I was watching Channels TV last night, though in error as the station is the most Hyped and Anti Balanced News in Face of Africa.
Watching it is like watching NOLLYWOOD movies and hoping to see originality instead of the ever crappy churn out.
I saw the SSA to the President on Media reacting to the issue of RUGA, Where I got thrilled is when he explained that RUGA if established will curb the menace of Herdsmen, then it will provide Jobs, have Abbatoir and many other things he explained.
I expected the Channels TV anchor person to ask him why Federal Government decided that even before they pull together the Ministers, before they Set up plans that will hold the affairs of this Nation for the period, pending the out come of the Tribunal that is handling the undigested Presidential Election result, why it is the Cattle Herding Business that takes priority?.
Even when there is no Minister of Agriculture who should be in better situation and or Position to analyze the pros and Cons of setting such precedence, and set out the road Map of the beneficiaries,as the SSA said it wasn't meant for only FULANI people, which we Satrically and Sarcastically agree to, just to aid the discuss.
Then, personally I will like to demand that, it is great if it is not for only FULANI people, but then what is the Federal Government interest on setting the Land and settlements since it has moved to all cormers affairs?
Won't it be excusable and more Matured if the Government stand on her legs instead on the Belly and make declaration, such as..
HENCHFORTH, NO CATTLE SHALL BE ENTITLE TO OPEN GRAZING, ANY CATTLE FOUND ON OPEN GRAZING shall be forfeited to the Government of the State it was Grazing Upon.. Or...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DECREE that every person in Cattle Business must built a Farm, Ranch or settlement as that is personal business.
OR Association of Cattle rearers shall contribute Fund and raise a Settlement where it can't serve as menace of any sought.
The Farm will become a Herds Village..
That way any person looking for Cow or the proceed, shall go to the Farm, same way we go to poultry when we need or have the urge, the crave for Chicken or the proceeds.
Imagine if OBASANJO had allowed or made a pronouncement during his Tenure that every state must offer POULTRY LAND to Farmers to avoid Trouble, he can do it as it will benefit him as a Farmer but set the nation at Pars and peril.
The excuse that it won't benefit only the Fulanis is petit and mean, it should not be Singular in purpose, there is no need for such craving, Cattle Menace is not a problem the Federal Government won't solve in matter of Days, infact only Pronouncement that any one found Open Grazing shall take the possession of the Herds, will make every Herdsman to recoil as they will face National umbrage and having in mind that the Police will be eager to reduce the numbers of Cows on the loose, same way they always help to make sure any state that Ban OKADA must be OKADA free, but do not ask where the confiscated Bikes are kept or rested..
So in the event of Federal Government making daclaration about scrapping OPEN GRAZING, the Police will arrest all the Cows that are roaming including those at Abbatoir and I tell us, within one week, you can't see a Cow grazing in the open and the Killings will stop for real.
No doubt the Government may be looking for a workable solution toward the conflict between the Herdsmen and the Villagers or Farmers on whose lands this Cows are Grazed, but they seem to have employed a situation that portends more danger than the present.
The fears that, if you give them Space and land in your State, it won't be problem for the next 4 years, but in 20 Years, all the Children that were born within the settlement have grown and the adrenalin will be pushing them into moving out of the Encampment, that means they move out to live within the Town and since they where Born in the State, that has become thier place of Birth and that will kick start the Troubles that may be more lethal than the present.
Which also reminds me to beg the Federal Government to scrap this idiotic schism in empowerment, where they will ask you to state your TRIBE, RELIGION before employment on the Form to determine if your Tribe are ordained to be in leadership or the led...
In our National Anthem, we recite and agreed that we are ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE and in one UNITED SOVEREIGN NATION, so if that is truly the status..
We can ape the Western world..
An American is free to live, Vote or contest election any where in America.. Seek for a Job without limitation of aborigine.
NIGERIA should eraze that from within us, it shall be..
Are you A Nigerian or Foreigner, if you are a Nigerian, then what is good for the Geese shall be measured to the Gander (Male and Female Ducks)
Lastly the Federal Government should as a matter of Redemption of the dwindling economy, choose men and women with expertise in various field of Professionalism as Ministers..
They should perish this choices that have never worked before now, the choice of giving one who has no knowlege of a Ministry, then the same get a Ministeral appointment, which we know that it can never work as there is no way an Auto Engineer will perform Surgery on a Sick person laid in the Theater, and same way no Surgeon will repair An Auto that is parked in Workshop with Bad engine.
As much as I am no longer a disciple of Academic Certification for Jobs as it has gone Sour as much as we can see and feel, but let us at least try and bring on people who are tested and trusted, say we want a Minister for Transport and we bring in a Transporter that have manged Transportation for 10 years and it is still standing and thriving..
We want a Minister for Health, we should check his Hospital or the one he have managed, then see and hear Testimonies of people that survived under him..
We want Minister for WORKS, we must see where he has done his own Work at least on state level which will be used as gauge to judge his qualification for the Federal portfolio..
Meanwhile, the Government should make it unwritten rules, that any serving Minister that doesn't have confidence in the Nation must be relieved of his or her Job..
Imagine Education Minister whose Children are not in Nigerian Schools.. That is unimaginable..
Health Minister that can't fall Sick in our Hospital or members of his family visit and take treatment in our hospital, there is no way, the person will give the best to survive that ministry, he can only line his pocket to sustain his family in exile.
Ministers should not go on vacation Overseas while they serve, if they wants to travel, they can face OBUDU CATTLE RANCH, PLATEAU GAMES RESERVE and many other places back home, that is the only way to repose confidence in our Nation for real.
The problem we went into recess was because we placed our priorities wrongly...
We insert Round Pole into a Triangular Hole, there is no way it will enter, it can only bring Tears and Wears and within months, the center can no longer hold and that is always the reason THINGS FALL APART.
Sure we can reward Party membership, but not with the faith and Future of our Generation.
Political rewards can be limited to Jobs that doesn't need expertise, and for the Future of this nation to look bright, we should stop making Politics to stand as a vocation, it is not, never a profession, so people into it should have a Job that sustains them, that way Politics should be a privilege to help and Set a Map that benefits the People and not the one that lined the pockets of the Gluttons.
This is Mazi Odera POg JP singing the First ever National Anthem that make more sense..
Nigeria, we hail thee, our own dear Native land,, though Tribe and Tongues may differ, in Brotherhood we stand....
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