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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Deowl: 10:29pm On Jul 02, 2019
Prof, blunt and direct.
What of the grass importation from Brazil for ranching up north, do cows have more rights than humans?
Let's have respect,equality in this regime, otherwise,....

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by 35824L: 10:30pm On Jul 02, 2019
[s]
chingymingy:
Please my fellow Yoruba brothers and sister that supported Buhari and still defend his place in office, we must unitedly accept this RUGA SETTLEMENT PROGRAM in all our southwestern states. Maybe this will teach us to listen to and understand the Igbo's no matter how unwise we think they are.

Thank you
[/s] If fulani will strike anywhere first, it is your erosion-ravaged region. They have given your people a small sample in nimbo enugu state grin
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by frankyychiji(f): 10:30pm On Jul 02, 2019
Benekruku:



How do you want me to be transparent with my proposal when you never even gave me the option to submit?

You never had the chance to revise and state clear cut terms and conditions. You just shot it down

Where does transparency come in here?
What about the states upnorth that signed up? Why have they not started from there to show others the workability.

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Nobody: 10:31pm On Jul 02, 2019
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by livebyday(m): 10:31pm On Jul 02, 2019
Benekruku:


Colonies/settlements or ranches are welcomed. The sole objective is confining them to one place. And with regards to letters in bold, thats the way forward, cos that way, they will be easier to monitor and be accounted for. You wont pot me Ikeja by law and find me in Ikorodu the next day.

I can easily account for all herdsmen in my state by mere summoning the manager of the colony, ranch or settlement.

Do you get my point? Anything to confine their operations is the way forward so you can fish out the criminals.

Good day to you my ruga opponent trust you are.well?

Again I see you are spamming threads with very unconvincing arguments in favor of ruga .

Arguments that can't stand under the most basic scrutiny

Now I take you from this post sir .

So as you have said above anything to confine them to one place is welcome yes? And I agree.

So why not confine this settlement to the north where they currently reside ..

Are you aware that in developed countries no one herds cattle ? Meaning no need to walk the length and breath of a nation all in the guide of seeking foilage for the cattle !!

This is the 21st century sir not 1910

Ranches are located in large expanse of land ...and feed is trucked in for the livestock

The north has more land Mass so there is enough land for these ranches , also ranches don't need 100 people to run please you can browse YouTube to see how ranches are run..

20 people can run a ranch of over ,2000 cows this is the new age where everything has a smarter way of being done..

The fulani herding is out dated and obsolete .. the government can give the cow owners loans or land in the north to build ranches , the government can also bring in experts to hold workshops in the north to train managers on how to run these ranches

There is enough sun to power the equipment in the ranch via solar grids

It is a no brainier ..

Like I told you yesterday sir, where critical thinking is employed a solution arises easier than when emotional rhetoric takes lead

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by chingymingy: 10:33pm On Jul 02, 2019
Soyinka is still being diplomatic using words like 'MAY' set Nigeria on fire when he knows it's certain to happen. He's part of the people who defended Buhari almost throughout his 1st term and some of you are celebrating him (Soyinka) today.

#Shame

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Benekruku(m): 10:37pm On Jul 02, 2019
livebyday:


Good day to you my ruga opponent trust you are.well?

Again I see you are spamming threads with very unconvincing arguments in favor of ruga .

Arguments that can't stand under the most basic scrutiny

Now I take you from this post sir .

So as you have said above anything to confine them to one place is welcome yes? And I agree.

So why not confine this settlement to the north where they currently reside ..

Are you aware that in developed countries no one herds cattle ? Meaning no need to walk the length and breath of a nation all in the guide of seeking foilage for the cattle !!

This is the 21st century sir not 1910

Ranches are located in large expanse of land ...and feed is trucked in for the livestock

The north has more land Mass so there is enough land for these ranches , also ranches don't need 100 people to run please you can browse YouTube to see how ranches are run..

20 people can run a ranch of over ,2000 cows this is the new age where everything has a smarter way of being done..

The fulani herding is out dated and obsolete .. the government can give the cow owners loans or land in the north to build ranches , the government can also bring in experts to hold workshops in the north to train managers on how to run these ranches

There is enough sun to power the equipment in the ranch via solar grids

It is a no brainier ..

Like I told you yesterday sir, where critical thinking is employed a solution arises easier than when emotional rhetoric takes lead

You know why I detest your criticism? You don't make it outlined and brief.

