On April 18th 2016 Mr. Okonkwo Afamefuna
wrote the following on his Facebook wall.
"I decided to read a copy of the National
Grazing Reserve Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The Bill creates a
council to be chaired by a Chairman to be appointed by the president. The
council shall have the power to take your land anywhere the land is located in
the country and then pay you compensation.
Your land, when taken, shall be assigned to
herdsmen who shall use your land for grazing purposes. They shall bring cows to
the land and you shall lose the land permanently to those Fulani
cattlemen". My conclusion? This is the Sudan downloading right here
in Nigeria.
On April 18th 2016 Mr. Duru Collins wrote
the following on his facebook wall.
"This National Grazing Bill if passed into law
will just mark the beginning of apartheid in our country. When the government
of Zimbabwe collected land from the white people who naturalised there the
whole world worked against President Robert Mugabe. Sanctions were stiffened
against his regime even though the whites in Zimbabwe were not African by
origin. In our country today there are people that are not Nigerians by origin
and these people are making laws to take over our inheritance. This nation will
burn once this law is passed". My conclusion? This is Lebanon and Zimbabwe
downloading right here in Nigeria.
Kindly forgive the repetition of some earlier words
at the beginning of his contribution but on April 18th Mr. Gabriel Ogbonnaya
wrote the following on his Facebook wall.
"I decided to read a copy of the National
Grazing Reserve Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The Bill creates a
commission to be chaired by a Chairman to be appointed by the president, to be
confirmed by the senate. The commission shall have the power to
take your land anywhere the land is located in the country and then pay you
compensation. Your land, when taken, shall be assigned to herdsmen who shall
use your land for grazing purposes. They shall bring cows to the land and you
shall lose the land permanently to those cattlemen. If you feel
that the commission was not right to take your land, you can go to court but
before you go to court, you must first of all notify the federal attorney
general of your intention to sue the commission. Apart from notifying, you must
get the consent and authority of the Federal Attorney General before you can
sue. So that means that if the Attorney General refuses to give his consent to
the suit, you have lost your land forever to the herdsmen. And this law, when
passed, shall apply to the whole country so it means that your land in the
village or anywhere is not safe. The National Grazing Reserve Commission
would have the power to take away your land from you anytime they want and pay
you whatever they want as compensation (even when you don't want to sell, and
remember that for you to get compensation, you must have documents showing or
proving ownership). So I think that we all in the South West, South South and
South East must rise up and reject this Bill. We must do all things to force
our national Assembly members from passing that bill into law. That bill is a
deliberate attempt to take our lands and hand the land over to the Fulani
cattlemen since it is only the Fulanis that rear cattle in Nigeria. That law,
when passed, shall fulfill the directive of Uthman Dan Fodio and other northern
leaders to take over other parts of Nigeria. I implore you to use all available
means to implore your senator and Rep not to pass that law. That law will destroy
Nigeria. All over the world, ranches are established and used to rear cattle.
The farmers buy land and put there cattle there. There is no country where the
land of the citizens are compulsorily acquired and given to others.
This is evil, and designed to favor the Fulanis
where the President comes from. We must resist the passage of that bill into
law to save Nigeria, and to protect our future generations". My
conclusion? This is Yugoslavia and Rwanda unfolding right here in Nigeria.
Finally in an article titled ''The Outlaws Of
Islam'' (Premium Times, April 15th 2016), I wrote the following,
"And if they are still in any doubt about
where all this is heading in the Nigerian context they should consider the
following. On December 30th 1964, Mallam Bala Garba told the West African Pilot
newspaper that:
''the conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our
god-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea
shores of Nigeria, some idiots in the South were doubting its possibilities.
Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Port-Harcourt.
It must be conquered and taken''.
This is an eloquent expression of radical Islam,
with its pervasive use of violence as a tool of conquest and subjugation, in
its purest and most obvious form.
Inspired and equipped with this Janjaweed
philosophy and ethos, the whole of core northern Nigeria was conquered by Sheik
Usman Dan Fodio through the use of terror and by the power of the sword in the
name of jihad. Millions of innocent non-Muslims were cut to pieces in the
process.
Given the activities of Boko Haram and the Fulani
herdsmen in our country today it appears that some in our shores are still
interested in implementing that satanic agenda.
They wish to continue where Usman Dan Fodio stopped
and they wish to ''dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean''.
Their latest attempt is the introduction and
proposal of what is known as the National Grazing Reserve Bill which will give
the Fulani herdsmen the right to claim other peoples land all over the country
and which will empower them by law to create their own settlements and
communities in the territory of others.
Worse still under that law the government will be
compelled to fund those settlements and put all that they need in terms of
infrastructure in place for them. That is why our Minister of Agriculture is
now talking about importing Brazilian grass for the Fulani herdsmen and their
cattle.
This subtle and exceptionally brilliant attempt to
infiltrate and conquer by guile and assimilation reminds me of the frightful
laws that were put in place in the old wild western prairies of 19th century
America.
Those laws gave the white settlers rights over the
lands of the indigenous Red Indians and saw the Indians themselves subjected to
genocide and ethnic cleansing and herded into barren reservations that were not
fit for human habitation.
It was in this way that the "wild west"
was conquered and the once proud and noble war-like Indian tribes of the western
prairies were subjugated and subdued.
Sadly our legislators in the National Assembly from
the south and the Middle simply do not appreciate and cannot comprehend the
serious implications of what they are doing by supporting this evil legislation
and neither will the consequences of their naivety and folly be suffered by
their constituents until it is far too late.
If that law is ever passed and implemented, two
years from that time we will regret it deeply as a nation because it will
result in nothing but conflict, chaos and strife between the Fulani herdsmen
and settlers on the one hand and the local indigenous population on the other.
The tragedy that unfolded in Jos, Plateau state
between the indigenous Christian Beroms and the settler Muslim Fulani for many
years is a graphic example of what will be replicated all over the south and
the Middle Belt between the Fulani and the various local indigenous populations
if that law is ever passed and implemented.
As a matter of fact it will be far worse than
anything that Jos ever saw. The Cattle Grazing Act will not result in enhancing
unity and peace but instead it will result in division, bloodshed, carnage and
chaos". My conclusion? This is Iraq, Syria and Libya unfolding right here
in Nigeria.
When you create a conflict which has its roots in
religion, ethnicity, land rights, the attempt to marginalize, dominate,
subjugate and conquer others and the quest for liberation and freedom from
slavery and bondage all mixed into one you are toying with a conflagration that
will not only be horrendous and that will not only affect the whole of Africa
but will not end in the next fifty years to one hundred years.
Let me be clear: the greatest evil that we are
confronted with in Nigeria today is the National Grazing Reserve Bill. It is
more evil than anything that we have ever seen before. It is more insidious and
dangerous than anything that we can possibly imagine.
It will do more harm to us than Boko Haram and the
Nigerian civil war put together and it will result in open war and
the total disintegration of Nigeria. I am speaking prophetically
and I am saying this under the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit. We must
stop this cantankerous and divisive Bill from seeing the light of the day and
being made into law. There are some things that are bigger, greater and more
important than partisan politics and this is one of them.
We must all stand together regardless of our
political affiliation and stop this evil Trojan horse from being smuggled into
our ranks by those that seek to subjugate and conquer us. We must resist those
that seek to strip us of our self-respect, self-worth, liberty and dignity.
We must stand up against those that seek to destroy
us and rob us of our faith and our ancestral lands. We must say ‘’never’’
to those that seek to belittle and enslave us and reduce us to nothing even in
our own nation.
May God help our people and our country and may
He deliver us from evil.
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