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It is funny how suddenly the story of the Fulani herdsmen is changing from one thing to another. Initially the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari told us that the killings going on in Benue was as a result of anti-grazing law. They heaped all the blames on Governor Ortom for passing such law. They suddenly came up with the idea of Cattle Colony. None of Buhari’s men were condemning the massacres but they were all fighting for the Fulani herdsmen even though most of these herdsmen were foreigners. In fact the governor of Benue State had severally cried out to the federal government for help but was ignored. How long did Buhari know that the killers were men trained by Mamman Ghadafi of Libya? Did he know they were militias trained by Ghadafi when he sent police to fight them in Benue? Did the IG know they were Ghadafi’s trained men when after meeting with Buhari on the Benue saga after one of such attacks he blurted out that it was communal clashes before he later apologized?
Too many questions that shows that something is fishy and the Mamman Ghadafi theory is also ridiculous. Now let me explain.
Before now a lot of people in Northern Nigeria, both politicians and commoners have been defending the Fulani herdsmen killings in Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Taraba, Adamawa, Benue, Nassarawa and other places. They told us that it was justified because the farmers were rustling Fulani cattle. But it later turned out that all the people arrested in Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi and other places rustling cattle were the same Fulani men. You can recall the recent video of Hon. House of Representatives member, Hajiya Amina Dukku, who told the world that the Fulanis love their cattle more than even their children in an attempt to justify the killings recently, she categorically stated that that was how GOD made them. She even wondered if it was too much Maggi we eat nowadays that is not making us see clearly.
President Buhari’s Minister of Defense strongly stood behind Fulani herdsmen. For the federal government it was Cattle Colony or nothing. Governors like Yahaya Bello welcomed all Fulani herdsmen to Kogi State to show his support for Buhari. Likewise Governor Ganduje of Kano. What is not missing in all of this but is crystal was that the killings was as a result of cattle rustling and cattle routes or land for grazing. Miyetti Allah and other cattle herders Organizations confidently and severally have been claiming being responsible for the killings, saying that the killings would not stop until they get what they want. One Arewa professor even said Benue was a conquered land or will be conquered. In fact Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State had earlier gone to share money to these Fulani who were killing in Nigeria and he has his own theory, and in this theory, he blamed the Southern Kaduna people for starting the whole crisis. Suddenly these killers are no longer Fulani herdsmen.
Video evidence and other evidence on ground shows that the killers are young Fulani militias who were probably 13, 14 and 15 years old when Mamman Ghadafi was killed. Have you not seen such recent videos on social media? I have seen several with young Fulani men armed with AK 47 planning an attack. After the Buhari’s government tried to flush out cattle rustlers in Zamfara State by sending the Nigerian army to do the job, the cattle rustlers which are 95% Fulanis suddenly took over Kaduna-Abuja highway, kidnapping and robbing people. A lot of them have been arrested by the police, recently the 20 years old boy who confessed he drinks the blood of his victims to avoid their spirit from haunting him.
Suddenly they are now Ghadafi trained soldiers. Ok, let’s assume they are. Who hired them and brought them to Nigeria to fight for them? What are they fighting for? Land for grazing for Fulani herdsmen. It means that the Fulani herdsmen brought them here. They hired terrorists to come kill Nigerians inside Nigeria and President Buhari has not unleashed General Burataility on them as he did with IPOB? What did they even call it? Operation Python � Dance?
To add salt to injury, President Buhari appointed a man most people admit has no experience as Nigerian Intelligent Agency boss, sacking professionals or sidelining professionals in the establishment. And this is a man fighting Ghadafi trained militias. The DSS is now a shadow of itself, all they does nowadays is chase shadows.
When you look at all this, it is clear the those who refer to President Buhari as a tribalist and a nepotistic President are absolutely right. I simply see him as incompetent.
Now do you agree with TY Danjuma to protect yourself or you all die, now that Buhari has confirmed the killers are terrorists trained by Ghadafi. What a country!!!
The headline today is HERDSMEN KILL 32 in Nassarawa. Why is the President Buhari protecting Libyan trained militias fighting over grazing land in Nigeria?
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
-Abraham Lincoln
By George Onmonya Daniel
