It is with a heavy heart that i write this tribute, to pay my last respect to Bilyaminu Yusuf Yabo, my second cousin who was murdered in cold blood by men suspected to be political thugs in Sokoto State. People might be hearing many versions of the whole story which led to the brutal murder of Bilya, but the real story goes like this;
It was on a cool evening of Thursday 23-Oct, 2014, the lifeless body of Bilyaminu Yusuf Yabo, a 21 year old student was found lying in a refuse site at Gawon Nama area of Sokoto close to the residence of Sokoto state governor Aliyu Wammakko, allegedly beaten to death by a group of young men suspected to be political thugs belonging to the ruling political party in the state.
Being him (late Bilya) a brother to the wife of Muktar Shagari, the state deputy governor and gubernatorial aspirant under the platform of People's Democratic Party (PDP) and also a brother to one of the PDP chieftain Dahiru Yusuf Yabo, Bilya as he's popularly called wore a facing cap and shoe with PDP logo on them and went to Gawon Nama. Upon his arrival, thugs stationed at the governor's residence wasted no time in rushing the poor boy, stabbing him with axes and machetes and some using their hands until he no longer breaths. Later after he was dead, Bilya's corpse was thrown at a near waste bin close to where the ugly incident took place.
This isn't the first case of murder committed by political thugs in Sokoto but hopefully the last, several hundreds of innocent souls were slaughtered in cold blood between 1999 to date and nothing has ever been done to curtail this unholy practice or bring the perpetrators to book.
The case of Bilya is no paradoxical to others, he was beaten and macheted to dead while the Nigeria Police & other security personnels attached to the state governor watched helplessly as usual, similar to others killed by same thugs in the presence of security personnels. Bilya's murder and others like it aren't new to residents of Sokoto state, it is just one among the series of manslaughter carried out by political thugs in a free reign without retribution.
I am saddened that this ugly practice has happened despite several measures said to have been put together by the government and security agencies. For the emphasis of records, Bilya was murdered by political thugs for no other reason than wearing a cap and shoe symbolizing PDP. I never knew when wearing a political party logo became a death offense?
I want to state it here that if justice isn't delivered for this gruesome murder, and the murderers face the full wrath of the law, then several others will repeatedly occur. Many more will happen and keep happening until serious proactive measures are taking to curtail this unholy act of inhumanity.
On behalf of Bilya's family, friends and sympathizers, we are calling on the government and all relevant security agencies to step up efforts in fishing out those responsible for the killing of this innocent boy and others, government on the other hand should design ways to approach and halt the killing of poor innocent citizens once and for all.
Bilya, may your soul rest in peace, may Almighty Allah grant you a peaceful eternal rest and reward you with a place in the gardens of Jannat ul Firdaus. May your killers be expose to shame and may they never find peace in whatever they lay hands on, their lives will be as miserable as that of a caponize pig.
Bilya, We will forever miss you, until we meet in the hereafter.
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Nigeria Decide: Who Is President Jonathan? ~ By Usama Dandare
In Proverbs 13:20, Solomon, the wise-guy, wrote: “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
The above biblical concept refers to the power of association which helps to shape ones character. We have a tendency to become like the people we associate with and if the people you are with are arrested for a crime, you will be arrested, as well you will be called an accomplice to the crime because you are with criminals.
We see someone who is a companion of someone successful and that person will try hard, too. I have noticed that we try harder to do just as well as the person we are with.
Like our parents always told us when we were young – Be careful who you hang around; Be careful who you associate with. Don’t let just anyone come in and start placing things or speaking things into your life. Parents always warned their siblings and young ones to stay away from bad friends because they might have a huge influence on your life.
The general public tends to always categorized you in the same category with your friends and by nature, friends are assumed to be different people but with the same characters and characteristics, with the same behaviors, practice or believe as only people with things in common tends to live in common, as according to a wise saying "show me your friends and I’ll show you your future or tell you who you are."
Therefore, a friend to a thief is a thief, a friend to a criminal is a criminal, a friend to a fool is a fool and a friend to a saint is also regarded to be a saint. The easiest way to know who a person is, is through his friends and if you want to know someone, know his friends first.
