In his book titled “Concerning the Government of Our Countryand 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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