You throw it at me like a novel do I lose appetite.

Where do you want me to start from in that long composition. I will attend to it in detail but will be my last if your criticism are not brief.

But not tonight. Need digest it and give you a "Robust".

Am glad you have bought one of my points. You will buy all in no time. Just relax. The bird is not yet at flight.
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Forester45(m): 10:37pm On Jul 02, 2019
Tolexander:
Soyinka 2019

For posterity sake
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Too elementary for a President that parades a bad WAEC result.
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Kc3000: 10:40pm On Jul 02, 2019
THE CIVIL WAR THIS TIME
Basil Okoh

(“WAR WILL SOON BREAK OUT IN NIGERIA. MARK MY WORDS” – Olusegun Obasanjo.)

Another civil war in Nigeria has become imminent and inevitable. The reason for its inevitability is simply because Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern Nigeria Fulani oligarchs and the wider network of Fulani in Sub-Saharan Africa have concluded plans to adopt Nigeria as the homeland for all Fulani in Africa.

They have realised that the wandering and rootless lifestyle of cattle herding Fulani is no longer tenable in the twenty-first century. Fulani need to have land to call home and rear cattle and that land should be Nigeria. The indigenous peoples of Nigeria have vehemently and stridently opposed this diabolic plan and both sides are mobilising for war. The Fulani won't relent and the indigenous people will not give up their land.

The same Fulani Project, having failed so shamelessly and woefully in the Central Africa Republic, will not be allowed to fail this time as the Nigerian Fulani project is better funded with the massive creaming of the sovereign wealth of Nigeria through nationwide kidnapping for ransom by lower class Fulani and seizure of the reigns of Government and wealth by the elite Fulani.

Kidnapping and the seizure of the institutions of Government are all for the purpose of implanting Fulani into the mainstream and control of politics and the economy of Nigeria for the objective of funding the Fulani Project in Nigeria.

The Central Africa Republic (CAR) has gone through exact same experience that Nigeria is going through right now in the hands of the Fulani. The country has been run down by the killings and destitution wrought by rival gangs in the fight to destroy the chokehold the Fulani had on the politics and economy of their country. Although the Fulani hegemony over the CAR has been defeated, the street gangs that defeated the armed forces have turned on one another and themselves, unable to rise above petty gang warfare to rebuild their nation.

The Fulani have become a blight on Africa and it’s biggest country Nigeria. Unable to break out of its centuries old cow herding and wandering culture, it continues to pull down every nation wherever it has any populations. Some countries in West Africa, Ghana and their ancestral home Guinea, have mastered the brutal tactics of dealing with Fulani and the Fulani have learnt the bitter lesson by staying away from these countries.

In the CAR, the Fulani following the pattern of their ethnocentric politics, had seized control of the commanding heights of the country’s military and financial institutions, the foreign exchange trade, the mining and export of gold and above all the governing structures of Government. Mitchel Djotodia, a hare brained military officer and his Fulani faction seized power in a brazen coup by a demographic minority. All the non-Fulani military officers were flushed out of the forces, all the mineral deposits in the country were seized by Fulani merchants, non-Fulani traders were barred from trading in foreign exchange and the entire top echelon of the Civil Service were occupied by Fulani by as much as 83%.

France, the former colonial masters of CAR watched them do all these over the years and did not raise a protest. As in Nigeria, the Fulani were just 3% of the population of CAR, tucked in the desert recesses of the nation’s Northwest. No world or regional power raised a whimper even though the ethnic groups of the rich southern forest regions roiled. The Fulani went even beyond the provocative as they are doing now in Nigeria.

They started seizing ethnic lands, raiding churches and killing worshippers, the most brazen being the attack on Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in a town near Bangui the capital, where dozens of Catholic faithful were massacred during mass. The Fulani used their cattle bases allotted by Government to launch attacks and gun fights on the surrounding communities for robberies and ransom paying kidnaps as is happening now in Nigeria.

Again, as is happening in Nigeria today, the purpose of all the action of the Fulani was simple; to transfer all wealth available in the CAR by all and every means and place it in the hands and control of the Fulani. It is the same play book guiding the actions and policies of the Buhari Government in Nigeria. The Fulani elite are raiding the Central Bank, buying dollars and other currencies at heavily discounted rates, other Fulani are raiding the NNPC, ploughing through the vaults and trading Nigerian crude for personal gain.

