TIME FOR A NEW MIDDLE-BELT PERSPECTIVE

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The recent quit notice by Arewa youth to Igbos to leave the north due to abuses and Biafra Agitation serves as a wake up call to other regions to rise up and protests threats to their stability and sense of dignity. 

Arewa and Igbo nationalism is not a tool restricted to these groups and can be adopted by other regions particularly the middle-belt that has not formed an independent political identity or ideology of its own and perspective about its predicament in Nigeria. 

 In my dreams, I see The middle-belt waking up one day and issuing a Quit notice to all Hausa and Fulani herdsmen to leave the region for aiding and abetting the slaughter of its people so that peace can finally return to the region and farmers can go back to work without fear and in peace. 

Let these Fulani take their cows and religion which we don't want and return back to Futa Jalon, pigs are a close and tastier substitute to beef. Contrary to the popular narrative, the Igbo are not the problem of Nigeria or the middle-belt. 

An Igbo man might rob, cheat and abuse you like these so called biafrauds are doing, but he will very rarely kill you unlike these invaders who also want to claim and appropriate your land through a federally sponsored and Fulani driven plan to have the middle-belt give up its land for ranching. 

It is barely perceptible, but the Igbos have slowly began relocating back home from being under pressure even in Lagos where their shops are randomly demolished without compensation and without last minute warning as the Yoruba reclaim Lagos from Nigerians even before Arewa's quit notice. 

However, With the recent quit notice by Arewa in the north and despite all assurances and in-spite of sporadic protestations, thousands of Igbos are relocating back home in droves and when push comes to shove they will abandon their properties or find a way to cash out as everyone is urging them to do, because life is precious. 

 After that slow process is completed and the east carves itself out of Nigeria, the middle-belt will still have to deal with the menace of invading Fulani herdsmen and land disputes in a much smaller space as all the factors leading to this crises of ethnic/herdsmen versus farmers issues and the granting of indigenous land for the creation of ranches for these herdsmen are far from resolved. 

Part of the downward spiral of the Nigerian economy is in part related to the war against the merchant class made up by a majority of Igbos across Nigeria and rising unemployment and famine in the land from insecurity that prevents farmers harvesting the land due to roaming herdsmen. 

 A few astute citizens of the middle-belt rose to protest the quit notice to the Igbos and some declared Igbos are safe in the middle-belt but the middle-belt needs to re-educate itself and stop buying into the terribly False Narratives and urban myths about Igbos being the problem of Nigeria. 

The source of all the bloodshed, marginalization and neglect of the region comes from one source and one source alone. Unfortunately the people are too blind to see it, Benue Wake up Plateau Wake up Taraba Wake up Evil persists when good tribes do nothing and or fail to stand up for their rights in the pursuit of justice and equality. How many more lives and how many similar type MAFO's campaigns must be had before the middle belt opens its eyes. 

Please open your eyes. 

 By Terhemba Osuji 
#falsearewanarratives

By Terhemba Osuji | June 23, 2017 

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