Nigeria as a country has been thrown into turmoil, both financially, economically and otherwise. Since 2009, when the Boko Haram insurgency, the peace and security of Nigeria has never remained the same.
Despite several efforts to curb the insurgence, all efforts seem to meet a brick wall. In 2015, after series of failure from the leaders who led the nation as their private enterprise, Nigerians sort for a messaiah in president Mohammadu Buhari who has lost all the previous time he had contested for presidency. But as fate may have it, he was finally elected and his dreams came true. With Nigerians hoping he will lead them to the promises Land.
Things turned out differently under his tenure as he failed to deliver on his many promises, some of those promises, he denied. Instead thee country was bedeviled with worse economic and financial crisis. Ethnic and religious crisis were also not left out. He promised that the security of the country was going to improve but security in Nigeria turned out worse as killings, banditry and kidnappings were carried out freely. As Boko Haram continued killing, armed Fulani herdsmen were kidnapping and the government only labelled them as bandits.
During the first tenure of the Buhari junta, the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria wanted to stop being Nigerians as they sought to create their own country. They wanted to become the republic of Biafra, under the aiges of the indegineous people of Biafra (IPOB) with mazi Nnamdi Kanu as their leader, but they were clamped down, proscribed as a terrorist group even though they went about it peacefully and their leader was sent to prison. Further agitation led to military invasion of the region and many were killed.
Meanwhile, in Northern Nigeria, the Fulani herdsmen on rampage, were killing and sacking communities unchecked, kidnapping for ransome, yet they were not proscribed terrorists, with many Nigerians thinking that this is happening because the president himself is a Fulani man. These same Fulani under the aiges of miyetti Allah cattle breeders association of Nigeria (MACBAN) once claimed on national TV that every land in Nigeria belonged to them and that they can graze their cattles everywhere. No one questioned them and no case was made of it.
The Fulani seems to be bringing about the end of Nigeria as they seem to cause trouble everywhere they find themselves, they destroy crops, kill and destroy villages if they dare stand against them. Yet they cannot be asked to leave a region as doing so is incurring the wrath of the presidency such that arrest warrants will be given and innocent citizens who are indegines of such region are subject to torture from the military men, commanded by the presidency.
Are the Fulani about to end a peaceful Nigeria?