The educated wing are mowing down governing structures, taking forceful charge and control of all commanding heights of Government and the armed forces. The uneducated Fulani herdsmen are engaged in kidnapping for ransom and now primed to take over ethnic lands, spreading themselves across the nation in settlements acquired with public funds to terrorise indigenous populations.

It will be of great use to retell the story of CAR so as to have the understanding of how the youth of the country removed the yoke of unremitting oppression by the Fulani. The youth formed street gangs and committed to take on the army with all their vaunted training and intimidating and deadly weaponry. The youth had locally fabricated flint guns and machetes, while the army was menacing with their machine guns, grenade throwers and rocket launchers.

When the fight started on that fateful day in 2013 in Bangui, everyone expected a complete annihilation of youth on the streets but the youth took the fight straight to the Guard Brigade near the Presidential Palace.

By evening of the same day, soldiers bodies were seen littering the streets while some were cut to pieces. By night fall, the streets of Bangui had become the play ground and the killing field of the youth of Bangui. In three days of street fighting, the entire Presidential Guards of the army of the CAR was decimated, in disarray running to their ethnic base in the far north and President Djotodia, the Fulani tyrant had abdicated and run away from the Presidential Palace and Capital, Bangui.

Tyrants survive for only as long as the people live in fear and choose to tolerate them. The Buhari Government is counting on deploying the Nigerian armed forces against the many ethnicities where the RUGA will be sited, beginning with the minority groups.

Buhari's plan is to deploy Nigerian troops to subdue Nigerian people for the benefit of Fulani. Central Africa Republic provides a veritable lesson on how to deal with the unrelenting Fulani menace. The Niger Delta and Boko Haram if anything, have shown that the Nigeria army is not invincible in a fight with local forces. If anything, the Nigeria Army will likely disintegrate if made to fight in many fronts at once.

It is a known truth that the Fulani will not relent in their quest for the conquest of Nigeria until they have seized all sources of income and made everyone else subservient to their rule and hegemony.

The Fulani in Nigeria, in nearly a century of political and economic ascendancy have acquired so much power and money that it will defeat the purpose of such acquisition if they don’t deploy it for the very purpose for the grasp for power, which is the conquest of Nigeria for the overlordship of the Fulani. The final stage of the grand plan to subdue Nigeria for Fulani overlordship are afoot and Buhari and his people cannot back out now. So a war has to be fought to resolve matters.

Our people say that you don’t strip a woman Unclad just to start looking. Nigeria has been stripped Unclad and with the RUGA monstrosity on the works, the next thing is to start the deployment of troops to protect RUGA in their various locations of development.

It was bound to happen that the Fulani who have been taking so much out of Nigeria and have succeeded in binding Nigeria hand and foot politically and economically, will take the wrong step into the abyss one day. The logical culmination of all the rapaciousness would be the last ditch attempt at the ultimate land grab, to seize the lands belonging to indigenous communities and hand it over to Fulani.

Internecine war in different RUGA locations and different fronts is therefore inevitable. Communities will rage to keep their land or lose it to their eternal shame and regret. Communities, particularly in Igboland will rather choose to be annihilated than lose their land to a hostile and predatory People.

Fulani have no land in Nigeria because they are not indigenous to Nigeria. They are migrants into Nigeria. The decision by the Fulani to seize land by force in Nigeria can only lead to war in the many places where this seizure will happen. The people must resist as of necessity. They have done so in the Central Africa Republic and reduced the country to rubble and they will do it again in Nigeria.

Buhari will be compelled to deploy police and soldiers to defend the settlements and war will be declared everywhere there is a RUGA settlement in Nigeria. Fulani have no land to hold dear and protect in Nigeria. In fact, Fulani have no stake or investment in the project called Nigeria and will not care if Nigeria burns, in fact Fulani will be very willing to let Nigeria burn if the people are not willing to submit to their overlordship.

So they are minded to adopt a scorched earth policy to obliterate Nigeria. They have nothing to lose. They did it in CAR and they will do same in Nigeria. It will be the responsibility of the indigenous people of Nigeria to find common grounds to protect the land of their ancestral inheritance and prevent the Fulani from putting a knife on their unity and their need to bind themselves together in one nation, but they cannot do this without first containing the Fulani. Fulani will try to divide them.

