ozome15:
It`s becoming by coming. God will see you people through.

Amen and thank you.

slimfit1:
We Oduduwa and im sure Biafra are in support of any decision you make for your future but make sure it is a wise one. If you decide to choose wrongly im afraid you are on your own (OYO).

Thank you very much.

KWARARAFA together with ODUDUWA and BIAFRA. A perfect combination. (Smiles)

A LETTER TO SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE FROM A SON OF THE PLATEAU.

This letter is directed to all my brothers and sisters who are Indigenes of Kaduna state that are not Hausa' by ethnicity. Those whose ancestors have lived, thrived and evolved around the Kaduna and Gurara rivers for thousands of years. Those who are descendants of the ancient Nok civilization.
From the Kamuku/Gbagyi people at the South of Birnin Gwari/Igabi LGAs to the Kurama people of Pambeguwa at the south of Kubau LGA, down to all the boundaries of Kaduna state with Plateau, Nasarawa, Bauchi and Niger states.
Not also forgetting Doguwa LGA of Kano state which is populated by the Kurama people but was wrongly added to Kano state.

I started by calling you Southern Kaduna people my brothers and sisters even though I am from Plateau state because in reality, there is absolutely no difference between Plateau and Southern Kaduna people except for imaginary boundaries that were drawn by colonial masters.
Culturally, Linguistically, Ancestrally, Mentally, Socially, Physically and Religiously, the people of Plateau and Southern Kaduna are basically the same.
The British inspired political boundaries which were continually manipulated by subsequent military dictators against us, are the only things that divide us.
Our Fathers accepted, adopted and even championed the identities of these political boundaries because they ignorantly believed that Nigeria could be one united country. Alas, the same thing our fathers supported is now being used by evil doers to destroy and decimate us.

Unlike in the case of Plateau state, where the first major CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS took place in 1993 during the first Jos crisis, in Kaduna state, it was in 1987 during the Kafanchan crisis. Before the Kafanchan crisis, other smaller clashes like that of Kasuwan Magani and Yarkasuwa had taken place, all between 1983- 1989.
Most of us who make up the present day population were not born or were children when these conflicts took place.
The crisis of Zangon Kataf 1992 and Kaduna 2001 took place closely followed by the 'Miss world clashes' of 2006.
Just like on the Plateau, and elsewhere in the wider PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA region, these conflicts are termed INDIGENE- SETTLER conflicts and other times, they transform into religious conflicts, but for me, I'd rather call them a 'Clash of civilizations'.

Just like Plateau state, starting from 2010- 2014 till date, the Indigenous people of Southern Kaduna began to witness a whole new dimension of bloodshed, killings and terrorism. Armed mercenaries from nowhere come in the middle of the night to villages and slaughter unarmed villagers without a prior provocation, fracas or conflict.
This act of terrorism is dubiously called FARMERS- HERDERS CLASHES by the Nigerian government in order to water it down. However, these have been nothing but clearly internationally sponsored acts of terrorism and jihad against the Indigenous people of the region.

In spite of all these attacks, our people continued to remain peaceful, lawful and law abiding, but it seems like it has been misconstrued for weakness and foolishness by these terrorists.
It is now very clear that the people who sponsor these acts of terrorism against us are in possession and control of the security systems of this country.
The same national security forces that we trust to protect us are in collaboration with these terrorists called HERDSMEN, who have now unleashed the same acts of terrorism all over Nigeria.
In Southern Kaduna and many other parts of Nigeria, these terrorist herdsmen have now added a business perspective to their terrorism by kidnapping people for ransom.
People have been kidnapped from their houses, churches and schools and the Federal government has been completely clueless and useless in tackling this problem because they themselves are part and parcel of the problem.

There are currently between 5- 6 million Indigenous people of Southern Kaduna.
A very successful and progressive people with very high levels of literacy. I have always admired you my brethren from Southern Kaduna, considering where you guys are coming from and how you have managed to progress inspite of all the challenges. Right from the days of Old North-Central (Old Kaduna) state, where you guys shared a state with the entire Hausa' fulani muslim majority population of present day Katsina state and Zaria.

At that time, Katsina people dominated the state and gave Zaria second position, leaving crumbs for you my Southern Kaduna people. However, today, both Katsina and Zaria indigenes combined cannot match you guys in terms of literacy levels and the number and quality of professors and Academia you have produced. So never allow anyone or anything from anywhere to make you feel belittled and small.
I cannot imagine how we your brethren from Plateau state would have fared if we were in your shoes in a situation where we shared a state with Zaria and Katsina combined for 21 years. I personally think we would have done worse compared to you guys.

