As the Blood Loan Gets Repaid With Blood....

by Eze Eluchie,

When a man becomes a serial candidate for the highest political office of any territory, it will not be wrong to presume that if ever an opportunity is accorded to such candidate to assume the office he had long sought after, enormous zeal would be channeled towards addressing the myriad of problems which beset such territory. The foregoing would be trite if from the very onset, the quest for political office had been motivated by altruistic positive considerations.

If however the quest for power had been founded on devious foundations, spite, ill-will, and with the intent to retaliate for perceived or actual wrongs thought to have been committed against anyone particular ethnic group in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious enclave, the ascendance to power of the serial candidate will mark the commencement and or entrenchment of darkness over the territory with accumulated grievances of the several years of failure at the polls being transformed into a fast-track agenda of nepotism, anger, hate and violence.

After his (s)election in the March 28^th Presidential elections in Nigeria, there was palpable expectation, not just amongst some segments of the Nigerian population but from the international community) that Muhammadu Buhari who had contested all three presidential elections in Nigeria over a 12-year period, would upon assumption of office approach the issues of governance and addressing the myriad of problems afflicting Nigeria with requisite attention.

Not to be. Far from it! For several months after his inauguration, the newly elected Nigerian president appeared to have been caught flatfooted – bereft of any economic, social or governance blueprints, unable to even perform such basic tasks as appoint his own Ministers or populate the various governing Boards of government agencies (tasks for which he was at liberty to perform). The one area where Mr. Buhari seemed to have already made plans was in surrounding himself with persons from his ethnic and religious group under the pretext that he ‘knew and trusted’ them. There was a frenzied craze to populate virtually every meaningful office in the Presidency with Muslims of the Hausa-Fulani ethnic stock, same stack as the President – amongst other absurdities, Mr. Buhari actually went to his own village in Daura, Katsina State, fished out a retired security officer, Mr. Lawal Musa Daura, and anointed the later the head of Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS), an outfit that is fast metamorphosing into a dreaded instrument for witch-hunting perceived and real opposition to the government.

Buoyed by the eerily feeling of ‘we-are-now-in-charge-and-can-get-away-with-anything’, a view reinforced by the mannerisms, demeanor, comments and activities of Buhari, inclusive but not restricted to the infamous promise to unequally treat those that gave him ‘5% votes’ during the Presidential elections (made at the United States Institute of Peace, in Washington DC; warnings made to the immediate past regime of Goodluck Jonathan that ‘attacks against Boko Haram were attacks against the North’; the tweet made on the 15^th July 2012, by Nasir el Rufai, also a Fulani Muslim and principal confidant of Mr. Buhari and now Governor of Nigeria’s north-central Kaduna State that 'We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes', erstwhile nomadic Fulani Herdsmen who had for centuries plied their vocation by negotiating passage through various communities with the indigenous land owners have now resorted to murderous orgies, indiscriminately decapitating, raping and maiming members of other ethnic groups over whose territories they choose to herd their livestock. The magnitude of the killings and the virtual complicit silence that has characterized the response of the Muhammadu Buhari-led regime over the mayhem caused by his kinsmen has left most Nigerians wondering if indeed this was the repayment of the ‘blood loan’ Mr. El Rufai had tweeted and assured would be made.

As the killings and pillage continue unabated, it is instructive to note that despite the seeming invincibility of the Fulani herdsmen resulting from the inability and or unwillingness of relevant security agencies to confront and curtail their crimes, the continuation of the ongoing trend can only lead to foreseeable calamities not just for those who seem to be the present victims but for even the present day perpetrators.

When blood loans begin to be repaid, it tends to assume a vicious circle, generating a life of its own that propels vile crimes for generations unborn.

Picture: Snapshot of Governor Nasir el Rufai’s tweet of 15^th July 2012 and some victims of a recent attack by Fulani Herdsmen/Militia in Agatu, Benue State, Nigeria.

Presidential Junkets - Next Stop: Mount Everest!

by Eze Eluchie, 

Clearly, the President, ‘saint’ Muhammadu Buhari’, is embarking on his scandalously numerous foreign junkets as an escapist ploy to avoid the embarrassment of his overly long siren-blaring convoy of state-of-the-art, fuel-guzzling SUV’s having to cruise down our death-trap roads whooshing past eternally long queues of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians stranded at Petrol Station in a desperate bid to get some fuel to power their vehicles, homes and lives.