Buhari and the Fulani oligarchs are counting strongly on deploying the armed forces to quell insurrections that will arise from this massive land grab, but that will be the Achilles heel of their grand plan. Once soldiers are armed to put down these insurrections, they will turn against their commanders to defend their communities. Nigerians should therefore await the great unravelling of their armed forces.

Do the Fulani have the firepower, the men and the capacity to fight? In the entire history of the Nigerian armed forces, the Hausa/Fulani officers and enlisted men have always been promoted far beyond their qualifications and competencies. The capacity to fight and man the different departments of modern warfare will be put to overwhelming test in any ensuing encounter.

The Fulani never fight an enemy in a frontal war. They attack isolated and undefended villages. In any direct confrontation, they run away. It was evident even in the battle of Bangui. Well armed Fulani soldiers could not take on street gangs with flint guns and machetes. It has also shown in the war against Boko Haram. The poor performance of commanders of their ethnic stock is a bad joke among soldiers in the front.

Hausa/Fulani soldier had to be sorted out and protected from slaughter by Boko Haram forces. This is not to talk of unending betrayals of their Christian colleagues and commanders in the battlefront.

Buhari, a Fulani irredentist, will use to his advantage and for the benifits of his agenda to divide, the ethnic and religious cleavages among the people of Nigeria. But the people aught to know that the Fulani are friends to no one and that a Fulani friend today can become an adversary tomorrow. You are only friend to Fulani for as long as you continue to serve a purpose in their overall plan.
Let the talk cease and the battle begin. @basilokoh.
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Forester45(m): 10:40pm On Jul 02, 2019
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by chingymingy: 10:42pm On Jul 02, 2019
35824L:
[s][/s] If fulani will strike anywhere first, it is your erosion-ravaged region. They have given your people a small sample in nimbo enugu state grin

See this one, which one concerns me with Enugu?

Cows that were chased out of Enugu in their masses sef

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by worldclass68(m): 10:43pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:


No... you know that's not what I mean. I've never heard of people (anywhere in the world) refusing to use land to raise the crops or animals they themselves eat.

Climate change and other human activity in and outside Nigeria is reducing available grazing areas in the North. Due to extreme warmer temperatures, more demand for cows (in the South), and shifting rain patterns, there is much less foliage to eat in the North than before. There is also increase in agricultural activity in the South (there's more mouths to feed), leading to more conflicts between grazers and farmers.

A sane government would have used the damn satellites to figure this out, and enact polices before things got out of hand. But Nigerians, in our typical fashion only react and get violent without thinking deeply. The same way we want cheap electricity and cheap petrol (cheaper than what obtains worldwide), we also want fat cows that magically feed on non-existent foliage.

This is a crisis that won't have an easy solution, so all of us have to play some part: we have some lands dedicated to residential, some to industrial, some to farming, some to grazing, and some for posterity. The stance of Southern governors flat out refusing to give any land for producing the meat people eat... I'm not sure it's a helpful (or even smart) strategy: it will only increase conflicts.


Fisrt, I'm sorry I reacted in that manner.
I understand ur points however, considering what is on ground regarding this Fulani of a thing (land grabbing, terrorism, kidnapping etc) associated with this group just of recent and the FG stance on this matter calls for serious awareness, and FG cannot just wake up one day and impose people u called strangers from neighboring countries on ur citizens and take about 5000 hactares of their lands for a completely private business, if u have to make use someone else's property, it should be either by lease or purchase not the government fighting for a specific group of people and this is not for the common benefit of Nigerians as stated in land use act, its not a public school nor military base, it's private business!
Heardsmen should respect their host not the other way round
U can't have dominion over me in my own land because u have ur tribesmen in the government.
Minimum wage is there, yet to be implemented and yet in few days billions of naira already available for the so call RUGA or whatever. Either u respect ur host or u leave his house.. that's the way it should be.

(Sorry for few typos)
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by sean079: 10:45pm On Jul 02, 2019
livebyday:


Good day to you my ruga opponent trust you are.well?

Again I see you are spamming threads with very unconvincing arguments in favor of ruga .

Arguments that can't stand under the most basic scrutiny

Now I take you from this post sir .

So as you have said above anything to confine them to one place is welcome yes? And I agree.

