Former
Minister of Aviation and spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign
Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has written yet another explosive piece
to Nigerians...its a must read!
Femi Fani-Kayode
“We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and we will not allow it
to take root in our country…….we will wipe it off the face of the
earth”- President Donald J. Trump.
Now that is a real President talking! Sadly our ailing Head of
State does not possess such a mindset and neither does he share such a
disposition. Unlike Trump he does not have an aversion to such evil.
Consequently he has refused to apprehend, caution, arrest or
prosecute even one member of the radical Islamist Fulani supremacists
and terrorists since he came to power just under two years ago even
though they have butchered thousands of inncocent Christians, burnt
their homes and occupied their land.
A few days ago, in a letter inviting President Goodluck Jonathan to
make a presentation about the plight of Christians in Nigeria,
the Chairman of the United States Congresse’s Sub-Committee on
Africa, Global Health, Human Rights and International Organisations,
Congressman Christopher Smith, wrote the following:
“my subcommittee has broadly investigated the crises facing
Christians in Nigeria today. My staff director, Greg Simpkins and I have
made several visits to Nigeria, speaking with Christians and Muslim
religious leaders across the country and visiting fire-bombed churches,
such as in Jos. Unfortunately, Nigeria has been cited as the most
dangerous place for Christians in the world and impunity for those
responsible for the killing of Christians seem to be widespread”.
When one considers the sheer horror that the Christians of northern
Nigeria have been subjected to over the last 56 years can anyone
dispute Smith’s assertion?
Yet it did not stop there. Mr. Douglas Murray, an influential and
respected columnist in the United Kingdom’s Spectator Newspaper painted a
graphic picture of what has become the norm in northern Nigeria rather
well.
Last week, in a widely read essay titled ‘Who Will Protect Nigeria’s Northern Christians’ he wrote as follows:
“A few days before any attack, a military helicopter is spotted
dropping arms and other supplies into the areas inhabited by the Fulani
tribes. Then the attack comes. For reasons of Islamic doctrine, the
militia often deliver a letter of warning. Then they come, at any time
of night or day, not down the dirt tracks, but silently through the
foliage. The Christian villagers, who are forbidden to carry arms
(everyone is, in theory), have no way to defend themselves. With some
exceptions, they also tend to believe what they were taught about
turning the other cheek”.
With contributions and interventions like this from our friends in
the international community it appears that the world is finally waking
up and recognising the fact that northern Nigeria is in the grip of a
great, blood-craving and blood-lusting evil.
The frightful events that took place in Southern Kaduna over the
Christmas holidays are still fresh in our minds and neither will we EVER
forget them. Yet sadly the carnage did not stop there. It continues on a
regular and systematic basis.
For example 40 more Christians were killed and many of their houses
were burnt to the ground by Islamist Fulani militias on February 1st in
a town called Mummuye in the Lau Local Government Area of Taraba state.
Little girls were raped and chopped up like barbercue spare ribs.
Young boys were sodomised and beheaded. Grown men were castrated and
hacked to pieces.
Old men were gutted and sliced up like spring onions. And women,
both young and old, were slowly tortured and violently violated in the
prescence of their husbands, children and grandchildren after which
their throats were slit open and their blood drained into fly-infested
gutters and the dark night soil.
This is the work of heartless vampires and demons in human flesh.
This is carnage and butchery in its rawest and most primitive form. This
is a festival of horror and a frightful testimony of man’s inhumanity
to man.
This is evil. This is unacceptable. This is barbaric. This is
condemnable. And whether anyone likes to admit it or not, this is
Nigeria today.
The only thing left to say is to pray that the souls of those that were slaughtered in cold blood rest in peace.
The Holy Bible says “fear not those that can kill the body but fear the one that can throw the soul into hell”.
The Fulani jihadists and Janjaweed militias may be able to kill our
bodies and take away all that is dear to us but, because we are
believers and we are rooted in Christ, they cannot take our precious and
eternal souls.
The Holy Bible says “He who watches over Israel neither sleeps nor slumbers”.
It says “many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him of them all”.
These words bring life. They stir the spirit and they re-ignite soul. They are our strength, our hope and our salvation.
They are the only redeeming factor in this entire ugly episode and
unholy mess. They are the consolation that we have whilst the evil and
the horror of Christian genocide and mass murder continous to ravage and
afflict our beleagured people and plague our blood-soaked land.
The truth is that I speak for millions when I say that we have had
enough. And let me take this opportunity to let those that care to know,
friend and foe alike, precisely what my mindset is and how this
mindless slaughter and ethnic and religious genocide has shaped my
thinking.
My politics and views are unapologetically right wing. They have
always been and they always will be. I am proud to say that I belong to
the far right when it comes to the political spectrum. I am an
evangelical Christian and I am an ethnic nationalist.
I believe in the right of the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria to have Oduduwa Republic if that is their wish.
I believe in the right of the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria
to have Biafra if that is their wish. And I believe in the right of
every ethnic nationality to exercise their right of self-determination
if that is their wish.
I believe that anything less than that is an assault on their freedom and an eloquent testimony to servitude and slavery.