O great people of Gurara, We the descendants of the ancient NOK CIVILIZATION and KWARARAFA CONFEDERACY are not born cowards. It is hightime we redefined our allegiance and commitment to this 'sick mess' of a Nation called Nigeria that has failed to defend us and protect our dignity.

Make no mistake my brothers and sisters, GURARA STATE is not the solution to your problems, because I understand that some of you have been wrongfully made to believe in a proposed Gurara state as the answer to your prayers from the oppression and suppression you currently face in Kaduna state.
Take a good look at those of us from Plateau state and Taraba state, we have a state in which we control the political positions, however we have not fared any better than you guys. We are equally victims of sponsored terrorism to the same extent, if not even to worse proportions just as you guys are.
Our elections are still manipulated and politicians who were rejected by our people are still enforced on us.
Plateau state as a good case study where our own Governor is actively working against us and taking sides with our enemies. These politicians are now even used to manipulate us from within which is even more destructive.

Nigeria within the framework in which it exists is clearly a failed geographical experiment and whatever 'gift or compensation' we get from it is nothing but a 'Greek gift' which is meant to buy more time for our enemies to effectively execute our destruction.
That is why my brethren, your allegiance and commitment from today should only go to your own good people of SOUTHERN KADUNA and the wider region of PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA.
As a people, we can only be free when we control our borders, national policies and the security systems surrounding our borders.
An independent PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA region or a KWARARAFA REPUBLIC where we can control our own security and borders is the only solution to our current problems, not any state creation whatsoever.

Unlike in Plateau where a good number of us the indigenes allowed ourselves to be divided based on ethnicity and dialects out of short-sightedness, you my Southern Kaduna people have remained strong and united as a people.
However, the fire of that unity must move on to the next level.

The last few years when terrorist Herdsmen laid siege to Adara land (Kachia and Kajuru LGAs), most people from Zangon Kataf, Jema'a, Jaba, Chikun and other parts of Southern Kaduna were either silent, indifferent or showed little action. Now, these attacks have shifted to Zangon Kataf and it seems like it is the cross of the Atyap people alone.
When are we going to understand that as long as we continue to fragment ourselves according to tribal lines, our enemies are going to keep decimating us one after the other?

A Southern Nigerian or a Hausa' fulani man cannot tell the difference between a Plateau or Southern Kaduna man, let alone the difference between a Ninzo, Bajju, Koro, Chawai or Kagoro.
Even we can hardly differentiate ourselves because the dialects, languages, cultures and traditions are basically the same.
Our enemies will deceive us and say that they are only having issues with a particular tribe which is a perfect agenda for divide and conquer, yet most of us still fall for these tricks and go to bed with our two eyes closed. We feel as long as our tribe is not involved, we are safe.

Terrorists cannot fly with wings from Niger republic to Samaru Kataf to attack and kill people. They must have passed through Saminaka, Kachia, Kauru, Jema'a or other parts of Southern Kaduna before reaching Zangon Kataf.
The 'million-dollar' question is where were the Indigenes of those areas when these terrorists were traveling through or camping in their villages in order to attack Zangon Kataf?

As you are reading this article, you may ask yourself, how can I help?, but I know nobody or any route to offer any assistance or contribution.
If you are truly an Indigene of Southern Kaduna, you belong to an ethnic group, have you contacted the youth leader of your ethnic group? If you do not have confidence in your socio-cultural groups, SOKAPU is a group that has been selflessly working for the entire people of Southern Kaduna. Have you ever contacted them in order to contribute your quota to the progress of the union?

Many of us, especially the middle class decided to be very selfish, living in our modern houses in Kaduna city, Abuja or Jos, thinking that the insecurity was confined to the villages and will never come to us.
We forget that when they are done with the villages, they will come to us. Now, the rescources we should have used in strengthening the associations that would have protected our interests and dignity in this failed project called Nigeria, we are using them to pay kidnappers and terrorists just to live and survive.

If you are a proud son or daughter SOUTHERN KADUNA, you read this letter up to this point, you received this letter with a greatful heart and believe in the contents therein, please do well to share it on your wall/pages/groups with your friends and families. You can also like, follow and comment on this page PLATEAU-GURARA-GONGOLA as a way of showing your support.
Together, we shall overcome!


Written by
NOAH KALLAMU
Plateau Gurara Gongola.

