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Abeg make una follow me see this one. How is this possible? This self confesed mass murderer, of the likes of Kudirat?
quote: Sgt Rogers, Abacha’s hitman, back in service•Reps to probe his recall
Bukola Ojeme
A KEY figure in the killer squad of the Late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Msheilla a.k.a. Rogers, is back on duty as an intelligence operative at the Directorate of Military Intelligence [DMI].
Already, the House of Representatives Committee on Army and Human Rights has said that it would investigate the circumstances of Sgt Rogers’ recall to duty to determine the propriety or otherwise of his continued employment in the military against the backdrop of his past activities.
Sgt Rogers was a member of the dreaded Strike Force, under the control of the former Chief Security Officer the late head of state, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.
Mustapha is currently being tried along side others, for the assassination attempt on the publisher of the Guardian newspapers, Chief Alex Ibru.
Rogers, who later became a prosecution witness, had confessed in court to the killing of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.
Described as the fairest and freest poll in the annals of the country, the election was, however, annulled by the then military president, Gen Ibrahim Babangida.
The annulment triggered a protracted political upheaval in the country, which forced Babangida to relinquish power.
The tempest also literally stampeded his successor under the then Interim National Government [ING], Chief Ernest Shonekan, out of office.
But the political storm created by the annulment went on unabated under Abacha, who assumed the mantle of leadership after Shonekan’s sudden exit from power.
Members of the Strike Force, therefore, went on the prowl, hounding and hunting the proponents of the revalidation of the annulled presidential poll.
Rogers had during one of his appearances as prosecution witness, testified that he shot the late Alhaji Kudirat Abiola with an Israeli gun, Uzzi, while the Russian-made AK-47, was used to attack Ibru.
Justifying his action as a member of the Strike Force, he had declared, “I was made to understand that they were the enemies of the state.”
On the source of order for his operation then, he said, “I didn’t receive any instruction from top military officers, but from the Chief Security Officer [CSO] to thehead of state, Al-Mustapha.”
He also told the court during a cross-examination that every member of the hit squad had a pseudonym and he was no exception.
“Every member of the Strike Force had two names and each member used the as cover names.”
Asked why he still got involved in similar attacks on the perceived enemies of the state after he said he was tired of such assignments, Rogers said, “I had no option.”
Sunday Punch can authoritatively reveal that Sgt Rogers had, indeed, been deployed from the Army Intelligence Unit to the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) as an intelligence operative in Abuja.
Sources at the DMI told our correspondent that military authorities had been very careful not to make his posting public in view of the negative attention it could attract.
“He has since resumed duty at DMI. You know that was his primary posting before he joined the Strike Force. He was in the Army Intelligence Unit from where he was recently deployed to DMI as an intelligence operative. He is in Abuja,” the source stressed.
It was gathered that throughout the period of his arrest and consequent appearance as a prosecution witness, Sgt Rogers remained on the pay roll of the Army Intelligence Unit.
Findings by Sunday Punch revealed that Sgt Rogers was “debriefed” early this year by DMI and consequently recommended for review by the Military Intelligence Board and Posting.
“After the whole noise about his activities in the Strike Force had died down, he was debriefed by DMI in keeping with standard intelligence practice.”
The source asserted that contrary to the reservations in certain quarters over his antecedents under the Abacha regime, Sgt Rogers did not commit any offence because he was only acting on official directives.
“He was never dismissed from the Army as erroneously believed because he never committed any offence. He was obeying lawful orders.”
Reacting to this development, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Human Rights, Mr. Abdul Oroh, informed Sunday Punch on Friday, in a telephone interview, that his committee and that of the Army, of which he is also a member, would investigate the matter and take a decision on the propriety or otherwise of Rogers’ continued stay in the Army.
“I am not just a member of the Human Rights Committee. I am also a member of the Committee on the Army. I will find out from the Chairman of the Army Committee the true situation. We will discuss the issue and if necessary, we can ask for explanation from the military.
“We need to find out what their reasons are, because they have their own military justice system, through court marshals and all that. If what they (military) consider lawful orders turn out to be a criminal act, definitely, we would not allow it,” he added.
Oroh, however, insisted, “If somebody has been exposed to extra-judicial violence, political killings and all that, he should have no place in the Nigerian Armed Forces.”