So why not confine this settlement to the north where they currently reside ..

Are you aware that in developed countries no one herds cattle ? Meaning no need to walk the length and breath of a nation all in the guide of seeking foilage for the cattle !!

This is the 21st century sir not 1910

Ranches are located in large expanse of land ...and feed is trucked in for the livestock

The north has more land Mass so there is enough land for these ranches , also ranches don't need 100 people to run please you can browse YouTube to see how ranches are run..

20 people can run a ranch of over ,2000 cows this is the new age where everything has a smarter way of being done..

The fulani herding is out dated and obsolete .. the government can give the cow owners loans or land in the north to build ranches , the government can also bring in experts to hold workshops in the north to train managers on how to run these ranches

There is enough sun to power the equipment in the ranch via solar grids

It is a no brainier ..

Like I told you yesterday sir, where critical thinking is employed a solution arises easier than when emotional rhetoric takes lead

That man needs to be detailed about modern animal husbandry. Even just only 5 staff can manage many hectars of ranch and no need constructing any settlement for anyone. Only infrastructure should be the vet clinic for the animals. Horses are there to aid mobility in monitoring cattles movement

He should tell buhari to ban open grazing and lets see if farmers n herders clashes will not stop. Its the way to go, ”ban open grazing” thats how Ghana control her own farmer n clashes but buhari will not go that way because herders are his kinsmen. Is that not corruption n nepotism

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by airsaylongcon: 10:51pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:
Nigerians are complaining about the policies of a president they elected? Abeg. We can't vote a bigot and then complain he's a bigot.
If people from South don't want grazing, they should either: stop eating cows, or start ranching.

The recent noise from Rivers: "we don't have room for grazing."
Oh... so you want to eat cow meat, but don't want to use part of your land to raise the food you will eat?

Very interesting perspective about Rivers. Fully support the idea that if they want to consume beef they need to use part of their territory to grow it.

Would be nice if this is spread to all facets of our economy. For example those that want to consume the returns from crude oil should mine it from part of their territory.

We consume corned beef in Nigeria. From beef grown in Brazil. Brazilians need to demand for territory in Nigeria where they can raise the cattle used for corned beef consumed in Nigeria.

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Emecunze: 10:54pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:
Nigerians are complaining about the policies of a president they elected? Abeg. We can't vote a bigot and then complain he's a bigot.
If people from South don't want grazing, they should either: stop eating cows, or start ranching.

The recent noise from Rivers: "we don't have room for grazing."
Oh... so you want to eat cow meat, but don't want to use part of your land to raise the food you will eat?


Why not use your head for once huh. Don't we pay for the beef we consume down south? Do you give it out free?
Think my brother... think!!

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by livebyday(m): 11:00pm On Jul 02, 2019
Benekruku:


You know why I detest your criticism? You don't make it outlined and brief.

You throw it at me like a novel do I lose appetite.

Where do you want me to start from in that long composition. I will attend to it in detail but will be my last if your criticism are not brief.

But not tonight. Need digest it and give you a "Robust".

Am glad you have bought one of my points. You will buy all in no time. Just relax. The bird is not yet at flight.

Detest is such a strong word

Also you never raise any points you are too.emotional sir you need to.learn some emotional intelligence, it will.help you . To say you detest my response is something a child should.say not an adult and this is why you have been unable to convince even one.persom on this platform about this ruga thing

You were so emotional you even misunderstood my comment and assumed I agreed to your point of view , I only.acknowledged ranching as a modern farm.practise

What you proposed isn't ranching , I went onto explain what ranching is .

I have to ask why are you so uncontrolled with your emotions?it's not right for an adult

Try and learn to calm down and respond coherently sir

You need to make deliberate conversation not just rhetoric and tantrums

Read my.post again and please this time.ensure you understand it and answer only what I asked then we take it from there

Take as much time as you need to read and.understand mad please don't be in a hurry to.respomd so you don't end.up.missing the point as usual

Cheers

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Benekruku(m): 11:03pm On Jul 02, 2019
livebyday:


Detest is such a strong word

Also you never raise any points you are too.emotional sir you need to.learn some emotional intelligence, it will.help you . To say you detest my response is something a child should.say not an adult and this is why you have been unable to convince even one.persom on this platform about this ruga thing

You were so emotional you even misunderstood my comment and assumed I agreed to your point of view , I only.acknowledged ranching as a modern farm.practise

What you proposed isn't ranching , I went onto explain what ranching is .

