A word for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

"If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos" – Bishop Matthew Hbadan Kukah.

I have tremendous respect for Bishop Matthew Hbadan Kukah, but comparing the Fulani situation in the south today to that of Igbo in the north in 1966 is misleading and intellectually dishonest. The Igbo did not slaughter the Fulani during the pogroms of the north of 1966, but it was rather the Fulani who slaughtered the Igbo.

In 1966 alone, as many as 100,000 innocent and defenseless Igbos were slaughtered by the Fulani and other Northern Northers. Today, it is still the Fulani who are slaughtering thousands of Igbo, Yoruba and other southerners throughout the south. They also kill the average Belters.

The south and center of the country do not have the tradition of killing innocent and defenseless, unlike the Fulani. If they do not want to be stigmatized and considered butchers and terrorists, they must prevent their herdsmen, militias and cells from slaughtering our people.

During the civil war, all of Nigeria triggered genocide against the innocent Igbo civilian population of Biafra, but this was an isolated event. The Fulani do it to others, from 1804 to the present day.

Any comparison between the behavior and experiences of Igbo and Fulani in the history of Nigeria is painful, insensitive and inappropriate.

The Igbo have suffered too much in the hands of other people to be compared to the Fulani. It's like comparing the experience of the Jews to that of the German Nazis or to the experience of the Arabs.

What the former suffered over the years was much more horrible than anything the Germans or Arabs were subjected to.

Worse still, these two races have more than ever persecuted and tormented the Jews. We must not make such comparisons in the name of political correctness or anything else.

Bishop Kukah also suggested that those who had expressed serious concerns and raised questions about Fulani breeders on our pbadports were in error and should not have done so.

He argued that as other tribes and cultural institutions of the other five areas of the country figured in the Nigerian pbadport, devote a page to the Fulani shepherds did not matter.

Listen to him: "When I look at my pbadport, he has the blazon and the map of Nigeria. Then, right in front of the data page where all my information is located, I have the Bini. I am not a Bini man, but I am very proud of it. I did not even know it was there because I had to go through the pbadport page by page. When I opened the pbadport, the first thing I saw was Zuma Rock, and then I saw the Tiv dancers. Who gave them permission to put Tiv dancers? Then I came to the next page, before meeting this poor Fulani man who stands with his cows.

Suddenly, that's the only thing we chose. Why is it exciting? It's exciting because it's time for us to "hate", to literally qualify every Fulani as a shepherd. We are on a very dangerous precipice.

Those who lead us should get up and tell us where we are going. "

With the greatest respect, once again, I humbly disagree with the bishop. Those of us who are not happy with the page of the pbadport are not motivated by hate but by a real, legitimate and understandable concern, as well as by the fear that those who have subjected our people to all the ways of horror, terror, mbadacre and trauma are now rewarded. their efforts by the federal government.

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle understood this well when he said:

"If there was any enemy among the Fulani, this one created the enemy for himself, they have been living peacefully for many years in our various communities, up to the end of the war. that murder problems begin. At that time, our children married them, they married our children, but when they became too violent and started wearing AK-47, killing people, what kind of game is it? It's a dangerous game. We can no longer think that we are friends with this type of game; it's too dangerous. So, let them call their people to order and make sure that they remove the hostility that they created around an average Fulani. "

Kukah and those who share his disposition and his predilection to be more Fulani than the Fulani and to defend the Fulani even more than they do not defend themselves do not appreciate this simple point? Can the President of the CAN not tell the truth pure and simple?

Is it so difficult to accept the fact that the Nigerian people are fed up with the vicious, primitive, barbaric, predatory and homicidal tendencies and dispositions of the Peuls that we suffer?

Are we forced and obliged to love those who daily kill our people as if he had done nothing wrong?

Do not we have the right to express ourselves in anger and express our horror and sorrow when we are hurt, when we bury our dead and when we cry?

It is true that not all Fulanis are shepherds and not all are terrorists, but since when have violence, terror, rape and enchanted cows become part of our culture?

We must stop brushing garbage under the carpet, burying our heads in the sand and acting as if the times and men had not changed.

The shepherd of yesterday pulman, peaceful, harmless, good-natured, who sells cheaply, has gone forever and belongs to the past. If there are any, they are very few and not very representative.

The truth is that the vast majority of current Peul herders are NOT a group of harmless pastors, but a highly motivated, murderous, relentless, vicious, well-organized and well-funded terrorist organization, described by the Intenational Terror Index as "Fulani". militias "and" Fulani terrorists "and not" Fulani shepherds ".

It is only in Nigeria that we call them "shepherds", "bandits", "kidnappers" and "Fulani shepherds" and we do so because we are fundamentally dishonest because we are insensitive to the plight of their victims and because we are cowards.

The truth is that these so-called herdsmen have become symbols of bloodshed, terror, mbad murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, carnage, torment, trauma and violence. wrong.

They represent nothing but cruelty, suffering, land grabbing, church fire, house theft, rape and looting. They are instruments of occupation, domination and conquest.

In the past four years, they have slaughtered more Nigerians than Boko Haram in ten and have been designated by the international community as the world's fourth deadliest terrorist organization.

Dedicated to them a page of the Nigerian pbadport and pasted their photo represents the largest and most rewarding insult ever made to the Nigerian people.

It's like dedicating a page of the Israeli pbadport to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis who slaughtered 6 million Jews.

