{"id":31587,"date":"2021-02-25T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31587"},"modified":"2021-02-25T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:04:24","slug":"its-a-fulani-battle-the-rest-of-us-are-collateral-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31587","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Fulani battle, the rest of us are collateral damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dr. Ugo Egbujo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

The truth is the Fulani have practiced a destructive caste system for ages.<\/p>\n\n\n

The herders are the slaves, living in the wild, unchurched , uneducated.<\/p>\n\n\n

The cattle owning sedentary Fulani are the lords.<\/p>\n\n\n

That diabolical social dichotomy has imploded<\/p>\n\n\n

The Fulani nation is at war with itself.<\/p>\n\n\n

But rather than keep the war with its tribal confines, the war has spilled out to distant places.<\/p>\n\n\n

And many politicians are now eager to dress it up as national freedom fighting<\/p>\n\n\n

At the root is the impracticability of open cross country grazing<\/p>\n\n\n

And the selfishness of the cattle owning enlightened Fulani in resisting a cultural change which it should lead.<\/p>\n\n\n

Having realized the imminence of armageddon within, Gumi and company are staring to recast the problem as a national problem and to dress the bandits up as victims of federal marginalization, as militants.<\/p>\n\n\n

If they are militants they are only militants in Zamfara and other parts of the Muslim north where they were subjugated to mind bending discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n

They are not militants in Ondo and Edo and Oyo.<\/p>\n\n\n

When you call on the Fulani to hold a village meeting they dismiss you as an ethnic profiler, a bigot<\/p>\n\n\n

But now they want a blanket Fulani amnesty and billions of federal funds in a Fulani herdsmen resettlement commission.<\/p>\n\n\n

Now we can identify the group by its ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n

The problem the northern elite has is refusal to face reality<\/p>\n\n\n

Isa Yuguda is asking why cattle rustling blossomed precipitously and denied the Fulani herdsmen livelihood.<\/p>\n\n\n

He also wants to know why the Federal government forsook the Fulani herdsmen while giving subsidies to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n

The truth is that he is deceiving himself.<\/p>\n\n\n

They are now struggling to be spokesmen for bandits. The same people that ordained the system that pauperised and ostracized their brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n

Had Yuguda , Mattawalle and Gumi faced the realities of the times and brought their brothers into ranches to work and live like human beings, then a federal inter nation in livestock would have reached them.<\/p>\n\n\n

But they and other were stuck in the past, arguing cattle right-of-way. They actually wanted to perpetuate the slavery. They didnt want buy or grow feed for the cattle. They were willing to waste the lives of herders to grow the cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n

The problem in Zamfara, Katsina , Kaduna and many other places is Fulani-on-Fulani violence whose collateral consequences others suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n

It’s has ordinary economic roots but it has social widespread branches.<\/p>\n\n\n

Gumi knows that scapegoating christian soldiers or the entire country is gibberish. But these guys love to deceive themselves by not owning responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n

The Fulani must bring in their brothers in the wild , mingle and inter marry with them , and humanize them.<\/p>\n\n\n

Okonkwo is not going to do that for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Ugo Egbujo The truth is the Fulani have practiced a destructive caste system for ages. The herders are the slaves, living in the wild, unchurched , uneducated. The cattle owning sedentary Fulani are the lords. That diabolical social dichotomy has imploded The Fulani nation is at war with itself. But rather than keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[1575,1628,2970],"class_list":["post-31587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-opinion","tag-fulani","tag-gumi","tag-yuguda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}