As I woke up this morning, Friday, July 12, 2019, I was greeted with the following WhatsApp message on my cellphone:
"I am so sad to see the Fulani herdsmen, the world's fourth most deadly terrorist organization on Nigerian International Passport. It is a proof that the federal government has been the major sponsor of all the terrorist attacks been meted on Nigerians, on the Eastern, Southern and Middle Belt parts of the country. … I am urging all well-meaning Nigerians to reject the new International Passports, as a protest, and those who have obtained them to start destroying them. … Whatever symbol you have in your International Passport, that symbol represents the values of that country. And now the Nigeria government has the fourth terrorist organization on its International Passport. What does that tell you? Does it mean that Nigeria government promotes the values of Fulani herdsmen militias? … I urge you to boycott applying for International Passport until the government removes this terrorist organization from that Passport." (The author of this video You-Tube message gave his name as, Simon Ekpa).
The day before, precisely in the early morning of Thursday, July 11, 2019, as I was working on another article entitled, 'Dangerous Silence of Christian Politicians at a Time Like this in Nigeria', I got a WhatsApp alert on the same issue, with the following message:
"#RUGA: Zoom in on the attached copy of the 2019 Nigeria International Passport and see what's imprinted on it: 'Killer-herdsmen symbol'. …. Then, the sender added, 'Why not just let us go our separate ways' … It is getting too much unbearable in Nigeria."
I shared the clip with few friends in my phone contacts. One of them after few minutes replied with the following comment:
"Yes. We belong to the COW country and that is why we are COWARDS with ranches in our vegetable gardens and ritually sexed cows on our table. RUGA will soon become our currency as our President is a cow rearer."
These are just few out of many comments of concerned Nigerians, expressing their disappointment on the newly launched Nigerian International Passport by President Muhammed Buhari. They argued that the new International Passport dotted with killer-herdsmen symbol or rather inscription, is part of the unfolding Islamization and Fulanization agenda of Buhari government.
This is against the insinuation of all those who interpret Islamization and Fulanization agenda being levelled against this administration as 'conspiracy theory.' With what has been unfolding rapidly nowadays, it is clear to whosoever cares to know that the present administration is pursuing Islamization and Fulanization agenda in Nigeria.
A popular Igbo adage says, 'Ahu ihe ka ubi, ele oba.' Which loosely translates, 'when you see something bigger than your farm, you immediately sell whatever you have in your (yam) barn to get at it.' I had to abandon the article I was working on before when this issue of killer-herdsmen symbol and inscription on the new Nigerian Passports came up. This is to enable me give full attention in discussing the new burning national issue in our present article.
This is what I have exactly done here. Our present article is about the implications of having killer-herdsmen symbol on the Nigerian International Passports. The article discusses it as a great spite of the present federal government on Non-Muslim Fulani Nigerians, especially, Christians, who constitute little over 50% of the country's population.
Caveat: In this article as in our previous ones, we are not referring to all Fulanis as 'killer-herdsmen.' No. Far from it. In fact, the truly Nigerian Fulanis, those who have been living and pasturing their cows in various parts of the country before the arrival of these 'killer-herdsmen, are not in support of what these terrorist-herders are doing in the country today. Moreover, we know that not all Nigerian Fulanis share this administration's Islamization and Fulanization agenda. Not all of them are in support of inserting killer-herdsmen symbol on our International Passports.
We say all this, in order to show that we are not against our Nigerian Fulani ethnic-nationality. Especially, those of them they have been living peacefully, rearing their Cattles in ranches in the past with simple sticks, without molesting or killing anybody. These are different people from today's marauding killer-herdsmen, who roam around every town and villages of the Middle Belt, Eastern and Southern Nigeria, with their cows, carrying AK47s, killing innocent citizens, destroying their villages, towns and farmlands. These are the killer-herdsmen being discussed here.
Therefore, in this article, we avoid making sweeping-statement of putting all Fulanis in the same box with the Killer-herders, or the Aso Rock Cabal and Miyetti Alla, the Umbrella association of the marauding Fulani herdsmen themselves. Unfortunately, President Buhari is the Grand National Patron of Miyetti Alla, sponsors of the Fulani killer-herdsmen.
Moreover, President Buhari himself had told us that the marauding Fulani killer-herdsmen he wants to establish RUGA settlements in all the 36 States of the federation are not Nigerians. That they are from Libya and other neighboring African countries. One wonders why he wants these foreigners, who are deadly, to relocate to Nigeria, occupy the ancestral lands of people of the Eastern Nigeria, Middle Belt and Southern parts of the country!
Many Nigerians who have fallen victims of these killer-herdsmen in recent time also confirmed that majority of them do not speak English or Hausa or any other Nigerian language. Rather they speak French and Fulani Fulfulde. Therefore, we are dealing with foreigners who have invaded Nigeria from neighboring African countries and beyond, where Fulanis also are found. That is, if we are to take the President and his spokespersons by their words. And also going by the testimony of many victims of these killer-herdsmen in recent times.
What we are dealing with in Nigeria today, is a situation whereby Fulani killer-herdsmen from neighboring African countries, such as Mali, Niger Republic, Ghana, Benin Republic, Cameroun, Sudan and Central African Republic, etc., have invaded the country, and the federal government appeared to be solidly behind them. As Retired General T.Y. Danjuma recently alerted the nation, the Nigerian federal government, military and police, collude and work closely with Miyetti Allah, sponsors of the killer-herdsmen.
This explains the federal government complicity of silence and inaction whenever these terror groups strike and attack innocent Nigerians in the Eastern, Middle Belt and Southern parts of the country. And why none of the killer-herdsmen had been apprehended, prosecuted or imprisoned since this government came to power in 2015?