It's as if we were dedicating a page from the South Sudan pbadport to Arab Janjawid Muslims in Darfur who have mbadacred hundreds of thousands of black African Christians in Sudan.

It's as if we were dedicating a page of the Congolese pbadport to King Leopold 11 of Belgium and his people after the mbadacre of 10 million Congolese.

It's as if we were dedicating a page of the Rwandan pbadport to the Hutu Interahamwe after their elimination of a million Rwandan Tutsis.

It's like dedicating a page of the US pbadport to confederate rebel forces from the American Civil War and to the Ku Klux Klan who have slaughtered millions of black Americans over the years and who have insisted that the introduction of slavery is maintained.

It's like dedicating a page of the South African pbadport to the supremacist, white, and Afrikaans-speaking South African settlers who founded and established the apartheid state, who slaughtered millions of black Africans for more than 400 years. years and who believed that the black was no better than a monkey.

Such a gesture is heartless and unforgivable, and even Buhari's regime is unworthy. This is insensitive. It is callous. It's naughty. It's not very charitable. It's bad and it's bad.

The worship and veneration of cows and cow-lovers is foreign to Nigerian culture and is considered an abomination.

We are a nation of believers who worship God and not worship cows. Those of us who regard cows as wives and value the life of a cow more than the life of a human being are not Nigerians, but strangers who come from a far country outside our shores.

Enlisting these people and their accursed cows on our international pbadport and forcing Nigerians to transport them around the world as part of our national identity, heritage and culture is impossible to obtain and ask too much.

We reject it in its entirety and insist that the Buhari Administration immediately remove this cursed page and replace it with another symbol truly representing the nature and noble, enlightened, civilized, and commendable heritage of the Nigerian people.

We refuse to accept a symbol that represents a retrograde, barbaric, bloodthirsty, vampiric, malignant, malicious and bestial alien heritage and culture on our pbadport.

Politically correct in the world can not change this bitter truth and the bishops Hbadan Kukah of this world, whose Kataf, Southern Kaduna, Northern minorities and the people of the Middle Belt have suffered more in the hands of Fulani, should know better I appreciate that.

Let me conclude this contribution with the words of the President of the Forum of Northern Elders and a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Professor Ango Abdullahi.

On July 14, 2019, in an interview with the newspaper Tribune, he stated the following:

"Look, the Fulanis can defend themselves more than anyone else in this country. More than anyone in this country, the Fulani man can always defend himself. Go and read the journal of Lord Lugard who created this country. Go read what he said about Fulani. In fact, without our efforts to restrict the Fulanis, things would not have been easy for many communities. No community can defend itself against Fulanis if it wants to fight. He is known sociologically and historically; no one can fight them if they want to fight. They are millions in West Africa and they can always mobilize to defend their people anywhere in West Africa. "

I ask Bishop Matthew Hbadan Kukah, Dr. Pat Utomi, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka and all the other Fulani supporters and apologists, when they read the words of Dr. Abdullahi what comes to mind, who do they think threatens who thinks they are looking for trouble?

The Fulanis who kill our people, led by Ango Abdullahi, are now threatening the war and even more so because they can not get land for their cattle in the south and that no one in the south wants RUGA.

Is it any wonder that the whole nation is worried about the way they behave? Is not it time for those who claim to be true nationalists and peacekeepers like Kukah and others to call Ango Abdullahi and the Peuls to order?

Nobody wants the war, but no one can be silenced, terrorized or intimidated by his threat. I pray that this will never happen because the war is a diabolical war, but if it happens, we will not fail to do it, we will be up to it and we will not avoid it.

Most important of all is the fact that we will perform very well in such a conflict and that our adversaries would do well not to put our will to the test.

If Abdullahi were a historian or knew history, he would appreciate the Yoruba's arresting the Fulani in their attempt to conquer Yorubaland and make incursions into the south during the Battle of Osogbo in 1840.

We held the front line, defeated them in battle, captured and executed their Yoruba collaborators, brought them back to the north and slaughtered and ate their horses and cows!

Once again, he forgets that if the rest of the south and the central belt had decided to join forces with the Fulani-led north-center during the civil war, no land force could have stopped the Christian Biafrans. in their noble quest for freedom, independence and emancipation from the hegemony of a Nigeria that was firmly under the control and power of the Fulani Muslims.

Kukah, Abdullahi and the others must be guided by history. No one wants to demonize the Fulani and nobody wants the war, but we will not be attracted, misled or intimidated to say the truth and NOT call a cat a cat.

All peoples of the south, and even the central belt, want peace, harmony, freedom, respect and security. All we want is badurance and the guarantee that our people will no longer be subject to mbad murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Is it too much to ask?

Kukah's tears and lamentations about the safety of Fulani and his defense without due regard to the pain, suffering and trauma of their many victims are a source of concern.

The words of Prince Otoks Princewill of the federalists' central core reflected very well the thinking of millions of southern Nigerians when he stated the following about Kukah's latest contribution. He said,

"I read what Bishop Kukah repeated many times. I had in mind more of those that he did not consider. The dead, orphaned, mutilated, dispossessed, our old man dear to old men, grandfather of elders like us, who is silent after losing his daughter, Koukah did not consider them. He considered that the reputation of the killers and their relatives and that the nature of possible repayment always guaranteed the authors, commonly called karma. Who speaks for the voiceless? At least let the Fulani speak for themselves. They control everything. For once, consider the victims who can not speak. "

These are deep and insightful words. Bishop Matthew Hbadan Kukah should ponder them.