Gani Adams writes UN, others over insecurity

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams on Thursday demanded urgent intervention of the United Nation (UN) and other relevant international organisation’s over the spate of insecurity across Nigeria and Southwest in particular.

Adams’ call was contained in a letter titled”: “Avoiding a replica of the Bosnian war in Nigeria”
The letter, which was addressed to Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Mr. António Guterres, European Embassies, African Union, United States State Departments, the International Association for Religious Freedom bin United Kingdom, Council on Foreign Relations and other international organisations, according to the Yoruba generalissimo, was the second in two years, insisting that Nigeria is in precarious situation capable of destroying the entire country.

He wrote: “As you, and hundreds of millions of people globally, are aware, things are no longer normal in Nigeria. Dangerous and despicable things are happening in the world’s most populous black nation.
“What happened in the defunct Yugoslavia that led to the balkanisation of that country is becoming like a child’s play in Nigeria.

“Pitiably, terrorists moving from Northern Nigeria to the South are being embraced, encouraged and empowered by powers that be in Nigeria.
“I am raising this alarm now because the effect of this dangerous trend may ultimately balkanise Nigeria and affect sub-sahara Africa.

“Similar alarm was raised in the defunct Yugoslavia and sadly, nobody put in check the pogromists, whose actions, led to the massacre in that geographical location.
“This lackadaisical attitude by those benefiting from this national malaise led to the Bosnian War which began in 1992 and lasted until 1995.It was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

“The varied reasons for the country’s breakup ranged from the cultural and religious divisions between the ethnic groups making up the nation, to the memories of the Second World War atrocities committed by all sides, to centrifugal nationalist forces. Obviously, the grave factors that contributed to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, leading to the recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (including the regions of Kosovo and Vojvodina) and Slovenia, are still fresh in memories of historians.

“In 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina joined several republics of the former Yugoslavia and declared independence, which triggered a civil war in 1992 that lasted four years.

“About 100,000 people were killed during the war and over 2.2 million people displaced, making it, up until that time, the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II in 1945.
“In May 1993, the UN Security Council took the bull by the horn by seeking justice against those who committed atrocities during the war.

“The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, Netherlands was created and it was the first international tribunal since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, and the first to prosecute genocide, among other war crimes.

“During the trial, 161 individuals who committed crimes during the war in the former Yugoslavia, including Radovan Karadzic, and the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic (Butchers of Bosnia), were indicted for genocide and other crimes against humanity. Milosevic was later found dead in his prison cell in 2006”

Adams, while citing the various atrocities perpetrated by the Fulani Herdsmen and terrorists, said the Yoruba in Southwest Nigeria are being pushed to the limit, noting that the Fulani in Northern Nigeria are now engaged in a war of attrition all over the country

“Ironically, Nigeria’s President is a Fulani.The Fulani have been fingered in abductions, kidnappings and killings in the North. Now, they are gradually moving down South and the danger is that people in the South are already determined to engage them. This might lead to a full scale war.
“In the last few weeks, these Fulani terrorists have expanded their evil network.

“Deborah Samuel, a 200-Level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was killed and her body burnt by some blood- thirsty fundamentals because, according to them, she was guilty of blasphemy. The killers are visible in a viral video seen by peace-loving people all over the world but the government only arraigned them for ‘disturbance to public peace.

“Prelate of Methodist Church in Nigeria, Rev. Samuel Kanu-Uche, was kidnapped by, according to the highly respected man of God, Fulani boys and they collected N100 million cash arranged in five bags (about $166,000) before he was released. Security agents are stationed near the location of the abduction but they did not move against the terrorists.

“Anglican Bishop of Jebba Diocese in Kwara State, Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba, his wife and their driver were kidnapped and the abductors demanded for millions of naira before their release.