SOUTHEAST LEADERS THINK TWICE

By Ogechukwu Ubah (Abia Writers)

South East leaders, their Governors, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, their traditional rulers, their Senators and members of the house of representatives, It's time to wake up from your slumber. Have you asked yourselves why Miyetti Allah is demanding for Fulani vigilante in South East?

By the way, who are these Miyetti Allah? Simply, they are cattle rearers from the North, mainly Fulanis. Their full name is Miyetti Allah cattle breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN). This is a confirmed terrorist group rampaging throughout the Villages in Nigeria. They are mostly focusing their underlying motive on the Islamization of the entire communities in Nigeria. The South East of Nigeria (Christian community) is currently under siege by this terrorist group, and the rampaging is almost daily. 

The most recent one is the attack on Amachala Obioma in Udi Local government Area of Enugu State on 18th and 19th June 2019. If I may ask, can Terrorists give security to those they are terrorizing? Miyetti Allah demanding for Fulani vigilante in South East is an indirect way of requesting for the license to continue their attacks without questions and with impunity. These have been the strategies they use in conquering Cities and Nations right from time immemorial. They ask for one thing and do another.

Fulani vigilantes will now provide the South Easterners that were given quit notice in the North and were prevented from voting in the West with security. This is amazing! How many Eastern vigilantes are in the North or West? Dave Umahi, Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman of Eastern Governors is aware of this fact, yet he went ahead to say that they will accommodate Fulani vigilantes if only they are ready to obey the rules. 

Which rules have Fulani obeyed before and, which one are they going to obey now? Their master President Muhammadu Buhari has been disobeying court orders and the rule of law with impunity, and nothing has happened. Even after committing impeachable offences, he is still there as the president. This is just an indirect way of keeping the Islamization agenda on course. How many of the Fulani herdsmen have been arrested in all the killings they have been carrying out in different communities?

Maybe, Dave Umahi has collaborated with the Nigerian government to carry out another Genocide in the East. Fulani herdsmen are killing, abducting our girls and rapping our women in their farmlands. Allowing them as vigilantes is like giving Rats Fishes to secure, and you know what that means. 

For them to come up boldly with such demands shows they must have done deep underground work. They must have made these plans years back. Whether they are using it to watch the reactions of South East Leaders or not, it should be rejected entirely and on time too. They should not gamble with the lives of their subjects. They should send Fulani vigilante to the North to guard their people against Bokoharam and suicide bombers. Eastern Zone is peaceful and has no need for their security.

Finally, if Fulani later emerges as vigilante in the South East, the leaders of the South East should be ashamed of themselves, and the Easterners should see themselves as people without leaders.