Sharing Omogor's Perspective on Open Grazing Debates

[Ashafa Abdullahi]

Cc.....

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT 

~Samuel Omogor 

I really don't like jumping into issues, instead, I take my time to study them before responding. Unlike very many that will jump in to crucify a person just because someone else is doing so, even without getting the details of what happened. Just like they always do to the AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami San. 

It happened with Amotekun but at the end of the day, the South West Governors, realised he was right and they were wrong, and they went to Abuja to do what Malami was crucified for.

Same situation is playing out again in this open grazing or no open grazing issue. I support the ban on open grazing by the Southern governors, and I urge the Northern Governors to do same. However, I don't support the Southern governors' not providing any plans to accommodate herders from the North in the southern States. You cannot ban a major source of an ethnic group's economic activity and expect to do your own in their community unhindered. Its not comparisons like some people try to paint it, but FACTS.

Cows are important to the Fulani's just as Spare parts are important to the Igbo's. Yesterday, the South East Governors' forum, through it's Chairman and Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi, said there would be no land to accommodate ranching in the region as contained in the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP), proposed by the Federal Government. Igbo Governors saying they don't have land to give to herders in their States, simply means that the Fulani's may not have land for spare parts markets in Fulani States too.

It's no news that the some people from the south are saying the Fulani's should carry their cattle to their home States. And Malami is also saying that Igbo people may have to carry their spare parts markets in the South East. It is a very simple logic to understand. 

For us to live together peacefully, the principle of "Give and Take", must be in place. Nobody be mumu. The South cannot reject NLTP as proposed by the Federal Government and expect peaceful spare parts markets in Katsina, Kano or kaduna, which are Fulani States. 

A lot of people get the entire message from the southern governors', wrong. They are against open grazing but some of them are open to ranching and NLTP, some States have even allocated lands. But the South East Governors are saying, they don't want anything that has to do with cattle in their region. Which I think goes against the letters of the constitution which says every citizen can live and do business in any part of the country he or she so pleases. 

It also goes against the principles of give and take. The South East Governors must be wise in their actions and utterances. When you have so much to lose, you act wisely. In all that is playing out today, God forbid, should anything happen, the Fulani man has absolutely nada to lose in the South East, but the Igbo man has everything to lose in the North. What we are seeing coming out of the South East is purely an 'ANTI-FULANI' campaign. And it has been on since 2015 since President Muhammadu Buhari won the elections. That was when IPOB started, as these same Igbo Governors and other Igbo leaders, looked the other way.

Anybody who has followed events in this Country, knows the Fulani's are very good at reciprocating gestures. If you do them good, they retaliate with plenty good, if you do them bad, they retaliate with plenty bad. Don't get it mixed up, their religion supports retaliation. The Holy Qoran is the old testament Bible, which you have. Read it. You can't be buying lands in my state to build spare parts markets, hotels, estates,doing your business and making money but say I can't do same in your states, then expect me to clap for you. 

I ask again, who be mumu? If you are asking me to carry my cows to my land, then you should also be ready to carry your spare parts markets, estates, hotels, mansions and what have you from my land. It's a simple logic. It's do me I do you, God no dey vex, like we say in Warri.

For those of you that are very good at insulting those their opinions are not in line with yours, you can do your usual thing and insult me. But when you are done, go research what happened on January 15th, 1966 and the responses that followed, six months later. And you will see the aftermath was, the Igbo's running away from the North. 

Northerners weren't running from the SE because they weren't there in the first place. If you think Malami just woke up from nowhere and mentioned Northern Governors and 'SPARE PARTS' then you must be an empty coconut head. That mention was deliberate to send a message to some people.

After all everybody has "GOVERNORS' FORUM." And I just hope they listened to avoid a repeat of 1966. Because should 1966 repeat, it's still same group of people that suffered the consequences the most then, that will still suffer it the most today, as the dynamics have not changed. It will even be worse. Don't fight somebody that has nothing to lose. Learn to choose your fights wisely. We have coexisted with the Fulani's for decades, and I believe we can still continue to do so. 

The Fulani's have not said "it's either open grazing or we die." They are open to ranching. Let's work a way out. They give you huge lands for that matter in their states to do your businesses. All you can do is reciprocate that gesture.

I come in PEACE!

Samuel Omogor 

@SamuelOmogor

#Nigeria.

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Please!

In the name of Jesus, what have Igbos done to deserve this relentless scapegoating, victimisation, baiting and arm twisting?

Southern govenors make a resolution.

Anti-Igbo strategies become the linchpin to break it as if Igbos constitute the entire South.

I suspect, though, that it won't work. The South has been pushed to the wall. 

A group of people made themselves terrorists, massacring hundreds upon hundreds in the Middle Belt, displacing people from their lands and taking over their lands, as a group of their most highly placed elite, Miyetti Allah, repeatedly justifies these massacres, only for  the Fulani led fed govt to support them with verbal assurances, rebuke of their victims and billions of the country's money.

These greedy people carried their campaign into nationwide land grabbing, rape, maiming, murder, extortion and kidnapping, even as the support from the Fulani led govt persisted.

The politicians of other ethnicities  did everything they could to avoid addressing the growing river of blood as these vampires held the nation to ransom.

These politicians  performed various kinds of rhetorical somersaults in the name of being in the good books of what was in effect a terrorist led fed govt.

 Seccesion initiatives, even if peaceful, such as that from Nnamdi Kanu, became anathema, as his IPOB was banned and declared a terrorist movement, their members killed without trial even as the work of terrorist Fulani herdsmen and Fulani militia terrorism was aided by the fed govt.

The vampires continued drinking blood of Nigerians, and another Nnamdi Kanu rose, Sunday Igboho, in the wake of the years of cries of monarchs and people in the SW.

