I want to use this platform to plead with Nigerians, please do not vote for buhari in this upcoming elections.
My Name is Mfon Ukut . I was born in Nigeria, I am currently a student in one of the federal universities of Nigeria.
I am writing to draw your attention and that of the British government to the continuing ethnic cleansing of Nigerian villages by Fulani herdsmen terrorists and the apparent inability of the Nigerian government (Buhari) to respond in the way any other honest and democratic government, facing such existential crisis would respond under the circumstances.
Clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers have been taking place in Nigeria for many years. In the past, the government usually intervenes to ensure justice. However, since the election of Mohammadu Buhari, a Fulani, as president of Nigeria, Fulani terrorists armed with AK 47 has been invading villages cleansing it and occupying it. This is both a new development, disconcerting and does not augur well for the future of Nigeria as one united country.
I feel compelled to speak out using this medium as my voice because of the escalation of this problem and the ethnic gap it is opening in the Nigerian society, the continuing loss of innocent lives, the increasing obvious complicity of the Nigerian government under Rtd. Major General Mohammadu Buhari and the government’s campaign of misinformation and deception.
The claim by the Nigeria president that the herdsmen committing crimes against humanity by sacking villages, killing children, women and men, burning house and internally displacing people in Nigeria are from Libya is not correct. One can only imagine his motive for misrepresenting the facts. All the evidence suggests that the Fulani terrorists are nomadic Fulanis. Most Nigerians know that the terrorist are Fulanis sponsored by the Miyetti Allah, an organisation made up of Powerful Fulani cattle owners for north Nigerians, who are also Muslims.
The president of Nigeria Mohammad Buhari, a Fulani, is a lifelong Patron of this organisation and was the chairman before he was elected president. Below are the names of the current Chairman and members of the Board of Trustee of Miyetti Allah:
a). Chairman Board of Trustee, His Eminence, Mohammad Sa'ad III Sultan of Sokoto
b). His Royal Highness Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II Emir of Kano member
c). His Royal Highness Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman Emir of Kastina Member
d). His Royal Highness Alhaji (Dr) Shehu Idris Abubakar Emir of Zazzau member
e). His Royal Highness Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha Lamido of Adamawa member.
These are the men behind the declaration of sharia law in north Nigeria and the people, who can end Fulani herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria today, if they decide. They are the men, who have kept silent, while Christian girls are abducted and forced into marriage with Muslim men in north Nigeria.
It is no secret that North Nigeria has an Islamic agenda, which it kicked off by declaring sharia laws in North Nigeria. It has also weaponised Islam to pursue its political ambition of controlling the whole of Nigeria. It is this ambition that is behind President Buhari’s attitude to both Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorisms. Currently, it seems the Nigerian army and police under president Buhari have become complicit in this pogrom. President Buhari retired over 200 army officers from south, when he took office, and all his senior security officers are Muslims from the north. This is in a country with over 250 ethnic groups. You can only imagine the distrust this singular act has created in the Nigeria polity.
So far, the Nigeria security forces are behaving exactly the way the Sudanese security force was behaving, when the Janjaweede were attacking and displacing the people of Darfur. Nigerian army and police refuse to protect villages at risk and often arrive after the killings to prevent reprisal attacks. They have also refused to disarm the terrorists; even though they know their camps. They have failed to bring the terrorist to justice, even when some have been arrested. The police chief, have tried to justify the actions of the terrorists. The President, Mohammadu Buhari has generally kept silent after terrorist attacks and have sort to justify the rights of Fulani herdsmen to graze their cattle on farms, while being silent on their victims. Recently, Rtd. Lt General T Y Danjuma, one time Nigerian defence minister, whose tribe have been severely affected said that the Nigerian army is complicit in this evolving and deepening crime against humanity and urged the people to defend themselves. I fear that this may be the beginning of descent of Nigeria to Somalia kind of lawlessness.
