DEATH THREAT 2.

The story about Ciroma elicited an internal investigation by Premium Times PT which got their Plateau reporter fired and an apology extended to Ciroma. In order words, some guys plucked news from Pluto's atmosphere and tagged Ciroma to it. It is unfortunate that some people still did not get this memo at all or they got it but found it difficult to accept they were duped so they carried on with the narrative.

Some people praised PT for apologising and even attacked Nigerians who didn't spare PT because none of the other media houses who ran with the reprisal story didn't retract or apologize. Like how the gist about Arabic in Police screening exams got into church sermons, Ciroma was prayer point headline and the gates of curses were torn down on account of him and the people he represents. The gates of hell were also opened earlier in the year when two priests and about 17 others were killed in Benue. An appointee of Ortom was arrested for this carnage and Benue has gone cold.

It is baffling how rumour, conspiracy theory and faulty material gets served as sermons these days. When people can justify a 'pastor' calling on his members to take heads and offer them to God, what is the small matter of just accusing an entire tribe of planning to dominate about 250 others?

I listened to the clip about Fulanis not being able to rule in Guinea and Senegal and how they are all being summoned to Nigeria a few days ago. I was disappointed that such could have been said. One wonders if those who got killed or displaced in Ebonyi, Akwa Ibom and Cross River a few days earlier were non-Christians. It appears there is nothing the incumbent Fulani President can do to convince those whose minds are made up already.

I commented on a certain post where this video was attached and a certain young man who attends the church of the pastor concerned decided to be famous. He called someone "pisshead" and then faced me posting daddy and mummy abuse. He later on posted "I am about to make you lose your life," "...if I see you physically, what happen (sic) to those people in Jos will happen to you," "..don't be worried, the shivering will soon stop. The dead don't shiver."

I have been laughing all day today because a Yoruba man from Ekiti like me can boldly make threats to commit murder on social media because of his love for his pastor. This is unfortunately what some Nigerians have become; we were supposed to debate on the validity of the history lesson but sense does not always go side by side with packaging.

Where do we all come from sef? Who is the indigene and who is the non-indigene? I have learnt a few things about my lineage from my mother and if you haven't asked your people any questions before, perhaps it is high time you did. I know a friend and colleague with incredible history that extends into Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil, USA, Benin Republic and a few other West African nations. Why do we go about with arrogance (if I must call it that) like we are superior to other people? We keep talking about 1804 and an age where we did not have formal boundaries defining nations. Major tribes in Guinea for example have origin in Ancient Mali, some ethnicities are divided by national or state boundaries. Should such related people end their affiliation simply because of boundaries? Should we build walls like Trump proposed or should we divide Africa all over again so that we don't have any mixing?

It's easy to say this is our land and others are settlers but what is the gain? Should original Lagosians say non-indigenes in Idi-Araba, FESTAC, Aguda, parts of Surulere etc ask 'settlers' to vacate because their forefathers before Dan Fodio owned the land? Should we not work with those of us alive at this time and find out ways that the disputed lands and waters will be efficiently utilized?

I am convinced that blacklisting people who don't share our ethnicity, culture or religion does not proceed from love (of even ourselves and family members) but from paranoia and a supremacist ideology. We are not any different from the Ku Klux Klan or slave traders.

As for the wannabe murderer, I can only pray for him and hope his friends and family help him. You are not more human because you think one cannot condemn killings in Nigeria and at the same time support Mr President.

If you can't stand him, get your PVC, identify a candidate and campaign peacefully and vigorously for him or her to win. it's not war and like I tell people, I won't mind to see the drama and action a Sowore presidency will bring. Do you think i won't enjoy watching him jail Jonathan, Atiku, Obasanjo, Dezieani, Tinubu etc etc?

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