By Polycarp Onwubiko
The federal government has
scheduled agricultural and food security summit in Calabar, Cross River state
in November. What a silly plan when all it takes is a decentralized police
system to enable the state governments make laws against open grazing, a primitive
nomadic culture and way of life which other countries of the world have stopped
in place of ranches which breed very fat and nutritious cattle.
Sadly, president Tinubu has
demonstrated his favour to the Fulani Feudal Oligarchy that supposedly helped
him to achieve his lifelong ambition to be president of Nigeria through the
mantra of "Emilokan". He is apparently deaf to the clarion calls for
the immediate Restructuring of the country to reinvent realistic principles of
federal system of equations to recreate Regional Governments like in the First
Republic with "Competitive Federalism" which enabled the erstwhile
Regional Governments to develop at their own pace even as the people were very
happy with the True fiscal federalism.
Hypocrisy is at the idea of the
socalled "agriculture and food summit" , it is nothing but to divert
attention to the calls for the immediate Restructuring of the country with
multi policing system as integral part. Of course the Fulani Feudal Oligarchy
which Tinubu is beholden to stridently kicked against Restructuring especially
with the decentralized security architecture which will truncate its
Islamization agenda because the foot soldiers, terrorists masquerading as
herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa will be checked by the anti
grazing laws that will be made by the state of especially in the middle belt
states and the southern part of the country.
In Federations the world over
Agriculture (and other Ministries like health, education, security) are run by
the state (or Regional Governments like in the First the in night with the
realistic principles of federal system of government) while the federal
government runs not more than three ministries namely: foreign affairs,
defense, and immigration. Federal Government should have no business running
Ministry of Agriculture.
It was the Unitary-Federal
contraption referred to as the 1999 constitution deceptively qualified "as
amended" which made the federal government to operate ministry of
agriculture with a northerner being the Minister always so that huge chunk of
budget on Agriculture would be channelled to the northern part of the country
for dams and irrigation facilities leaving the false impression that north is
the food basket of the country.
That grossly irresponsible and
irrational Agriculture and food summit scheduled for November in Calabar should
be cancelled because it would be a flamboyant talk-shop which like the past
jamborees, will be a barren exercise just like the previous Economic Summits
whose communiques gather dust in the government shelves.
President Tinubu should shun
whatever 'covenant' he had with the Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and convoke
National Constitutional Dialogue (or call it Constituent Assembly) of selected
representatives of ethnic nationalities to fashion PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION to
return sanity to Governance in Nigeria on the brink of collapse.
Tinubu's
Politically Sounding Solution To Fulani Herdsmen Slaughtering Of People
Kudos to the Guardian editorial march 25th 2024 captioned "Tinubu's plan to end farmers-herders conflict" condemning the politically sounding solution to please the murderous pimps who have sent hundreds of thousands of Christian dominated communities in the southern Kaduna and middle belt states to early grave in the name of Fulani culture of open grazing.
This is outright primitive and
calculated "Islamization and Fulanization" agenda.
The incisive editorial
pointedly urged Tinubu to compel the cattle owners to purchase lands for
ranches as obtained in other countries of the world. Tinubu should act like a
civilized homo sapiens and not key into the primitive orientation of past presidents
who pander to the sense of entitlement of the Fulani feudal oligarchy who
believe that they own Nigeria and must dictate what must be done in the name of
governance.
Polycarp Onwubiko, media commentator,
writes from Awka, Anamra State.
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