As the 2015 general elections is gathering momentum and preparations are in top gears for Nigerians to elect a new President who will sit on the helm of their affairs for another period of four years, Nigerians indeed needs to know who their presidential contestants are before heading to the polls and perhaps that's what prompted me to write this piece in order for Nigerians to choose who's best characters deserved to pilot their nation's affairs.
Starting with the incumbent President Jonathan Goodluck who is set to seek re-election into the office of the number one citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria come 2015. Who is President Jonathan and who are his friends? Let's not forget to remember that "birds of the same feathers, flew together" and the best way to tell us who you are is by showing us your friends.
First on President Jonathan friends list is: CHIEF DIEPREYE ALAMIEYESEIGHA, a retired Airforce Squadron leader and the former Governor of Bayelsa state who was impeached as a governor on corruption charges in 2015. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was detained in London on charges of money laundering amounting to a cash sum of £1m found in his London home and later the London Metropolitan police found a total of £1.8m ($3.2m) in cash and bank accounts belonging to him in September 2005, he was arrested and later jumped bail in December 2005 from the United Kingdom by disguising himself as a woman. On July 26, 2007, Alamieyeseigha pled guilty before a Nigerian court to six charges and was sentenced to two years in prison on each charge but On July 27, just hours after being taken to prison, he was released due to time already served. On June 28, 2012, the United States (US) Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it had executed an asset forfeiture order on $401,931 in a Massachusetts brokerage fund, traceable to Alamieyeseigha. US prosecutors filed court papers in April 2011 targeting the Massachusetts brokerage fund and a $600,000 Maryland home, which they alleged were the proceeds of corruption by Alamieyeseigha, he was granted a state pardon by President Goodluck Jonathan on 12 March 2013.
SAMINU TURAKI: a former Governor of Jigawa and a Senator of the Federal Republic, this is a man who stole N6bn belonging to Jigawa state in a day when he was the Governor of that state. In July 2007, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Saminu Turaki over allegations of corruption and money laundering. Turaki faced a 32-count charge of money laundering, and was said to have laundered about N36 billion of public funds into private accounts. He was released on bail with stringent conditions.
ADAMU MU'AZU: Alh Mu'azu is indeed one of the closest ally of President Jonathan, he has been given many appointments by Mr. President until he was appointed as the National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on endorsement of President Jonathan. Adamu Mu'azu was the Gov of Bauchi state from 1999-2007 and he is still being investigated for graft by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly looting N19.8billion belonging to his state while he was governor between 1999 and 2007.
ASARI DOKUBO: a known convicted terrorist who waged full scale war on the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he's the founder of the militant group Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force which became one of the most prominent armed groups operating in the Niger Delta region. He's been convicted severally for terrorism charges and has been arrested in many other countries for illegal arms dealing. He's indeed one of the few influential Nigerians with access to President Jonathan anytime any day.
ALI MODU SHARIFF: Mr. Shariff was a former senator before becoming the governor of Borno state and again returning to the senate, he's a three times senator and two times governor only him. He's been charged for alleged abuse of power and corruption on several occasions and has also been fingered as the potential sponsor of the dreaded Islamic sect Boko Haram by an Australian hostage negotiator Steven Davies and many committees of inquiry. He's also among the best friends of President Jonathan.
AYO FAYOSE: Fayose was elected governor of Ekiti state in 2003 but was later impeached in 2006, he was accused of murdering Tunde Omolaja in 2005 and was also charged with stealing billions and diverting huge poultry funds. He was arraigned for a financial scandal of Four Hundred and Sixteen Million, One Hundred and Thirty Eight Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixty Naira, Seventy-Five Kobo by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission EFCC. He was the PDP flag bearer in the 2014 Governorship election in Ekiti State slated for June 21 2014. He won the election and has been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the new Governor-Elect, Ekiti State, to be inaugurated on Oct 16 2014. This THUG also recently slapped and beat up a sitting Judge in Ado-Ekiti. He's also a man of President Jonathan.
