{"id":67583,"date":"2019-07-09T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67583"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:09:11","slug":"ruga-beyond-the-syndicated-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/ruga-beyond-the-syndicated-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruga: Beyond The Syndicated Mischief."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-6032492507037811663\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<p>Whichever way one looks at it, the fatal tenor that has been imported<br \/>\ninto Nigerian politics since the defeat of the PDP in 2015 will leave<br \/>\nall of us casualties with the way things are going in Nigeria. That we<br \/>\nadmit the truism in this statement or deny it makes no difference but<br \/>\nthe fact remains that we are collectively endangered by the vicious<br \/>\npolitics that had been made to dominate the country\u2019s affairs since<br \/>\n2015. Even as those that mischievously sow this dread naively think<br \/>\nthey will be immune from the fallouts of their mischief, no one knows<br \/>\nwho will bear the greatest brunt of the present tendency to lay enough<br \/>\npolitical booby traps on every issue in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Take the Ruga policy as an instance. I can see the mischievous glints<br \/>\nin the eyes of those that are frantically trying to grow hate against<br \/>\nthe Fulani just because Buhari who toppled their applecart in 2015 is<br \/>\nFulani but we all know that when the fan hits the shit, there is<br \/>\nnothing that suggests the Fulani will bear the biggest chunk of the<br \/>\ntroubles that will come from this silly effort to cut the nose to spit<br \/>\non the face. Stripped of all the malevolent politics and divisive<br \/>\nslants built into the Ruga policy by those that see the pulling down<br \/>\nof the Nigerian polity as enough vengeance for their loss of political<br \/>\npower,the Ruga policy is a competent effort to stop the<br \/>\nover-politicized and over-dramatized herdsmen\/farmers clash which had<br \/>\nbeen made to dominate our national narratives since the PDP lost power<br \/>\nin 2015. As is well known, herdsmen migration in every remote part of<br \/>\nNigeria is as old as the nation itself. Even then, the clash between<br \/>\nherdsmen and farmers predates the Buhari regime. But it became such<br \/>\nnoxious case since Buhari, a Fulani came to power. Even as regimes<br \/>\nbefore Buhari witnessed more vicious cases of clashes between farmers<br \/>\nand itinerant herdsmen, there was no effort to elevate it to such<br \/>\ndivisive heights as had happened since Buhari came to power.<\/p>\n<p>BeforeBuhari came, clashes between herdsmen and farmers were<br \/>\naccommodated as just one of the numerous security glitches that tug at<br \/>\nthe soul of our nationhood. Activities of herdsmen were accommodated<br \/>\nas just one of the cultural aspects of our national history. But since<br \/>\nBuhari came, herdsmen and their age-old activities have become<br \/>\nillegitimate acts that other Nigerians cannot live with clashes that<br \/>\nexerted larger tolls before Buhari came had been made to look like new<br \/>\nevents and every effort have been made to re-baptize traditional<br \/>\ncrimes and anomalies in Fulani herdsmen light. All these are efforts<br \/>\nto get back at Buhari for the singular \u2018crime\u2019 that he led the<br \/>\nelectoral rout of the PDP in 2015!<\/p>\n<p>So the Rugapolicy was meant to voluntarily set up cattle colonies in<br \/>\nwilling states where cattle-rearing is restricted and make such<br \/>\ncolonies livable for the cattle rearers and nothing more. What should<br \/>\nbe the crime in such policy except for the obnoxious, deadly politics<br \/>\nthat has seized the country since 2015? Why should those who have<br \/>\nmischievously promoted the politics of herdsmen invasion since2015<br \/>\nfeel repelled by the Ruga politics if not that they are seized by<br \/>\ninsensate political vices that see no solution to their antics by the<br \/>\nBuhari government? What should be the opposite of Ruga if not the<br \/>\ncontinuation of herdsmen activities, which, by the way, predates our<br \/>\nindependence history? Why should those who have been fixated in<br \/>\nraising ceaseless hoaxes about the activities of herdsmen since 2015<br \/>\nbe opposed to domesticating cattle rearing activities if not that they<br \/>\nare seized by an insatiable gale of political mischief that will<br \/>\ncertainly consume them in the long run?<\/p>\n<p>Some aspects of the Ruga policy that are lost to the hate-mongers and<br \/>\ndivisive tendencies that have mounted a strident opposition against it<br \/>\nis that it is purely voluntary and not forced on any state. So it can<br \/>\nonly be worked out in any state that voluntarily donates land for it<br \/>\nand no more. Again, there is this silly, purblind and self-deprecatory<br \/>\nfeeling that Ruga is exclusively forFulani. This is a way of saying<br \/>\nthat it is only Fulani that breed cattle or has the capability to<br \/>\nbreed cattle in the entire world. Stripped of bland myopia that<br \/>\nencases opposition to Ruga, we have the borderless opportunities Ruga<br \/>\nopens to people that hitherto don\u2019t engage in cattle breeding as well<br \/>\nas the limitless frontiers it offers for the expansion of local<br \/>\neconomies. We are not even going into the healthier quality of cattle<br \/>\nthe policy stands to produce. The silly feeling that cattle is for<br \/>\nFulani and any mention of cattle connotes astounding illiteracy that<br \/>\ncan not find a place in the modern world. So nothing stops any state<br \/>\nfrom engaging inRuga exclusively for its own citizens and tap the<br \/>\nbenefits from that new frontier of agriculture and economy.