MIYETTI ALLAH IS THE NEW NEGOTIATOR BETWEEN BOKO HARAM AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(LOOKING AT NIGERIA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM FROM A GODLY PERSPECTIVE).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 9.NO 384. 20th December, 2020.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

MIYETTI ALLAH IS THE NEW NEGOTIATOR BETWEEN BOKO HARAM AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

Ranching Law became imperative and was enacted in some Northern and Southern States between 2015-2018, when rampaging Fulani Herdsmen increased their audacity to invade virtually all nooks and crannies of the Nigerian landscape to feed their cattle on private farmlands and in the process inflict collateral damages on the farmers without respect for their fundamental human rights!

Ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, enacted a ranching law which was enforced to bring sanity to the herdsmen violations - a process which empowered law enforcement agents to seize and detain offending cattle, and also take defaulting herdsmen before law courts where fines were imposed on those proven guilty to serve as deterrent to others who eventually conformed to the law!

BUT, incumbent Governor of Benue State was not so lucky! When crisis between herders/farmers escalated in the State between 2015-2017, which according to him claimed nearly 2,000 lives, he decided to enact a grazing law in 2017 to stem the ugly development but it backfired because the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, which was responsible for those killings, resisted the law, threatened to violate it and allegedly carried out a vicious attack which claimed another 73 lives of innocent farmers and villagers 1st January, 2018!

In a criminal proceeding instituted against the leaders of Miyetti Allah before the Markudi High Court, the governor stated that they were charged with the murder of 73 victims killed on the New Year day, and that perpetrators of the heinous crime should not be allowed to go scot free because they told the Press that what was happening in Benue was, “ a Jihad; it’s not about grazing; it is about occupation; about taking over the land, and have never refuted the claim!”

The Governor then said he strongly believed that he would get justice in the long run.....!

THE TWIST OF EVENTS! On Saturday 26th October 2019, National Secretary of the Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation, Saleh Alhassan, apologised to Governor Ortom, on behalf of the association over the attacks and killings of people of Benue State by herdsmen at a Peace Initiative, where the Miyetti Allah secretary described the Governor as a peace-loving man who stood firmly for the emancipation of his people. He gave assurance that the group was ready to abide with all provisions of the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law by the government and embrace ranching as the global best practice for animal husbandry.

WHEREAS in August 2018, Miyetti Allah had demanded an apology from Governor Ortom, for fabricating lies against its association because “Tivs had carried out Benue killings and not Fulani herdsmen!”

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (AI) REPORT: In 2018, AI reported that about 3,641 lives were lost to the Herders/Farmers crisis from January 2016 to October 2018.
2018 GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX (GTI): GTI placed Benue casualty figures from January to September 2018 at 1,700 persons!

MIYETTI ALLAH’S NEW ROLE AS BUHARI’S NEGOTIATORS!

It is no longer news that when the Federal Government said in 2016/2017 that Boko Haram was tactically defeated by the Nigerian Armed Forces, little did it realise that fleeing terrorists formed themselves into smaller cells that now operate as bandits, kidnappers, highway robbers, traffickers inhuman body parts in the North West/North Central Geo-Political Zones etc. thereby escalating an already precarious crime scenario since that period to further destroy all efforts by the Buhari Administration to stem the tide!

344 STUDENTS OF GSSS, KANKARA, LG, RESCUED BY MIYETTI ALLAH NEGOTIATORS???

Maybe President Muhammadu Buhari, whose arrival in his home town Daura for a week’s rest, coincided with the kidnap, was neither properly nor probably briefed,  because he gave kudos to the combined efforts of the security agencies, who “rescued” the 344 students,  [kidnapped for six days Friday 11th – Thursday 17th December, 2020], on his 78th birthday for a job well done; whereas the children’s release was officially facilitated by Miyetti Allah Negotiators on behalf of Governor Aminu Masari of North Central Katsina Home State of the President!

While addressing the media on Thursday 17th December, shortly after the rescue of the unfortunate school children, the Governor asserted that NO RANSOM was paid to their abductors just as they claimed in previous rescues of Chibok, and Dapchi terrorists abductions!

NEGOTIATORS MUST AVOID COLLATERAL DAMAGE!   

International best practice demands that professional negotiators must be engaged to mediate between law-enforcers and desperate hostage takers to avoid collateral damages of innocent victims caught in between cross fires!

Terrorists employ all manner of dirty tactics, especially the abduction of vulnerable people whom they forcibly manipulate as human shields to escape justice or to collect huge monetary ransoms to further advance criminalities/brigandage!

