In his book titled “Concerning the Government of Our Country and
Neighboring Countries in the Sudan”, Nigeria’s first Mahdi, Sheik Usman
Dan Fodio, who is the father of the Fulani Caliphate and leader of the
1804 jihad that overwhelmed and conquered what is now known as northern
Nigeria wrote:
“The government of a country is the government of
its king without question. If the king is a Muslim, his land is Muslim;
if he is an unbeliever, his land is a land of unbelievers. In these
circumstances it is obligatory for anyone to leave it for another
country”.
Could this strange and primitive rationale be the reason
for the creeping attempt to wipe out Christianity, destroy the Church,
slaughter Christians, Islamise the faithful and enslave the people of
the south and Middle Belt in our country today?
Could this be the
ethos and philosophical bedrock and foundation of the imperative of
Islamic domination and Fulani rule? Have we finally discovered the
intellectual Holy Grail of Fulani raison d’etra?
This brings me to a number of other questions which many harbour but few dare to ask.
The
southern region of Nigeria has not had a Chief Justice of the
Federation in 30 years and now that one has been nominated by the
National Judicial Council our core northern President Muhammadu Buhari
has simply refused to confirm him. The question may be asked, what is
the south’s portion in Nigeria?
Such is the suspicion, bedlam and
utter turmoil in our nation today that some are of the view that the
solution to the problems of Nigeria is not just restructuring but a
total break up of the country.
They believe that restructuring may
be a good first step but the final destination has to be a total and
complete break up and divorce.
They argue that this can he done peacefully and quietly or it will eventually be done violently and in a very messy way.
They say that the sooner we do it the easier it will be and that the longer we delay it the more messy it will be.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with them one thing is clear: we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder and we ALL know it.
It is just that we like to pretend. The bottom line is this: things cannot go on the way they are.
Some
believe that we should let the four “liberal” zones (south-west,
south-south, south- east and north-central) come together and form one
nation and let the north-west and north- east zone either go and merge
with Chad and Niger Republic or form their own country.
They argue
that we should let the Christians, the Shiite Muslims and the core
northern ethnic minority tribes that presently live in the north- east
and north-west, if they wish, to relocate, move to the Middle Belt
(north-central) and remain with us in Nigeria.
Interestingly this
mass relocation and migration process was executed in India when she
broke into two and Pakistan was formed just after she got her
independence from the British.
Millions of Muslims who resided in
India moved north to the other side of the country that was to be later
called Pakistan whilst millions of Hindus who resided in the area that
was to be later called Pakisan relocated from there and moved all the
way south to the area that continued to be referred to as India.
Given
the terrible carnage that took place between the Hindus and the Muslims
in India before the break-up the whole thing worked rather well and
saved millions of lives.
This was the case even though there were
three border wars between the two countries not too long after the
division and tensions exist between them until today.
Yet had it
not been for the break-up the number of casualties would have been far
higher and the victims of the fratricidal butchery which took place
would have been primarily the civilian population, including women and
children, rather than just the soldiers.
Some believe that we in
Nigeria must take a cue from the Indian, and later Sudanese, examples.
They believe that we must break Nigeria into two before we kill each
other to the last man and woman.
They believe that it is either we
negotiate this and let it be done in an equitable, reasonable,
respectful and orderly manner or we will end up having a violent,
brutal, bloody and long ethnic war in this country which will result in
the final balkanisation and break up of Nigeria into no less than four
or more pieces.
Whichever way we cannot be compelled to stay in a nation that is
controlled by our collective oppressors and those that believe that
killing others that do not share their faith or belong to their ethnic
group or religious sect for much longer.
They have sucked the nations blood dry and killed the host body that they have fed fat on for the last 56 years.
They
have killed the spirit of Nigeria and sacrificed her unity on the alter
of greed, hate, religious intolerance, political domination and false
notions of ethnic supremacy.
Their hegemony is an affront to the Living God and it stands against the natural order of things.
It is time for them to go or to be thrown out.
It is only after this happens that we can achieve our full potentials as a nation and that our people can be truly blessed.
Those
that control the country and believe that they own it will NEVER allow
restructuring because it defeats the object of their purpose.
Given
that, it is very clear that we are heading for the rocks because the
generation of southern and Middle Belt Nigerans that come after mine
refuse to accept the notion that they are nothing but glorfied slaves
and second class citizens.
My generation and those that came
before it were far more ready to compromise with the evil, accept that
bogus notion and just contiue to hope for the best.
The result is
that we are still waiting and hoping whilst the grip of our internal
colonial masters and their power is greater today than it has EVER been.
Meanwhile
thousands of southerners, Shiite Muslims, Middle Belters and northern
Christians have been slaughtered at the altet and are being butchered by
the sponsored ethnic militias that are known as the Fulani herdsmen.
One must ask, how long are we going to continue watching this evil
silently and just keep hoping for the best?
This sort of thing can
only happen in Nigeria. If people had been subjected to such barbarity
and wickedness in any other country in the world there would have been
international outrage and violent reactions long ago. Yet in Nigeria we
respond to it with nothing but indifference and silence in the name of
political correctness. It is truly pathetic.
The truth is that
this “political correctness” will kill us if we dont kill it first. We
must be prepared to say the things that we say to one another behind
closed doors publicly as well.
The country needs a dose of truth
to heal its wounds and it also needs focused, strong, honest and
decisive leadership. Those that believe that they were born to kill us
at will and rule us in perpetuity must either accept that they are not
our ethnic masters and stop all this barbarity or they must go.
The
truth is that the whole country is ready to explode. We the older men
are the ones that are just still talking. The younger ones stopped
talking long ago and now they are preparing for war.
I have
travelled to many parts of this country in the last few weeks and months
and what I saw and heard scared me. And I dont scare easily. We must
try to keep a lid on it and talk our way out of this mess before the
bullets start flying and reason and rational thinking goes out of the
window.
Those that believe that they own Nigeria are the greatest
obstacle to national cohesion and no one else. The rest of us can work
out our differences, keep our four zones, devolve power from the centre
and establish a 21st century secular modern nation-state where we are
all equal, where the rule of law prevails and where islamic
fundamentalism and ethnic domination has no place.
We must also
work out our differences in the south. It is the division amongst the
southerners that feeds and fuels core northern hegemony. We must all
make concessions and set our differences aside and come together as one
againt our collective adversaries.
If we cannot do that and we
allow historical differences and rivalries to abide and flourish then
frankly we deserve to remain as the slaves that they have turned us
into. Let us hope that good reason prevails and that we make the right
choices.
Let us hope that we are guided by God and His Holy Spirit
in all our endeavours. Let us hope that we can muster the courage to
say “no more” to ethnic and religious cleansing, mass murder, bondage,
servitude and tyranny.
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