By Polycarp Onwubiko
The National President of Miyetti Allah Breeders Association of Nigeria, Othnan Ngeizarma in a television interview reportedly claimed that ninety five (95) percent of the cows being driven by the herdsmen are owned by the herds drivers while five (5) are owned by the so-called "big men in the cities".
This
assertion is not only baseless but an attempt to justify that the mindless
slaughtering of indigenous people by terrorists masquerading as herdsmen
imported from the Sahel region of West Africa should be continued and not
stopped by any action of government in response to the unspeakable privation
which the Islamic invaders have subjected Nigerians.
Nobody
is deceived by the weird claim of the man and it is high time the federal
government should stop pandering to the brazen-faced lawlessness and brigandage
of foreign invaders, terrorists and the socalled "ISWAP, bandits and
criminals" who have left the sinister impression that they have
overwhelmed the security agencies in Nigeria and can retain the vast lands and
villages they have occupied having mindlessly slaughtered the indigenous
population ostensibly to populate the places with Moslems.
Fact
remains that cattle rearing is a private business and must be seen as that by
the past and present conniving occupants of Aso Villa who unfortunately has not
seen the need to flush out the foreign invaders masquerading as herdsmen.
Whether
it is 5 or 95 percentage of ownerships of cows in the country, the owners
should establish ranches OR merge to establish ranches because Nigeria is not
in the medieval age to tolerate primitive so-called "Nomadic culture of
open grazing of cattle".
That is
why the sponsors of the mindless slaughtering of indigenous people and
kidnapping stridently kicked against Restructuring the lopsided Federation with
decentralized security architecture. Of course they know that if it takes
place, the state governments will make laws against open grazing and compel
cattle owners to purchase lands and establish ranches.
This is
the only fear because it will truncate their dream Islamization agenda and
Islamic theocracy; don't mind the various names viz: Boko Haram, bandits,
criminals, ISWAP, etc because they are all with one agenda to islamize the
country and make the homeless nomads in the sub Saharan Africa to have Nigeria
as their dwelling place hence the alleged promise of the former president
Buhari to this effect.
These
sponsors of terrorism disguised as herdsmen know that ranching cattle is far
better than the primitive practice of open grazing. Other countries of the
world have migrated from open grazing and made it a Law to have ranches which
have better breed of cattle in addition to money yielding value chains that
contribute to the country’s GDP. They know that; what is behind their devious
posturing is the Islamization agenda, point-blank.
Polycarp
Onwubiko, a political affair analyst, writes from Awka, Anambra State
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