Payment of ransoms to criminals for the release of their captives has become a Nigerian factor [even at official level where negotiation with terrorists was totally forbidden], from the early 1980s when kidnapping became a thriving and illustrious business and now boasts of billionaires!

FOUR NIGERIAN LAND BORDERS OPENED ON THURSDAY 17TH DECEMBER, 2020, TO PAVE WAY FOR COMMENCEMENT OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE  TRADE AREA AGREEMENT (AfCTA) AT THE EXPENSE OF FURTHER ESCALATION OF INSECURITY!

Nigerians need to know of the gains from land border closure from 24th August 2019 to 17th December, 2020, because throughout that period, the country harvested the worst type of INSECURITY that flowed inwards through the supposedly closed borders in spite of  “tight security” by Immigration/Customs/Army/Police/SSS personnel and operatives!

Can government deny that small weapons, arms, ammunitions including mercenary Fulani herdsmen from neighbouring West African Countries did not move into the country in droves without restraint and have caused the worst mayhem ever witnessed by Nigerians in the last 16 months of the ineffective closure? 

The President boasted that Nigeria attained “FOOD SECURITY” within six months into the “closure” BUT, citizens went through both artificial inflation on goods and services, as created and facilitated by greedy and unpatriotic traders across the 36 States while commodity price monitoring agencies went to sleep and LIFE INSECURITY BOOMED – while overstretched law-enforcement agencies could not cope with banditry/terrorism which thrived at the highest peak!

BUT the President believed that the closure prevented smuggling of RICE and other products in order to ensure food sufficiency; and whereas, food prices soared at two digits figure of 18.3% while inflation on goods and services exceeded all socio-economic predictions [according to Nigeria Bureau of Statistics rating], at 14.9%, the highest in recent years!

There was doubt that the year 2020 flooding which affected 22 States also contributed to food shortage/inflation as smuggling was at its lowest ebb due to the “border closure”!

There was great jubilation, commotion mixed with confusion when Seme, Ilella, Maigatari, Mfun land borders were ordered to be flung wide open by President Buhari according to media reports and the President’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu made the following remarks: “The message had sunk in to neighbouring countries used as a base for smuggling into Nigeria... especially BENIN, which it was largely intended for!

“A number of Nigerian business leaders have been complaining about Cotonou’s attitude. They claim their trucks going to Benin are overtaxed at the border ...Aliko Dangote was also prohibited to sell his Cement in Benin by President Patrice Talon.”

However, Dangote succeeded to bring Benin President to Nigeria in September, brokered a truce for the borders to be re-opened in preparation for AfCTA effective from 1st January, 2021!

QUESTION? Where is the consideration for the socio-economic gains of the ordinary Nigerian TALAKAWA in all of the measures of both the CLOSURE AND THE RE-OPENING? What is glaring in all of the transactions are better opportunities for business leaders to make more money while the poor get poorer!

DANGOTE HAS INCREASED AND SOLD CEMENT BAGS PRODUCED IN NIGERIA FOR N3, 500 SINCE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD FROM ITS FORMER HIGH PRICE OF N2, 200 NAIRA IN 2019!

It is also rumored that when DANGOTE PETROL (PMS) COMES ON STREAM, IT WOULD NOT COME CHEAP FOR NIGERIANS BUT WOULD CONFORM WITH “MARKET FORCES”- PRESENTLY TRENDING AT N165.50 AND ABOVE!

QUESTION? When will 200 million Nigerians become DANGOTES? When FEUDALISM IS COMPLETELY ERASED from Nigeria’s socio-economic system and the so-called BUSINESS LEADERS backed by the COMMONWEALTH FUNDS – THE COMMON PATRIMONY – THE SWEAT BLOOD AND TEARS OF THE MASSES – AT THE DETRIMENT OF BASIC NECESSITIES OF LIFE THROUGH RIGHTEOUS IMPLEMENTATION OF CAPITAL PROJECTS [especially in the Education, Health, Small-Medium Scale Enterprises, Manufacturing Sectors, Agriculture etc.), MEANT TO CATER FOR THE POOR MASSES!

If the United States of America, China, Russia etc, could boast of the largest economies in the world and also thousands of thousands of billionaires/millionaires, among their citizens; Nigeria could do the same and build a very sustainable economy to be counted among the FIRST 20 COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD!

They should remember that as they birthed into the world with neither personal belongings nor properties so would they likewise depart to eternity in emptiness to give account of their stewardship to their Almighty CREATOR at the appointed TIME which could be ANYTIME!

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (MK 8:36).   

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.