >
> > > How many members of the Yoruba's OPC are in
> > > Kiri-kiri
> > > maximum Prison right now and charged to the Ikeja or
> > > Ajegunle High Courts for the slaying of the upto 100
> > > Hausas and Ijaws killed recently in Ketu and
> > > Ajegunle?
> > >
> > > Are those lives of less worth than that of Kudirat
> > > Abiola and Pa Rewane or Ibru?
> > >
> > > Al-Mustapha and Mohammed Abacha were doing exactly
> > > what the OPC is doing now! So do you understand
> > > where
> > > the Hausas in Kano are coming from?
> > >
> > > Again, that is your differential justice. It is an
> > > hausa "thang" and you as an Ooduan will not
> > > understand.
> > >
> > >
> > > What is good for the goose.....
> > >
> > > I only pity all those hard working, peace loving
> > > nice
> > > Yorba folks in the North that will now have to go to
> > > sleep at Police Stations, Army Barracks and still
> > > keep
> > > an eye wide opened incase the Summurai machete
> > > welding
> > > Mallams show up.
> > >
> > > See for yourself how the OPC will get Nigeria to
> > > become another Yugoslavia.
> > >
> > >
> > > Long Live OPC, Long Live Gani, the cabinet maker,
> > > Adams.
> > >
> > >
> > > OmoEko.
> > > =====
> > > Omo Ekoile
Mukhtar Dan'Iyan
You miss my point, no matter who started the violence, no one should be
woken up in the dead of night, marched outside and them murdered in cold
blood because some people from that person's ethnic group engaged in
criminal activity.
If you notice I did not say who started the violence, but merely stated
how some innocent people suffered as a result of the criminally misguided
actions of a few.
M
----- Original Message -----
From: OKANLA <noa...@worldnet.att.net>
Steven Kueberuwa
If ethnocentrism was reddish in color, you will be blood-red. Man, you
are so bigoted!
Remember what some Yorubas on this net, and even myself wrote in
protestation when Diya and Adisa were grabbed by the Abacha machine? Did
that mean that Diya and Adisa were not guilty of collusion with
ostensible coup planners? Could our our protestation at the time have
been construed as sufficient reason for the "North" to form or support
murderous organizations that kill southerners? Did you read that the
police in Kano came out in great force to prevent any harm to any one;
something the police in Shagamu failed to do and of which you had no
comment?
Leke, you are supposed to be a leader of your people; not their
instigator or agitator. The problem with Nigeria is that so many like
you are behaving in the manner you are behaving and, hence, the
emergence of destabilizing groups like OPC that is led by an erstwhile
carpenter.
Stevek.
Leke Adeofe wrote:
> > There were no reports of injuries..
> >
> > Police moved in after the group had appealed to the
> > Emir (traditional
> > ruler) of Kano to secure the release of Mohammed
> > Abacha and his
> > security chief Hamza al-Mustapha, both of whom are
> > from Kano.
> >
> > They are on trial for the murder during military
> > rule of the
> > wife of Moshood Abiola, the late Yoruba opposition
> > leader and
> > presumed winner of 1993 presidential elections.
> >
> > Emir Ado Bayero told the demonstrators he could do
> > nothing to
> > help them since doing so would amount to contempt of
> > court.
> >
> >
> > Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights
> > reserved.
> >
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place.
> Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
--
ÐÏ à¡± á