I have to ask why are you so uncontrolled with your emotions?it's not right for an adult

Try and learn to calm down and respond coherently sir

You need to make deliberate conversation not just rhetoric and tantrums

Read my.post again and please this time.ensure you understand it and answer only what I asked then we take it from there

Take as much time as you need to read and.understand mad please don't be in a hurry to.respomd so you don't end.up.missing the point as usual

Cheers

Well noted.

I will digest and do as promised. But as stated. I love it short and brief. I won't repeat this again. Short, brief and detailed.
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Omoslim26: 11:10pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:
Nigerians are complaining about the policies of a president they elected? Abeg. We can't vote a bigot and then complain he's a bigot.
If people from South don't want grazing, they should either: stop eating cows, or start ranching.

The recent noise from Rivers: "we don't have room for grazing."
Oh... so you want to eat cow meat, but don't want to use part of your land to raise the food you will eat?

m trying to pick d sense in dis ur post bt to no avail ur score for dis post nah
34/100

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by GMbuharii: 11:11pm On Jul 02, 2019
Ruga for CONEHEADS
grin

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Omoslim26: 11:20pm On Jul 02, 2019
NaijaFutbol:


Didn’t you see Wole Soyinka’s response that the boy was in order and that he did not make any issue out of it?

Sane people don’t worship Prof WS, they say he is wrong when he is and hail him when he does well.

You should be more worried if they didn’t hail him now

sense kill u there don't mind dat tribal bigot ur score for dis post na
73/100
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Omoslim26: 11:25pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:


No... you know that's not what I mean. I've never heard of people (anywhere in the world) refusing to use land to raise the crops or animals they themselves eat.

Climate change and other human activity in and outside Nigeria is reducing available grazing areas in the North. Due to extreme warmer temperatures, more demand for cows (in the South), and shifting rain patterns, there is much less foliage to eat in the North than before. There is also increase in agricultural activity in the South (there's more mouths to feed), leading to more conflicts between grazers and farmers.

A sane government would have used the damn satellites to figure this out, and enact polices before things got out of hand. But Nigerians, in our typical fashion only react and get violent without thinking deeply. The same way we want cheap electricity and cheap petrol (cheaper than what obtains worldwide), we also want fat cows that magically feed on non-existent foliage.

This is a crisis that won't have an easy solution, so all of us have to play some part: we have some lands dedicated to residential, some to industrial, some to farming, some to grazing, and some for posterity. The stance of Southern governors flat out refusing to give any land for producing the meat people eat... I'm not sure it's a helpful (or even smart) strategy: it will only increase conflicts.

what conflict will it increase we don't av land to give to any blood thirsty demon in the se and ss is dat too hard for fg and it sympathizers to understand d land wey we get no do us self if we see who go give us we go happy

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Omoslim26: 11:28pm On Jul 02, 2019
Benekruku:


Colonies/settlements or ranches are welcomed. The sole objective is confining them to one place. And with regards to letters in bold, thats the way forward, cos that way, they will be easier to monitor and be accounted for. You wont pot me Ikeja by law and find me in Ikorodu the next day.

I can easily account for all herdsmen in my state by mere summoning the manager of the colony, ranch or settlement.

Do you get my point? Anything to confine their operations is the way forward so you can fish out the criminals.


oga you don't give wat you don't have we in d South don't av land to give to any blood thirsty demon period
#notoruga

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by excel001(m): 11:46pm On Jul 02, 2019
Dee60:


What has the PDP candidate said about RUGA?

I bet he wont say anything!

The south is so naive to always pull behind Fulani candidates.
God bless you real good, I have been waiting for someone to raise Alhaji Atiku Abubakar's stand on this RUGA brouhaha, his silence means a lot, if Southerners can not unite to fight for themselves, they are on their own. Ogwulam na onu!!!

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by wifeesnatcher(m): 11:51pm On Jul 02, 2019
post=79884505:
Organized cattle ranches. This is how it is done in saner climes. We stand with Professor Wole Soyinka. One of the few good men remaining in our country. A man who says the truth in everything. Give it up for old men with wise grey hairs! Nigeria will be great again!

