Herdsmen genocide, fake army and southeast governors’ taciturnity By Polycarp Onwubiko

In an assured maximum protection by the sectional Nigerian police, Army and sundry security operatives in the seemingly accursed country, the terrorist and disguised Boko Haram insurgents in a muffled assignment, the Fulani herdsmen supposedly from Chad, Somalia and Mali have not even bothered about the hair-raising reports in the newspapers about their gruesome gambits i. Of course nobody is taken aback since they are human vermin without civilization whose habitation is supposed to be caves, thick forest and mountainous terrain.
In line with the northern Moslems obviously covert agenda to use the ethnic groups in the middle-belt as foot-stool and with time over-run the rest of the ethnic groups in the southern part of the country and “dump the Koran into the Atlantic Ocean”, the security agents have apparently been primed in every state to provide the necessary logistics to the invading terrorists in the guise of herdsmen. If these debased human creatures are civilized, they would have restrained themselves having read in the newspapers their genocidal gambits of invading farm lands, killing toiling and hardworking farmers, raping women, burning houses, schools churches, etc.
What is happening in the country is very shameful and lamentable. Sadly, the efforts of the founding fathers of Nigeria independence to foster nation building and national integration have been rubbished by the vaulting ambition of a section of the country to impose their archaic, decadent and ultra-conservative way of life and value system on the rest of the ethnic groups. It has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that 1914 was a curse with respect to amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates. This is a country that parades itself as signatory to international treaties on the observation of fundamental human rights with democratic constitution which has as its first statement that security of lives and property are the fundamental responsibility of government. The country has become not only a banana republic but an apparently failed state since the law enforcement agencies do not protect Christians who are being slaughtered by the AK-47 carrying Fulani herdsmen who have spread themselves in all the nooks and crannies of the southern part of the country. Their foot soldiers and spies are shoe makers, suya sellers and “mai-guard” whom stupid rich men in Igbo land engage.
 At Awgu Enugu state the terrorists/disguised Boko Haram insurgents in the guise of herdsmen invaded the farms, kidnapping, raping women and other brazen impunity. In their legitimate anger and protest, the members of the community were allegedly mobilizing for action to rescue the two kidnapped indigenes since it has become common knowledge that the security forces take sides with the murderous invaders. The supposed Nigeria Police, Army, Directorate of Security Services, DSS have been apparently brainwashed to look askance while the Fulani herdsmen are on their usual rampage since they are assured of maximum protection from the “powers-that-be”.
When the herdsmen got wind of the preparation of the communities for self-defense without harming any of them not minding that they have kidnapped two persons [they might have been slaughtered like cow], they informed their patrons in the army barracks from Enugu who like lightening swooped on the innocent villagers and taken them to the Zone 9 of police command at Umuahia. The military men deliberately did not take the reasonable procedure in taking the people to the divisional police office, DPO Awgu or to the commissioner of police, CP Enugu for interrogation. The gimmick was pure intimidation since it was not their constitutional duty to intervene in the clash between the arrogant herdsmen and the innocent villagers. How many Fulani herdsmen have been arrested? The arrest of the farmers was to cow other communities in the south so that the Islamization of the country will be going unhindered : but it is a bad dream because no group has the monopoly of violence and genocide.
The inspector general of police should restructure the process of reporting matters to the zonal offices because of the flagrant abuse and brazen show of opulence, connection and power by persons and groups. He should direct all DIGs to stop entertaining cases brought to them from the states but to direct such to the DPOs and office of the commissioner of police. If the over-zealous ‘fake’ army[the Army command at Enugu denied ever sending their men to Awgu] who bundled the innocent villagers into a lorry and herded them to Umuahia instead to the DPO Awgu or the commissioner of police Enugu, relevant and responsible questions would have been asked to the supposed soldiers in uniform.
Thanks to the harmless activities of the pro-Biafra group, The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra [IPOB] who blew the wanton atrocity open and exposed the taciturnity of the Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. The southeast governors have chosen to be timorous poltroons and minions of the feudal caliphate whenever the Fulani terrorists and genocidal vermin struck. They hide in their cocoon ostensibly to avoid saying things that would prevent them from getting unmerited favours from the security agencies and the presidency whose apparent conspicuous silence suggest that there is covert agenda to frustrate the secular status of Nigeria as provided in the rag-tag constitution being panel-beaten in the national assembly. They naively pretend that the murderous gambits of the Boko Haram in another form does not merit their attention to come out and speak truth to the presidency in view of the potential danger the entire country is being slowly programmed for unmitigated disaster and conflagration
The same taciturnity and nonchalance posturing played out in Anambra in 2013 when the commissioner of police ignored the road safety of the people in the capital city Awka and closed a lane of Ziks avenue to traffic due to his bogus fear of Boko Haram bombs. This grossly irresponsible action angered the people and the house of assembly passed a Resolution requesting Governor Peter Obi to liaise with the CP to remove the barricade. Curiously, the governor ignored the resolution and vehicles were daily being involved in accident at the narrow diversion between Awka south LG headquarters/ the narrow Nibo road. When Governor Willy Obiano took over, this writer wrote a petition to him on the matter but it was the spirit of “continuity” prevailed and the dangerous spot continued to be a nightmare to people. A petition to the IGP was dumped since it is a Christian state. What is apparent is that the southeast governors literally ‘worship’ the security agents so that they would not disturb them in their hidden gambits that attend to governance in Nigeria.
IPOB has dismissed the claim of the Army command, Enugu that it does not know about the ‘fake’ army. The presidency should investigate the ‘fake’ army that arrested the innocent villagers in Awgu community, Enugu state along with the helicopters that dropped food and weapons to the Fulani invaders at a village in Plateau state and the horrendous Agatu killings. Instead of commanding the army and police to flush out the murderers, a phone investigation was suggested by the presidency while the people are languishing in refugee camps and going through privations. Who is fooling whom in this patently accursed country? According to the report in The Authority March 28 2016, IPOB has accused the federal government of foul play in the arrest of the villagers with’ fake’ soldiers. IPOB contends that “the said fake soldiers are Boko Haram elements who are disguising as herdsmen to maim, kill and eliminate Biafrans in their own land. There appears to be a hidden agenda in handling the arrested Boko Haram insurgents. As revealed in Ekwulobia, they are being fed with nice food different from the regular prison inmates. They have not been diligently prosecuted and executed as is being done in neighboring countries like Chad and Cameroun.
 IPOB said: “If they are fake soldiers as claimed, who handed them over to fake police who prepared the fake charges against them and transferred them to fake zone 9 who took them to fake court and remanded them in fake prison”. It accused President Muhammadu Buhari of working to actualize a secret agenda reached with Islamic nations during his visit to Quatar as one of the conditions for joining the Islamic Coalition against terror.
Mr. Onwubiko is a commentator on national issues, [email protected], Awka Anambra state.