Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), a member of the Tafawa Balewa and Shagari governments – and as such, privy to intelligence reports and sensitive records – had this to say:
“In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt,, and that was the beginning of our problems. Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution of Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist.“
... I have always reflected on these incontrovertible facts:
1. The average weapon-wielder in Nigeria is a northerner...daggers, swords, machetes, knives etc can be found in scabbards with the average Arewan.. Check out the Suya guys or the ubiquitous mai-guards in the south for instance...
2. The average soldier (army/air force/navy) is also a northerner.
3. There are thousands of retired Generals in the north still alive with many of them stupendously rich...
How come the area is ravaged daily like hot knife through butter by the most cowardly and moronic murderers of harmless, helpless, and unarmed kids, women and worshippers at night and during the day? There are thousands of cases in the south where even women and men band themselves together to chase away night-marauders, expose kidnappers, and other antisocial elements in their neighbourhoods...
OPC, BAKASI BOYS of ABA, OMATA of Onitsha etc have succeeded in sanitizing most of their environments even without practical military or paramilitary experience compared to the north. Go to most streets in Lagos and you will likely find gated entries and egresses in most neighbourhoods for security purposes. All are communal efforts. Nothing from govt... But not so in the north: Instead, serving military officers of northern stock have been caught with Boko Haram links....The Hisbahs (sharia police) can seize 200,000 cartons of beer from hundreds of dealers and destroy them but can't catch a single BH idiot... HERE IS WHY: ‘Northerners Are Willing Agents of Destruction’ – Senator Turaki
Senator Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, former governor of Jigawa state has said that Northerners are their own greatest enemies.
Speaking during the launch of his political movement, ‘Saminuya’, at his Bandawa farm in Kazaure local government area of Jigawa, Senator Saminu Ibrahim Turaki said, “The people that destroyed the North are northerners”.
He stated that “We have a crab culture in the North. You know, when the crab wants to climb it brings others down”.
“In the North, we don’t like ourselves. Anybody that is in power wants to destroy his predecessor. The northerners are willing tools for whoever wants to destroy somebody” he added. http://247ureports.com/?p=48134 PS: In the same Yobe State the last LGA elections witnessed A MASSIVE VOTER TURN OUT as APC swept the polls. No fear of Boko Haram... #oddinnit?
“In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt,, and that was the beginning of our problems. Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution of Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist.“
... I have always reflected on these incontrovertible facts:
1. The average weapon-wielder in Nigeria is a northerner...daggers, swords, machetes, knives etc can be found in scabbards with the average Arewan.. Check out the Suya guys or the ubiquitous mai-guards in the south for instance...
2. The average soldier (army/air force/navy) is also a northerner.
3. There are thousands of retired Generals in the north still alive with many of them stupendously rich...
How come the area is ravaged daily like hot knife through butter by the most cowardly and moronic murderers of harmless, helpless, and unarmed kids, women and worshippers at night and during the day? There are thousands of cases in the south where even women and men band themselves together to chase away night-marauders, expose kidnappers, and other antisocial elements in their neighbourhoods...
OPC, BAKASI BOYS of ABA, OMATA of Onitsha etc have succeeded in sanitizing most of their environments even without practical military or paramilitary experience compared to the north. Go to most streets in Lagos and you will likely find gated entries and egresses in most neighbourhoods for security purposes. All are communal efforts. Nothing from govt... But not so in the north: Instead, serving military officers of northern stock have been caught with Boko Haram links....The Hisbahs (sharia police) can seize 200,000 cartons of beer from hundreds of dealers and destroy them but can't catch a single BH idiot... HERE IS WHY: ‘Northerners Are Willing Agents of Destruction’ – Senator Turaki
Senator Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, former governor of Jigawa state has said that Northerners are their own greatest enemies.
Speaking during the launch of his political movement, ‘Saminuya’, at his Bandawa farm in Kazaure local government area of Jigawa, Senator Saminu Ibrahim Turaki said, “The people that destroyed the North are northerners”.
He stated that “We have a crab culture in the North. You know, when the crab wants to climb it brings others down”.
“In the North, we don’t like ourselves. Anybody that is in power wants to destroy his predecessor. The northerners are willing tools for whoever wants to destroy somebody” he added. http://247ureports.com/?p=48134 PS: In the same Yobe State the last LGA elections witnessed A MASSIVE VOTER TURN OUT as APC swept the polls. No fear of Boko Haram... #oddinnit?
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