2 days ago, Fulani savages murdered 2 Ọba (Yoruba monarchs) in cold blood and abducted a bus full of Yoruba school children. This was the latest in a litany of atrocities by these barbarians stretching back to the 1940s. Two weeks ago, they bombed Ibadan, the political capital of the Yoruba Nation. The Yoruba’s life means absolutely nothing to the Fulani. The Fulani kill, kill and kill again without remorse, without compassion, without thought for the pain and suffering they cause.
The Fulani routinely massacre fellow Nigerians to put themselves in charge of Nigeria’s a) sources of income - oil, seaports etc, b) expenditure - Agriculture, Communication, Defence etc, and c) ‘bookkeeping’ - EFCC, ICPC etc; all to assist them in looting Nigeria’s money. Ahmad Bello their spiritual leader sent them on the path of Fulanicide, that is to say, mass killing by the Fulani aimed at destroying another ethnic group and appropriating their land and property.
Just 12 days after independence Ahmadu Bello 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.’
The Fulani do not negotiate, they kill instead. They killed their way through colonial negotiations whilst others talked. They have been killing their way since independence as others talked. Anytime the Fulani lose political advantage in Nigeria they resort to genocide and pogrom. Their leaders and elites send their thugs south to destroy Yorubaland. Buhari and other Fulani elites may speak fluently, wear fancy clothes, live in fancy houses and drive fancy cars, they are still primitive savages; unreconstructed savages despite 100 years of sharing a country with civilised people like us. The Fulani elites defend Fulani savages who not only kill but dismember the people they kill and display their severed heads as spoils. The Fulani elites finance and support this heinous crime of Fulanicide.
What has been the response of our Yoruba leaders – governors and Oba included – to the latest atrocities? Deafening silence. The silence of the Yoruba leaders has emboldened the Fulani savages since the 1940s to destroy, murder and rape. It has emboldened the Fulani savages to abduct school children at will. It has emboldened the Fulani savages to openly carry AK47 that is denied to ordinary folks. Yoruba leaders pontificate as Fulani barbarians defile our custom and traditions, and trample on our heritage. Yoruba leaders nod sagely as the Fulani desecrate our churches and murdered unarmed Christian worshipers at Ọwọ; even children were not spared. The behaviour of the Yoruba leaders – national, local and state – is sacrilege. It shows the total disdain that they have for us, the Yoruba people. These are leaders who have no love whatsoever for us their fellow Yoruba people. Their silence is complicit with the Fulani savages in their destruction of Yorubaland.
At Igangan, uninvited Fulani herdsmen leave their animals to graze destroying your farm as they look for you. If you remonstrate, like Dr Borode did, they kill you; if you don’t, they still kill you anyway. And they rape and kill your female folk. The so-called clever ones amongst our leaders say: negotiate to avoid war. Who to negotiate with whom? Federal and Yoruba state governments know Fulani herdsmen are killing, destroying, and raping with abandon. Still, the governments offer no protection of any sort against the Fulani herdsmen. The so-called clever ones amongst government apachiks say: do nothing and it will all go away. They will not call a spade a spade. The Fulani are the problem of Nigeria.
Yoruba elites and political class preaching ‘One Nigeria’ are the Nigerianistas - self-blinkered, suicidal optimists; the type that danced as the Titanic sank; people immobilised by the mantra of federalism or regionalism, the fossilised politics of the 1950/60s; people lacking in compassion disguised by cynicism, fuzzy logic and goofiness; people so psychologically damaged and docile that they are stuck in a trance.
The idea of sharing a country with the Fulani is not just repugnant, but also reeks of self-immolation. How can we Yoruba share a country with people who hate us so much that they would murder, then dismember the dead, then display their heads as trophies? To countenance sharing a country with the Fulani shows an extra-ordinary level of self-loathing, dysfunctional psyche, and slave mentality. Share a country with the Fulani who hate us Yoruba so much they make a man watch them rape his wife and child, and a mother watch them rape her child? No! We Yoruba must not tolerate this anymore.
We Yoruba must let Tinubu and the world know that Fulani killings in Yorubaland will not cease until Nigeria is broken up, that our priority now, today as Yoruba people is to rid ourselves of the Fulani by having our own independent Yoruba Nation. We do not wish to continue to share a country with murderers and rapists. The Fulani daily committing genocide is the only matter of relevance to us Yoruba. Constitutional reform is irrelevant. Restructuring is irrelevant.
We must let Tinubu and the world know that we Yoruba will escape the Fulani ordeal only outside help, particularly military and security assistance. Nigeria is in chaos. There is insecurity everywhere. No Yoruba is safe any where in Yorubaland. Nigeria as a country has shown itself incapable of stopping the Fulani because all Fulani from top to bottom are involved. Fulani leaders and elites have been using the proceeds of Fulanicide to purchase weapons and using their position in Nigerian politics to prevent others from acquiring weapons to fight back. The Fulani have destroyed all peaceful means of resolving Nigeria’s problems. The UN now should invoke Chapter VII and Articles 39 to 51 of its Charter, which empowered the Security Council to determine if there was ‘any threat to the peace, breach of the peace’ and to act accordingly to ‘maintain or restore’ the peace and security.
We Yoruba must let Tinubu and the world know by widely circulating, disseminating and publishing every video and every photo that we possess, no matter how gruesome, of the Fulani killing and dismembering human beings, and displaying their victims’ body parts as trophies, thereby to show that the Fulani are primitive savages who, like their Afghan brothers, belong to the 18th century.