Understanding Who The Killer Bandits In Zamfara And Sokoto Are
The Oasis Reporters
July 13, 2018
Brief Explanation on the monsters called “killer bandits” in Zamfara, Sokoto and other states in Northwest of Nigeria.
Sokoto in North West Nigeria is the headquarters of Islam in Nigeria where the caliphate was formed by the Fulani cleric and warrior, Usman Dan Fodio some two hundred years ago whose Jihadists fighters overran much of Hausa northern Nigeria, killed the kings and installed Fulani sons of Dan Fodio as Emirs. One hundred years after, the British colonialists came in, and unwittingly gave credence to the Fulani rulership they had defeated by ruling the North indirectly, through the Emirs who saw a golden opportunity to feather their nest and further their rule .
I have been to a number of communities in Sokoto state: Illella, Wamakko; Masallachi-Gongono, Gidan Madi, Tangaza, Gwadabawa, Ruwan Wuri and also been to communities around its border with Niger Republic.
In Sokoto state which borders Niger Republic, Christian communities are a rarity. Christians from the South and Middle Belt reside mostly in Sokoto town, the capital and Sokoto town is segregated into two parts: one side is for indigenes and the other is for non-indigenes whom the indigenes generally refer to as “INFIDELS” or “ARNE” in Hausa language..
Most towns in the core North of Nigeria are divided into two parts in terms of areas of residence along religious lines because many core North’s Muslims do not live in same area where you have Christians and non-indigenes, who to them are ‘ARNI’ (INFIDELS), that are not ‘qualified’ to live in same areas with the Muslim ‘faithful’ and ‘believers’. Just as it in cities like Kano, Katsina and others, with new settlements for non-indigenes called “Sabon Gari”.
The villages being razed down in Zamfara and Sokoto states are rural communities and there are no Christian rural communities in Sokoto state as most communities in Sokoto state are Muslim.
Those being called killer “bandits” by the Hausa and Fulani, are Islamist terrorists and anarchists invited into Nigeria by the Fulani to kill Middle Beltans, Hausas, other minorities and take over their ancestral lands for the Fulani tribe.
Does it surprise you they are called “bandits” and not “terrorists”?
They are the ones that are overrunning Zamfara, Sokoto and Katsina states and they may soon overwhelm the entire Northwest because they are foreign mercenaries and mass murderers from Senegal, Mali; Guinea, Niger Republic, Mauritania, etc.
These killers and Islamist jihadists are Fulani, Tuaregs, Buzu, Arabs and other deadly tribes in the Sahel and Sahara desert of West and North Africa, originally invited and camped by their pay masters to kill indigenous Nigerians in the Middle Belt and South, but as lawless and anarchical mercenaries and groups, they are now killing those who invited them.
When you invite bandits, killers and anarchists into your land in the name of mercenaries and contract them to kill others and take over their land; you have, knowingly or unknowingly invited banditry, daily killings and anarchy into your own land and the dire consequences will be banditry, daily killings and anarchy in your own land.
Do those who opened Nigeria’s northern borders, invited; and are still inviting paid foreign killers and bandits into their own land to kill others in the Christian Middle Belt and take over their ancestral land know the dire consequences of their imperialist actions on their own land and people?
Are you still wondering what is happening in Zamfara and, more recently, Sokoto and Katsina states regarding the murderous activities of “armed bandits” in the words of those who opened borders for them in the name of ECOWAS Protocol and free grazing rights for foreign herders from Mali, Niger Republic, Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, Chad, Senegal and other countries in the Sahel and Sahara Desert of Africa?
Wonder no more, you will understand what is happening in no distant time!
Written by Frank Chukwuka Osimi
