On Sunday 5 June 2022, Fulani barbarians, savages, Islamic jihadist terrorists, attacked and desecrated a Catholic Church in Owo, an ancient Yoruba City. They shot and killed over 80 innocent worshippers in cold blood. We Yoruba people must respond to this attack in kind otherwise the barbarians would do it again.
 
In the Christian Middlebelt of Nigeria, these Islamic terrorists routinely burn down churches and kill Christians for sport. They kidnap the clergy for ransom. They rape girls and women. And they do so with the assistance and connivance of Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies. President Buhari, himself a Fulani, sympathises with these Islamic terrorists. He wants Nigeria to be the Afghanistan of Africa. Indeed, he gave Afghanistan $1 million dollars after the American withdrawal. President Buhari permits the Islamic terrorists to carry weapons like AK47 whilst at the same time, as a deliberate policy, he prevents communities that are under attack from arming themselves. The Fulani elites openly invite Fulani Islamic terrorists from other countries to come to terrorise Nigerians. Because they are unchallenged, the Islamic terrorists are moving their operations south into Yorubaland. We must resist them.
 
This is a job that we have to do ourselves. The UK and US governments are determined to do nothing. This is hardly surprising. Our black lives do not matter to them. The fact is that we live in the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination.
 
To the Christians we say this: Jesus was not a pacifist when it came to the desecration of the House of God. He physically threw out the Pharisees. Indeed, the Bible at Genesis 9:6 requires that: ‘Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed…’ We must do the same to these Islamic terrorists.
 
To all Yoruba in the Diaspora – particularly in America, Brazil, Cuba, and the Caribbean – we say this: the Fulani barbarians, savages, Islamic jihadist terrorists have attacked your Homeland. You must rise up to defend your Homeland. Without the Jews in the Diaspora there would be no State of Israel today. We must preserve and liberate our Yoruba Homeland. We must not allow the Islamic terrorists to take over. We must stand and fight.
 
Baasegun (Dr) Olusola Oni
Coordinator IlanaUK