Well, that explains a great deal.
“Our Vigilantes Will Arrest Benue Governor, Ortom When He Leaves Office Over His Anti-Fulani Comments—Miyetti Allah Sect,” Sahara Reporters, August 30, 2021:
Herders under the Miyetti Allah Kauta Hore have said they will not recognise the Southern governors’ anti-grazing deadline, describing it as satanic.
This is as the September 1 deadline set aside by Southern governors for the banning of open grazing nears.
The herders said the planned policy had been overtaken by events, declaring the group’s support for Nigerian government’s plan to revive grazing reserves, grazing routes and facilitate ranching in all the states.
In May, another herder group, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association supported the Southern governors’ ban on open grazing, and challenged Northern governors to follow the lead of their Southern counterparts.
The national secretary of the Miyetti Allah Kauta Hore, Saleh Alhassan, in an interview with Leadership, said members of the organisation would not recognise any anti-open grazing policy in the country.
“We don’t recognise anti-grazing law. Nobody can do anti-grazing policy in Nigeria where we are constitutionally guaranteed the right of movement and occupation,” Alhassan said, referring to the September 1 deadline set up by the Southern governors to ban the open grazing policy.
“I think that (open grazing) has been overtaken by events where the federal government is reviving the grazing reserves and grazing routes. Ranches are coming up across the states. Any policy that will heat up the polity, I don’t think is desirable for the country now.
“I think they are just beating a dead horse. After all, how many grazing reserves do we have in Southern Nigeria. Ninety per cent of the cows we have in Southern Nigeria are meant for business. They are not there for grazing. The cattle are taken there for two or three weeks before they take them to the market. We don’t even understand what they mean by anti-open grazing,” Alhassan said.
He added: “That thing is Satanic. That kind of policy is Satanic. Anything of Satan cannot prevail over light. They will fail.”
Alhassan threatened the governors over their 2023 political plans of a power shift to the South, declaring they would not get their wish.
“The power that they are looking for, they will not get. We have reported them to almighty Allah to create confusion in the camp of the enemy. And confusion will be their lot. Where is Sunday Igboho? Where is Nnamdi Kanu today? They are all in jail. The God of the pastoralists is protecting them like the God of Elijah that speaks with fire; he has fired all of them.
“They can’t win. They are losers. It is a negative policy. We are supporting the federal government now to revive the grazing reserves, to revive the grazing routes, do ranches, settle the herders over time. Is that what they don’t want? Then they are the real bandits. If you are looking for a real bandit, it is Governor (Samuel) Ortom (of Benue State). He is the real bandit. And he thinks he can fight the Fulani ethnic nationality. He does not know that we are not only in Nigeria. We are an African tribe.
“We are in charge of the United Nations. The pioneer secretary of the African Union is a Fulani herder. What is Ortom talking about? They better play politics that can unite this country. All these things they are saying, they can’t do anything as far as Nigeria is concerned.
“We are in our country, we are not going anywhere. We will not be intimidated by anybody and we are peace-loving. It’s their own cup of tea. After all, they are the consumers of the cows,” Alhassan said, adding that the plans of the governors had failed.
“Their plans have already failed. See Sunday Igboho there; he is languishing in Beninoise prison. See Nnamdi Kanu who was captured in Kenya. Forget about them. They are the ones sponsoring all these killings. It is the handiwork of Biafra. They want to set the country on fire.”
He went on to threaten Governor Ortom with arrest after his tenure as governor.
“These people know what they are doing. They are just there to steal money, especially Governor Ortom. He is there to steal the money of Benue State. And we are waiting for him. Immediately he leaves power, if Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) does not arrest him, our vigilantes will arrest him and hand him over to the Nigeria Police to be prosecuted like a common criminal. It’s just a matter of time. He will certainly join Dariye and Co. because he has eaten security votes in billions and he has masterminded the killing of innocent people in Benue State and has lied to the entire world,” Alhassan said….
Dan says
Well Muslims ARE so…
No argument here.
tim gallagher says
He could be telling the truth about that pretty much useless organisation, the United Nations, although I often hear that China has bought a huge amount of power over many countries in the UN. Whether China or islam dominates, both are extremely evil, so it is very bad news for the civilised world.