Contacted for comments on Thursday, the Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Mohammed Yusuf, who was largely evasive on the matter, told Sunday Punch that the Army did not wish to make a noise about the recall of Sgt Rogers.
“If a soldier is officially recalled, we don’t make noise about it. A soldier is a soldier in the Army, whether in Intelligence or not. What is the need to confirm where he is? We don’t have to tell anybody where a soldier is serving, unless there is a complaint that he has committed an offence,” he said.
He also stated that Sgt Rogers was never indicted for any offence by the Army. “ I don’t know if he was court marshalled or not. But I do know that he was never arrested by the Army. Go to The Presidency to find out.”
SUNDAY PUNCH, November 13, 2005
Is Oba-so-njoo really that sooo Baaad? Pray tell what will be Barnabas duties? This is the crazyest sh+t I have read in a very long time. I mean this guy is a mass murderer trained and practiced to eliminate people. Abeg wetin de happen?
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Shocking!!. If this man confessed to the death of a common or prominent civilian under the color of duty, he should be banned from holding any oublic office.
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Those who aremu obasanjo deems as threats/enemies should be quivering in their pants with this news. In the thread about orji kalu, I tried to sound off an alarm for him to be preoccupied with staying alive beyond 2007 than the silly chest thumping bid to be noticed as a serious contender for the upcoming presidential election. We cannot dismiss the possibility of these same "henchmen" of obasanjo turning against him when the cast is die just as the war criminals, danjuma and gowon did to our clueless brother, Aguiyi JTU Ironsi. To say I'm not disturbed over this will be begging it, it is upsetting and I expect our Yoroba neighbors to be at the forefront of protesting this obvious nonsense.
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the problem with us all is that we all care less. So the mass murderer Sgt.Rogers is now on Goverment (obasanjo) payroll and hardly anyone has noticed or maybe hardly anybody cares. Can obasanjo supporters please shed more light on the need and rationale behind Sgt Rogers employment by this goverment? Rogers is a killer. What is Obasanjo employing killers for.? Or the question is better put thus " who is obasanjo employing killers for?"
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Al-Mustapha Ordered Us to Kill Adesanya - Rogers By Christian Ita A Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour was yesterday told by Barnabas Jabilla (a.k.a Sergeant Rogers) that the assassination attempt on the Afenifere leader and the Deputy National Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Senator Abraham Adesanya, in 1997, was because he was tagged a terrorist by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha the Chief Security Adviser to the late General Sani Abacha.
Rogers who was giving evidence during proceedings on the trial of Aminu Mohammed and Lateef Sofolahon on the assassination attempt said NADECO was similarly tagged a terrorist organisation by Al-Mustapha, thus penciling down its members including Adesanya for elimination.
Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Fola Arthur Worrey, Rogers said "Al- Mustapha ordered that NADECO be classified as a terrorists organisation. We identified NADECO as one of the terrorists organisations which we were to counter".
"We were trained by Israelis on counter terrorism. Our primary responsibility was to protect the 1st family. I am trained as a commando. I am trained in all fields including marksmanship and snipping. We also had special assignments involving countering terrorism. Mustapha gave instructions for countering terrorism".
"Abraham Adesanya was one of the terrorists. He was identified as a member of NADECO. We were given assignments involving Alex Ibru, Kudirat Abiola, Segun Osoba and Abraham Adesanya. They were to be assassinated", Rogers disclosed.
The witness, while giving insights into how the plot was planned and executed, maintained that besides being classified a terrorist, said that the attack on the Afenifere leader was carried out based on specific instruction from Al-Mustapha.
Said he: "I was called on radio that Major Mustapha wanted to see me, that was in 1996. I went and met Mustapha in his office in Aso Rock.
"He said I should get the other boys, that is Katako (Mohammed Abacha's driver), James Danbaba and myself. I got all of them. He gave us some money, I can't remember specific figure. He said we should go to Lagos and assassinate Abraham Adesanya".
To execute the plan, he disclosed that they had an informant within NADECO who continually fed them with information concerning its activities and the movement of its members.
