The governor of Kaduna State, Mallam El-Rufai on Sunday 21st
October declared an unprecedented 24
hour curfew, a total lock-down, in the state capital and its environs. This followed the near total breakdown of law
and order that followed the kidnap of the Agom Adara, the paramount ruler of
Adara Kingdom, Katchia, Kaduna State on Friday 19th October. He was
eventually killed a week later while the lock-down persisted.
Problem started in earnest in May,
when Nasir El-Rufai, in pursuit of his open rabid Fulanization-cum-Islamic agenda, announced the
incredible decision that all the traditional rulers in the State were
henceforth to operate under the Fulani Sultanate.
In a 30th-May memo
signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government Affairs,
Adamu Mohammed Mansur, traditional
rulers were advised they would now be addressed as Emirs, and consequently operate
under the Fulani-Islamic Emirate headed by the Sultan of Sokoto. Dr. Maiwada Raphael Galadima, the Agom Adara,
became the arrow-head of resistance to this repugnant policy. And so, in their characteristic manner, Jihadist
elements arranged a ruthless visit to one of the communities under Agom Dr
Galadima. Reportedly over 200 people
were reportedly killed at Kasuwa Magani within a spate of one hour on Thursday
18th October!
Consequently, the King was invited
to a peace parley with the Governor the next day. It was on his way back from the Governor that
he was abducted, and his security details killed. He himself was later killed and dumped on the
road two days later after part of the demanded ransom had been paid for him.
In a social media post, an officer
of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) in Kaduna
described the Agom as “one of the few traditional Rulers in Southern Kaduna
standing for Christ” and that there is a Chapter of the Fellowship in his
palace.
The Emirate system which Agom Dr.
Maiwada Raphael Galadima stridently resisted, is both a Fulani as well as a religious
Institution. The pattern since Usman dan
Fodio is to use Islam as camouflage to bring people under Fulani fiefdom. As history
well showed, it was in this manner that even the Hausa kingdoms that had
already embraced Islam were brought under the Fulani hegemony. The barely-hidden
agenda currently unfolding, is to make Nigeria the Fulani capital of West
Africa, as currently several villages, sacked of their residents, have been
occupied by Fulanis and have their names changed (see Editorial from Vanguard
newspaper of 18th July here). Even in Iwo in the Southwest, the newly-installed
Oba at a time played with the idea of changing his title to Emir, thus
attempting to repeat the infamous Ilorin saga in the days of Afonja in 1831
(see this account here). He however seems to have back-pedalled (at
least for now), on account of the vicious response from the people. See http://punchng.com/yoruba-youths-knock-oluwo-for-adopting-emir-title-turban/).
The furious resistance at Kaduna compelled
an uncharacteristic hurried visit
by the President.
The current spiritual indications in the country are
that the journey towards the 2019 elections remains quite tenuous and is laden
with several booby-traps. Several Church
denominations are embarking on extensive fasting and prayer for the peace of
God to prevail in the land, especially ahead the elections. Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, for instance, has instructed that all parishes of the
Church in Nigeria should meet three times daily to pray for Nigeria! No smoke
without fire.
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