Wellington says
Just as the Communist Bloc during the Cold War was in charge of the UN (N.B., as early as 1957 Winston Churchill realized this and said so very publicly), so is the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) now in charge of the UN, which organization, the UN, is a total farce and why it should exist no longer (or, at the very least, no longer participated in by any Western nation).
But, ah, this won’t happen, now will it? Why? Because the West has dumbed down terribly in the last half century or so. The West is now largely led by buffoons, examples being Biden, Trudeau, Johnson and Merkel—and with more than a little dash of idiotic spiritual foolishness as evidenced by the useful idiot now in charge of Vatican City.
The barbarians have been led, even royally escorted, “inside the gates,” contra Constantinople in 717, Tours in 732 and Vienna in 1683. This is the present situation as of now and one knows this or should know this. Excuses are running out quick like but because so many fools are now in charge of the West, no better example than Joe Biden, the West remains in deep and profound trouble. Yes, the bad guys (and Islam as a whole is one super effing bad guy), aided by a ton of useful idiots, are still in the driver’s seat, as this despicable Nigerian has made very clear.
The world is drifting. Terribly. A la William Butler Yeats, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. N.B., when your “best” is someone like Biden, Trudeau, Johnson or Merkel, you know the “worst” have an enormous advantage.
Western suicide continues unabated. You bet it does. And this is why Trump had to be destroyed because at his superb “street-smarts” level he grasped the enormity of destruction which was being inflicted, and still is, on America and all the West.
mortimer says
Yep. What a mess.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
The majority of nations are unfree; ergo the United Nations is seldom an actual force for freedom.
mortimer says
Grazing rights are a BIG DEAL for Muslims, because Muslims today eat about twice as much meat as non-Muslims around the world. Cattle-raising seems to have been a part of the Muslim culture from the beginning of Islam and before it. The Arabs who were the first Muslims looked down on farmers and the word KAFIR (someone who covers the truth) may be a sly SLANDER of those who ‘cover’ seeds with earth in the field (i.e. ‘farmers’).
The hatred of the filthy, soil-covered KUFAAR (farmers) may then actually precede Islam. Nonetheless, the hatred of farmers is an echo within the Islamic primary source texts. Words from Allah must be accepted without examination or reflection.
Since Muslims eat so much meat and since much of it is raised in the southern hemisphere, and since denuding the soil contributes to global warming, it may be adduced that ISLAM IS A BIG CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING … at least as big or bigger than the contribution of vehicles.
gravenimage says
Grazing rights are also a big deal for ranchers in general, but they are not mass slaughtering farmers in most of the world. Muslims slaughter Kuffar all over the world, though.
I’ve never heard of “concealing the truth” (as Kafirs are accused of doing) conflated with covering seeds in the earth. Do you have citations, Mortimer?
You are certainly right that Muslims have nothing but contempt for farmers, though. There is a Hadith where Muhamed and his thug companions pass a farm house with farming implements leaning against the walls, and he says that any home with such tools will suffer disgrace from Allah. Just nuts.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslim leader boasts, ‘We are in charge of the United Nations’
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Sadly, this is not far off the truth…
OLD GUY says
When you allowed the vote of dictator controlled countries in the UN, the human rights goals of the UN went out with the bath water.
Maemae77 says
This is true because their actions prove it. Too bad vast majority of westerners and “moderate muslims” use diversion tactics to divert willful ignorant American masses claiming only communists are the ones causing the crimes against humanity.
Sadly, that denial helps Islam a great deal by hiding the truth about Islamic infiltration and diabolical and sinister intentions.
Maemae77 says
This is true because their actions prove it. Too bad vast majority of westerners and “moderate muslims” use diversion tactics to divert willful ignorant American masses claiming only communists are the ones causing the crimes against humanity.
Sadly, that denial helps Islam a great deal by hiding the truth about Islamic infiltration and diabolical and sinister intentions.
Isabella van der westhuizen says
The decolonisation of Africa has everywhere been a complete disaster