Sofolahan, he said, was however the one who "took us to Abraham Adesanya's office. He took us to Abraham Adesanya's house. I am not familiar with Lagos. On the day of operation, Major Ado (then Commanding Officer Dodan Barracks) supplied us with a vehicle. It was not so go," so we borrowed a vehicle from Alhaji Mohammed Abacha. A green colour Mercedes 190.
"We called him from his house at Dolphin. He was in Abuja. He said his guard would give us the keys to the car. This was in the evening when we went for the vehicle", he stated.
Continuing with his evidence, Rogers claimed that apart from taking the killer squad to both Adesanya's office and home, Sofolahan had also not only availed them of the itinerary of the NADECO chieftain but also gave them a vivid description of Adesanya.
Rogers recounted: "We went to his office and waited. We sighted him coming down fron upstairs, we were in the car. We knew it was him. He said he was elderly with gray hair and bulging forehead. He entered his Mercedes Benz car and drove and passed us. There was the driver in front.
"We trailed his car. On reaching the junction, I fired several shots at Adesanya. Aminu Mohammed who sat behind me fired from his side. Katako was driving. I used Uzi and my bullets hit the car. We drove off to Obalende and managed to reach Dodan Barracks. Our car was jerking".
Rogers said on reaching Dodan Barracks, he informed Major Ado that they were on target to which Ado reportedly responded by saying "well done."
Similarly, he said he made a phone call to Al-Mustapha from Ado's office informing him that the target had been hit.
"We told Major Ado that we were on target. He said well done. I called Major Mustapha in his presence and told him what happened. He was very happy. We believed we hit our target", he concluded.
Aminu Mohammed has been standing trial for attempting to assassinate Adesanya. The alleged act took place at the Sura market, Lagos Island in February 1997.
According to the evidence-in-chief by Senator Adesanya, the assassins targeted, trailed and fired several shots at his car after leaving his office at 12 Simpson street, opposite the Lagos High Court.
From a previous testimony by Rogers before Justice Augustine Ade-Alabi in the trial of Bamaiyi and four others, former aide to late Kudirat Abiola, Sofolahan was implicated in the plot as he was said to have acted as the linksman.
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I killed Kudirat Abiola with a special gun, says Rogers
By Gbolahan Gbadamosi and Ibe Uwaleke
SERGEANT Barnabas Jabila (alias Rogers) yesterday admitted shooting Alhaja Kudirat Olayinka Abiola on June 4, 1996 with a special Israeli-made weapon, Uzzi while the more popular AK-47 rifle was used in the attempt on the life of The Guardian's publisher, Mr Alex Ibru, on February 2, 1996, to prevent the possibility of identifying the culprit.
According to him, at the renewed sitting of a Lagos High Court yesterday, the AK-47 had become commonplace especially with armed robbers in the country following the illegal smuggling of its brand by returnee-ECOMOG soldiers. Therefore, tracing the gun and the users on that operation would be impossible.
He also alleged that as a member of the late Gen. Abacha's Strike Force, he received a parting gift of N300,000 from former military ruler Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, two days before the May 29, 1999 handover to civilian government.
Asked whether he knew he could refuse an illegal order, Rogers replied that no order from a superior officer could be so regarded in the armed forces.
The proceedings also brought to fore the sensitivity of newspaper reports of proceedings of the celebrated trial, as leading counsel to one of the accused persons Clement Akpamgbo (SAN) complained to the court, an aspect of a report published by The Guardian yesterday.
Rogers, on his third consecutive day of cross-examination by the defence counsel, also explained why he cried on January 11, the first day he started his evidence on the trial.
Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Gen. Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and three others are standing trial over an alleged attempt in the life of Mr. Alex Ibru, Publisher of The Guardian and the arson attempt on the Rutam House.
Other suspects are former Zamfara State Administrator, Lt. Col. Jubrin Bala Yakubu, former Lagos and Oyo States Police Commissioner James Danbaba and Chief Superintendent Mohammed Rabo Lawal.
Rogers was answering questions from Mr. Ibrahim Buba, counsel to Yakubu in continuation of the cross-examination he (Buba) started on Tuesday.
When asked to explain the types of arms and ammunition normally used for such acts, Rogers who had earlier in the week stated that he used Russian-made AK-47 rifle to shoot Mr. Ibru, said: "Yes, I used Uzzi rifle in shooting Kudirat Abiola."
