#NigerianPolitics: The inter-tribal hostilities presently brewing in the south-west of Nigeria 🇳🇬 between Yoruba & Fulani people need not happen if all parties are ready to shun dishonesty & allegiance to primordial tribal sentiments. We must not allow an escalation.

That there is a problem of criminals hiding in SW forests is beyond a doubt.These criminals are known to disguise as Fulani people carrying out legitimate cattle herding business in the region. Some of the criminals have also been found to be fulani in times past & recently.
Previous engagements between governments of the region and leadership of the Fulani cattle herders association has not yielded the expected result of reduction in kidnapping along the highways of the region while survivors have always said the kidnappers look 'fulani.'
I have not been kidnapped before but I have had former co-workers who have been kidnapped along the Akure-Owo expressway. They gave similar reports about the ethnicity of their kidnappers.

We must not discount the harrowing experiences of these Nigerians in the name of politics.
Now the simple solution to this not too complex problem has been made surprisingly complicated by the peculiar nature of our politics in Nigeria:

1. We want all solutions to states' problem to come only from Abuja even though we run a federal system.
2. Their is still deep ethnic sentiments among the over 250 ethnic groups in the country. This mutual suspicion cuts across educational attainment & socio-economic status.

3. Politicisation of issues pertaining to the RESTRUCTURING question.
The recent Garba Shehu quick response to Gov. Akeredolu's order concerning vacation of forest reserves by herders contain elements of the above identified problems. It was gratifying when the Fulani leader in the state rose up to defend the position of the governor.
Hardly had the Ondo state episode died down than the Sunday Igboho fiasco in Oyo state started...and it has been ugly, putting every rational mind in the region to shame!

We didn't need to wait for a thug to begin to lead the discussion in a nuanced issue like this.
Let's be clear, Mr Sunday Adeyemo( Igboho) has great & illustrious people behind him. We can not afford to have another separatist group in our southwest.

The killing/kidnapping/ herders problem in the southwest must be handled with utmost caution.
Finding a solution will involve each person, commentators, government official and agencies to revisit the constitutional basis of our coexistence as a multilingual, multicultural nation-state: federalism not unitarism!
The state governments have rights and responsibilities to their people. The FG has not always seen things in this light but it is the only way forward if Nigeria would survive as a united entity.

The FG still has to lead the discussion of the many strands of this conflict.
In the meantime, we must appeal to tribal associations and unions to desist from rhetoric that may further inflame an already delicate situation.

Peace is everything in the society.

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Niger state shares borders with Zamfara, kebbi, Kaduna & Benin Republic. Terrorists from Niger republic and Burkina faso easily move money and arms across the borders of Kebbi, Zamfara and Benin R into Niger state. According to UN over 900,000 people have been displaced in B'Faso https://t.co/65YEMJhqDp


Niger, Mali and Burkina faso are weak countries populated by Shell terrorists who have now found a safe haven in the forests in Kaduna and Niger state. Birin Gwari, Mokwa forest, Nanati forests, Kanji lake areas.

No decent human resides permanently in forests.

We are facing both external and internal threats from these weak and failed countries we are surrounded with. As a senator you know that a FG police system with less than 300k officers can't actively police the landmass and borders in the North.
Form your state police now!

You and other senators should scrap the FG police system and devote the unaudited security votes and constituency allowance to policing your corridors and forests. Let the airforce bomb them and put your rangers in the forests. Issue an ultimatum for those in the forests to leave

You are all living in a dream if you think the current police structure will become efficient overnight.
Budget, Personnel, Technology, Equipment, Surveillance..It's impossible.
Form your state and community police and flush out the terrorists.
Watch the entire discussion if you have the time to do so. But if not, please make sure to watch Edhem Eldem summarizing ~150 years of democracy in Turkey in 6 minutes (starting on 57'). And if you can't watch it, fear not; I've transcribed it for you (as public service). Thread:


"Let me start by saying that I am a historian, I see dead people. But more seriously, I am constantly torn between the temptation to see patterns developing over time, and the fear of hasty generalizations and anachronistic comparisons. 1/n

"Nevertheless, the present situation forces me to explore the possible historical dimensions of the problem we're facing today. 2/n

"(...)I intend to go further back in time and widen the angle in order to focus on the confusion I  believe exists between the notions of 'state', 'government', and 'public institutions' in Turkey. 3/n

"In the summer of 1876, that's a historical quote, as Midhat Pasa was trying to draft a constitution, Edhem Pasa wrote to Saffet Pasa, and I quote in Turkish, 'Bize Konstitusyon degil enstitusyon lazim' ('It is not a constitution we need but institutions'). 4/n

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They looked low.

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