The sorry state of the Nigeria State, a terrorist State.

This is really a troubling time, the network of Fula terrorists are the ones who have plunged Nigeria into chaos. They are not even subtle about it; they are in your face about it. First, this terrorist group masterminded the abduction and kidnap of Nnamdi Kanu in broad daylight in Kenya. Without wasting time their spokesman, Abubarkar Malami could hardly contain himself over the kidnap, that he announced the kidnap in Hausa at the Press Conference he held, gloating over it as if it was something to be proud of. Maybe to the Fula ethnic, it was a moment of celebration, to many other Nigerians, it was indeed a very sad moment. What Malami did at that press conference to me is an insult to Nigeria. The focus of my article is however different, the focus is the attack in Ibadan at 1 AM July 1, 2021. 

I want to use this write-up to register a strong protest against the Federal Government’s attack on Chief Sunday Igboho’s home. What happened there in the wee hours of July 1, 2021 was a failed attempt to assassinate a citizen of Nigeria, a gallant son of Yoruba. Regardless of which side of the divide you are on, everyone of us should be troubled by what happened there in Ibadan on that early morning.

Former president Goodluck Jonathan once stated, some people want power, not because they want to serve the people, but because they want to use power to oppress the people. I have to say that GEJ was correct.

Mohammadu Buhari’s government is fast looking like a rogue government that has little or no concern for the wellbeing of “the” other Nigerians, who do not belong to his ethnic group or his brand of religion. Buhari’s government has with determination, and deliberate policy placed themselves at the helm of every government Agency and perfecting a plan to kill the rest of the Nigeria citizens.

Oloye Sunday Igboho suffered unspeakable carnage in the hands of the FG … the whole Yoruba nation is under attack, let us not be mistaken about it. The atrocity that took place in Ibadan city and at the home of Oloye Sunday Igboho, said it all. 

The entire Nigeria citizens are under siege, it has become very clear to all Nigerians that this Buhari government has no understanding of the concept of NATION BUILDING. The people in the current administration sought power just so they can use power to repress and oppress the citizens of Nigeria. 

It is abundantly clear that we have a group in power whose main purpose and goal is to undermine an egalitarian and a just society in Nigeria which some of us still believe is possible. Nigeria appears to be asleep, while these hell-bent ethnic group is relentless at work using the peaceful religion of Islam to cheat, steal and pillage Nigeria. They did not just start yesterday, they started way back in 1979, and they became bolder by the year to the point where they have now made ethnic cleansing/genocide the corner stone of their mission.

All they want is power, and they want it by force, they want power not build a viable Nigeria, but to actually see to it that Nigeria in its present form is destroyed. They want only their ethnic group to be the beneficiary. Their dream is so they can lord themselves over the rest of the Nigeria citizens. Th most annoying part is that we have this Attorney General, Abu Malami who thinks is the attorney general of the Fula people. He truly thinks in his troubled mind that the Igbos are conquered people. I will like to ask him just when did that conquest take place?

Perhaps he does not understand the Civil war of 1967 – 1970. I can not pin point any sector of the war where the Fula people excelled. This is not to mean that the northern soldiers did not excel, they did, I remember Col. M. Shuwa, from the North East, Colonels Gibson S. Jalo, Illiya D. Bisalla, Ibrahim Haruna all of who were gallant soldiers that fought to keep Nigeria ONE. The atrocities the North West soldiers committed in Asaba is still fresh in our minds, the massacre of Delta Igbos youths, which was carried out under Murtala Mohammed’s command, by one Ibrahim Taiwo who fashioned himself as a Fula. In real war these people who found it so easy to kill innocent young Igbo males were no match for what later confronted them at both Onitcha and Abagana, Biafra. The Nigeria Army under Murtala was roundly defeated in Abagana, a whole battalion was eviscerated and totally destroyed by the Bifrans.

I often hear about Karma, it came looking for Murtala Mohammed and Ibrahim Taiwo and served them a fair dosage of their own medicines, they too were killed like rats in broad day light by their fellow northerners.

I will urge Malami to go and study the Nigeria civil war 1967-1970, may be then, he will learn something that will make a human being out of him, something that will truly humble him. The Fula ethnic group don’t understand the value of diversity. They act like spies all over Nigeria, killing everyone they perceive to be in their way. I know without any doubt, that Governor of Ondo State is perhaps on their list of those they want to get rid of. I know they will be watching all of his moves. It is sad that I even allow myself to think in this way, but this is the truth about the Fula people.

At a time when everyone’s hand should be on deck to lift Nigeria out of the ruts it is in, most of us, unfortunately are worried about being kidnap by fellow Nigerians so to put it. We are consumed about our safety, we can’t go and farm, the citizens are in fear of being macheted to death if they went to farm, like they did to Dr. Aborode, a relation of Oloye Sunday Igboho. 

I am very careful, to make clear that, it is not the North that is on rampage – it is the Fula people who are going everywhere killing, raping and pillaging people’s lands, destroying lives and properties. Their fingerprints are all over the place, from Plateau to Adamawa and now the Southern States. 

For me as a Yoruba person, the attack on Chief Sunday Igboho is one act of State terrorism too much. Let no one be deceived about it. I make bold to say that there will not be a situation in Nigeria again, where the Nigeria Militarily will be used to engage any section of the Federation like it was done during the Nigeria vs Biafra war. It will NEVER happen again. What will happen is, individual ethnic group will stand to defend itself against their killers. The Buhari’s government should hide itself in shame and should be seen and treated as a pariah in the community of nations.

I miss Gani Fawehinmi … if Gani were alive today, he would have been in the courthouse filing suit against FG regarding this unwarranted attack in Ibadan. It is an attack on all Yoruba people and it is just that clear.

We have one nation to call our own, we either work to build it or die destroying it.

 

Michael O Folorunso

Dallas, Texas, USA