I believe that the sheer volume of innocent blood that has been
spilled and shed on Nigerian soil has made the nation, as it is
presently constituted, irredeemable and repugnant to God. It must be
rededicated to the Lord and restructured and, failing that, it must be
broken into two or more pieces.
When it comes to the international plain I support the strong men
and women of our day: the visionaries and the nationalists who, I
believe, put the interests of THEIR countries first before anything
else.
For example I love President Donald Trump of the United States of
America and I admire President Vladimer Putin of Russia and Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel.
I agree with most of their views and I support most of their right
wing nationalist policies. I am also thrilled at the fact that they are
all men of passion and conviction and that they are all men of strong
faith. That is very important to me and I have a similar disposition.
I respect Mr. Nigel Farage MEP of the United Kingdom’s UKIP, Madame
Marine Le Pen of France’s National Front, Mr. Geert Wilders of
Holland’s Freedom Party and virtually every other right wing European
politician and leader.
I believe that they are saying and doing what is best for their
respective countries and people and I am constrained to say and do what
is best for mine.
Like them I believe that the greatest threat to humanity, the
nation-state, the freedoms that we cherish and world peace today is the
rising power of radical Islam and Islamist terror.
In the Nigerian context I believe that the greatest threat to the
peaceful co-existence of our people today is the barbarity of the
Islamic fundamentalists that are in our midst and the evil and sheer
wickedness of the genocidal maniacs and murderous barbarians that are
known as the Fulani militias and herdsmen.
Any person that places the value of a cow higher than the life of a
human being is not fit to be described as human. And that is the
demonic disposition of those herdsmen that kill innocent men and women
at the drop of a hat and that I have come to despise.
They prey on the defenceless, the weak and the vulnerable and they drink and bathe in the blood of innocents and infants.
I despise the concept of a hybrid mongrel state where integration
with ethnic and religious incompatibles is the norm and where I am
expected to sacrifice my ethnicity and religious beliefs and faith on
the alter of an artificial, iniquitous and cruel man-made mega-nation
.
Given what the Christian community in northern Nigeria has been
subjected to for the last one year and seven months, I despise and have
nothing but contempt for that concept and I pray every day for the
restructuring or redefinition of Nigeria.
This is because, in my view, the rest of us have nothing in common
with the core northern Fulani herdsmen and militias and their friends
and sponsors in high places. We come from a different world and espouse a
different tradition.
Keeping us together in one nation is like putting two big lions
together in a small cage. One may be dominant for a while but when the
second one comes of age and has had enough, all hell will break loose
and they will fight to the death.
At the end of that struggle only one of them will be left standing.
That is where we have got to in Nigeria today. It is time to open the cage and let us go before we kill each other.
A so-called nation where 808 people are killed by Islamist Fulani
militias on Christmas eve and Christmas day in Southern Kaduna simply
because they are non-Fulanis and they are Christians is not a nation: it
is an abbatoir.
To the Fulani militants the Christians of Nigeria are not human
beings: they are nothing but sallah rams and Christmas turkeys fit only
for the slaughter.
It is instructive to note that President Goodluck Jonathan is the
only former President of Nigeria that has had the courage to speak out
against the killing of Christians in the north.
He analysed the matter in a comprehensive and extensive manner and
he proferred solutions to the problem in a presentation to the United
States House Sub-Committee on Africa, in Washington D.C. on February 1st
2017. He said, inter alia,
“Your invitation letter profusely highlighted the issues of the
killing of Christians in Nigeria, the last major incident being the
recent killings in Southern Kaduna in Kaduna state. The challenge is how
do we stop that from recurring? How do we ensure that Christians and
Muslims cohabit peacefully in Nigeria and practice their religions
freely without discrimination, molestation and killings? One school of
thought believes that these killings re-occur because of impunity.
Security and law enforcement bodies unfortunately have a history of
failing to apprehend the culprits of previous killings and disturbances
and punishing according to the law. Such impunity has emboldened and
encouraged persons with such tendencies……If, as a nation, we do not kill
religious persecution and extremism, then religious persecution and
extremism will kill Nigeria.
The potential danger associated with the level of conflicts going
on across the country is so glaring that no sane mind can ignore
it………The Boko Haram Islamic terrorist sect has been classified as the
most deadly terror group in the world by the Global Terrorism Index.
Herdsmen operating in and around Nigeria are listed as the fourth most
deadly terror group…….. My belief is that the day the U.S. government
and the Russian government decide to work together, that will surely
mark the beginning of the end of global terror”.
President Jonathan’s intervention and counsel is gratifying and it gives us hope. I commend him for his courage.
As for the other so-called leaders, including former Heads of
States and Presidents, that have refused to condemn, show concern or
proffer solutions to the nefarious and abominable activities of the
Fulani militias and the religious genocide that is taking place in the
north, one thing remains clear: the blood of those that were slaughtered
is on their hands as much as it is on the hands of those that are doing
the killing.
Why? Because they have joined hands with President Buhari and
others and decided to turn a blind eye to what is fast turning into the
greatest and most comprehensive catalogue of crimes against humanity,
ethnic cleansing and mass murder in African history. I wonder how they
can sleep well at night? God is watching!
About the Author:
Femi Fani-Kayode was former minister of aviation and spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.
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