{"id":22492,"date":"2019-06-28T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22492"},"modified":"2019-06-28T21:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:10:31","slug":"lets-talk-ruga-aka-fulani-cattle-colonies-by-nnamdi-elekwachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22492","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk RUGA aka Fulani Cattle Colonies by Nnamdi Elekwachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18968&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Buhari Administration has commenced construction of Cattle Colonies, rebranded \u201cRUGA\u201d in 36 States of Nigeria. The project has started in Kotongora, Niger State on a 31,000-hectare piece of land.\u00a0 The project will be initially replicated in 12 States with six (6) of such colonies to be constructed in each State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What is RUGA aka Cattle Colony?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">RUGA or Cattle Colony is a SETTLEMENT for Fulani Herdsmen, their families\u00a0 and cattle\/livestock. It will contain ranches, grass or feed farms, abattoirs, dairy, meat and skin\/leather processing plants, housing, religious houses, schools, roads, power and water supplies and the complete range of infrastructure required to support and sustain an ultra-modern local government area .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Okay, lets talk now<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">FACTS FIRST.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. Taking a cue from the first RUGA in Kotongora in Niger State, the land size or landmass\u00a0 of each RUGA is at least 31,000 hectares of land or 310 SQUARE KILOMETERS.\u00a0 That is the size of an average Local Government Area (LGA) in many States in Nigeria. The average size of an LGA in the South East is 331 sqkms and in the South West, 574 sqkm. Lagos State has the least average LGA size at 179 sqKm, Imo State has average LGA size of 205sqkm, Akwa Ibom State \u2013 229sqkm, Anambra 231sqkm and Osun State has average LGA size at 308 sqkm just to mention a few.\u00a0 At 310 sqkms in size, a RUGA or Fulani Cattle Colony is the size of a Local Government Area in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. Buhari\u2019s RUGA aka Fulani Herdsmen Cattle Colony is an exclusive settlement for Fulani Herders and their families.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3. Buhari\u2019s RUGA program will establish six (6) such exclusive Fulani settlements in each\u00a0 of the thirty-six (36) States in Nigeria. In the result, at completion of the program there will be two hundred and sixteen (216) new exclusive Fulani Local Government Areas in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">4. Nigeria has seven hundred and seventy-four (774) LGAs decreed in the Military Decree falsely called Nigerian Constitution 1999.\u00a0 Nigeria is ruled by Military Decree imposed by force of arms. Nigeria has had no agreed Constitution made by the people since the Military abrogated the Independence Constitution. Let\u2019s leave the Constitution fraud for another day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">5. The current population of Nigeria is about two hundred million, eight hundred and twenty-eight thousand and eight hundred and twenty-four (200,828,824)\u00a0 people as at 26 June 2019.\u00a0 \u00a0Given the fact in \u201c4\u201d above, the average population of a Local Government Area in Nigeria is roughly two hundred and sixty thousand (260,000) people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">6. Given the facts in \u201c3\u201d and \u201c5\u201d above, Buhari\u2019s RUGA program on completion is projected to increase the Fulani population in Nigeria by FIFTY-SIX MILLION, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND (56,160,000) Fulanis.\u00a0 There about Thirteen Million (13,000,000) Fulanis in Nigeria presently\u00a0 which is 6.3% of Nigeria\u2019s population according to CIA Factbook on Nigeria. In effect, Buhari\u2019s RUGA program on completion will see Nigeria with a projected total Fulani Population of SIXTY-NINE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND (69,160,000),\u00a0 4.32-fold increase in population.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">7. The implication of \u201c7\u201d above is that at the completion of Buhari\u2019s RUGA program, the Fulani will have arguably become the most populous nationality in Nigeria (in todays population figure terms) having outgrown the Hausa (25.1% or about 50.4 Million), the Yoruba (21% or about 42.2 Million) and the Igbo (18% or about 32.2 Million).\u00a0 In one fell swoop the Fulani becomes the majority nationality in Nigeria. The Tripod balance in Nigeria becomes quad-legged.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">8. It is fact that Buhari has himself stated that Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists who are engaged in massacres and pillage in Nigeria are not Nigerian citizens. In other words, the Fulani herders are alien non-Nigerians. Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State has also said about the same. Several powerful sources in Nigeria have repeatedly confirmed that the Fulani herders causing mayhem in Nigeria are aliens from across West and Central Africa. Nigerians are generally agreed that the Fulani herders and terrorists engaged in land grab and terrorist activities in Nigeria are non-Nigerians from West and Central Africa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">9. It is also fact that the advent of Buhari\u2019s RUGA program or Fulani Herdsmen Cattle Colony program was preceded by increased Fulani Herdsmen Terrorist activity and land grab in the Middle Belt and elsewhere in Nigeria.\u00a0 It was also preceded by militant advocacy by Miyetti Allah for grazing routes and grazing reserves to be established in the Middle Belt and Southern States of Nigeria in particular.