The Complicity of Fulani Elite

in the
Ongoing Genocidal National Colonization Strategy
by
Nigerian Government Aided Fulani Warlords

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Compcros
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
Why is it that Fulani elite are silent when Miyetti Allah, run by Nigeria's
most elite Fulani, most prominent among whom are the Sultan of Sokoto
and the ex-Nigerian bank governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi, justify the various massacres carried out by Fulani herdsmen in the
Middle Belt and even threaten more and carry it out, as in their open
defiance of Benue state's anti-open grazing law enacted to protect the state
against the murderous rapaciousness that Fulani herdsmen, led by Miyetti
Allah, have come to be associated with, from Southern Kaduna to Edo state,
in which latter state their cows are seen occupying classrooms and where
they are repeatedly recorded as murdering innocents?
None of those declarations from various levels of Miyetti Allah leadership
was ever repudiated by the apex leadership of the organisation. Neither
was the open declaration by a Fulani professor that Benue belongs to the
Fulani by right of conquest publicly challenged by any Fulani, to the best of
my knowledge, talk less by Miyetti Allah. Yet Fulani elite emerge to speak
only when they see Fulani interests being challenged in the ongoing war
waged by greedy right wing Fulani warlords against Nigeria using the most
visible Fulani cultural activity, nomadic cattle husbandry, as an instrument
of national penetration and as a platform to manipulate Nigeria's political
processes by seeking to legislate into law the ceding of Nigeria's land to
Fulani herdsmen.
When they speak, they pretend to be unaware of the directing of the
ongoing genocide by a group whose members are among the most visible
face of Fulani ethnicity in Nigeria. When they acknowledge that reality, they
refuse to address the sheer horror that people of such eminence have made
themselves the sponsors of such a national calamity, a coven of blood
soaked vampires. The best they are able to do is to justify such inhumanity
as 'Babayola M. Tuongo does in "Obadiah Mailafiya: Hatred,Bigotry &
Intellectual Thuggery",a response to Obadiah Mailafiaya's "Genocide,
Hegemony and Power in Nigeria" which addresses “the genocide being
perpetrated by the Fulani militias in the Middle Belt of our country today".
The Fulani apologists, as Tuongo does, also ignore the occupation of Agatu
and other locations by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt after decimating
their native communities:
 He alleged in his disjointed piece that the Fulbe are right now on a
rampage of 'killing, pillaging and burning down entire villages'. Why
are they doing so? Just for the heck of it? History taught us about
causes, courses and effects. Not only do they kill, according to Mailafiya
– they also destroy farmsteads and repopulate them with their
own. Can he be benevolent enough to give us the name of one such
farmstead destroyed and repopulated by the Fulbe?