BURUJI KASAMU: a known convicted drug dealer and one among the few close associates to President Jonathan. The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago said Kashamu is still wanted on charges alleging his drug ring move worth millions of dollars of heroin from Europe and Southeast Asia through O’Hare International Airport during the 1990s. Mr. Kasamu was arrested by English authorities when he landed there in 1998 and held him for five years during extradition hearings. Ultimately, however, British courts let Kashamu go after ruling that Chicago prosecutors had tainted their eyewitness identification evidence by failing to disclose that one of his co-defendants failed to pick him out of a photo lineup. He's now among the strongest pillars of President Jonathan political activities.
GOVERNMENT EKPEMUPOLO (TOMPOLO): Tompolo is a well-known terrorist who also waged war against Nigeria, he's the commander of the militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), he was a high ranking commander in various militant groups in the Niger Delta and made his wealth through terrorism by purchasing stockpiles of weaponry for MEND and also funding militants. Tompolo is actually one of the close member in President Jonathan's circle of friends and one among the beneficiaries of Jonathan regime, he was recently awarded a multi-billion Naira contract to guard Nigerian waters by Jonathan government.
STELLA ODUAH: Mrs. Oduah was the Minister of Aviation until when Jonathan was forced to relieve her off her duties on 12 February 2014 following series of scandals. She is also an active member in the political campaign of Goodluck Jonathan, where she served as his campaign's Director of Administration and Finance. She has also been involved in numerous scandals ranging from highly inflated purchase of BMW bullet-proof cars without following due process as well as certificate forgery case that she claimed to obtained an MBA degree from St Paul's College where Mrs. Oduah claimed she studied for Bachelor and Masters degrees, and was later found the college did not award her an MBA at anytime as the university doesn't even have a graduate school or graduate program.
DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE: The corruption tainted minister of petroleum resources and one of the key influential figures of Jonathan administration, she's perhaps one of the closest person to President Jonathan. Alison-Madueke was subject to a Senate probe for paying a miraculous sum of 30.9 billion naira ($263 million) to contractors between 26 and 31 December 2007 when she was the Transport Minister. In October 2009, the Senate of Nigeria indicted Diezani Alison-Madueke and recommended her for prosecution for transferring 1.2 billion naira into the private account of a toll company without due process and in breach of concession agreement. She was also indicted in the alleged disappearance of $20bn unremitted funds from the nation's crude oil account and currently under investigation for allegedly maintaining a charted jet at an annual fee of 10bn Naira. She is and still remains the Petroleum Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I would had loved to bring you more and more friends of President Jonathan but due to time constraint, i will pause here and leave Nigerians to judge who their Presidential aspirant is and who to entrust their mandate and faith on.
Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you friends of President Jonathan and once again come to you with the question; WHO IS PRESIDENT JONATHAN?
Once more, "show me your friends and i will tell you who you are."
In my next article titled "Who is General Buhari?" on Nigeria decide, I will bring to you the closest associates and friends of General Muhammadu Buhari.
Friday, 10 October 2014
President Jonathan And The Fraud Called Almajiri Education ~ By Usama Dandare
"The word Almajiri is derived from the Arabic “Almuhajirun”, meaning an emigrant. It usually refers to a person who migrates from the luxury of his home to other places or to a popular teacher in the quest for Islamic knowledge. It is hinged on the Islamic concept of migration which is widely practiced especially when acquisition of knowledge at home is either inconvenient or insufficient.
During the pre-colonial era, the Almajiri education system, originally called the Tsangaya was established under the Kanem-Borno Empire, one of the oldest ruling empires in the world extending from the frontiers of northern Nigeria across the Chadian region up to the borders of Libya. It was established as an organized and comprehensive system of education for learning Islamic principles, values, jurisprudence and theology. It was a replica of Islamic learning centres in many Muslim countries such as the madrasah in Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt and Indonesia etc.