\u00a0 Without doubt, Buhari has himself pronounced the fact that his RUGA or Fulani Cattle Colony program is meant to resettle the Fulani Herdsmen and satisfy the demands of Miyetti Allah!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">10. Nearly all States from the Middle Belt to Southern Nigeria vehemently rejected the Buhari Fulani Cattle Colony program and refused to allocate land in their states as demanded by Buhari. Notwithstanding that rejection of the Cattle Colony Program, Buhari opted to rebrand the program as RUGA and to instead, to use existing Federal Government owned land in the States.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">11. It is also a fact that in addition to FGN owned land in the States, Buhari has sponsored an Executive Bill in the National Assembly to enable the FGN to acquire all rivers and their river- banks in Nigeria.\u00a0 Nigerians view Buhari\u2019s\u00a0 Rivers\/River-bank acquisition Bill as a consistent and integral part of his RUGA\/Fulani Cattle Colony land grab.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Implications of the facts of RUGA\/Fulani Cattle Colonies program.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The first and immediate question arising from Buhari\u2019s\u00a0 RUGA\/Fulani Cattle Colony program is why,\u00a0 by what justification,\u00a0 and on the basis of which law of Nigeria\u00a0 would Buhari undertake such massive immigration and resettlement of foreigners (West and Central African Fulanis) in Nigeria and on indigenous Nigerian lands. Certainly neither Nigerian Immigration law nor ECOWAS laws permit non citizens to enter Nigeria without passports. Why would Buhari pursue such a most expensive massive immigration program to import and resettle more than 59 million foreigners on Nigerian lands at a time Nigeria I already over-populated and searching for effective means of population control?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When the World\u2019s most powerful country, USA is building a wall on its Mexican border to stop a flow of only a few hundred thousand refugees, Buhari does the opposite by throwing\u00a0 Nigerian Northern borders open and using Nigerian tax payers funds to invite and fund more than 59 million foreign Fulani for resettlement on indigenous lands at a time Nigerians are in hunger, penury and hunger.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There is no refugee problem or war in West and Central Africa that could be said to instigate such massive immigration of African Fulanis to Nigeria. Even so, refugees are usually provided temporary shelter in camps, not permanent settlement and such refugee programs are at the costs of the United Nations .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">These Buhari foreign Fulanis are not refugees.\u00a0 These foreign Fulanis are in Nigeria in contravention of Nigerian Immigration Laws. So why is Buhari seeking to forcefully legitimise and resettle illegal immigrants on indigenous lands of Nigerians?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Why do these Buhari foreign Fulanis carry AK47 and other military grade weapons freely and openly across the borders of Nigeria and all over the States of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Even so, why have Nigerian Army, Police and Security\u00a0 Services failed and or refused to enforce Nigerian gun laws against these Fulanis? The Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists, Bandits\/Kidnappers are known to have been engaged in terrorist activity all over Nigeria and continue to do so.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Why is Buhari rewarding terrorists and criminals with resettlement on Nigerian indigenous lands? Why would government reward terrorists rather than prosecute them? Above all why would terrorists be resettled on the lands of other indigenous nations of Nigeria? Why is Buhari bent of introducing whole 6 new Local Government Areas full of terrorists in States of other indigenous nations of Nigeria? Why would any state or nation accept such terrorist communities of foreign hostile citizens?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The nationality question<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigerian nations have boiling unresolved nationality questions. It is not only provocation of the most insensitive and inhumane nature for Buhari to seek to introduce exclusive Fulani LGAs into native lands of other indigenous nations of Nigeria.\u00a0 RUGA\/Fulani Cattle Colony introduces and creates 6 new exclusive Fulani LGAs in every State of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By implication indigenous Nigerian Nations are compelled by Federal Presidential power to have the Fulani who are alien to their lands to inherit and permanently retain part of their indigenous land as Fulani homeland.\u00a0 Imagine 30 Fulani LGAs planted strategically all over the South East, or 36 of such LGAs scattered strategically all over Yorubaland or in the Middle Belt and South South?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Would Buhari create exclusive Igbo or Yoruba or Ijaw or Idoma or Efik or Ibibio or Urobo or Tiv LGAs in Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara etc? If not why would Buhari pursue RUGA\/Fulani Cattle Colonies program against the objections of States of the Middlebelt and Southern Nigeria?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18968&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Discrimination comparable only to Apartheid<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Fulani Exclusiveness of RUGA and the use of Federal Funds to build whole new ultra-modern LGAs with facilities not available to the other LGAs of the natives or indigenous Nigerians is nothing short of APARTHEID!