Fulani herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria is a well-planned ethnic cleansing of minority population to create grazing grounds for cattle by the Miyetti Allah and Fulani settlement from where they intend to launch war to conquer the whole region. This is consistent with the historical modus operandi of the Fulanis. It is unlawful. It is immoral and should not be accepted by the civilised world.
I believe that Britain, being responsible for the amalgamation of north and southern Nigerian protectorate in 1914, should now lead in helping the different ethnic nations it coupled together for administrative convenience to achieve peaceful coexistence. As the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, you are in a privileged position to speak truth to power in Nigeria by advising president Mohammadu Buhari to abandon his jihad in Nigeria and govern for all the ethnic groups.
President Mohammadu Buhari’s current attempt to use the organs of the Nigerian State to serve the sectarian interest of Fulanis all over West Africa, should be condemned. I believed that Britain should impress on President Buhari the need to implement his party promise of restructuring Nigeria into a true federation to give six Nigerian regions the degree of autonomy they need to develop at their pace. This would seem the only single action that would prevent the implosion of Nigeria.
I believe that it is time for the British government to demonstrate that it cares for all Nigerians, including the Christians, who have been paying the blood price of the sectarian polices of President Mohammadu Buhari and Islamic and ethnic agendas of north Nigeria.
The facts would suggest that that President Mohammadu Buhari is not being honest with the World about his Islamic and ethnic ambitions for Nigeria. So far, Buhari’s government is the most sectarian and nepotistic government Nigeria has seen. He has injected unhealthy dose of ethnicity and extreme Wahhabi Islam in the Nigerian.
Immediately he took office, several Shia Muslims were massacred by the Nigerian army and their leader is still in detention. He recently declared the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) a terrorist group, even though the group is going about their agitation for self-determination in a non-violent way. At the same time, he has refused to declare the world 4th most dangerous terrorist group, Fulani herdsmen, a terrorist group in Nigeria.
The British government and people should also know that President Buhari is presiding over a very corrupt government and that all that a corrupt politician in Nigerian needs to do to escape being harassed is to join APC, President Buhari’s political party.
President Buhari has continued the very corrupt practice of budget padding and budgeting for things the government knows is not needed. He has not made a single institutional reform to address corruption in Nigeria. His anti-corruption War involves arresting, and harassing suspected corrupt politicians and setting them free, if they agree to return part of the loot or failing to pursue their prosecution, if they join his political party. The result is that Nigeria remains a fantastically corrupt country, where graft, embezzlement, over invoicing, extortions by police and bribery are endemic.
The evidence would suggest that President Buhari is abusing his power to advance the sectarian interest of the north and the Fulani race, by aiding the violent ethnic cleansing of mainly Christian Nigerian villages by Fulani terrorists and spending Nigerian resources to develop Fulani nations like Niger at the expense of other parts of Nigeria. Recently, he excluded Igbo land from a west East Rail line, while approving extension of rail way line from Nigeria to Niger.
At the moment, Fulanis from all over Africa are coming to Nigeria to occupy villages cleansed of the indigenous population, who are now internally displaced people. In any other civilised country, the behaviour, attitude and response of President Buhari to Fulani terrorism in Nigeria would be considered absurd, unacceptable and unconscionable.
In Nigeria, under Buhari, the army has stood by, while Fulani terrorists committed crimes against humanity and police have sort to find justification for the terror, like the one offered by the president, during his recent meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury. When the security agencies have intervened, it is to protect the terrorist by preventing reprisal attacks.The most intriguing part of the Nigerian government response to Fulani herdsmen terrorism is that the police have also stepped up disarming the population at risk, instead of disarming the terrorists. Both the army and police are headed by Muslims from north Nigeria.
I write to you, Nigerians her on Steemit. Please arm yourselves with your voters cards this upcoming elections and play your part to bring Nigeria to freedom. Presently the nation can be compared to a ticking bomb but combined we can diffuse it. Stop complaining about the administration and speak with one voice. Together we are stronger that the government.