Plateau: Mutfwang’s Politically Correct Speech, The Coffee They’re Not Smelling While Lowering Coffins Each Time
The Oasis Reporters
April 16, 2025
It is becoming obvious that there is raucous laughter at the expense of the people of Plateau State by their unrelentless pursuers at the policy of exterminating the once valiant people on the Plateau.
Going back into history, the people of Plateau State who have produced army generals who as young men and women formed the initial bulk of people who joined the Nigerian army to back a young Plateau son, General Yakubu Gowon who had emerged as head of state of Nigeria in 1966 after an earlier national crisis that unfortunately led to the death of some northern officers in the army as well as politicians etc.
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General Gowon led the nation through the civil war between 1967-1970.
Today, the very people who stood to fight on behalf of the northern Muslims and northern Christians to unite Nigeria as one are facing extermination by largely identifiable terrorists, and the people just sit there as sitting ducks, pondering on what has befallen them.
They are not smelling the coffee, while they lower the coffins in tears, a gory business they’ve been at for more than a decade now.
In reality, this may be one of the terrors they are facing: It is possible that some foreign jihadists who may have lost their cattle due to a lack of imagination and innovation, for Nigeria has never seen as much as a tin of milk or powdered milk from them as it is with other dairy and meat producing companies all over the world.
Not only are the terrorists working on a seeming desire aimed at exterminating the people of Plateau State from their ancestral lands as they are doing in Benue State as well, they engage in kidnapping for ransom, a pastime of a particular ethnic group since the days of the invasion of northern Nigeria over 200 years ago.
Here’s an account by Andy Bature in 2019. He is a musician who was one time Senior Special Assistant on Drugs to a former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda.
His story was published in Punch newspapers, a Lagos based publication, and the story that is as chilly as the harmattan cold in Jos, remains more than enough food for thought, against the backdrop of the Federal government’s plan to establish the RUGA Fulani herdsmen settlements in most states of the South and the Middle belt back then.
First, the kidnap story:
While going to Jos, Plateau State from a seminar in Kaduna State on a Thursday evening in late May 2019, Bature and the three friends he was with, were kidnapped by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Describing the kidnappers, the former SSA said “they are typically Fulani men”.
“They were on drugs. They are herdsmen, they told us themselves. One of them said he had never entered a car before, he said he could trek from Maiduguri to Port Harcourt, bare footed. They spoke among themselves in Fulfulde but if they wanted to talk to us, they did that in Hausa. They never prayed, even once; there was nothing Muslim about them,” Bature added.
Bature had embarked on the journey in the same car with Sani Muazu; Muazu’s brother, Salisu; and Danlami Adamu, popularly called ‘Yanke Yanke’. Interestingly, he had been reluctant to attend the seminar, which was on his birthday.
“We were invited by our association, Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria.
We were four heading to Jos and from there, we would take another car to Bauchi”.
Identity of the kidnappers and terrorists in northern Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, largely revealed.
It is obvious that having lost cattle due to a lack of business improvement and
investments in modernization to meet changing needs and functions, such enterprises soon stymies.
This is primarily why today, most Fulanis no longer own cows.
And the few of them seen with cows rear ,those cows on behalf of the real owners who are suspected to be mainly public officers, serving and retired.
Having lost their first economy which is slavery, they found their second economy of cattle ownership and rearing slip through their hands due to a lack of improvement in the business.
For instance, while the Fulani cattle yields one litre of milk per day, the improved South African dairy cattle yields fifty litres of milk per day.
While the Fulani cattle calves 2 times in 3 years, the South African cattle calves once in a year.
Thus the much improved value chain in the cattle business yields great income in South Africa, it is poverty and declining productivity in Nigeria.
Here’s some food for thought: The Netherlands is notable for dairy production business.
Dutch dairy companies processed an estimated 13.85 billion kg of milk in 2019, with cheese production showing a particular increase (more than 1%) .
The Netherlands in global top-5 dairy exports
The total value of Dutch dairy exports increased to more than €7.8 billion, mainly attributable to cheese products, (+6%), leading to higher prices and higher volumes. The Dutch dairy sector accounts for 7% of the national trade surplus, and the Dutch share in the world dairy trade amounted to almost 5% in 2019, earning the Netherlands a spot in the worldwide top-5 largest dairy exporters alongside New-Zealand, the US, Belarus, and Germany.
Almost 75% of all milk processed in the Netherlands remains in Europe, accounting for more than €5.6 billion, with Germany as the most important trading partner. Besides cheese exports to Germany (valued at almost €1.2 billion annually), milk powder and high-quality food ingredients are important export products. Belgium, Germany, and France are the most important sales markets with a joint share of over 70%. Outside of the EU, China, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Japan are the most important countries for Dutch dairy exports
Fulani dairy business is slipping further beyond subsistence level..
Therefore some of them seem to be in the business of kidnapping and exterminating indigenous people of Plateau State and Benue State with the probably intentions of taking over their villages to launch themselves into sedentary farming.
The videos the terrorists themselves show online and spread through the social media indicates that young adolescents and children are the foot soldiers with sophisticated weapons from rocket launchers to AK-47 rifles etc.
They rob, burn, kill and cleanse the villages of people and occupy them. They are occupying people’s homes as the survivors scamper to Internally Displaced People’s Camps (IDPs).
A military expert once opined that the only way out is to study their modus operandi and evolve counter strategies. Security forces should be motivated to disarm these child terrorists, or else, they won’t stop.
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Governor Mutfwang’s speech:
My Dear People of Plateau,
I speak to you not just as your Governor, but as your brother, one who deeply feels the pain and sorrow that has again darkened our land.
In the late hours of Sunday, April 13th, the peace of Zikwe Village in Bassa LGA was shattered by a brutal attack that claimed the lives of innocent men, women, and children. This comes while we still mourn the tragic loss of over 50 lives in Bokkos.
These attacks are calculated, persistent, and painful but Plateau remains unbroken.
I commend our emergency responders and security agencies for their swift action and thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for directing security forces to pursue justice with urgency.
In response to these attacks, the following measures take effect from Wednesday, April 16th:
•Night grazing is strictly prohibited.
•Transportation of cattle after 7 PM is banned.
•Motorcycle movement is restricted from 7 PM to 6 AM statewide.
All hospitals in affected areas will provide free medical care to victims, and relief materials are already on their way.
I call on traditional rulers and youth leaders to revive local vigilante patrols in partnership with security forces. We must be united in protecting our land, guided by justice and law.
To the grieving families in Zikwe, Bokkos, and beyond your pain is ours. We mourn with you, and we will not rest until peace is restored.
Let us remain calm, vigilant, and united. Together, we will rise beyond this grief stronger, safer, and more determined than ever.