The system was funded by the state treasury and the state zakka funds, and was under the control of the emirs of the traditional government system that existed before the coming of the British. Since Islam encourages charity to the needy and to a student of learning, the community as well readily supported these Almajiri most of whom came from faraway places to enroll in the Tsangaya schools. In return, the Almajiris offered services such as laundry, cobbling, gardening, weaving, sewing e.t.c as charity to the community that contributed to their well being; hence they gave the society what the society gave to them.
The students were at liberty to acquire a vocational and occupational skill in between their Islamic lessons and so were involved in farming, fishing, well construction, masonry, production, trade, tailoring, small businesses etc. Many of them were the farmers of the northern Nigerian cotton and groundnut pyramids. They formed the majority of the traders in the commercial city of Kano. They were the leather tanners and leather shoe and bags makers in the old Sokoto Empire. The cap weavers and Taylors in Zaria city were said to be Almajiris. Thus they formed the largest percentage of the community workforce and made significant contribution to the economy before the introduction of white collar jobs. After colonialization, they were recruited by the British as columbite and tin miners in Jos city which was then under Bauchi before the creation of plateau state.
The system also produced the judges, clerks, teachers etc. and layed an elaborate system of administration in Northern Nigeria. They provided the colonial administration with the needed staff. The first set of colonial staff in Northern Nigeria was provided by the Almajiri schools and this went on for years. In fact, the Almajiri system was a civilizing agent second to none. Before they were gradually replaced, phased out & indeed abandoned."
With the coming of British colonial masters, the British invaded northern region and killed most of the Emirs and disposed some. The Emirs lost control of their territories and accepted their new roles, as mere traditional rulers. They also lost fundamental control of the Almajiri system. The British deliberately abolished state funding in respect to the system arguing that, they were religious schools. With loss of support from the government, its immediate community and the helpless Emirs, the Almajiri system collapsed like a pile of cards. Karatun Boko, western education was introduced and funded instead. The pupils now turned, Almajirai together with their Mallams, having no financial support resorted to begging and other menial jobs for survival. This is certainly the genesis of the predicament of the Almajiri system today.
The system as it is presently being practiced has outlived its usefulness, lazy parents mostly from rural settlements who thought they can't afford to raise a child gave out their siblings to some half-baked semi-illiterate Qur'anic Mallams who use their wards as a means of living and subjects the children to all kinds of labour and exploitations, thus abusing the right of the child and exposing them to various degree of hardship. The young children struggle to cater for themselves and to support their Mallams, forcing them to beg for food and other daily needs, carrying bowls around looking for what to eat and what to take back for mallam and his family, which consumed most of their time rather than engage in learning. Some of these children lost their lives through violence in the streets, some through child stealing, while others are lost through diseases and hunger resulting from lack of good hygiene. At the end, those who were lucky to make it who usually complete the reading of the Holy Qur'an eventually ended up as traders, drivers, wheelbarrow pushers, touting, thieves and so on without any meaningful life to live" as stated during the 21st convocation lecture of Bayero University in 2003 by Prof. Idris A. Abdulqadir.
In view of the above, the Federal Government under the leadership of President Gudluck Jonathan in partnership with the affected northern state Governments decided to integrate the Almajiri Islamic School system to provide quality education for the children beggers and to halt the menace of idle children and youths roaming the streets begging all in the name of acquiring education which has been a source of concern for policy makers in Nigeria.
In order to achieve this, Jonathan administration set out a policy framework which focuses on two critical levels. The first is to engagement with the rationalisation of the existing traditional system of Islamic education with a view to addressing existing problems and challenges, consolidating achievements and expanding opportunities for growth and development of the system.
Secondly, to integrate effectively Islamic disciplines and conventional school subjects, instill values and morals; to provide dual language competency in English and Arabic; and cultivate a culture of educational excellence.
The Federal Government also stressed the need for the development of Almajiri Education in Nigeria among other things, is to ensure the institutional development of Islamic School system and the provision of requisite infrastructural and welfare facilities such that it functions as a true Education system, and to provides a viable educational platforms and model Almajiri schools that could steadily and effectively integrate conventional disciplines into Islamic Education System, providing access to basic education for all children of school age throughout the country. Other objectives are to provide quality products that are imbued with the disciplines, character, knowledge and skills to enable them take full advantage of available opportunities and participate effectively and meaningfully in the socio-economic and political life of the nation."
