Lawyer and ex-minister Fani
Kayode has decided to share his thoughts on religion, genocide, government and
many more.
“Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let
alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone
for preaching self defense? You are INSANE. Yes, INSANE”- Olufemi Korode,
Twitter, 24th January 2017. Can anyone dispute the fact that Mr. Korode is
right? Are those that say that Christians should not defend themselves or
complain when they are being slaughtered not completely insane?
The truth is that had it
not been for the fact that eight more innocent and defenceless people were
butchered by Fulani militants in Samaru Kataf, Southern Kaduna on 17th January,
that six young students of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, Southern
Kaduna were massacred on 23rd January and that twenty innocent souls, including
women and children, were slaughtered by the same pack of beastly savages in the
village of Ohimini in Benue state on that same day I may not have written this
piece.
Yet I am constrained to do
so because the animals in human flesh and Islamist demons that are on the
rampage in Kaduna state and indeed all over the country have not satisfied
their lust for Christian blood and their carnage persists.
As a matter of fact the
cancer is spreading. When you add the thirty four that were murdered in the
last few days to the 808 innocent souls that were killed by the same creatures
on Christmas eve and Christmas day you cannot come to any other conclusion than
the fact that this is genocide and that it is time to resist it. Unfortunately
some do not wish to hear that. They would prefer the people of Southern Kaduna
to continue to be the sacrificial lambs that they have always been.
Permit me to share just one
example of their mindset here. In reaction to the suggestion that the people of
Southern Kaduna ought to defend themselves from mass murder and genocide given
the fact that the state government has refused to protect them, Mallam Uba Sani,
a four foot dwarf and the political advisor to Kaduna state’s dimunitive
Midget-in-Chief, Governor Nasir El Rufai, wrote the following in Thisday and a
number of other newspapers: ”The greatest challenge to peace in Kaduna State
now is the antics of political jobbers and opportunists who have gone as low as
spreading hate speeches; telling communities in Kaduna State to “defend
themselves.” This, of course, is an unmistakable call on the people of Kaduna
State to procure arms and ammunitions and start killing themselves. This is not
just very low but extremely dangerous.
This call on the citizenry
to take the laws into their own hands totally undermines all on-going efforts
to achieve lasting peace in Kaduna State.” These are strong words from the dwarf
who appears to be expressing the frustration, angst and cold rage of his
employer, the Chief Midget. Instead of showing remorse for their woeful
failures and begging for forgiveness for the oceans of innocent blood that has
been shed under their watch, the government of Kaduna State is lashing out at
those of us that have called them out and that are deeply concerned about the
annihilation and decimation of human life and sheer carnage that is taking
place in Southern Kaduna.
The dwarf pours scorn on
the suggestion that a man should protect his family, loved ones and home from
cold-blooded murderers who are attempting to maim and kill them. He is
suggesting that the people of Southern Kaduna should keep quiet, fold their
arms and happily welcome, with a warm smile, those that have come to rape their
wives, slaughter their children, burn their homes, wipe out their faith and
possess their land. Is that how to make Kaduna great again?
Is that how to get back to
the glorious days of Abubakar ‘Dangiwa’ Umar, Ahmed Makarfi and Patrick Yakowa
when Kaduna state was presided over by men of substance and character. Is that
the way to get back to the days when Kaduna state was blessed with kind and
compassiomate governors who were balanced, mature, sensitive, caring, gentle,
cosmopolitan, inclusive and fair to all regardless of faith, tribe or ethnic
nationality? Is that how to get back to the peaceful days of Kaduna when those
of us that play polo used to look forward to going there to play a few chukkas
at the annual Kaduna Polo tournament? Is that how to get back to the days when
Kaduna was one of the best places to live in or visit in the country? I doubt
it very much. The truth is that nothing could be more insensitive,
irresponsible, callous and utterly absurd than the dwarf’s counsel and
suggestion.
If that is the kind of
advice that the midget has been getting from his aides and advisors ever since
he was elected as governor one needs to look no further to know why he has
failed so woefully. Under his watch Kaduna state has become more divided than
it has ever been in its entire history and the pungent smell and rotten stench
of fresh human blood and fly-infested bloated corpses fills the air. That is
the shameful legacy that the midget and his dwarf are desperately trying to
white-wash and defend. Instead of going on their knees and begging God, the
Christian community, the Shiite Muslims and the Nigerian people for forgiveness
for what can, at best, be described as their irresponsible, incompetent and
criminally negligent behaviour and, at worse, their willfull and premeditated
attempt to wipe out, exterminate and cleanse the land of the entire Christian
community and every ethnic and religious minority group in Southern Kaduna and
Zaria, they are throwing bricks at their perceived enemies and flying into
childish tantrums. The dwarf spoke of “political jobbers” and “opportunists”.