JohnSin97:
Articulate and well put together. Am Yoruba but I expirenced the Jos 2001 crisis as a child living with my parents in Rock heaven Jos, it was an expirence in hell, those guys killed every non fulani they came in contact with, saw vividly a pregnant woman having her stomach cut open by the fulani bastards while she was alive, killed the baby and left the woman to bleed to death.... thanks to my dad's connections in the army we left Jos safely, but the psychological effects were there....shit gave me PTSD and these guys turned Jos to a ghost town, they killed you either you were a Yoruba Muslim or christain, Igbo or ijaw; note that is was during the era of the Yoruba bastard called obasanjo... they'd point at you and cut you down. Honestly op I read to the end of the thread and you're honestly correct; the unity of North Central tribes is key for survival....the idea of "one north" is a fallacy.

Thank you very and my heart goes out to your terrible experience.
It's unfortunate that we couldn't learn from these past experiences and taken steps early enough, until now that the evil stares us boldy in the face.

However, pls correct that NORTH CENTRAL nomenclature you used. Here we don't believe in that godforsaken name.

We shall overcome!

Nigeriadondie:
in 1967-70, this problem would have been solved but your fathers fought to keep Nigeria “One”.
Make una enjoy your “One Nigeria”.
Day just dey break for una abi?

The Dynamics of 1967 was very different from the Dynamics of now.

edochie12:
You people should blame your brother GOWON,he was trying to please his masters by waging a war against us,even after agreement at ABURI ACCORD,so face your enemy and defend your land,as for we IGBOS,we have moved on.

If Nigeria must end, we need each other.
Yorubas, Igbos, Middlebelt and Niger Delta all together. Defending one's land is not enough in these days.

Middlebelt people are not the only ones who have made mistakes in the existence of Nigeria. We all have.

A HEARTFELT LETTER TO PLATEAU STATE INDIGENES FROM A SON OF THE PLATEAU.


This letter is primarily directed towards we the Indigenous people of the Plateau, especially the youths of the Plateau, because it is very obvious that we do not have elders anymore. Even If such elders exist, they have decided to adopt the strategy of cowardice for reasons best known to them. Hence we the youths have to take our destiny into our own hands and ensure that we do not fail our own children just as our parents have failed us.
It is hightime we the Indigenes of the Plateau, those whose ancestors have lived on the Plateau for thousands of years tell ourselves the truth. And not just to tell ourselves the truth alone, but this time around to take concrete steps and actions based on this truth.
It is now very clear even to the blind that there is a sinister agenda against not just the Indigenous people of the Plateau but the entire Indigenous people of the Plateau-Gurara-Gongola region, the larger Middlebelt region and Southern Nigeria.


Hear this and allow this sink into your brains O great youths of the Plateau. O great descendants of the ancient Nok civilization and Kwararafa Kingdom.
Nigeria as a country has not just failed you, but it never cared about you in the first place. This may be hard for some of us to accept, but the truth they say is bitter.
Nigeria as a mere geographical expression and not a nation in the real sense has always been programmed from the beginning by the colonial masters to primarily cater for the interests of the Hausa-Fulani Muslims and secondly, people affiliated to the presidency and political leadership at a particular political dispensation.

Some of us were not born in the year 1993 when the first Jos crisis took place, others were young and did not understand what was happening. Then that of 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2010 took place.
Ever since 2010, the enemies decided to change their strategy since they realized that they have failed through open street-to-street confrontations in the urban centers. Then they adopted the new strategy of expand and occupy the rural areas. This we first witnessed in 2010 with the Dogo na hauwa massacre where hundreds of people who were mostly children and women were massacred in cold blood. Since 2010 till now, hardly does any week or month go by without dozens of defenceless villagers being massacred in their sleep.

The Indigenous people around Jos urban have been the primary target of these people as we have seen these attacks occur most frequently within LGAs surrounding Jos city like Riyom, Barkin ladi, Jos south, Bokkos, Bassa and most recently the rural parts of Jos north LGA. This should clearly help us understand that the agenda from the first Jos crisis of 1993 has not yet changed, the only thing that changed was the strategy, tactics and nomenclature. Then it was called Jos crisis or Indigene/Settlers crisis, now it is called Farmers/Herders clashes. It also comes in other forms such as Bokoharam, ISWAP, Bandits e.t.c (several heads of the same snake).