\u00a0 Apartheid is impermissible and unacceptable in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Religious, way of lif, governance and socio political\u00a0 implications<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">RUGA\/Cattle Colony\u00a0 is an LGA. With the herdsmen come their families and the full facilities of human settlements. Being exclusively Fulani, therefore the LGA becomes exclusively Moslem.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The LGA must come with Mosques for worship. With the LGA being exclusively Islamic, comes Sharia Courts and Sharia Law, along with Sharia police within the LGA in order to meet the religious and way of life needs of the settlers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With it comes the need for Emirs or District heads. In one fell swoop suddenly each State in the South East, South South, South West, Middle Belt and other Christian and animist nations, must necessarily legitimise Sharia Law given 6\u00a0 Sharia LGAs in their States. Inevitably Sharia Law must then be declared and recognised in all States of Nigeria. And boom, Nigeria has become a Sharia country!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Along with Sharia law becoming operational in all States of Nigeria follows Emirates being declared in those States and then demands for more Sharia LGAs and more land and then claims of right to govern the States and so on and so forth!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Legitimate Fulani rights innevitably arise to demand that each State of Nigeria make provisions to accommodate their language whether Fulfude or Hausa in the State Schools and public media broadcasts. The demand for both Sharia Law and dual language in each State of Nigeria would be perfectly legitimate. Why not?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A new ethnic group in Imo State for instance that has 6 LGAs as its homeland\u00a0 plus the original 27 LGAs, would certainly be entitled to have their own language accommodated in Imo Schools and public broadcasts. They will be entitled to vote and be voted for. They will be entitled to have their Sharia Courts and facilities must be dualized to accommodate them and their different way of life.\u00a0 Why not? Are they not also Imolites? After all they have 6 LGA homelands in Imo State. The same must unavoidably\u00a0 happen in all other States in Nigeria where RUGA is implemented, except in Northern States that are totally Sharia Statess.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Their Emirs must seat in the Imo House of Chiefs or traditional rulers and when it becomes one of their turns, an Emir will become the Head of the Imo Council of Ezes! Same must inevitably happen in all relevant States in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In effect, every State in Nigeria suddenly must as a legitimate necessity double up language, culture, judiciary, governance, traditional leadership and all aspects of their lives with the Fulani.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This must be what former President Obasanjo foresaw and accurately described as Fulanisation and Islamisation of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Will Buhari create Igbo and Yoruba Customary Law\u00a0 Courts in Sokoto, Kano, Katsina and in all Northern Moslem States of Nigeria? If not, why not?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Will Buhari also set up a RUGA for the Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Idoma and all other tribes of Nigeria so that Nigeria can be \u201cIgbonised\u201d, \u201cYorubanised\u201d, \u201cIjawnised\u201d, \u201cIdomanised\u201d, \u201cTivinised\u201d, \u201cIbibionised\u201d, \u201cEdonised\u201d, \u201cIgbiranised\u201d, \u201cefikinised\u201d, \u201curobonised\u201d and \u201call kind of nized\u201d with all etnic groups in Nigeria and Christianised and \u201d animistinized\u201d ?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">RUGA\/Fulani Herdsmen Cattle Colony is outright declaration of Jihad! It won\u2019t work without declaration of war\u00a0 against the indigenous nations of Nigeria and defeating them in a war of conquest!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In RUGA\/Fulani Herdsmen Cattle Colonies, his Rivers &amp; Riverbanks Bill and support for and protection of Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists plus romance and collaboration with Miyetti Allah, Buhari is directly and indirectly making and levying war against Nigeria .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>RUGA\/Fulani Herdsmen Cattle Colony program is the largest\u00a0 illegal migration in human history in terms of its size. It is unprecedented. It is also the greatest Jihad by stealth being executed through abuse and misuse of Presidential power and privillage to not only attempt to permanently enforce Fulani Caliphate colonisation of Nigeria, but also carry out eventual fulanisation and islamisation of Nigeria without open declaration of war against the indigenous nations of Nigeria.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Every indigenous Nigerian has a duty to resist this Buhari Jihad.\u00a0 Any indigenous nation that accepts RUGA is already on their way to extinction from the face of the earth before they realise it. Ask the Housa\u00a0 Kingdoms of the North or the nations of the Middle Belt that have had to live a life of endless wars of self preservation against the Fulani Caliphate perpertual Jihad.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18968&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buhari Administration has commenced construction of Cattle Colonies, rebranded \u201cRUGA\u201d in 36 States of Nigeria. The project has started in Kotongora, Niger State on a 31,000-hectare piece of land.\u00a0 The project will be initially replicated in 12 States with six (6) of such colonies to be constructed in each State. 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