Alhaji Saleh Bayeri, leader of the Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, claimed on live television about a week ago tht himself and others ("we" he said) masterminded the Jan. 17, 2010 Dogo Na-Hauwa wicked massacres of innocent women and children. Yet AP Jonathan has just included him on the Lar Committee investigating the crisis. Gov. Jang of Plateau State called for the arrest of Bayeri by the Police. Who is advising the Acting president on these issues? Nigeria should get serious and tow the path of sanity or it will continue to sink.
In my opinion, and I share this with Gen. Saleh maina, GOC. 3rd Armoured Div. Nigerian Army, no one in Government has addressed the real issues of contention in Jos yet. The members of the Lar Committee cannot achieve much. Their suggestion of dialogues between Jang and his neighbouring Governors and the Sultan of Sokoto make the crisis to look like some border clash and some minor religious misunderstanding. That a big joke.
The problem of Jos versus the Hausa/Fulani goes back 2oo years during the Dan Fodio jihads. The error of Lord Lugard in the days of Indirect Rule have a part to play. MNorthern Nigerian minories were sidelined by the Lord. The insistance of the descendants of the jihadists to subtly carry on the territorial expansion has to blame today. The Beroms are only defending their rights to inherited land just like the South-South militants. Self determination is a basic human right, but not to the neo-jihadists of Jos.
The Hausa/Fulanis should take a leaf from the Ogbomoshos, Igbos, Urhobos, Ijaws, Kanuris, Effiks and many other ethnic nationalities settled in Jos who have lived there in peace longer than them. The present Oba of Agbomosho, Chief Oyewumi, is the owner of the most prestigious structures at Terminus roundabout in Jos. Almost all the taxi drivers today at Hill Station Hotel are Jos-born Yorubas. Why don't they have a problem except the Hausa/Fulanis? The Hausa/Fulani also do not integrate into their host communities. Check Sagamu in OgunState, Idi Araba in Lagos State and the EPZ in Cross River State. The Hausas should say openly what they want when they settle on other people's soil.
Whose FRSC car number plate has the slogan, "BORN TO RULE"? Meaning what? FRSC and Nigerians, answer me!
The Hausas/Fulanis and the Beroms will live in peace as brothers and sisters again, I prophesy. Amen.
As at March 2016, Sale Bayeri has continued to speak forthe murderous Fulanis. He just explained why they attacked, maimed and burnt in Agatu LGA of Benue State.
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