On whether he was a privileged member of the Aso Rock Security outfit, Rogers replied: "I did not have any dinner with Gen. Abubakar. He (Abubakar) talked with everybody. He gave all of us money. I was given N300,000."
Akpamgbo , the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister under military President Ibrahim Babangida, before the commencement of the proceedings, drew attention of the court to a portion of The Guardian's story of Wednesday's proceeding published yesterday. Specifically, it was Rogers' reply on N10 million promised by Al-Mustapha through his wife.
The Guardian had reported that "Major Al-Mustapha promised me N10 million through his wife, which she conveyed to me when I went to see her on Mustapha's directive, that if I would agree to tell lies about our activities, I will collect the money from his wife."
The crux of Akpamgbo's complaint was that although Rogers testified that Mustapha's wife offered him (Rogers) N10 million, the purpose for the offer which The Guardian reported in its story, was not part of the court's record of proceedings.
He (Akpamgbo) consequently asked the judge to refer to the records to confirm his position.
Going through the appropriate portion of the record, Mr. Justice Alabi also recalled that the explanation for the N10 million offer was not included. He enjoined the press to be more accurate in reporting the proceedings and specifically advised the journalists, when in doubt, to apply for copies of the court's records through the registrar.
Yesterday's proceeding which started at 10.15 a.m. and ended at 2.03 p.m. with 30 minutes break ran thus:
Mr. Jabila you, prayed this morning?
Yes I prayed.
Did you pray for this court? (Laughs)
Have you been refreshing your memory?
Yes.
You joined the military voluntarily?
Yes.
You have been enjoying your military career?
Yes.
As a result of that your younger brother was influenced to join the military
Yes I influenced him.
Life for you is a normal life of barracks
Yes.
Before May 27, 1999, you were not accused of any offence or crime in Nigeria
Yes.
You told this court yesterday that you saw Mohammed in handcuffs but you were never humiliated, abused, harassed by police, SSS (State Security Service) or any other special services like SIP (Special Investigation Panel)
Yes I was never.
Did you come with your Bible today?
Yes I came with it.
Have you ever come across what is said in Proverb 12:22?
No, Except I check.
Do you want to check it?
Yes, (he opened it and read) Lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. Praise the Lord Chorus: Alleluah.
Read also Proverb 19:5
He opened it and read. A false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Read also Proverb 19:12
He opened and read: The King's wrath is as the roaring lion but his favour is as due upon the grass.
Thank you. Do you believe all these verses.
Absolutely.
While in custody you remember a nice lady who brought you a tooth brush?
No woman brought me any tooth brush.
What about newspapers given to you?
No.
Have you ever been told to be a man and don't cry?
Yes.
Have you ever come across a person called Mrs. A.A. Williams?
No.
Who are the lawyers who said you should be a man?
Prof. (Professor Yemi Osibajo, Chief prosecutor) and others.
Remember the first day you came to this court.
Yes, I remember.
You were crying.
Yes.
Crying has been your habit?
No crying has not been a habit.
Is it true that on the day you attempted on the life of Alex Ibru you cried at Dodan Barracks?
No, not at all.
Do you know Mohammed Aminu?
Yes, I know him.
You were with him at SSS at Abuja?
Yes, but not in the same cell.
Did you cry while with him?
No.
Someone influenced you to be born again when you were in protective custody?
True.
You told this court that you once killed?
Yes.
Am I right to say it was Kudirat Abiola?
The case is not here.
Please answer the question.
When I was coming to testify in this court, I was told to answer questions on evidence before this court.
Who asked you not to answer such questions?
The lawyers.
What are their names?
I don't know their names.
You are to answer my questions.
If the questions relate to the matter before this court.
When I asked you a question relating to your father who was a retired police officer, you answered.
Yes.
Why won't you answer the question on Kudirat which is not related to this case just like your father?
The matter is not in this court.
(Turning to the judge) I insist that the witness must answer a question that is well put to him.
Judge: "I don't know what I can do, I have recorded him as saying that the matter is not in this court.
(Osibajo intervened) I am not objecting to that question.
The person you killed was Kudirat Abiola?
Based on the case before this court, no.
