The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned governors of the South-East Region to avoid trouble by not contemplating giving out any land to the Miyetti Allah cattle rearers as grazing reserve.
The pro-Biafra organisation warned the governors not to mortgage the security of Biafrans by giving any portion of land in the South-East to people it described as terrorists.
A statement on Saturday signed by the Media and Publicity secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, urged southern and Middle Belt governors to reject the demand for grazing reserves by the Miyetti Allah organisation, which it said had been terrorising every part of Nigeria in its expansionist and and land grabbing campaign.
The statement read: “The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by the great prophet and resolute leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, wish to caution the Eastern governors to shun the recent demand from Miyetti Allah terrorist group for the governors to allocate grazing reserves in their respective States to them. No governor in Biafra Land should mortgage the safety and security of Biafrans by allocating land to the terrorists for RUGA in disguise.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is asking the Southern and Middle Belt governors to reject the demand for grazing reserves by the Fulani Miyetti Allah terrorist organisation in Nigeria. Fulanis claim to be Nigerians. Why would they want grazing reserves from other states instead of utilising their own ancestral land for their grazing reserve
“Any governor in Nigeria that yields to this selfish demands of these terrorists has mortgaged the future of their generations to come. That governor will be mortgaging the future of their children to mass slaughter and mass burial; and that governor must be receiving consequences of his or her actions.
“Any state or clan that allocates land to the Fulanis today for whatever reason has willfully sold his state to invasion and displacement. Both the governor and his future generations will not live to tell the story of yesterday by the time the terrorists will launch attacks to take over their state.
“People must learn from history. History always repeats itself.
“According to history, the indigenous Hausas welcomed and hosted the nomadic Fulanis from Futa Jelon in the 18th century. Today, the indigenous Hausas have been reduced to slaves in their own land. In today’s Northern Nigeria, Fulanis have displaced, killed, took over, and renamed many Hausa communities. Almost all the northern opinion leaders, political leaders, traditional rulers, and religious leaders by Fulanis and Hausas have no other place to call their place.
“The same deception and voodoo the Fulanis used on the Hausas in the 18th century is what they are using on the political elites in the rest of Nigeria and if such voodoo works on other Nigerians it won’t work on Biafrans as long as IPOB-ESN exists.
“If the indigenous people in Nigeria think that the political class have all the powers to stop the marauding Fulanis and their fulanisation agenda, then the people must be out of their minds.
“As we bring the attention of the governors and politicians in the south to the Fulani’s dangerous moves to grab people’s land, the people themselves must rise up to defend their ancestral lands or be doomed.
“As for us, IPOB, the Fulanis knew that Biafra land is a no-go area for their deception and voodoo.
“We are certain that governors in the Biafra land will not mortgage the future of our generations to come. But if they dare create any grazing reserves for Fulanis, they would have drawn the battle line with IPOB/ESN. We are confident that they will never allow Fulanis to occupy or be in possession of an inch of Biafra land.”
IPOB, therefore, urged President Bola Tinubu to restrict his motive of creating the Ministry of Livestock Development to the Fulani enclaves.
“President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who created the livestock ministry for Fulanis, should allocate grazing reserves to them. The Livestock Ministry is a code name for RUGA. No RUGA in any format will be tolerated in the Eastern Region. President Tinubu can allocate Sambisa Forest as a grazing reserve to the Miyetti Allah.
“That massive forest is more than enough grazing reserve and settlement for them. The Fulanis can have their way with the Nigerian fulanised presidency, but the indigenous people must resist any attempt to take over their ancestral land in the name of grazing reserves and Fulani settlement,” it added, noting that Biafrans don’t have sufficient land for development and agriculture, let alone for grazing reserves.
Statement further vowed that IPOB/ESN operatives have a duty to monitor Biafran forests and bushes and dislodge any threat poses by the Fulani to the people of the region.