<\/p>\n<p>But, from all intents and purposes, the opposition to Ruga is purely<br \/>\ndriven by political self-interest and the desire to turn over the<br \/>\ntable to satisfy hurting political feelings and nothing more. This is<br \/>\nwhy some who should know have allowed themselves to be blinded by the<br \/>\nprimitive division, rabid hatred and dangerous intercalation that they<br \/>\nhave imported into an otherwise laudable program that will not only<br \/>\ncurb the cases of friction associated with nomadic animal husbandry<br \/>\nbut reflate the economy of any entity that chooses to engage in it.<\/p>\n<p>The rabid devilry built into the opposition to Ruga comes unraveled<br \/>\nwhen we consider the fact that the past Jonathan regime, which was<br \/>\ndefeated by Buhari and for which the rabid merchants of the present<br \/>\nhate and division have admiration for, approved a huge sum of N100<br \/>\nbillion for cattle ranching as its own way of curbing the<br \/>\nherdsmen\/farmers clashes. Not even one of the people desperately<br \/>\nsowing hate and division over the Ruga program presently raised<br \/>\nopposition to this and not disappointing its corrupt, clueless<br \/>\npredilection, the regime did absolutely nothing on this and never<br \/>\naccounted for the huge approval until it was voted out of power. What<br \/>\nmore, it was Gabriel Suswan, former governor of Benue were the<br \/>\napostles of hate and rabid divisive politics presently anchor their<br \/>\ntrade that headed the committee that recommended this policy to the<br \/>\nJonathan regime. Curiously, all those seriously inciting hate today in<br \/>\nthe name of opposing Ruga are agents, supporters, beneficiaries and<br \/>\nenablers of that regime and its party, PDP! What has changed that has<br \/>\nmade cattle breeding crime and made any policy geared towards finding<br \/>\na practical solution to the herdsmen\/farmers clashes criminal today?<br \/>\nPDP lost the power it used in the main, to despoil and plunder the<br \/>\ncommonwealth and who led the routing? Buhari aFulani. So everything<br \/>\nassociated with Fulani has suddenly become evil and the various<br \/>\nprebendal groups that benefitted from the Byzantine corruption of the<br \/>\nPDP era feel so good feeding this dangerous politics.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the government has suspended the Ruga policy; ostensibly to do<br \/>\nmore work on its implementation but it remains the best way to deal<br \/>\nwith an age-old problem that has been twisted to look like a recent<br \/>\none just to tar Buhari and expand the boundaries of division and hate<br \/>\nin Nigeria. The government should know that to those that shoot this<br \/>\npoisonous dart, Buhari is stuck by being a Fulani and nothing he does<br \/>\nwill vitiate their resolve to ensure that head or tail, he will be<br \/>\nheckled with the kind of mischief they are desperately sowing now n<br \/>\nthis herdsmen issue.\u00a0 Was it surprising that as soon as Atiku, a<br \/>\nFulani emerged as PDP presidential candidate, every form of Fulani<br \/>\nherdsmen-tagged killings stopped and politics around Fulani herdsmen<br \/>\nceased till he was defeated and the devilry was restarted?<\/p>\n<p>We have seen the saber-rattling by different fronts of these political<br \/>\nwar-mongers against Ruga. We have seen the exhuming of deadly<br \/>\nreligious, tribal, ethnic, primordial sentiments against a policy that<br \/>\nshould ordinarily not have any religious, tribal, ethnic coloration.<br \/>\nOn the other side, we have seen the war cry ofNorthern radical youths<br \/>\nagainst syndicated politicization of Ruga. All these speak of a nation<br \/>\non clear tenterhooks because of the ravaging selfish interests of<br \/>\ndisplaced political share reapers who would care no hoot if Nigeria<br \/>\nburns as a way of assuaging their feeling of hurt over their loss of<br \/>\npower. But surely, Nigeria will survive this and will tap the benefits<br \/>\nof Ruga and such other policies this government has painstakingly<br \/>\npursued to recover anation battered to the bones by ultra-corrupt<br \/>\ntendencies who are behind the present opposition to Ruga as well as<br \/>\nbehind the opposition to very many policies the Buhari regime has<br \/>\nundertaken to recover Nigeria from the ruins they left here.<\/p>\n<p>Peter ClaverOparah.<\/p>\n<p>Ikeja,Lagos.<br \/>\nE-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:peterclaver2000@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">peterclaver2000@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whichever way one looks at it, the fatal tenor that has been imported into Nigerian politics since the defeat of the PDP in 2015 will leave all of us casualties&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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