Calling Evil by it's Name: Nigerian Governors Akeredolu and Ortom on the Fulani Supremacist Terrorist Group Miyetti Allah and it's Enablement by the Nigerian Government

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

At last.

The Nigerian political class and an increasing number of Nigerians, repesented by governors Akeredolu of Ondo state and Ortom of Benue have openly characterised the Fulani supremacist terrorist group Miyetti Allah for what it is- an association of greedy and depraved agents engaged in a campaign of internal colonisation through massacres of communities, numerous individual killings, rapes, despoilation of means of sustenance represented by farms and land grabbing, horrors  enabled by the Nigerian government headed by the Fulani man Muhammadu Buhari, as the Fulani elite at the group's apex, represented by the Sultan of Sokoto and ex-Emir of Kano and ex-central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi enable the group by either keeping silence at its atrocities or, as in the case of Sanusi, silence broken by one opportunistic intervention seeking to balance a particularly heinous massacre commited by the Fulani militia  run by this group with a claim of a massacre of Fulani people in Plateau , a claim the Plateau state govt has described as spurious, taking plains to show it as fallacious.

Ortom has rightly described Miyetti Allah a terrorist group and, according to the visible evidence, an arm of the Buhari govt.

Akeredolu has described the group as an association of rapists, muderers and land grabbers who are using the Fulani culture of cattle nomadism as an intrrument of terror and internal colonisation.

This is the first time figures of such prominence have spoken so forthrightly against the greatest scourge in Nigerian history, the alliance between the Buhari govt, Miyetti Allah, Fulani militia and violent Fiulani herdsmen, a scourge, which, in it's national scope and fatalities goes beyond the more locally focused Boko Haram Islamic terrorism 

The Fulani  militia is recognised by such international terrorist watch agencies as the Global Terrorist Index as one of the world's deadliest terror groups but the Nigerian govt pretends it does not exist even as the govt enables the activities of these terrorists while criminalising  self determination movements which have risen to protect Nigerians from this terrorist alliance.