The Emir’s Plaintive Cry

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My heart went out to Alhaji Abass Njidda Tafida the other day. His plaintive cry attracted the sympathy of the listening world. Being the Emir of Muri in

Would it be considered proper for Haitians of Igbo ancestry to mass-migrate to Nigeria because of ethnic affinity? Or isn’t it true that Haitians, in their traditional worship, appease the “Ibo Loa”, the deity originally believed to have come from the descendants of Ndigbos of Nigeria? Is he aware that there are Igbos in Gabon and that even the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, was rumoured to have been a Biafran orphan adopted by former president Omar Bongo during the Nigerian civil...

But this is no laughing matter. Last February, I advocated that Nigerian Fulanis have to speak up in denunciation of those foreign invaders so that the good name of the Nigerian Fulani would not be soiled. In my column, under the title, “Fixing the Fulani Brand”, I gave my perspective on the Fulani as follows:

The Sultan of Sokoto has spoken up several times on the need to wipe out terrorists from the land. Soldier of conscience, Col. Abubakar Umar Dangiwa , has also been proffering solutions to the problem. Dr Akeem Baba Ahmed has also been reaching across the tribal aisle, seeking to understand and to be understood.

“From now onwards if anyone is kidnapped from this emirate, we will go into the bush and kill any Fulani man we see and we will not ask for his name or what he does because the Fulanis cannot say they do not know the kidnappers, they had better stop them.

 

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