I
have always said it that no responsible government will fold its hands
and watch while its citizens are being slaughtered and massacred in
their numbers. No responsible government will subtly encourage the
killing of its own citizens just to achieve its premeditated agenda of
cattle colony. No responsible government will value cows and animals
above human life. But now it is very clear to all Nigerians the hidden
agenda of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is very clear
that Nigerians made the greatest mistake of their lives by voting
Buhari to manage the affairs of Nigeria.
The
recent statement credited to the Special Assistant to President Buhari
on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina with respect to cattle colony on a
program on AIT is really unfortunate. It shows that Nigerians have been
taken for granted for too long and these people will continue to take
us for a ride and for fools if we don't show them the way out of office
by our collective will as Nigerians. When injustice thrives in the land
and the just fold their arms and do nothing, the unjust will
automatically believe that the injustice they perpetrated is right and
would continue in their acts of injustice. That is the situation we have
found ourselves in Nigeria.
Now
let us take a look at that statement by Femi Adesina: “Ancestral
attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive.
If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does
the attachment matter? The National Economic Council that recommended
ranching didn’t just legislate it, there were recommendations. So, if
your state genuinely does not have land for ranching, it is
understandable. Not every state will have land for ranches. But where
you have land and you can do something, please do for peace. What will
the land be used for if those who own it are dead at the end of the
day?”.
This type of
statement by Femi Adesina simply shows that he is reckless, senseless,
insensitive, wicked and heartless to the sufferings of Nigerians in his
quest to satisfy his pay masters and it is very clear that he is part of
the callous cabal that has held Nigeria hostage all along. But as they
say, like master, like servant. It is unfortunate that the government of
Buhari has brought untold hardship and suffering to millions of
Nigerians who thought that a messiah had come but alas we were wrong.
Thousands of innocent people have been gruesomely murdered since Buhari
took over office with empty promises to tackle insecurity for which he
was voted into office but he has failed to tackle the menace, rather
Nigerians have been massacred in their numbers in Benue and recently in
Plateau state as well as in other parts of the nation. But I'm not
surprised because that is their usual tactics; because election is
coming, so they would allow the killings so that they can use it to
campaign for another election, with another set of empty promises to
Nigerians to tackle the menace which they will never fulfill. That is
their game plan. It is a vicious circle. Their game plan is perfectly
understood.
By that
reckless statement from Femi Adesina, the Presidency has shown Nigerians
clearly that they they are indirectly in support of the mindless
killings of innocent Nigerians by fulani herdsmen across Nigeria. They
have shown us that these killings are premeditated in order to force
Nigerians to accept their idea of cattle colony and force its bitter
pill down our throats in order to satisfy their inordinate and sinister
motives. But what is ancestral attachment that Femi Adesina talked
about? Every Nigerian has an ancestral heritage in either tangible or
intangible assets or possessions resulting from their lineage and these
assets cannot be merely encroached upon or annihilated by any intruder
because the people will resist such illegality. You cannot force people
to accept what will in the long run be detrimental to their well-being
and then turn around to hoodwink us to believe that you are doing us
good, no, the people know what is good for them.
Now
when you look at that statement properly, you will see desperation
written all over that statement. You will see a Presidency that is not
only cunning but desperate to force Nigerians to either accept the idea
of cattle colony or be prepared to die! That is the import of that
reckless statement. Although we should not be surprised by Femi
Adesina's statement because he is fond of taking Nigerians for a ride
and making provocative statements. Remember it was the same Femi Adesina
that told us that we are wailing wailers. He rubbed it in the face of
all Nigerians, yet nothing happened, so it's not surprising he has now
come out again with yet another utterly disgusting statement by asking
Nigerians to either choose cattle colony or death.
Sometimes
I wonder if these people know the gravity of whatever they say and the
damage such statements can cause in the minds of millions of Nigerians.
Sometimes I wonder if they know the delicate and highly exalted position
they occupy as public servants where they are supposed to refrain from
making reckless statements and aggravating an already bad situation.
Because thousands have been killed and Nigerians did nothing, and the
families of these people have resigned to their fate since they know the
government cannot protect them, and since Nigerians are so good at
forgetting so easily, so that is why they could come up with another
denigrating verbal rhetoric just to cow us into accepting to relinquish
our ancestral heritage to some marauders who call themselves fulani
herdsmen and who have now become sacred cows in Nigeria just because
their man is at the helm of affairs of the nation and is covertly
encouraging them to continue to kill and maim in order to annihilate
territories for themselves and their sacred cows.
So
by that statement by the Presidency, it clearly shows why Buhari has
done little or nothing to stop these mindless killings in Nigeria. It
shows the mind of the president because out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks. It shows that if we refuse to accept their idea
of cattle colony and ranching, they are prepared to kill as many
Nigerians as possible just to achieve their sinister agenda. But really
is this a government? A government that does not care if its citizens
are killed in their numbers? A government that is so tribalistic, myopic
and inept that it sits down and fails to take action while the people
are being hacked down in cold blood? Is this a responsible government?
It only shows one thing. It only shows Nigerians that we don't deserve
this type of government because Nigerians are much more sophisticated
and politically enlightened to be boxed into a corner with this type of
government that instead of ameliorating the pains of the people, it
rather increases their sorrows. No this is not the type of government we
want as Nigerians. This is not the type of legacy we want to leave for
our children and generations yet unborn.
Mind
you that statement by Femi Adesina should not be taken lightly by
Nigerians. There is more to that statement. It is not ordinary. It is a
well thought out, well planned and well crafted statement by the
Presidency and sooner or later, they will back that statement up with
actions that will surprise many Nigerians as it is very clear that these
people are desperate to entrench their evil agenda on hapless
Nigerians. They are ready to destroy our ancestral heritage and take
over our lands and Nigerians must resist any form of internal
colonization. Nigerians must immediately resist and reject the likes of
Femi Adesina and his misguided, myopic and arrogant postulations and
cabalistic hegemony because if he is willing to destroy his own
ancestral attachment in order to satisfy his tribalistic pay masters,
which I know he would never ever contemplate, we as Nigerians would
never contemplate such destructive tendencies to the collective
posterity of our common heritage on a platter of political patronage,
irrespective of the circumstances.
It
is now clear that the chickens have come home to roost and Nigerians
now know the type of leaders they have. By their fruits you shall know
them. We now know that it was a mistake after all to have allowed this
type of government that takes its citizens for a ride and continuously
rubs denigrating statements on our face every now and then and since
they feel we can't do anything to them, they keep making more belittling
and provocative statements to all Nigerians. But we can do something
because the power is in our hands. We can take action and we must take
action and our action is our vote which we must ensure that it counts at
the next election. We must never make the mistake of ever voting in
someone who would subtly conspire to kill innocent Nigerians just to
achieve his ethnic jingoistic ideals. Nigerians say no to impunity.
Nigerians say no to clueless leaders. Nigerians say no to obnoxious
conspiracies against the collective patrimony of our common good.
Nigerians say no to the annihilation of our collective ancestral
heritage in the name of some sacred cows. No, no, no and no we say!
TAYO DEMOLA
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
tayodemola@gmail.com
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