The program has since kicked off with the commissioning of the first Almajiri Integrated School in Gagi, Sokoto state on 10 Apr, 2012. With the Almajiri system of education nearly over two years on-board, it's imperative to ask if the Almajiri system of education has achieved the desired goals it was targeted to achieve? Has the program reduced the number of school aged children begging or hawking on the streets? Was the Almajiri education able to make an impact on the lives of the poor children and the society at large? How successful was the program in it two years of operation?
Contrary to reports on government owned medias, the Almajiri integrated system of education is a total failure and nothing but a fraud, our corrupt leaders in government have created another tunnel to loot our resources in the name of Almajiri education and to further sustain their looting avenue, they came up with concocted lies deceiving Nigerians on the level success recorded by the program.
Let me tell you this free of charge, my recent visit to one of the school and the first Almajiri school to be commissioned in Sokoto state was a pitiful one, i met few students playing in a mere empty blocks of classrooms with broken chairs and without teachers. I went round the school and to my surprise, i didn't saw a single typewriter not to mention of computers said to have bought for the schools by the federal government, the students were just as dirty and unorganized as before and what pains me the more was how a school was built without toilets or any facility for such purpose, the students have to defecate in nearby bushes and without any provision for water as they have to fetch water outside the school for their personal use. It appears to me that many of the school children are upto today going out to beg on the streets and later returned back to the school at night.
If what i saw was the Almajiri school President Jonathan and his supporters are all bragging about, giving us sleepless nights, then this government is nothing but a disappointment and a total failure. I pity those giving credit to Jonathan led government for initiating this mess called Almajiri system of education, we are in a deep mess. Do you expect me to applaud President Jonathan for constructing a boarding school without toilets?
Call me a prophet of doom if you like but this fraud called Almajiri system of education will collapse in a short period as it has already signaled it way down and will perish away just as others before it as long as the system is being run the same way it's now, some of the schools were already closed down while others were just built and commissioned but never opened for use, they are just being kept empty.
The whole Almajiri system of education lacks basis nor any constitutional backing in the first place, the Nigerian constitution made it clear that all Nigerians are to be treated equally irrespective of tribe, region or religion and i see no reason why some children will be isolated differently from their peer groups just because they were from a poor backgrounds, they've been denied the right to normal education where children of their ages are being taught. Are these poor Almajiris not Nigerians? Why won't they be admitted into our public schools?
Now after graduating from Almajiri school, will the students sit for Almajiri WAEC? Knowing WAEC, NECO & JAMB are yet to devised any syllabus for Almajiri education? What is the end result of an Almajiri graduate? This is just like placing bandage on a deep wound that needs debridement, government would've standardize our educational sector and accumulate the Almajiris instead of lavishing taxpayers money on a new system under a totally failed institution.
It makes no sense funding another system of education while the nation's educational system is in a state of comatose, the deteriorating educational sector in Nigeria which saw about 70% failure in WAEC and a system producing half baked graduates with university/polytechnic lecturers embarking on a year long strike action while some state's primary pupils are chilling at home for more than a year will create another new system of education without fixing potholes in the old system. It's an absolute barbarity at this critical stage of educational decay to think about introducing Almajiri system of education.
For those seeing it as a development, the Almajiri Integrated Education is entirely different from the normal system of education we are used to in Nigeria, it's an integrated Islamic and western education education combined to replace the old system of Almajiri school where only Islamic based oriented knowledge was being taught to the students. It's completely and entirely a new syllabus different from the one taught in our schools and one must be compelled to ask, Is the Almajiri school a primary or secondary school or both? If it's only primary, do we have any secondary school that support such syllabus where the students can further their education? Which tertiary institution will the students be admitted into? Viewing from the fact that our tertiary institutions doesn't support such syllabus. Is there any Almajiri diploma or degree program?