Again, it still beats the imagination of people of good conscience, why President Buhari prefers these foreigners, terrorists from his Fulani tribesmen, who are from other countries, to his fellow Nigerian citizens. Why the President and his team invited them to invade Nigeria in the first place, allowing them to carry out all those terrorist activities, without apprehension, is a matter of great concern to all people of good conscience. This is difficult to comprehend.
This is why some have concluded that perhaps, the present administration employed the services of the killer-herdsmen for its' Islamization and Fulanization project. And if need be, for execution of Jihad on the rest of Nigerians. If this is so, may God frustrate all their plans! May this regime not succeed in its evil plan!
Killer-herdsmen Symbol on Nigerian Passport: Implications
Trust, they say, connects government with the governed. Once people sense an insincere government in power, the trust they have on the government collapses. President Buhari had, few days ago, launched and presented to the public, the new International Passports. However, what he and his aides did not tell Nigerians was about the RUGA-killer-herdsmen symbols inscribed in the Visa pages of the newly launched International Passports.
Very disturbing was the secretive way, the administration cleverly inserted the Fulani herdsmen terrorists' inscription in the new Nigerian International Passports. By inserting the symbol of the world fourth most deadly terrorist organization on the Nigerian International Passport, President Buhari has finally told the world the kind of value his government believes in, and he himself, is promoting in Nigeria. This identity, he wants to confer on Nigerians, carriers of the new International Passport, as 'citizens of a terrorist country.'
Therefore, the President's action is a spite on Nigerians, calling all of us fools and weakling. People on whom he can easily impose his own tribesmen religion, ethnic-culture and symbols as he wishes. To allow Fulani killer herdsmen symbol inscription on the new International Passport to stand, would amount to all of us succumbing to Buhari's Islamization and Fulanization project. It means accepting this spite of his on all of us as Nigerians.
Again, it would mean that the President has finally, succeeded in imposing Fulani RUGA-herdsmen life style, symbol and culture on all of us, as the new identity of every Nigeria carrier of the International Passport. It means, in the final analysis, in the eye of the world, that Fulani herdsmen terrorism is the value Nigeria as a nation state is promoting. Symbols found on any international passport represent the values the particular country promotes and believes in.
This is the crux of the matter! Is terrorism of the killer-herdsmen the value Nigerian state promotes? Certainly no! This is why everybody should reject the new International Passport and demand that the killer-herdsmen symbol on it be removed with immediate effect.
With regard to the killer-herdsmen symbol inscribed in the new International Passport, the most painful part of it all is that this is happening at the heat of the debate - the national outcry against the infamous federal government policy to establish RUGA Fulani settlements in all the 36 States of the federation. Unfortunately, people foolishly thought the President had listened to their outcry against the whole issue, surrounding establishment of Fulani RUGA settlements. That is, when he announced the suspension of RUGA project, and people began demanding that the whole idea of RUGA, be cancelled altogether, for peace to reign in the land.
However, little did we know, that the federal government had even another deceitful bigger plan on the opine, the type that would eventually, make Fulani herdsmen militias' life style, symbol and culture, the new identity of all Nigerians through the nation's new International Passport. A deceit that has come to characterize the administration's relationship with the rest of us, its response to serious national issues of this nature.
Therefore, the new Nigerian International Passport, which is completely, 'RUGA Fulani killer-herdsmen symbol' infested, has invariably given all Nigerians a 'Fulani-Islamic' and terrorist identity. This is irrespective of your ethnic, religious or cultural identity as a Nigerian. The new International Passport has automatically, made all of us from that British contraption called Nigeria, Muslim terrorists and bearers of 'Fulani-Islamic' cultural identity.
Is this not the completion of President Buhari's administration Islamization and Fulanization project? His final attempt to destroy Nigeria as a secular state, and transform it into a Caliphate Islamic Arabic nation for his tribesmen, Fulani herdsmen from all over African countries and beyond, to come and take over our ancestral lands, after killing our people? What abomination!
If we don't act fast now, the next plan of action of Buhari administration, perhaps, will be the Fulanization of the Nigerian Currency. Already, all the notes and coins of 'Naira and Kobo" respectively, of the Nigerian Currency, each, has an Islamic Inscription in Arabic on it.
Moreover, sooner, or later, under Buhari government, the official name of Nigeria may be changed. That is, from 'Federal Republic of Nigeria', to, perhaps, 'The Caliphate Islamic Arabic Republic of Nigeria.' Only time will tell.
The federal government structure of Buhari administration is already 99% Islamized and Fulanized. The fate of Christians and indigenous populations of Nigeria today, under Buhari is so pathetic that there is no Christian or somebody from Non-Fulani indigenous Ethnic-Nationality heading any of the three arms of the federal government: a) executive, b) legislature, and c) judiciary.
In today's Nigeria, under President Buhari, almost all important posts at the federal level, are headed by the same people, Northern Fulani Muslims. E.g.:
Chief of Army Staff - a Northern Muslim
Chief of Air Force - a Northern Muslim
Chief of Defense Staff - a Northern Muslim
National Security Adviser - a Northern Muslim
Internal affairs Minister - a Northern Muslim
Chief Customs Officer - a Northern Muslim
Head of Nigerian Immigrations - a Northern Muslim
Head of Paramilitary - a Northern Muslim
Education Minister - a Northern Muslim
NNPC - a Northern Muslim
EFCC - a Northern Muslim
DSS - a Northern Muslim
Secretary to the Federal Government - a Northern Muslim
Chief of Staff to the President - a Northern Muslim
Pilgrim Board - a Northern Muslim
Population and Census Commission - a Northern Muslim
Chief Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal - a Northern Muslim
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria - a Northern Muslim.
All the key Federal Parastatals and Companies, etc., are headed by Northern Muslims.
By Rev. Fr. Francis Anekwe Oborji
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