For today, the train takes off to China; thereafter probably to North Korea to exchange ideas with Kim Jong-un on brutality. As the number of options for such escapades continue to diminish (already there has been 4 swings to the United States, and frolics to territories of dubious value to Nigeria) it is only expected that the numerous Presidential aides who in addition to believing they are shielding their boss from the shame of having to wastefully cruise the streets of Nigeria’s cities at a time when anger is palpably entrenched on the faces of millions of Nigerians, also get their pockets get lined from hefty largesse’s they amass for themselves in the name of ‘estacodes’ for the ‘inconvenience’ of having to spend days in 5-Star hotels in foreign lands, will soon dream up such ideas as a State Visit to inspect Mount Everest or Antarctica, under the ploy of exploring how a country in the tropics can benefit from harnessing Snow. 

Some Nigerians had been deceived by a deluge of claims of a pious mien rooted in integrity and humility, alas we are now confronted with a spendthrift relic who seems anxious to cover as much mileage and profligacy as possible to cover for 2 to 3 lifetimes.

No matter how long the flight takes, planes still have to land. Nigerians are indeed looking forward to when Mr. President will visit the country and begin to govern.

Video: Buhari's convoy:  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33fy8d 

Pix !: Buhari’s convoy; Pix 2. Nigerians queuing to buy fuel (an aberration that has grown into a norm since the misadventure of the present regime)

Buhari’s Hypocritical Message of Solidarity with Belgium over Terror Attacks

by Eze Eluchie,

What really does Nigeria’s President, ‘saint’ Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers, hope to achieve by issuing a hypocritical ‘message of solidarity’ with the people of Belgium over the dastardly terror attacks of the 22^nd March 2016 which led to the death of 31 persons, while the government headed by the same ‘saint’ has maintained complicit silence over domestic acts of terrorism amounting to genocide, perpetuated against the peoples of the Middle Belt region of Nigeria by Fulani Herdsmen/Militia, such as the attacks on Idoma peoples of Agatu which killed several hundreds; and the same Government through its security operatives, perpetuating acts of terrorism against persons of the Igbo ethnic nationality of Nigeria’s South East region advocating for self-actualization under the aegis of Biafra.

Could it be that the Buhari-led junta is oblivious to the fact that in the era of the internet and the Global Village, activities of Governments all over the world, inclusive of that of reclusive North Korea, and those of any individual(s) worth knowing, can easily be followed and tracked by anyone interested in such follow-ups? Or is it that the junta, despite its own horrendous domestic record on terror-related issues, including the release of hundreds of Boko Haram terror suspects without any formal trial, and comments by the head of the junta, prior to his emergence as Nigeria’s President, that ‘attacks against Boko Haram were attacks against the peoples of the North (Nigeria’s geographic North, from where Buhari hails)’, merely desires to wallow in the delusion that the world does not perceive and understand the realities in the head of the Government of Nigeria’s ‘efforts’ on terror?

The world knows the Governments interested on tackling terror and those who feel that tackling terror is a ruse to address other perceived ethnic issues.

As enunciated in the immediate past Blog post, terror is metastasizing, globally, at an incredulous pace. Drastic force targeted at its source alongside intensive re-education and social engineering strategies remain the path out of the quagmire to avoid repeats of the unfortunate terrorist attacks which occurred in Brussels yesterday.

FREEMIND commiserates with all victims of terror globally, particularly the unheralded and nearly unmentioned victims of domestic terror activities in Nigeria and other parts of the world and urges for intensified global efforts at exterminating terror wheresoever and whensoever it occurs.

Video link: Attack by Nigerian security and military forces on persons peacefully assembling to agitate for self-actualization of Biafra and on members of the Nigeria's Shite Muslim community.

Military Vs. Pro-Biafa 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7nmzc10ZyA

http://bit.ly/1VDY7GJ

Military vs. Shites 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDuS9W3mik

Picture: Some victims of terror attack in Agatu (Nigeria) and scene of terror attack at the Brussels Airport.