President Jonathan and his vuvuzelas should understand the fact that Almajirci (begging) isn't a problem preferring solution but the failed system which birthed the menace of Almajirci in the country, the leadership failure to deliver good governance to the electorates and positively touched their lives in various capacities led to what we are witnessing today.
Corruption, impunity and leadership recklessness are the main eggs which hatches artificial poverty among the citizenry, resulting to some citizens being unable to cater for the well being and upbringing of their children, thus subjecting them to all kinds of child labour including sending them out far distance to acquire cheap knowledge which in turns led to street begging.
I think the best way to address the menace of child begging is good leadership for all irrespective of tribe, region or religion, and when the rural communities began to enjoy dividends of democracy and feel the impact of governance in their lives, nobody will want to send his child out for slavery as long as they can cater for them.
Finally, this current regime should re-strategize their efforts and forces toward rebuilding the decayed educational system instead of politicking with the future of innocent Nigerian children and the poor masses.
Monday, 6 October 2014
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Nigerians: Beware Of "Hope For Nigeria" ~ SMC
Our attention has been drawn to a fabricated inciting publication which originated from an online community platform "Hope For Nigeria", allegedly operated by some scrupulous elements close to the Government whom are immensely benefiting from the build up of corruption, religious and ethnic sentiments which the present administration conscientiously nurtured to it hindmost advantage.
The publication titled "We Will Kill Any Nigerian That Stand Against Power Coming Back To North" allegedly written by one Aliyu Gwarzo was published on the official Facebook/web page of Hope For Nigeria at exactly 10:17am on Wednesday, Oct 1st 2014 and we found it imperative to clear the air about this development and expose the devilish agenda of Hope For Nigeria.
Part of the post reads:
" S-H-O-C-K-I-N-G!!!"
"We Will Kill Any Nigerian That Stand Against Power Coming Back To North - Aliyu Gwarzo.
**We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir.
**We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods.
**It is either the Koran or Sword. We will turn this country into war zone and refugee camp if they try to take our power.
''When I say that the Presidency must come to the North next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern christian or muslim minority tribe.
The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma and all the others are nothing and the muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the Marghur and all the others know that when we are talking about leadership in the north and in Nigeria, Allah has given it to us, the Hausa-Fulani.
They can grumble, moan and groan as much as they want but each time they go into their bedrooms to meet their wives and each time they get on their prayer mats to begin their prayers, it is we the Fulani that they think of, that they fear, that they bow to and that they pray for.
Some of them are even ready to give us their wives and daughters for one nights sport and pleasure. They owe us everything. This is because we gave them Islam through the great Jihad waged by Sheik Usman Dan Fodio." - ALIYU GWARZO. - Hope For Nigeria.
Read full post here: https://m.facebook.com/hopefornigeria/photos/a.152919604766170.37823.100484630009668/802290979829026/?type=1&refid=18&_ft_&__tn__=%2As
Social Movement for Change wish to state that this publication is false, it lacks source and authenticity, it's concocted and cooked by Hope For Nigeria in a desperate attempt to give the North/Islam or the opposition a bad name just to sell it unpopular paymaster to the Southern electorates, an action which wasn't the first nor the second by Hope for Nigeria aimed at disuniting Nigerians and Nigeria as a whole.
In the interest of all, Social Movement for Change wish to challenge Hope For Nigeria to a public debate on this subject where we could prove to the world how calamitous your activities are to Nigeria's development as well as your plans and modus operandi.
Who is Aliyu Gwarzo? As claimed by Hope For Nigeria to be the author of the said publication and when did he became a news maker? If not for some selfish interest.
Social Movement for Change wants to use this medium to warn Hope For Nigeria that the unity of Nigeria is above anybody's evil work and non negotiatable, no amount of sabotage or hypocrisy will destroy Nigeria's unity and our togetherness as a nation is uncompromising, and no devilish plan can tear us apart either by Hope For Nigeria or it paymasters.
