Why did you have to cancel RUGA Mr. President? The protest
and rejection was only in the South, most northern states want your Ruga.
Canceling RUGA because the south rejected it means that all
these while, the project was aimed at land grabbing in the south.
You wanted to use federal might to forcefully grab our lands
and settle your wandering fulani family, who are wandering and being rejected
across Africa, because of their crude, outdated, 11th Century mentality towards
modern times.
If you actually love your people, the amount of funds
budgeted for RUGA could have gone a long way in fighting banditry in the north.
But no, you wont.
. All that matters to you since you came into office is
fulani herdsmen, open grazing route, RUGA and Fulani this and that.
I am happy that most of the people that helped to usher you
in, against our warnings are realizing what a big mistake you are.
Obasanjo is protesting, Danjuma is crying, Zamafara people
are on the streets, Saraki is regretting, Dogara is in pain, Benue, Taraba,
Adamawa, etc are bleeding seriously. I can't help wondering who actually voted
for you again.
Mr. President, if you actually have good intentions for your
own northern people, the huge funds wasted in searching for oil at Lake Chad
and the one embezzled in fighting the fake war against Boko Haram, you could
have invested it wisely in the north.
There could have been artisan opportunities for these
bandits that has ran most prominent northern chiefs out of town. You could have
equally built well over 1,000 dams from Futa Djalon to Lake Chad, instead of
the refinery at Kastina and rail connection to Niger Republic, which has been
of no economic benefits to the north. With that dam, you could have kept the
Sahel Green and stop your fulani family from shamelessly roaming across
Nigeria, looking for whose land to grab.
This failed RUGA project is like catching a thief red
handed. You wanted to use funds, gotten from our land, to steal our lands. The
web you designed caught you. Your clandestine deception was to import your
homeless Fulani brothers from Chad, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Mali and Libya into
Nigeria at our deposition. We caught you red handed and collectively rose to
the occasion.
All the same, we must thank you for bearing your our your
teeth, because, in your attempts to fulanisze Nigeria has it's positive.
There's now a new found unity among the various ethnic
groups in Nigeria. Before, it was just Igbo versus the rest, but today,
courtesy of your uninspiring leadership, most of the other ethic groups have
started experiencing what we saw over 50 years ago that led us to cry out, and
we were murdered in one of the worst genocides in modern history.
Since you came into office, it has been nothing, but blood,
tears and sorrow flowing from Jos, Kaduna South, Benue, Taraba, etc. Their
people have been murdered in such a senseless manner, while you sit back and do
nothing. When they cried out for help and rushed to you in agony, your words of
comfort was that they should surrender their lands to your fulani herdsmen or
get killed the more.
You have been so crude to them that Gen. T. Y. Danjuma, one
of the strongest pillars between the north and middle belt had to cry out.
From Adamawa, Sokoto, Kastina to Zamfara, the country has
gone to the dogs.
So, let palace jesters who are praising you to high heavens
continue. Let them continue to deceive you that all is well, telling that you
are the greatest leader Nigeria has ever had. They did same to Gen. Sani
Abacha, the thief upon whom you conferred sainthood. And, they were equally the
first set of people to turn against Abacha and started calling him all sorts of
names.
Believe me Mr. president, you have succeeded in establishing
such mistrust between Nigerians and the Fulani race, that if care is not taken,
you are going to be the last fulani man that will rule Nigeria.
I rest my case.
© Peter Agba Kalu
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