One wonders just who they
are? Again one wonders precisely what the “ongoing efforts to achieve lasting
peace in Kaduna” that he mentioned are given the fact that his boss the midget
does not appear to give a damn about the fact that thousands of innocent and
defenceless people, including women and children, have been butchered during
his watch and right under his nose. At the end of 2015 over 1000 Shiite Muslims
were slaughtered in cold blood and buried in mass graves by the Nigerian Army
in Zaria, Kaduna state. Many Shiites have accused the midget of covertly
playing a sordid and questionable role in the whole affair and when one hears the
facts one cannot blame them.
For example is it true that
it was he that fingered Sheik Ibrahim El Zak Zaky, the Shiite leader, by
phoning him and ascertaining his whereabouts for the military before they
tracked him down, shelled, shot and murdered hundreds of his people in the
sanctity of their homes and proceeded to shoot him and his gentle Yoruba wife
in the eye and stomach before whisking them both away. Since that time they
have kept both husband and wife incommunicado and in detention despite court
orders to release them. One wonders what efforts the midget has made to get
them out?
One wonders why he, a Sunni
Muslim, hates the Shiite so much? One wonders why he has been tormenting,
arresting, persecuting, outlawing, proscribing and locking them up ever since
their leaders arrest even though they have never sought to harm or attack
anyone? Another example of the sheer depravity of this man was provided
approximately one month ago over the Christmas holiday.
On Christmas eve and
Christmas day alone, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),
no less that 808 Christians were killed by the midget’s friends and brothers,
the Fulani militia (aka herdsmen), in Southern Kaduna. The midget and his
government provided security and enforced a curfew in the Muslim areas of the
state but they refused to do the same for Southern Kaduna which is Christian.
Consequently the Fulani militia not only struck but they struck very hard
indeed leaving nothing but death and destruction in their path.
Evidently the Chief Midget
and his government are more interested in insulting, undermining, discrediting
and threatening with arrest its critics and those that have expressed outrage
about what the people of Southern Kaduna have been subjected to under his watch
than in protecting and saving innocent Christian lives. One wonders why he
hates Christians so much to the extent that the only hospital in the relevant
Christian community was shut down by his government on the days that the
attacks took place in order to ensure that the wounded could not be treated and
that as many Christians suffered casualties and died as possible.
Is the midget not
vicariously liable and criminally culpable for those deaths even if he did not
take part in the attacks himself? What is the source of and reason for his
hatred for our Christian brothers and sisters? Are they not human beings as
well? Are they not worthy of life? Do they not deserve to be protected? These
questions must be answered whether they like it or not. Yet instead of doing so
they are spewing out more and more garbage by the day.
For example in his essay
the midget’s dwarf went even further by saying that “a Yoruba ex- Minister who
should know better” and who is “being sponsored” held a series of meetings in
his Abuja home with various delegations from Southern Kaduna where they planned
how to effect “a violent attack on others” in Kaduna state. Though he did not
have the courage to mention the name of that Yoruba ex-Minister it is obvious
that the dwarf was referring to yours truly. As a rule I do not respond to
hired help and the aides of public office holders no matter how short they are
because they are too small for me.
This is especially so when
they are stunted not just in physical growth but also in mental capacity. When
the midget himself dares to open his mouth and talk rubbish I will give him the
full measure of my pen and tongue but I cannot bring myself to the very low
level of joining issues with a frustrated dwarf or any of the other hired guns
of an embittered and drowning midget. What I will say to the dwarf however is
this. If it was me that he was accusing of having meetings in my Abuja home
with various delegations from Southern Kaduna he is absolutely right.
I have
many friends in and from Southern Kaduna from both the Shiite Muslim and
Christian community who deemed it necessary to pay me a visit in Abuja over the
Christmas holidays and tell me about the genocide that they were being
subjected to by the Fulani Janjaweed terrorists and military forces, with the
full support and knowledge of the midget-in-chief. I was proud to host them and
I will continue to do so whether the little dwarf and his paymaster likes it or
not.
I should also mention the
fact that at no time did I discuss any violent attack on the Fulani or anyone
else in Kaduna state with any of them though I told them plainly that if the
government failed in its duty to protect them they must go ahead and defend
themselves. That is my view and it will always be my view and I will continue to
share it with whoever I deem fit. For this counsel I have no apology. If it
gives the midget governnor and his little dwarf sleepless nights that the
people of Southern Kaduna will no longer sit back and allow their loved ones to
be slaughtered by their Fulani friends and kinsmen that is their problem. For
all I care they can go and hug a transformer or jump in the lagoon. (TO BE
CONTINUED).
By Fani Kayode
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