We strongly condemned this unholy action and call on all Nigerians of good will to reject Hope For Nigeria and take this publication plus others by Hope For Nigeria with a pinch of salt, as it's nothing but a divisive attempt to incite us against one another while those sponsoring Hope For Nigeria can be enjoying free flow of our wealth into their bank accounts.
Social Movement for Change also wish to re-affirm it commitments to the fight for a greater Nigeria where impunity and political rascalities would not exist but a Nigeria where peace, justice and unity shall reign.
We are urging Nigerians to live in peace, let's uphold that culture of being our brother's keepers and love one another.
God bless Nigeria.
God bless SMC.
Signed.
Usama A. Dandare
National Coordinator.
Social Movement for Change (SMC).
www.smchange.blogspot.com
socialmovementforchange@gmail.com
The publication titled "We Will Kill Any Nigerian That Stand Against Power Coming Back To North" allegedly written by one Aliyu Gwarzo was published on the official Facebook/web page of Hope For Nigeria at exactly 10:17am on Wednesday, Oct 1st 2014 and we found it imperative to clear the air about this development and expose the devilish agenda of Hope For Nigeria.
Part of the post reads:
" S-H-O-C-K-I-N-G!!!"
"We Will Kill Any Nigerian That Stand Against Power Coming Back To North - Aliyu Gwarzo.
**We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir.
**We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods.
**It is either the Koran or Sword. We will turn this country into war zone and refugee camp if they try to take our power.
''When I say that the Presidency must come to the North next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern christian or muslim minority tribe.
The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma and all the others are nothing and the muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the Marghur and all the others know that when we are talking about leadership in the north and in Nigeria, Allah has given it to us, the Hausa-Fulani.
They can grumble, moan and groan as much as they want but each time they go into their bedrooms to meet their wives and each time they get on their prayer mats to begin their prayers, it is we the Fulani that they think of, that they fear, that they bow to and that they pray for.
Some of them are even ready to give us their wives and daughters for one nights sport and pleasure. They owe us everything. This is because we gave them Islam through the great Jihad waged by Sheik Usman Dan Fodio." - ALIYU GWARZO. - Hope For Nigeria.
Read full post here: https://m.facebook.com/hopefornigeria/photos/a.152919604766170.37823.100484630009668/802290979829026/?type=1&refid=18&_ft_&__tn__=%2As
Social Movement for Change wish to state that this publication is false, it lacks source and authenticity, it's concocted and cooked by Hope For Nigeria in a desperate attempt to give the North/Islam or the opposition a bad name just to sell it unpopular paymaster to the Southern electorates, an action which wasn't the first nor the second by Hope for Nigeria aimed at disuniting Nigerians and Nigeria as a whole.
In the interest of all, Social Movement for Change wish to challenge Hope For Nigeria to a public debate on this subject where we could prove to the world how calamitous your activities are to Nigeria's development as well as your plans and modus operandi.
Who is Aliyu Gwarzo? As claimed by Hope For Nigeria to be the author of the said publication and when did he became a news maker? If not for some selfish interest.
Social Movement for Change wants to use this medium to warn Hope For Nigeria that the unity of Nigeria is above anybody's evil work and non negotiatable, no amount of sabotage or hypocrisy will destroy Nigeria's unity and our togetherness as a nation is uncompromising, and no devilish plan can tear us apart either by Hope For Nigeria or it paymasters.
We strongly condemned this unholy action and call on all Nigerians of good will to reject Hope For Nigeria and take this publication plus others by Hope For Nigeria with a pinch of salt, as it's nothing but a divisive attempt to incite us against one another while those sponsoring Hope For Nigeria can be enjoying free flow of our wealth into their bank accounts.
Social Movement for Change also wish to re-affirm it commitments to the fight for a greater Nigeria where impunity and political rascalities would not exist but a Nigeria where peace, justice and unity shall reign.
We are urging Nigerians to live in peace, let's uphold that culture of being our brother's keepers and love one another.
God bless Nigeria.
God bless SMC.
Signed.
Usama A. Dandare
National Coordinator.
Social Movement for Change (SMC).
www.smchange.blogspot.com
socialmovementforchange@gmail.com
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