Look at Exhibit P1(a), do you say the exhibit is not true?
Basically, what I said here is not true.
Is it true that you were born in 1969?
Yes.
That is already stated in Exhibit P1(a).
Yes.
Is it true that there was a bomb blast on December 13, 1993?
I cannot remember the dates.
Go through the same Exhibit P1(a).
It is based on the questions asked by the police that it was stated there.
Police supplied the dates?
Yes.
So, it was the police that mentioned the person involved. Ismaila, Shaib. Did you believe the police?
Yes.
You also joined Army in 1987?
Yes.
Is it correctly stated in Exhibit P1(a)?
Yes.
By your oral evidence, you remember the specific date of serving in the Army?
Yes.
Your date of birth was contained in Exhibit P1(a)?
Yes.
You remember that you said you were 29 years, 2 months old in your oral evidence?
No.
You remember you went to Korea in April 1997 and came back in July?
Yes.
You remember the date, year and the month?
Yes.
You also remember you said there was a coup in December 21, 1997?
Yes.
You remember as stated in Exhibit P1(a), you went to India in 1997?
Yes, as an escort to Major Al-Mustapha.
Are you telling the court that Exhibit P1(a) is half true and false?
Some are true and some are false.
Apart from your biography which is true in Exhibit P1(a), other statements you made in the same exhibit are also true?
Some are true and some false.
Do you by any means remember what is called Federal Government wrist watch?
I have not come across that word.
Do you remember one Warrant Officer Bassey?
I cannot remember.
Do you remember Bassey, a Warrant Officer whom you gave the wrist watch and then thrown into Black Maria?
Nothing like that happened.
The meeting of SIP you attended was it at their headquarters? Was it Area 10 Garki, Abuja?
No, the one I attended was at SSS, Abuja.
Do you know one A. Gazama, an SSS director, your tribe's man?
No. I don't know him.
You are working with men of SSS in the Strike Force?
Yes.
When you took coup plotters to Kano, you were also with SSS?
Yes.
You are familiar with men of SSS in Abuja, Kano and other places.
I don't talk to all of them and they don't tell me their names.
All the people on the SSS you met, some speak your language?
We speak English and sometimes Hausa.
You know the chairman of SIP? Let me describe him to you. He is bulky and has a big frightening moustache.
I know of a man with a long moustache. I don't know whether he is the chairman or not.
Col. J.B. Yakubu was not brought face to face with you at the Force Headquarters?
No.
When you made your statement on September 29, the fourth accused (Yakubu) was not around?
He was not around.
On September 9, 1999, you made two statements which took you 45 minutes each?
I cannot remember.
If I show it to you, you will remember.
If I see them, I can remember and if it was my original handwriting and my signature, I will remember.
I remind you again, is the same statement you made you admitted shooting somebody with an Uzzi gun.
If it is my original handwriting, I will remember.
At this juncture, Prof. Osibajo objected to the question.
Buba then cited Sections 199 and 209 of the Evidence Act to argue that he wanted the witness to identify the statement.
"The question put to him is if he made that statement which he admitted he does not, he cannot remember. He admitted that if he sees his handwriting he will be able to identify it''.
Citing Section 13 of the Evidence Act, he submitted: "Having said he can identify it, if he sees it, I have an application to show it to him. It is relevant and within the ambit of the law."
In his short ruling, Justice Alabi said: "The correct position of the law is that if opposing lawyer wants to tender an exhibit through cross-examination, he needs to lead the witness to admit the document. If he admits, yes. If he denies, that is the end of the matter. The only option is to tender it through his own witness. To give it to this witness for identification is against the law of Evidence Act."
Cross-examination continued:
The Uzzi you used does it use 9mm and a silencer?
Yes.
Was that made to the police at Abuja?
Yes.
Was that statement made after Exhibit B1(a)?
Yes.
It was your personal service pistol?
No.
It was your official gun?
As per the nature of the job.
The person you used that Uzzi rifle to shoot was Kudirat Abiola?
Yes.
You remember shooting Alex Ibru with AK-47 rifle so that it cannot be traced?
Yes.
Alex Ibru was shot on February 2, 1996.
As you have said, but I cannot remember.
Kudirat was shot on June 4, 1996.
