The scriptural accounts of the murder of Abel, a livestock rancher, by Cain, a sibling and cropper, demonstrate how fugitivity became the penal bane of murderers: Cain became a fugitive!
In a similar vein, Moses who also committed murder became a fugitive; but his subsequent divine encounter will make him the Receiver of the law of God that transmuted the punishment of murder from ‘fugitivity’ to blood for blood!
Thereafter, murderers were therefore not permitted to be forgiven by claims to repentance, nor should they be permitted to flee and escape judgement; they must be apprehended and made to pay for their criminal acts of murder according to the law of the land where their crime(s) were committed!
In the past 10 years, Nigeria has witnessed so much bloodshed from criminal gangster murders without a commensurate intervention of the Government vide its relevant agencies to bring murders to book in order to pay for their crimes acts!
To wit, Thursday, 27th March 2025, was two days to the 73rd birthday anniversary of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as well as a scheduled Festival of Arts and Culture of the Ron ethnic people of Bokkos LGA in Plateau State. Curiously, at a mourning session, 11 Ron ethnic people including a foetus were killed by fulani gangsters.
The fateful date would mark a stark reality in which the fgn will contrast the treatment of its citizens by ethnicity largely based on the verdict of the judiciary in the Sunday Jackson litigation.
The contrast crystalised on the next day of Friday, 28th March 2025 when an incident in Uromi allegedly involving 16 fulani ethnic people was reported.
The news from Uromi portrayed the 16 victims of the incident as Fulani ethnic people, who were said to be hunters in the forest of Port Harcourt.
Those hunters were said to be traveling with stacks of money, cutlasses and guns! to Kano; they were reportedly stopped by the Uromi vigilantes, who on sighting arms and ammunitions insisted on a thorough search of travelers.
Uncensored report said one of the men onboard brought out his knife and stabbed one of the vigilantes. Other vigilantes were thereafter forced to sound alarm that drew the attention of an irate mob who overpowered the 16 onboard persons and killed them.
What a brutality of a tale of two Extra Judicial killings successively within 24 hours in Ruwi on the night of 27th March 2025 and that of Uromi by the next day; the incident of Uromi attracted swift reaction from the fgn & CAN while both authorities delivered no whimpers from the incident of Ruwi.
Regrettably, the Ruwi incident and its neglect is simply a foretelling of the hunting field of the Fulani herdsmen in the entire Middle Belt Region of Nigeria without consequences.
Data sourced from Statistis.com & my article on the “365 days of Muslim/Muslim ticket in Nigeria referenced a review of the security situation in Nigeria by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, USCIRF.
It confirmed that the Nigerian Government failed to verify the perpetrators of violent attacks and the motivation behind such carnage against Christians and other ethnic groups by the Fulani herdsmen who according to data provided by Intersociety killed 8,222 in 365 days.
When a goat is chased to the wall, it is left with the only option of fighting back. The same day the Fulani were overpowered and killed in Uromi, their tribesmen had a successful expedition the previous day at Ruwi, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State.
While the Ron ethnic people were in a happy mood towards hosting their cultural festival, those who can’t stand seeing them happy, came attacking their reasons for happiness, consistently and continually at seasons of celebration; either at Christmas or Easter but chose to show up again at the Eve of Ron Cultural Festival to smite the people.
Unlike Uromi, where 16 Fulani herdsmen were killed, the Fulani herdsmen in the bush of Ruwi, slaughtered like Salah rams just 11 “games”, the number includes a pregnant woman, her husband and an 8-year-old girl!
The sun that shone upon Uromi and Ruwi has exposed the hypocrisy of the FGN and CAN about our humanity, lack of responsibility of our Government and its agencies. Our news media no longer represent the fourth estate of the realm, their pens no longer prick conscience. The dignity of humanity in Nigeria is graded by ethnic tribes and those who should care seem not to!
The President, without asking for the “cows” at Uromi has assured the world of justice to the FULANI victims and families of those killed and gave a marching order to the security agencies to go after the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The voice of our President is yet to be heard on the extra judicial killing of his citizens like games in Ruwi and the slaughtering of a woman in the “forest” of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Maybe because the President is waiting to see “cows” in Ruwi as evidence of the culpability of Fulani herdsmen. May the soul of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, a dear friend of PBAT, daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the President’s kinsman. May her soul Rest In Peace.
The NPF has provided incontrovertible facts that Fulani gangsters killed
Mrs Funke Olakunrin.
Could the revealed gang of Fulani herdsmen be members of Forest cell units of Fulani operation spread across two regions of South West and South South and into Ogun, Ondo and Edo States, who left behind their cows to attend to their real mission?
If the President could play politics with the murder of his friend and daughter of the leader of Afenifere, then, the Yorubas should asked themselves at what cost is this “awalokan”. Nigerians better be careful and pay close attention to words and actions of Mr President as the 2027 election approaches.
Since the “superior” Fulani ethnic people are allegedly the victim at Uromi, the assurance of the Commander in Chief has to be doubled by that of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, avowing justice for 16 Fulani Travellers lynched in Uromi, Edo State but kept quiet on the 11 Ron ethnic people killed in their homeland by Fulani herdsmen gangsters!
Do all lives really matter in Nigeria? The poser is for Nigerian Government and Nigerians, particularly CAN, (the Christian Association of Nigeria), whose members were hunted down at Ruwi but have failed to cry on their behalf.
CAN President who is a sympathiser and advocate of Islam evidenced by his attendance at the dinner of the President and a mosque to break Ramadan fast. He has joined the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Chief of Defence Staff to mourn the death of the Fulani killed in Uromi but can’t find a word of comfort and assurance of safety for Christians murdered in Ruwi!
As for the federation president, the CDS and CAN president, the Ron Christians possibly must be ‘games in the forest of the Middle Belt’ like in the rest of the country!
The CDS noted that the Uromi incident could have been avoided if the appropriate authorities had been notified and involved in verifying the identities of the victims.
Ironically, the CDS brought us no word on the reported case of Istifanus Mangai, a Ron ethnic man, who was arrested and killed by the torture of “the appropriate authority” of the military at Daffo military base in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State on the 31st of December 2024 based on unproven accusations of a Fulani ethnic person.
The extra judicial death of Istifanus Mangai in hands of the military was aired to the world by the cry from “ordinary Berekete radio” without a similar whimper of the CDS for justice to the family of the victim!
Though tribes and tongues may differ in Nigeria, when will all citizens, irrespective of tribes, tongues and religions be equal before the law and our political leaders?
I hereby urge the global community to join me and the Ron ethnic people to demand an assurance of safety from the fgn, CAN and the Fulani herdsmen whose ‘games’ they have become.
A word from the CDS on the fate of the kinsman of the Ron ethnic people, Istifanus Mangai, may help assure the American Government that other tribes in Nigeria are not just mere animals, whose lives can be cut at will by Fulani herdsmen hunters!
There should be no peace for all wicked men and women!
This imbalance must be laid where it belongs; at the feet and doorsteps of British colonial imperialist who invaded the diverse territories of autochthonous ethnic peoples to create Nigeria and subsequently brokered a treaty with the “alien race” of Fulani to maintain their grips on Nigeria! QED
Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi is an Apostle and Nation Builder. He’s also President Voice of His Word Ministries and Convener Apostolic Round Table. BoT Chairman, Project Victory Call Initiative, AKA PVC Naija. He is a strategic Communicator and the C.E.O, Masterbuilder Communications. Email: bolajiakinyemi66@gmail.com; Facebook: Bolaji Akinyemi; X: Bolaji O Akinyemi; Instagram: bolajioakinyemi; Phone: +2348033041236.