A Buhari supporter is spouting stories that are blind to the mood of the moment and Ashafa is happy to post the one sided story without comment, claiming to be simply sharing someone else's opinion, a strategy used by people from the Muslim North most of whom won't be caught dead publicly criticizing any development understood as against the interests of their region, even if it's a destructive inititave against other regions, such cynical ethnocentricity taking advantage of misinformed but idealistic  pan-Nigerian or pecuniarily inspired orientations more likely to emerge from the South 

People are asking how the Fulani, a minority even in the North,  got to Nigeria. People are asking how the Fulani supremacists got the right to dominate the Muslim North. People are asking who gave the Fulani supremacists the right to claim it's interests are synonymous with that of the North.

 People are asking why Fulani political dominance was established in the Hausa states and Illorin and is sustained till today even though Dan Fodio, the Creator of this hegemony through force of arms,  claimed he was an lslamic and social  reformer rather than a power and land grabber even as he sought to annex Borno which was already Islamic.

People are observing similarities between the movement from being allowed to settle in a land and eventually usurping control of that land through the tears and blood enabled by armed force amidst claims of social reform while creating a Fulani dominated feudal system, and the current nationwide internal colonisation campaign using terrorist Fulani herdsmen and their militia as footsoldiers.

That is where the nation is now. Some people are killing Fulanis in the South, Fulanis some of whom are guilty of nothing. That is evil but dramatises the national mood, from the Middle Belt to Southern Kaduna to the SE and SW.

So, the old invocation of fear and murder used by the Fulani supremacist controlled Muslim North is generating a deep and desperate reaction.

People are saying they want nothing more to do with a region where such atavisms are the norm.

Kanu's call for referendum has resurrected in the Southern governors' call for reworking the nation.Gradually, we approach this reworking, pushed by the excesses of a group of vampirically greedy people.

Nigeria's Fulani are suffering a failure of leadership. Leaders who are clearly drunk on fumes of Dan Fodio conquest.

The SE is facing  serious injustices from the fed govt through oppressive militarisation and killings of peaceful agitators.  The govt oppression and Fulani herdsmen terrorism in the region are  being capped in spiralling into an internal terrorist situation from unidentified figures.

I doubt if the threats to Igbo holdings in the North will carry much water.

Why should I let a govt that supports you in your terrorism establish you in enclaves in my land or even allow you to buy or rent land in my state as a private citizen when you have proven yourself to be an unrepentant thief and land grabber,  murderer and extortonist and highly placed members of your family support you?

Ranch your cows in the North and transport them to the South using trucks.

Trade in your Ak47s for trucks.

But to argue you must be accommodated in all cicumstances is a non starter.

No sir!

Malami was making a veiled threat on open grazing.

He was not making a threat about Fulanis not being given land to ranch.

As for land to ranch, people like me insist Fulani herdsmen should not be given any in the South beceause they have become a largely terrorist force with the aid of the Buhari govt and Fulani elite led by Miyetti Allah, the justifiers of massacres.

Even more dangerous when this ranching is being initiated by a fed govt using it's might to support an ethnically centred business being used as a terrorist weapon of internal colonisation. 

These fed govt funded ranches will become colonisation arrowheads, people rightly conclude.

Igbos in the North and elsewhere do not enjoy any particular assistance from any govt. They have risen from the devastation of lives, property and monies of the civil war to become a national economic force who are known for business acumen, not terrorism and holding Nigerians to ransom to sustain them or face death or disposession, which is the strategy of the fed govt led Fulani herdsmen terrorist campaign.

We are reaching a point where invocations of the profoundly  unjust  1966 anti-Igbo massacres will be responded to as a call to rework the nation or die in slavery at the hands of greedy and backward people who want to destroy the lives and work of those more industrious than themselves.

Thanks

Toyin

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[Femi Segun]

One should not be surprised at the logic of reasoning of this writer. By not mentioning the rampaging activities of the Fulani herdsmen which served as the conditions precedent for the demands made by the Southern Governors, he is only living true to the Yoruba meaning of his last name without the r. . An objective and non-partisan State Security Service would normally invite Samuel Omogor for questioning just in case he is aware of any plans to kill and maim the Igbos in the North as it happened prior to the civil war. The subtle and direct threats in his write-up should be a wake-up call. 

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

In what way was Malami right about Amotekun and the Southern governors wrong?

Has Amotekun been demobilised as Malami wanted?

OAA

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[Terngu S. Nomishan]

May be you are failing to understand something about the whole cow and spare parts thing. No one is saying Fulani should not practice their business in any part of the country. Get this right, when the Benue State government and her people said no to open grazing, they didn't meant that Fulani are ban from rearing cattle. Afterall there is Ikyogen Cattle Ranch in the state to take care of their business. 

When you talk about Igbo people selling spare parts, you intentionally forgot to mention how many people they harm or killed, raped, kidnapped or collected ramson to release, in the process of selling their spare parts in Kano. You refused to also tell us how the FG is involved in the registration and establishment of these spare parts shops and trading centers, and even how the FG empower these Igbo people trading in the north. 

Look, what the constitution of Nigeria says is that, you should run your business and also allow others to run there's. There is no constitutional provision for free movement of animals in Nigeria and certain people claim right to this and go on to do a lot of inhumane acts in the land under the disguise of doing their business. 

Igbo people register their companies and enterprises, stating their locations before been allowed to operate such businesses anywhere in the country. Can you tell us how the Fulani people register their cow business and the location they chose to operate it? Can you even register a business without telling CAC where it will be operated?? So you cherish the idea that some people must respect the law while others remain above the law right? Nigeria has grown above all this. If you know that your business will hinder others from doing there's, just don't bother about starting it because you will be going against the constitution of Nigeria. 

Terngu S. Nomishan
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