If there would be another Civil War in Nigeria?
Here are the Immediate Reasons why it would be:
I Actions of President Buhari since he took office May 2015
a)
Even though Ex-President Jonathan (Extract from
South) executed and was executing more projects in the North than the South and
much less in South South and South East, on assumption of office, President
Buhari(Northern Extraction) had suspended or stopped more than 80% of all
Projects being executed by Ex-President Jonathan in the south and on the other
hand even though more projects were being executed in the North he has not
suspended any being executed in the North. Namely he had suspended or stopped
the following: i) Second Niger Bridge even though it was not to cost the
government one extra dime apart from what had already been paid by Ex-President
Jonathan, since it would have been a BOT (Build Operate and Transfer) project
by Julius Berger. With this action which could have only been triggered by some
intrinsic malice, what had been paid out by Ex-President Jonathan and amount committed
by Julius Berger are wasted. b) East-West Road a strategic road in Niger Delta
c) Maritime University, even though a special police college and extra 11
universities were built or being executed in the North by Ex-President
Jonathan, President Buhari did not suspend nor stop any of them but the only
one being executed in the Niger Delta was promptly suspended by President
Buhari and same with number of other projects
being executed by Ex-President Jonathan in SE, SW and SS. d) The amnesty
program delicately put in place by Ex-President Yaradua and maintained by
President-Jonathan was grossly starved of fund that perhaps less than 40% of
what was required to run the program is being released. E) The Niger Delta
Ministry apart from over 500billion it was owed was further starved of funds
that less than 40% of money it required is being released to it yet President
Buhari substantially increased allocation to his North East.
b)
With assumption of office by President Buhari,
his kinsmen notoriously known as Fulani Herdsmen extended the grazing-land
grabbing they had been doing in other Northern states for the last 15year that
had the herdsmen kill over 5000 people and property damage approaching $500
million to South West, South South and South East! Several people had been
kidnapped in the South West, South South and South East and scores of people
killed and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed by Fulani Herdsmen in
several South Western states; in South South the story is the same. In south
East it is fresh in our mind how the Fulani Herdsmen ransacked a village in
Enugu state with over 50 lives wasted and property damage running into several
millions of Naira despite the fact that the Police commissioner in that state
was appropriately and timely briefed by the Governor of the state before the attack, he completely turned his
eye to elsewhere while the arson was going on, it was clear that somebody else
more powerful than the Governor of the state ordered him to stay action on the
arsonist, your guess is as good as mine. On all this major insecurity and
potentially explosive national security breached the President never condemned
his kinsmen and its instructive he was the patron of the cattle herdsmen before
he became Nigeria President; rather what the President allegedly did was to
push for a national grazing bill that would perhaps force largely unwilling
states to map out grazing lands for the Fulani Herdsmen note it is for the
private business of the Fulani cattle herders! It is
probably in Nigeria and other crude and backward African countries that cattle
is still being grazed in the bush and peoples farm land and instead of the
President to do a holistic reform of cattle rearing to improve productivity, he
is sticking to a wasteful grazing method that has seen thousands of farmers
first ravaged by Fulani cattle and then killed by the Fulani herders!
c)
Since assumption of office, despite the Federal
Character status in appointments, the President had from time to time skewed
his appointment to the North and in particular to his North East to the extent
nearly 80% of his appointments are from the North and even till now he has not
deemed it necessary, for the sake of national security to reverse his approach
to appointment even though he has seen the tension building up.
d)
With glowing tension and many people being provoked
beyond limits particularly in the South, many people even from his North have
called for urgent restructuring and true federalism but he and the
vice-president had openly rejected restructuring! Furthermore the Conference
that President Jonathan midwifed which would have reasonably doused the rising
tension in the nation, the President was allegedly quoted that he had not read
it or something like that. What this meant is that the President is not willing
to make use of that document for any reason and yet tension kept rising amongst
ethnic nationalities; the other day a Muslim slit the throat of a woman
preacher right in Abuja the nation’s capital and host of other issues.
II Action of the Nigeria Cabals
The Nigeria cabals comprising of serving and
retired Generals, Top Nigeria politicians, top civil servants and some top
captains of industry from all geo-polities but in particular those from Hausa/Fulani
extraction and some selected from South West who believed that they won the war
against Igbos and therefore owners of Nigeria and resources in it would never
want a federal Nigeria nor a restructured Nigeria but rather a unitary Nigeria
that suits their purpose namely extracting from everyone and in particular Niger
Delta and dispensing it to themselves as they deem fit. A truly federal Nigeria
would see the cabals s it is constituted out of business of looting as is
evident in the past 50 years that monies in the accounts of each of these cabals
can feed a state for years even if it had no other source of income. So despite
the expedience of restructuring and enshrining true federalism the cabals would
rather opt for military re-conquest so that they may further strengthen their
position to lord it over all and sundry. Otherwise a properly negotiated
Nigeria had reasonably been reached at the last national conference that would
have ensured reasonable equity for the federating units but even though you can’t
lay hands on evidence but it couldn’t have been any other group that made sure
that the conference decisions were not implemented. The question is who is
afraid of a just Federal Nigeria; the answer is simple the cabals! So while it
may seem as if it is the President’s urge for show of fire power that made him
to do what he did apparently the cabals hand twisted him to ensure the cabals
position. The question any right thinking person on earth should ask is what really
is wrong with leadership after leadership to the extent that despite the huge
resources Nigeria is endowed with Nigeria was and is navigating to a failed
state. The cabals are the problems of the nation, period. Even if the entire
Niger Delta is to be incinerated with Bombs as it is becoming obvious, it is
not for the resources to be acquired militarily to be used by rest of Nigerians
but for the cabals to continue their accustomed looting till the end of time!
Having dwelt on this matter for a length of time I am convinced that even after
the destruction of lives and properties in Niger Delta to secure resources to
be looted by the cabalas, the Niger Delta people would recover and will once
again ask question about their enslavement and who knows the children children
of the cabals who would mix them in morass now would be in charge of all
instruments of coercion and once more; freshdynamite and bombs and probably
once more defeated and looting continues! The question is when the enslavement
of Nigerians and in particular Niger delta stop would. The answer is simple it
is either Nigeria Dies or the cabals die! Why we are talking about Niger Delta
now is because that is where the resources the cabals are looting is domicile
the cabals would no doubt decimate the people of any geo-polity who dares them
as regard taking resources they would loot! After all the ordinary Hausa/Fulani
man or Yoruba man is as marginalized as the rest of Igbos and Niger Delta.
III Poor Calculations by the various Militants
Finally the militants should have understand the
mindset of the Nigeria cabals and know that the only thing they want is to get resources
from whoever have it and gather in their caucus and share it and such should
have concentrated in tactical deprivation of use of the resources against the
cabals until such a time the cabals are tired and consent to a re-structured
Nigeria where true federalism is practiced instead of declaring a republic
which is open license for the Cabals to use their last drop of blood and all
the military power to ensure availability of resources to be looted. Whichever
way this confrontation would go I hope that future militants should learn and
deal with the cabals to a standstill and perhaps help to save the country from
the death grip of the Nigeria cabals.
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