.mm
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by wifeesnatcher(m): 11:51pm On Jul 02, 2019
post=79884505:

Organized cattle ranches.
This is how it is done in saner climes.
We stand with Professor Wole Soyinka.
One of the few good men remaining in our country.
A man who says the truth in everything.
Give it up for old men with wise grey hairs!
Nigeria will be great again!


your useless stand is irrelevant here. we are talking about human life here

Ruga would have been successfully imposed on us if obj had not cried out on time


you're a business Lady, should a government give you a special treatment more than those doing the other business that complement your line of business? if you're indeed learner you will know that useless mallam is an evil man


he never made statement about prosecuting those killing harmless people unjust neither has the herdsmen arrested brought to book but the same foolish and mistaken choice of some set of imbeciles of Nigeria felt imposing his useless kinsmen on us will work? we will resist that f00l with our last blood


a federal govt has no business in interfering in someone private business if he can't be neutral in the dealing. Nigeria is not just occupied by Fulani alone


as a coward in chief that he's, he's expected to command securities to trail herdsmen killing and kidnapping innocent people anyhow. I call for forest troops instead of this useless archaic Ruga nonsense


thunder pieces anyone that's still supporting that useless goaat

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Alfredah01: 11:55pm On Jul 02, 2019
nextstep:
Nigerians are complaining about the policies of a president they elected? Abeg. We can't vote a bigot and then complain he's a bigot.
If people from South don't want grazing, they should either: stop eating cows, or start ranching.

The recent noise from Rivers: "we don't have room for grazing."
Oh... so you want to eat cow meat, but don't want to use part of your land to raise the food you will eat?
You comment like a secondary school student with no brain, is the cow for free? Find away to do your business and sell beef to those who needs it... aboki like u
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Eluwilussit(m): 11:56pm On Jul 02, 2019
dorothybella:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/just-in-ruga-settlements-will-set-nigeria-on-fire-says-soyinka/amp/


This idiot was one of those who sold the other idiot to the South in 2015. We warned them about that but their unbridled hatred for GEJ and the poor, wouldn’t let them reason. Wole, park wella. It’s too late. Nonsense.

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by tuniski: 12:10am On Jul 03, 2019
Thinkfree:
Professor that doesn't know the meaning of Ruga and lazily don't want know is that one a professor? Ruga means Fulani's settlement in Hausa language.
And you feel you said something unknown abi?
Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by DrCruz: 12:13am On Jul 03, 2019
nextstep:
Nigerians are complaining about the policies of a president they elected? Abeg. We can't vote a bigot and then complain he's a bigot.
If people from South don't want grazing, they should either: stop eating cows, or start ranching.

The recent noise from Rivers: "we don't have room for grazing."
Oh... so you want to eat cow meat, but don't want to use part of your land to raise the food you will eat?
Are u that daft? Didn't u read what Ebony State Governor said? That ruga should be done in the north while they bring their cows down south and sell, and in turn buy grass to go and feed their cows?
Is that too hard?

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by CptCharlesVane: 12:23am On Jul 03, 2019
Perhaps you're unaware that you're responding to one of the mindless imbecïles that campaigned and most likely rigged in that failed senile bigot of a president. Despite not being fulani because he or his kinsmen hasn't been slaughtered yet.
wifeesnatcher:



your useless stand is irrelevant here. we are talking about human life here

Ruga would have been successfully imposed on us if obj had not cried out on time


you're a business Lady, should a government give you a special treatment more than those doing the other business that complement your line of business? if you're indeed learner you will know that useless mallam is an evil man


he never made statement about prosecuting those killing harmless people unjust neither has the herdsmen arrested brought to book but the same foolish and mistaken choice of some set of imbeciles of Nigeria felt imposing his useless kinsmen on us will work? we will resist that f00l with our last blood


a federal govt has no business in interfering in someone private business if he can't be neutral in the dealing. Nigeria is not just occupied by Fulani alone


as a coward in chief that he's, he's expected to command securities to trail herdsmen killing and kidnapping innocent people anyhow. I call for forest troops instead of this useless archaic Ruga nonsense


thunder pieces anyone that's still supporting that useless goaat

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by Nobody: 12:30am On Jul 03, 2019

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Re: Wole Soyinka: Ruga Settlements May Set Nigeria On Fire by pieces18: 12:30am On Jul 03, 2019
then talk to your yoruba fear fear governors, especially kayode of Ekiti

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