The leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, reacted to claims of Fulani
vigilante mounting roadblocks in the South-West.
A prominent lawyer, Kayode Ajulo
had raised alarm of Miyetti Allah’s members claiming to be vigilante group in
Akure, Ondo State.
Similarly, former Aviation
Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode alleged that some members of the Miyetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, under the guise of vigilante, were
mounting roadblocks and harassing people of the region.
Reacting, Kanu faulted the Yoruba
race for allowing a Fulani vigilante in the South-West.
The separatist, in a statement by
the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said: “They come like Thieves in the
Night!!! By Dawn they are everywhere. They slaughter your sons, rape your
Wives, defile your mothers and take your daughters as sex slaves.
“They kidnap your culture
custodians and desecrate your traditions. They have infested your forests and
sacred groves. They have become audacious on your own soil and search and
interrogate your farmers and hunters as they peacefully pursue their rural
livelihoods. They wreak havoc, ransack and loot. That which you hold dear mean
less than cows.
“The social media buzz arising
from pictures of Fulani Vigilante (all with their ID cards) in Yoruba land
accosting prominent Lawyer, Kayode Ajulo In Akure on July 22, has left many
questions than the thousands of mixed comments across the social media
spectrum.
“Yet, some pertinent questions
that stick out are these: When did this Fulani herdsmen vigilante get formed in
Yoruba land? Is it ever possible that the entire Yoruba race was collectively
unaware of this well-armed Fulani group until just yesterday when – by
providence or happenstance – they revealed themselves to the public? Is this
not the sort of vigilante that IPOB had completely rejected in Biafraland? Why
did the Yoruba cave in?
“While we ponder these questions,
plus the many unasked ones, let us not lose sight of the hurried visits to the
Presidency in the past few days by two of the preeminent Yoruba traditional
leadership in Nigeria – the Oni of Ife and Alafin of Oyo. These visits raised
some red flags, especially coming on the heels of the murder of Pa Fasoranti’s
daughter and the quantum evidence of significant hostile Fulani herdsmen
penetration of Yoruba land.
“It’s more worrisome that,
instead of standing up to the bullies and the cabal at Aso Rock, these highly
respected leaders were content to banter and engage in the general platitudes
of lamely complaining about “insecurity in the land”. They seemed to forget
that the ‘thing’ at Aso Rock that they call Buhari, together with the Cabal, is
the epicenter of the insecurity and other horrible machinations in the land.
Without the Abba Kyari led cabal in Aso Rock, there won’t be anything like
Fulani herdsmen, not to talk of their unbridled terror. Even Boko Haram
would’ve been history from what was left of them by the sheer grits and
gallantry of General Azubuike Ihejirika.
“A few days ago, a prominent Yoruba
analyst, Prof Toba Alabi, writing under the caption “The Yoruba Nation And The
Dilemma Of Bola Tinubu And Yemi Osinanjo …”, had this to say, and I shall
paraphrase: ‘Yoruba has a history of humiliation in Nigeria and this must be
addressed. Awolowo was jailed and an army of occupation infiltrated the
Southwest. In 1966, Col. Fajuyi was killed. Abiola won an election but died in
detention. Abacha jailed Obasanjo, killed Kudirat Abiola, Suliat Adedeji and
tried to kill Generals Diya, Olanrewaju and Adisa. What did the Yoruba nation
not suffer under Sani Abacha? Every imaginable form of indignity was meted out
on them’.
“Now, I ask: Is the Yoruba not
being humiliated even more now than before? Have we not seen sufficient signs
(and wonders, if you will) to act decisively? Anyways, Prof Alabi was not done
yet, as he seemingly pointed the Yoruba to what everybody already knows.
“He said, and I quote: “Olusegun
Obasanjo has now realized rather too late that his patriotic zeal for one
Nigeria has been largely misplaced. About three years ago when he started
observing the contradictions in the Buhari government, so many Yoruba including
Tinubu called him names. But today the falcon is coming home to roost. With the
clannishness in key appointments, the killer herdsmen and the Ruga Settlement
Policy, the emerging supremacy of one ethnic group over others becoming
manifest …”.
“In the midst of this seeming
complacency of such a great race, one wonders what happened to the indomitable
Yoruba civic revolutionary zeal that, in times past, led to cataclysmic changes
in Nigeria. Where’s the famed Yoruba media and political activists who fought
back with Operation Wetie in 1964, who virtually instigated the first coup in
1966, then forced Babangida to step aside, marooned Abacha into pariah status
and early death, and even helped to force Jonathan out of power? Why are they
silent while Nigeria, including Yoruba land, is being steadily converted to a
neo-Fulani empire on a daily basis?
“It’s not enough that there are
some Yorubas of note who have been consistent in pushing back; who have been
standing tall and proud; and who have formed the little bulwark that can be
said to be the only thing currently standing in some symbolic defense of the
Yoruba race. Still, while it’s getting worrisome that vast majorities of
Yorubas may already be feeling helpless and conquered, there’s some fleeting
comfort in the assumption that the Yoruba might as well be merely bidding their
time to calculate and come forth with potent and final solutions.
“Be that as it may, and in the
final reckoning of things, ALL oppressed Nigerians can count on the IPOB never
to back down, never. Freedom flows through the veins of every Biafran from
historical times to present times! That is one covenant that we have with the
Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama!
“That is why it was Biafrans who
took it upon themselves to liberate enslaved Africans during the era of slavery
in the Americas.
“That is why you cannot discuss
any topic of liberations and attempted liberations during the enslavement of
Africans in the Americas without talking about the Biafrans who led these
liberation efforts.
“That is why Haiti could not be
free until a Biafran, Dutty Boukman (an Igbo Dibia), led the Haitian Revolution
– a revolution that engendered the second independent country in the Western
Hemisphere (second only to the United States) in 1804, leading to the eventual
independence of the whole Latin America (with Biafran Haitians fighting in all
those wars). That Biafrans liberated Haitians and other South Americans was why
Haiti recognised Biafra back in 1967. IPOB is ready. Join us.”
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