We are all witnesses to this unfolding history and the gradual but
consistent red listing of Fulani ethnicity in Nigeria by these overreaching
shenanigans.
The gradual but consistent unfolding of public opinion in Nigeria on this
hell that a group of anachronistic characters have plunged the nation into
can be seen as reflected in the development of opinions on this subject on
the scholarly group USAAfrica Dialogues Series Google group. Having
observed the development of heavily armed, military level sophisticated
and murderous Fulani militia in action before the 2015 escalation of their
terrorist agenda under the cover of the government of the Fulani national
ruler, Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari, I cried out in the group
against their consistently unfolding horrors in Benue, the SW and the SE,
describing them as executing a government sponsored terrorist
colonization agenda. Buhari dedicates in the group dismissed my outcries
as unrealistic scare mongering. Today, three years later, they are either
silent on the clear ethnic agenda unfolding or are calling for efforts to
address the systematic massacres.
Middle Belt scholar Moses Ochonu used to describe me as sensationalizing
the situation. Farooq Kperogi whose biography is intimately intertwined
with Fulani people in positive terms, has decried what he presented as the
scapegoating of Fulani ethnicity for what Ochonu and himself describe as
the misadventures of a disconnected band of miscreants, and when they at
last came round to acknowledging the reality of recurrent massacres
carried out by well organised Fulani militia, they insisted they were a
disconnected band of brigands they called Bororos.
What is their position as of today?
They have both declared Miyetti Allah a terrorist organisation. They both
cry out about the collusion between the federal government, Miyetti Allah
and the Fulani militia terrorist campaign, as graphically represented by the
support given by both the Inspector General of Police and the Minister of
Defence to the murderous vision of Miyetti Allah to force Benue into
submission through massacre, demanding the state must not act to forestall
their free roaming brigandry.
What does this imply?
An admission that a highly coordinated terrorist campaign is in action,
centred in a directing group, Miyeti Allah, itself led by the country's most
elite Fulani, a terrorist campaign supported by the Fulani/Hausa-Fulani
heads of Nigeria's security organisations, a government led by a Fulani man
whose accommodation of the terrorist campaign is clear, a government in
which appointment to leadership positions is dominated by what Kperogi
calls a policy of Arewaisation, the consolidation of power for the national
ruler's Northern Nigerian ethno-religious base.
It is wise to see the writing on the wall and retreat rather than invoking
drumbeats of genocide directed against critiques of the genocide being
carried out by the right wing Fulani political and military organisation, as
some Fulani elite are doing, when their representatives are the ones
abusing the trust and slow comprehension of Nigerians, using that as a
platform for carrying out genocide.
It took years for ex-Minister of Defense Theophilus Danjuma to declare the
current situation as genocide and to urge people to defend themselves or
face extinction in the face of the Nigerian army's, and by implication, the
Nigerian federal government's collusion with the terrorists. This has come
years after Danjuma and a group of Middle Belt elders held a public
meeting on this subject and cried out about the bloodletting even as some
people were yet to wake up to the reality, not getting a positive response to
the earlier outcry, Danjuma has made a more telling declaration.
So, who is to blame for the negative profile Fulani ethnicity is being stained
with?
All over Nigeria, people are asking who are these evilly daring warlords,
who, their kinsman having secured a national platform on a position of
trust by other Nigerians, have proceeded to demand that Nigerians suffer
death and enslavement at their hands? Where are they from? Have they
chosen to continue the political jihad of their ancestor Uthman dan Fodio
who conquered the Hausa states using religion as a cover, only to place his
biological heirs and generals as rulers over those states, with his
contemporary descendants using nomadic cattle husbandry as a primary
strategy to carry the same jihad beyond Illorin after which conquest years
ago through the betrayal of his people by Afonja their further advance was
stopped by Ibadan warriors?
Nigerian social media space, exemplified by Facebook, is rife with the
conclusion that a national colonization campaign is being carried out by
Fulani warlords supported by the Fulani led Federal government, a
position which I have insisted was the reality since the Agatu massacre
years ago, when these terrorists murdered hundreds , justified it in public
and went free, setting a pattern that has recurred in the years since then.
Every Fulani person, every Hausa-Fulani person, bears the responsibility
of taking a stand for or against Nigeria in this war
against Nigeria declared on their behalf. The Nazis pursued a vision for
Germany based on their warped perspectives. Today, we recall
those Germans who gave open support to Nazi executed genocide
and dictatorship, those who gave support through silence when they could
have spoken out, those who, like Christian priest, Martin Niemoller,
objected and paid the price of punishment, even death, for objecting.
There is only so much that control of the country's military might, Buhari's
primary weapon, can do. People have taken note that after nullifying
Nnamdi Kanu's peaceful IPOB civil disobedience secession strategy through
military attack, even employing tanks, and disappearing him and his
parents, the murderous terrorist attacks from Fulani militia intensified.
People have thus noted that IPOB was not the enemy. They have also noted
how IPOB fought heavily armed soldiers using stones at best.
Are Nigerians not getting to the breaking point?
Buhari's credibility in the South and with many in the Middle Belt and
Southern Kaduna has been destroyed. All he has left as a significant block is
the ethno/religious loyalty of supporters in the Muslim North and political
loyalists in the ruling APC who need him for their own political survival. His
supporters have demonstrated their readiness, as they did in their pro-
Buhari massacres of 2011, to attack and kill those they see as opposed to
him in the Muslim North, as demonstrated by the Facebook post at that link
in which a Buhari supporter celebrates a public mob beating of a person in
the North who declared Buhari will not win the 2019 elections. People in
the South are stating that if he is returned, he will turn Nigeria into a
Fulani dominated colony/graveyard. The South does not want him
anymore.

Nigeria is not Rwanda. Neither is it Sudan, where a similar strategy was

carried out by a religio/ethnic self deceiver. People are gradually getting to
the point of realizing that the most potent weapon against dictatorship is to
refuse to give it support, the road IPOB took with Kanu, not open combat,
since dictators like this one take care to secure control of the country's
security forces.
The restructuring option galvanized as a response to Kanu's secession
vision remains live, though subdued, since its urgency has been tempered
by his seeming defeat. People, however, are pointing to those who want the
parasitic political system to continue as before so they can keep feeding on
a captive nation. The Southern politicians can be protected only for so long
in their greed and cowardice, another plank of this terrorist strategy. The
secession option continues to grow in credibility as the stranglehold
becomes more savage.
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, the Greeks
declared.