Unfortunately, it seems like the enemies of the Plateau have successfully outsmarted we the Indigenes, because most of us decided to never look beyond our ethnic identities.
Not until recently, many of us ignorantly said to ourselves "Ai wannan rikicin Yan Berom da Fulani ne, Ba ruwan mu.". However, before our eyes, the attacks shifted from the Beroms to the Ron people in Bokkos, then Irigwes in Bassa and now to the Anaguta people in Jos north LGA.
While we were busy arguing and accusing each other's ethnic groups, these strangers have been consolidating their foothold on the Plateau. Meanwhile our brethren from Southern Kaduna are also experiencing exactly the same issue. Over there (Southern Kaduna), they started with the Asholio/Kagoro people in Kaura, then they moved to the Ninzom/Numana people in Jema'a/Sanga axis, then to the Adara people in Kachia, and now recently to the Atyap people of Zangon Kataf LGA.

Can't we all see that these people absolutely love it when we fragment ourselves into smaller groups per LGA while they themselves unite amongst themselves all the way from Nigeria to Niger republic to Senegal to Mali to Mauritania to Cameroon??

My beloved Plateau people, let us take a good look at the Southern Kaduna people for example. In terms of culture, history, languages, origin, social and religious values, we are exactly identical with these people. If you put a group of Plateau and Southern Kaduna people in a room, not even we ourselves can be able to identify who is from Plateau or Southern Kaduna. Southern Nigerians and the Hausa' fulani muslims can never differentiate us. Even we ourselves can only differentiate ourselves when we see the tribal names. And what if the people are using names like SAMSON ISHAYA or ESTHER YOHANNA? Then it becomes absolutely impossible for us to differentiate each other.
However, In spite of these glaring similarities, we never hear of any regional synergy between Plateau and Southern Kaduna people. Even for we the Plateau Indigenes to come together under one umbrella and voice to radically fight for the integrity and progress of our people becomes a problem and a pipe-dream.

Most of us Plateau indigenes are not aware that there are at least 5- 6 million Indigenes of the Plateau. This is exactly about the same population of regional ethnic groups like the Ijaws, Kanuris and Tivs. Southern Kaduna people also have about the same population as we the Plateau Indigenes. Put together, that is about 11- 12 million Indigenes. This is more than the entire Fulani population in Nigeria put together and automatically takes the position of the 4th largest ethnic entity in Nigeria (assuming we all identify under one name).
Now, imagine by the time we include the Indigenous people of Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Southern Bauchi, Southern Gombe, Niger east & FCT, Southern Borno, Niger North & Kebbi south to this mixture. That would be around 40 million people, enough to match each of the 3 major ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Hausa' and Igbo in terms of absolute numbers.

For those of you who do not understand these areas I just mentioned, I am talking about the Sayawa, Bachama, Michika, Kilba, Marghi, Bura, Chibok, Eggon, Mada, Jukun, Mumuye, Tangale, Waja, Gbagyi, Zuru e.t.c peoples.
These are people who are physically, historically, socially, culturally, linguistically, religiously and mentally the same with Plateau and Southern Kaduna people.

So, my dear Plateau brother and sister, it is up to us to either continue to remain smaller, weaker, fragmented and easily defeated by championing the ethnic interests of our individual tribes, LGAs, villages and clans or we can think wider and start working on regional solidarity, alliances and interests. The ball is in our courts.
Take a good look at the kind of national and international attention the Yorubas and Igbos command whenever they come out in one voice or in solidarity on a particular issue. Don't you admire such and wish such privilege for our own people?

Our parents made the very big mistake of believing in the existence and unity of a ONE NIGERIA. This mistake has been our biggest undoing. Our Fathers, Grandfathers, and Uncles died in the Nigerian civil war in their thousands in order to keep Nigeria one. Alas, the same united existence of Nigeria is now being used to destroy us.
It is no longer news that the police force and the military openly take sides with our enemies.
Hear this out loud o indigene of the Plateau!
A country whose security system has been compromised and now serves only the interests of a certain group of people does not deserve your loyalty. I as a bonafide indigene of the Plateau, I personally refuse to be loyal or pledge my allegiance to Nigeria as a country anymore.
My allegiance and loyalty only goes to the people of the PLATEAU, the greater PLATEAU-GURARA-GONGOLA region and a proposed KWARARAFA REPUBLIC if and when Nigeria ceases to exist. And I hope you do so too my beloved Indigene of the Plateau, because a man who continues to hold on to a sinking ship will eventually sink with that ship.

If you are a proud son or daughter of the PLATEAU, you read this letter up to this point, you received this letter with a greatful heart and believe in the contents therein, please do well to share it on your wall/pages/groups with your friends and families.
You can also like, follow and comment on this page/group PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA as a way of showing your support.
Together, we shall overcome!



Written by
NOAH KALLAMU
Plateau Gurara Gongola.