Kpop Gwong And The Governor By George Makeri

When I heard that the Governor respects and listens to the Kpop Gwong, I began to wonder whether I was wrong about El-Rufai all along. So there could be people he listens to too? You will recall one of the first riot act the governor read against his so-called vocal minority was at the Gwong Day on 5 March 2016 and runs thus:


"... We have noticed that there are groups and persons that have in the past made a living by promoting prejudice and specialising in incitement. They distort public discourse, corrupting every issue, policy or appointment as an outlet to vent religious, ethnic and sectional viewpoints...What we cannot allow is the continuation of such blackmail, the expectation that if you make yourself sufficiently obnoxious and incendiary the government will use public funds to settle you...".

That very day, was the day we buried a very vocal colossus, Our Late Father Daddy George Nchok Asake. Just recently, I know my notion of the governor as a crook is sacrosanct. A rumour making the rounds spoke of a letter from the governor to the Kpop Gwong, demanding for grazing reserve for his beloved terrorist fulani herdsmen against the Gwong people. Perhaps this is the moment of truth. I strongly believe if a survey, for or against the motion, is carried out among the Gwong people, you may not find even 5 percent in favour of this demand and this is the time for the Kpop Gwong to reply the governor thus: "Your Excellency Sir, my people will never entertain such calls given your kinsmen notoriety in abusing the hospitality of host communities by destabilising them with avoidable troubles. I am banking on your solidarity and the mutual respect we have for each other to request that you kindly withdraw such request. You will continue to find me amenable to most of your policies and leadership drive as long as I don't incure the wrath of my people given that I am here to serve them." Let's see whether the governor will listen to the Kpop Gwong. If you Gwong people are in doubt that there was no such letter, go and ask your District Heads whether they are not informed.  

In fact to show the governor does not listen nor respect the Kpop Gwong, the matter was not subject for public debate even among Gwong people as rumours has it that when the matter was brought up in Rhaik Gwong, some persons frowned against it that such matters should not be discussed in the open. Where then should such matters be discussed? In such persons' bedrooms? Public matters should not be discussed in the public. Interesting times we are in indeed. However, APC pundits will argue that the Gwong people are most favoured by the El-Rufai government and they will begin by listing how the head of service, the this, the that are all from Gwong and why it is only natural for the Gwong people to reciprocate the gesture. If you ask me, this is the divide and rule tactics. Because the governor favours the Gwong people, the Gwong people should have no business with any of the unfavoured people in SK right? This is how they caused ethnic tensions and rivalries among people who should stay as brethren all over the country when they held sway as military government: the Ife/Modakeke, the Ijaw/Tshekiri, the Tiv/Jukun, the... You name them. No wonder the Gada Biyu victims told a Netzit frontman that the Fulani terrorists told them that their offence was accommodating the Ninte victims of July. What other way of alienating brethren than these?

Anybody who permits grazing reserve on Gwong soil, has just given away the future of the Gwong nation that generation on generation of Gwong sons and daughters may not be able to reclaim. Again, such persons have compromised the stability of all surrounding communities with that singular act. The fulanis are blood suckers, they turn their terrorist proboscis inward and suck on the blood of their host communities. And we will have it on record, anybody who will support the grazing reserve in Gwong. Nobody should fret that the governor will accuse them of prejudice and intolerance. The governor himself should lead by example by first demonstrating such tolerance and absence of prejudice in funding the Netzit Patriotic Front on breeding dogs and pigs with imported breeds and feeds from Europe as well as requesting from the emir of Zaria, a Breeding Reserve for such stock. Until such is done, any talk about intolerance from such a governor is plain hypocrisy. And if he can not use public funds on critics, why is he using it on fulani murderers. Is he invariably teaching us in the state that lawlessness and massacres typical of the fulani terrorists pay?

If it is not good for the goose, trust me, it is also not good for the gander.


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