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Our Ref: YorExit/UK7
 
9 September 2022
 
Mrs Suella Braverman
Madam Home Secretary
The Home Office
London
 
Dear Mrs Braverman
 
Congratulations on your appointment as the new Home Secretary.
 
Press reports have it that you intend to take a harsher line on immigration than your predecessor. First, you would sideline the European Convention on Human Rights. Second, you would prevent boats carrying immigrants from crossing the channel. Third, you would intern immigrants in camps in Rwanda.
 
Past experience suggests that these measures are not only expensive but are unlikely to deter immigrants. We believe that tackling the cause of migration was more likely to succeed.
 
Yoruba youths, for example, flee Nigeria because the Fulani have made life in Yorubaland hazardous and intolerable. On October 12, 1960, just 12 days after independence, Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto said this: ‘The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our grandfather, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as conquered territories and never allow their future.’
 
Pursuant to this instruction, the Fulani, the ethnic group of Nigeria’s President Buhari, have formed themselves into depraved and barbaric gangs destroying Yoruba farmlands, beheading, hacking, and butchering any who oppose them, and kidnapping and raping Yoruba women folk: all with the connivance of the Nigeria army and of President Buhari, their Commander-in-Chief. The Fulani people seek to live in the 16th century whilst Yoruba youths want to live in the 21st. An independent Yoruba Homeland is the only solution to our plight.
 
Yorubaland as an independent state has much going for it. Between 1954 and 1959 the Yoruba Homeland was self-governing as Western Nigeria. In that short period of time, development in the Yoruba Homeland was ahead of that of South Korea and Singapore. Chief Awolowo, the Premier, introduced free primary education and free healthcare for children. The Awolowo government established a television service before most countries in Europe had television. The Awolowo government built at Ibadan, the first skyscraper and the first Olympic stadium on the continent of Africa. Yorubaland has human and natural resources in abundance to enable us catch up with South Korea and Singapore.
 
What we seek is self-determination as guaranteed by the Charters of the United Nation and the African Union, and by the domestic laws of Nigeria. Our quest for self-determination for Yorubaland is within the ambit of  the treaty of friendship that Queen Victoria signed on 3 July 1888 with Oba Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo and Head of Yorubaland.
 
We seek self-determination to keep Yoruba youths at home. Some 10 million Yoruba youths were transported to the Americas in the 400 years between the 15th and 18th centuries. The cost of their loss to the advancement and development of Yorubaland is incalculable. Only self-determination will prevent another catastrophic loss of Yoruba youths to Europe and North America. Help us to halt the exodus by supporting an independent Yoruba Homeland, by convincing the Prime Minister, firstly, to immediately recognise the sovereignty of Yorubaland and secondly, to set up a Select Committee of the Houses of Parliament to review the legality of the 1914 Amalgamation of disparate and unrelated ethnic nations to form Nigeria. I wrote to the Prime Minister yesterday about these matters.
 
Respectfully yours
 
 
 
 

Baasegun (Dr) Olusola Oni
Coordinator IlanaUK
 
(IlanaUK is a welfare organisation dedicated to achieving self-determination for the Yoruba people of Nigeria through lawful and non-violent means.)