Yes.
You used AK-47 in shooting Alex Ibru so that it cannot be traced. Why did you not use AK-47 on Kudirat Abiola? So that it cannot be traced?
I don't know, but what I know is that the Commissioner of Police (Danbaba) issued AK-47 to us through Col. J.B. Yakubu.
In the military AK-47 is commonly used?
Yes.
You agree with me that it is easier to trace AK-47 because it is commonly used than Uzzi riffle?
Yes.
When you used Uzzi, it was only you and Katako?
Yes.
Is it true that you sneaked out and left Yakubu, Sani Garuba, Ismaila Shaib, Bello and Mohammed Aminu?
I did not sneak out.
Did you go with them?
I did not go with them because they were carrying girls and the nature of my assignment is not clandestine but to accomplish the assignment.
So, when you used Uzzi to kill Kudirat, Ismaila Shaib, Sani Garuba Sugaba Gambo and Mohammed Aminu, were not with you?
They were not with me at the scene of the event.
As at February 1996 when you shot Ibru, you said you were tired of pursuing man.
Yes.
Then four months after, you pursued Kudirat, and killed her?
Yes, I had no option.
You know the fourth accused person (Yakubu) as the Commander of the 26th Battalion, Bonny Camp?
Yes.
You know that he has not less than 800 armed personnel he was controlling?
Yes.
You don't know how long he has been in Lagos when you met him?
I don't know.
The battalion, you d
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The news of the re-absorption of Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Mshiela, also known as Sergeant Rogers, into the military, constitutes a shock to those who followed his ricocheting trial that commenced five years ago. Sergeant Rogers confessed in open court that he headed several operations of a hit squad during the regime of late General Sani Abacha. From the trial, Nigerians heard how Rogers and his squad set on notable Nigerians like Pa Alfred Rewane and Kudirat Abiola. His group, he told the court, was also responsible for burning the homes of Lt.-Gen. Alani Akinrinade and Air Commodore Dan Suleiman, among others, and their owners forced into exile.
Rogers gave the court details of his participation in the shooting of newspaper publisher, Alex Ibru, a former Minister of Internal Affairs under Gen. Abacha, who survived the attack. What could be the motive behind the decision to return a self-confessed killer to the country’s military service, especially when the trial of those he named as accomplices is still on? Was this a court decision? It is preposterous for Rogers to be drawing his pay from the taxes of the same Nigerians he confessed to haunting, killing their relations and destroying their property. What is going on in this country? Nigerians are still traumatised by the bestiality and savagery of the group that wreaked mayhem on them under the guise of obeying military orders. While we are concerned that efforts should be made towards breeding a truly professional army, the government is uninterested in ridding the military of known elements who are not ashamed of their past contributions in stalling democratic rule.
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What indeed does one expect from a very backward tottering quasi nation, nothing!! Different folks have their reason for the stagnated, no, backward growth of that useless country, but I know damn well that without our Yoroba neighbors and friends whose continuous aiding of the munchi people emboldens their noise, they would never make it pass Otorokpo. Their feudal culture would never have passed the northern borders, period. A disjointed president might in his warped mind think that he's helping his selfish 2007 forever plan of being idi amin incarnate, the long run effect of his stupid action will only succeed in putting his Yoroba people in bad light and endanger their wellbeing at the same time. How many times will the Yoroba be burnt by their islamic brethren before they realize that the awusa/arab fulani never forgives and forgets? To do that, forgive and forget one must be familiar with the BIBLE which is alien to them. The only thing the quran preaches is terror, hate, smite them, cut their throat, kill, burn, and every other vile language there is. I do not want to be believed, just pick up a copy of their quran or go online to see the mayhem this allegedly 'holy' book encourages.
Now is the time for the Yoroba to realize that they are more in synch with their Igbo neighbors who were brave to have stopped the marauding invasion of Usman Dan Fodio right on his tracks hence no single Igbo convert to Islam then. The one or two like Dokubo whose conversion to Islam is suspect did so for political motive and to garner a few crumbs from their masters' desk. The time is now for the Yoroba to impress upon their wayward son to think with his real head not the viagara induced inactive one to let sound reasoning prevail, scatter the damn country and let everyone to his/her tents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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