Buhari’s US Visit And Unveiling Of New Foreign Policy
Of Cattletocratic Islamism At Whitehouse
(Intersociety Nigeria: 4th May 2018)-The recent visit
by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari to President Donald J. Trump and People
of the United States is nothing short of unveiling of the Administration’s new
foreign policy of Cattletocratic Islamism at the Whitehouse.
The central Government of Nigeria has also long before
the recent Presidential visit to USA turned Nigeria into nomadic enclave with
its national army establishing cattle ranches throughout its formations in
Nigeria. There are also pro “grazing” State and Federal passed laws or those in
making as well as Government stigmatization of Fulani Herdsmen terrorism and
other atrocious acts as “Fulani Herdsmen-Farmers clashes”, etc.
This position of ours (unveiling of Cattletocratic
Islamism at the Whitehouse) is as a result of careful study of the visit and
its relations to socio-political security and wellbeing of the citizens of
Nigeria. Our informed conclusion is further derived from unrepentant and
impunity posture of President Muhammadu Buhari especially as it concerns his
strong defense of Fulani Herdsmen and their atrocities including killing of
Christians and destruction of their sacred places of worship in Nigeria since
mid 2015.
The Nigeria’s President American trip, therefore, is
two sides of a coin and harmful to collective security of all Nigerians;
whereby the said central Government bought its way to the Whitehouse with huge
procurement of 12 super tucano war jets and other related war equipments from
borrowed funds; and at same time seized the opportunity of “thank you for your
patronage of our arms industry invitation” to announce or unveil the Nigerian
Government’s new foreign policy of Cattletocratic Islamism.
By Cattletocratic Islamism, it is a newly adopted
national security policy of the Buhari Administration whereby lives and safety
of herds of cattle are elevated far above lives and safety of populations of
men and women particularly on the grounds of faith and ethnicity. That is to
say men and women of Muslim faith are allowed and treated equal in matters of
welfare and security with herds of cattle while other human population of
Christians and members of other non Muslim faith are treated or regarded as
inferior to the lives and safety of herds of cattle in Nigeria.
This new national security policy of Cattletocratic
Islamism, which just got further elevated as Nigeria’s new foreign policy at
the Whitehouse; has also been dangerously adopted at the State actor level as a
violent medium of religious conquest (i.e. Jihadism). The Cattletocratic
Islamism is originally a ragtag non State actor mode of violence maintained in
Nigeria by “Miyatti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria”. The name
literally translates to “warriors of Allah surviving and thriving using
enterprise and bloodshed in cattle herding”.
The group and its violent activities, now fully
recognized, adopted and elevated by the present central Government in Nigeria;
moved from its ragtag status to relatively sophisticated and regimented status
after the return of civil rule in Nigeria in 1999 when some fanatical Islamists
and politicians in northern Nigeria infiltrated and hijacked it in pursuit of
enthronement of Islamic Caliphate in Middle Belt including Plateau and Benue
States and other political motives. Its sophistry and State actor involvement
became more suspicious, advanced and deadlier since mid 2015 on account of the
emergence of its Grand National or Lifetime Patron as the sixth civilian
president of Nigeria.
It is widely and credibly suspected that there are
killer squads or terror brigades within Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria, drawn from
Fulani Muslim population, service personnel and related others; and armed,
controlled and funded by some radical Islamic public officials or State actors;
with strong protection from the powers that be in the country.
The well coordinated terror or killer brigades within
the group work closely with pastoral cattle herders (Fulani Herdsmen) relying
heavily on the latter for access and vicinity or terrain intelligence against
their target populations. The killer brigades mostly apply guerrilla or hit and
run tactics against victim populations especially at night; with killer
elements or Jihadists in the lopsidedly composed armed forces of Nigeria and
police as accomplices. Present headships of the Nigerian security forces
including the Armed Forces and the Police are mostly occupied by members of the
Nigeria’s Northern Muslim population.
Therefore, President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent rise at
American Whitehouse in strong defense of Fulani Herdsmen terrorism and killing
of Christians in Nigeria is not surprising. Primordialism, they say, kills
conscience and beclouds sense of judgment. Mr. President swore by the existing
Constitution of Nigeria on 29th May 2015 not to allow his sentiments and
primordial interest to override his sense of judgment and public interest. Yet
his major pre-occupation during and after honoring of “thank you very much for
your patronage of our military industry’s invitation” by President Donald J.
Trump has remained futile and false defense of atrocities of terror Fulani
Herdsmen in Nigeria. Even after his visit, Mr. President has continued his
indefensible defense in his various foreign media outing including a recent
interview Mr. President reportedly granted to the Voice of America (VOA).
Sum total of Mr. President’s defense and denial of
terrorism of Fulani Herdsmen is not only a big international embarrassment to
the Government and People of Nigeria but also criminally indictable and further
confirmation of his central Government’s new national and foreign policy of
Cattletocratic Islamism. The Government and People of Nigeria further received
the greatest embarrassment of international dimension when Mr. President
exposed Nigeria’s woefully failed intelligence and securitization fact-sheet by
informing President Trump, who is also the symbol of world policeman and security intelligence that “those killing
people in Nigeria are Ghaddafi trained mercenaries from Libya”.
