Sunday Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu, Fulani Herdsmen and Buhari/FG, what do we make of it?
For a reason or the other, something is wrong the way the whole issue is being handled, especially from the Government, the Nigeria populace lost hope in the Government for security, hence the south western states and the eastern states devised a means to operate their own security networks.
South west started with Amotekun, the whole thing dragged till only Oyo state implemented it, as per opposition party state, Engr Seyi Makinde took that bold step after watching his citizens been murdered and chased out of their farmlands by supposed Fulani herdsmen grazing with their cows for greener pastures, not even minding if it is a cultivated farmland. They became a menace, purporting terror to farmers and villagers.
In the midst of the whole brouhaha of insecurity by the Boko Haram Terrorist group in the North East, adding to it Banditry, which pummeled the country to a state of fear. You can’t even travel safely within states in the country without fearing for your life. You’ll surely always say a word of prayer against kidnappers or the supposed herdsmen. It now looks like every region of the country is no longer in peace and the government seem to be clueless about the whole issue.
There is a loophole in the system, Nnamdi Kanu saw this as an avenue to resuscitate the IPOB call for secession, which lead to the proscription of the group as a terrorist group. A group of people that no longer feel secured in their supposed country, called to continue from where their forefathers stopped and immediately tagged as terrorist group. Kanu became a wanted man, miraculously, he escaped Nigeria. Even if most of us don’t agree with so many of Kanu’s sayings, but there is always an iota if truth in them when reasoned logically.
The Fulani herdsmen that are terrorizing farmers, killing people in their scores was never proscribed as a terrorist group, they are not seen as threat to National security, instead, the government kept negotiating with them. Who will see this actions and not want to say the government is in support of this group?
In the middle of “Yoruba Nation” agreeing and disagreeing on Amotekun, Kanu and his men inaugurated Eastern Security Network, overnight. Seems we are heading towards regional security system, away to do with the central system, that can’t protect her own citizens.
I’ve watched videos of these herdsmen razing villages down, rendering people homeless, amongst others. Yet, you don’t want people to protect themselves, when you can’t do so.
I watched a video of Nnamdi Kanu calling on Yoruba nation to wake up and protect themselves, saying there’s no one nation anymore and the plans of the Fulanis is to take over the whole nation, with Buhari as the president. As they believe the whole country should be for them and them alone and they are trying to carry out their plans in disguise as herdsmen. He gave an example of how they pretended to be friends with the Hausas and eventually enslaved them, till they chase them out of some parts of the North East.
There seem to be a Yoruba folklore of Afonja and the Fulanis. After employing their assistance to conquer the then Oyo empire, he was assassinated, then Ilorin became a Sokoto caliphate, and a Fulani man became the Emir. which till date is causing dispute year in year out. To some extent, Nnamdi Kanu’s theorem may be right, they want to possess the land by killing, judging from the way they infiltrated the North, the Hausas. They were initially not Nigerians, according to history .
No one is saying they shouldn’t graze, but right now, extremism is what they are practising and it seems the government are comfortable with it. In all, will the Yoruba Nation fold arms and allow this to happen, after the whole Ilorin saga? This and many more led to the emergence of Sunday Igboho.