Mr. President also untruthfully claimed that “President
Trump was misinformed over killing of Christians in Nigeria” and that “Fulani
Herdsmen do not carry guns (AK-47s) in Nigeria but sticks and machetes for
foliage cutting”. This is nothing short of taking official ignorance and
falsehood beyond the borders of Nigeria.
His assertion in local and international media on account of his recent
visit to USA that “there are more people killed in Zamfara than in Benue,
Taraba, etc put together”, is highly regrettable and clear admission of
incompetence and gross regime failure.
Mr. President must be told in clear terms that by such
statement of his using rival Muslim killings in Zamfara State to excuse his Administration’s woeful failure
to arrest the killers and end the killing of Christians and destruction of their
sacred places of worship in Nigeria by his violent Fulani kinsmen as well as strong accusation of his
Government’s complicity; he has observed in gross breach his oaths of office
and allegiance under the existing Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
Mr. President of Nigeria must further be made to
understand that he got elected and sworn in to protect the lives and properties
of all Nigerians irrespective of ethnicity, religion and class. Human death
outside the law and convention is globally reprehensible and condemnable
irrespective of the religion, ethnicity and class of the affected persons or
population. That is to say that neither State actor nor non-State
actor/government engineered killings in Nigeria are acceptable, excusable and
permissible no matter the circumstances of their occurrences and perpetration.
Further ulterior motives behind the mad rush by the
present central Government of Nigeria to acquire war jets and other weapons of
death using borrowed funds were further exposed few days after Mr. President of
Nigeria’s visit to President Donald J. Trump and People of the United States on
30th April 2018. Recall the just recent announcement by Nigeria’s Chief of Air
Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar of
deployment of four attack war planes and related others to the Southeast Zone.
The announcement exposes the Federal Government’s policy of psychological and
physical terrorization and extermination of lawful civilian population on one
hand and weaponization and protection of violent ethno-religious group members
of the Nigerian population on the other.
It deeply saddens our heart as why such war jets in
the Southeast Nigeria-a zone without any record of group violence or armed
resistance; whereas the Nigeria’s troubled zones and violent ethno-religious
groups where war jets and related others are direly needed are left with little
or no weaponization and securitization; thereby leaving the criminal actors to
continue with their atrocities including unending bloodshed against Nigerian
Christian communities and Igbo People of Nigeria.
We commend President Trump’s bold and strong worded
statement against the killing of Christians and destruction of their sacred
places of worship particularly in the Middle Belt of Nigeria and his Administration’s
firm promise to monitor and respond to it proactively and headlong. But by
rolling out red carpets for Mr. President of Nigeria including weaponization of
his Administration in Nigeria through the sale of 12 war jets and other weapons
of death, despite serious human rights concerns against him from several
quarters, President Trump has also become a complicit by proxy in the killing
of Christian and unarmed members of the Igbo People of Nigeria.
However, the world is watching President Trump to
match his words with action on killing of Christians and destruction of
churches by terror Fulani Herdsmen through strongly suspected Government
complicity. He should also ensure the cessation of killing of rival Muslims by
Muslims in Zamfara State and insist on discontinuation of President Buhari
Administration’s national security and new foreign policy of Cattletocratic
Islamism.
The announcement of deployment of four attack
warplanes to the Southeast-Nigeria’s most non-war related nonviolent zone;
calls for serious concerns and demand for President Trump’s immediate proactive
diplomatic attention as it concerns Nigeria’s newest arms procurement deals
with USA using borrowed funds. This is of uttermost importance particularly
bearing mind serious human rights concerns severally raised by independent
bodies against the present central Government of Nigeria.
To be borne in mind by the Trump Administration too is
the possibility of turning such war jets and other war equipments against
defenseless civilian populations in the country in pursuit and execution of
hate agenda and religious bigotry. Evidential documents at the disposal of the
US Government include the Leahy Human Rights Act of the United States and its
recently released “2018 Report on the State of Human Rights in Nigeria”.
The killing of Christians and destruction of churches
and other Christian sacred places of worship in the country are undeniable and
well documented by local and international media, churches, human rights,
humanitarian and research institutions.
Just recently the This Day Newspaper and other publications released a
timeline of killing of Christians and ors in the Middle Belt Nigeria since 1st
January 2018, showing graphic evidence of over 860 Christian deaths in the
hands of terror Fulani Herdsmen in the past four months of 2018.
This figure was not exhaustive as there were “dark or
grey figures of crimes” or those that were perpetrated but went unrecorded
during the same period, bringing the factual total number of Christian deaths
to over 1000 in the past four months or between January and April 2018. Between
December 2017 and April 2018, a period of past five months, no few than 1, 150
Christian deaths and destruction of dozens of churches were recorded in
Northern Nigeria including over 50 rural Christians bombed to death on 4th
December 2017 by Nigerian military jets in Numan, Adamawa State and Fulani
Herdsmen’s inter-religious killings in Taraba and Adamawa States as well as
Southern Kaduna in the same month of December 2017.
Signed:
For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule
of Law
Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist & Graduate of
Security Studies)
Board Chairman
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