CAMA! STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF AN ISLAMIC AGENDA!
(Part 2A)
RESTRUCTURE BEFORE REFORMS
...CAMA THE CHURCH AND BUHARI'S LOPSIDED NIGERIA
(By Amaso Jack)
(The
preview, published earlier, is presented in light blue for those who read it
before and require additional information.)
(For Strategic Politics with Amaso Jack,
my stolen but legally protected facebook page. Friday, September 25, 2020)
“To those of you who think the Government regulates Churches in the UK
and as such, the CAMA Bill in Nigeria should stand.
“I am a Pastor in the UK. This means I can speak on this issue.
“As a Church in the UK, you are seen as a charity. The UK government
gives grants to the Church. For example, the government can give you £50k (N30
million Naira) at the end of the year based on how much your Church performed
that year.” Pastor Woruka said"
Pastor Dennis Woruka Jnr,
The General Overseer of
Fountain of Souls Ministries International,
https://thenigerialawyer.com/cama-2020-uk-govt-gives-about-n30-million-grant-to-churches-annually-stop-comparing-uk-with-nigeria-pastor-dennis-woruka/
BIRD'S EYE VIEW AND PREVIEW
Bird's eye view'
When provocative laws are pursued in the face of injustice, trouble is inevitable! That is what Ironsi did on May 24, 1966, only for violence to erupt five days later on the 29th, this is what Buhari is doing in 2020 with CAMA, Water Resources Bill and others, Buhari is luckier, the docile nature of the South is working in his favour…..but for how long?
These laws are complementary tactical components of the same strategic intent, but that should not foreclose nor divert attention from some pastors who are taking undue advantage of their flock for personal gain, nor is the action of such pastors a justification for a regime with a clear Islamic tilt (a fact established in the first part) attempt to tamper with the leadership and ownership structure of the church, by the provocative sections of CAMA…. threatening the very roots of the Christian faith in Nigeria, nor should the quest to regulate by government, trample of the fundamental human right of association, of these pastors, considering the fact that unlike, the United Kingdom, where churches get subversions for social work from the government, for which monitoring is required, no such subversions are received in Nigeria.
PREVIEW:
Buhari was the transport officer in charge of Ironsi's staff
car, and those of other senior officers like Maimalari, in 1966.
Ifreke Inyang, in
his December 23, 2012 account, published in Daily Post, quotes
Buhari as saying:
"I was first in Lagos, as Transport Officer. That was where I was
till the January coup."
https://dailypost.ng/2012/12/23/i-forgiven-obasanjo-i-wont-forget-babangida-me-buhari/
He didn't learn from the GOC Nigerian Army; Ironsi, just the
way Ironsi, who was ADC to Sir John Macpherson, Nigeria's Governor-General between 1948 and 1955, didn't learn from his boss. It is not clear to this writer
how long he served as aide-de-camp to John
Macpherson, but in 1956, he was
equerry to Queen Elizabeth II when
she visited Nigeria, a responsibility for which Ironsi was specially trained.
Until Buhari's CAMA 2020, is understood within the historical context of
Ironsi's decree 34 of 1966, and
his deceptive decision to downgrade clear fulani territorial
expansionism to farmer header
crisis, is understood as a
reminder of Ironsi's foot dragging of
the trial of the January 1966 coup
plotters (that eventually led to the civil war) but his swift justice to Adaka
Boro, are all understood, in the
context of history, the very
important historical basis of CAMA, as
a seed of a religious war in the mould of
Decree 34 of 1966, will not be understood.
Part
2 consists of
1
Buhari's dangerous reproduction of Ironsi's blunder!
A coup took place in January
1966, planned by mostly Igbo Officers,
rather than Ironsi bringing the
killers to swift Justice, like he
did to Adaka Boro and his Niger Delta separatist, of February 1966 he chose to foot drag; promulgating the highly provocative Decree 34 of 1966.
Buhari
has chosen Ironsi's path. A globally respected organization called Fulani expansionism, terrorism, rather
then bring them to justice, like Ironsi,
who went for Niger Delta separatist, Buhari has chosen to go for IBOP separatist!
Like Ironsi, he has undertaken the
burial of rites of Nigeria with
a series of laws like CAMA and the Water Resources Bill, that seek to make Nigeria a Unitary
state. At this critical moment when the
clamour to return the country to the path of TRUE FEDERALISM, is very loud, Buhari by these laws is taking us
back to Ironsi's disruption of
Federalism!
Like Ironsi did with Decree 34, he is
doing same with CAMA, and his
infamous Water Resources Bill, the
rubber stamp 9th National assembly under Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan, who in the 8th assembly under Saraki, was a major supporter of the Water Resources Bill, has by his
position of Senate president, become
an infamous accomplice in Buhari's path to war, by supporting the dangerous attempt at
controlling the management STRUCTURE
of the CHURCH, just the way Ironsi administratively controlled the entire country; a move that was a catalyst of the civil war. Buhari by his lopsided Islamic FULAN/KANURI hegemony, is
treading a provocative path of a religious war. While this is on, some Pastors are taking
financial advantage of their members,
will a responsible government sit by
and watch this?
But
what moral right of neutrality, has a lopsided government with an
ethnoreligious tilt, got to
intervene in a rival religion?
Does a government with an
ethnoreligious tilt have the MORAL
RIGHT of INTERVENTION?
Finally, the historical questions of the
1966 coup is laid to rest by no other person than General Ibrahim Babangida, the
most important Individual on the subject of coups, the issues he put to rest was…. WAS THE 1966 COUP AN IGBO COUP?
BUHARI IN THE SHADOWS OF
IRONSI
Buhari has chosen to go the path of Ironsi, by advancing dangerous laws like CAMA, while turning a blind eye to Injustice, like Ironsi (even though Ironsi insisted justice will be done) but he doesn't want Ironsi's result of a civil war! Ironsi didn't bring the perpetrators of the January 15, 1966 coup (most of whom like him were Igbo) to justice. For an offence in January, trial was fixed for August, then shifted to October….Justice delayed had become justice denied, he didn't stop there, he but went about his provocative Decree 34 of 1966, this is what Buhari is replaying with the Fulani herdsmen, whose expansionism, he down plays as farmer/herder crisis, while pushing provocative laws like CAMA through!
PROFESSOR BANJI AKINTOYE:
"Fulani already prosecuting their war against Nigerians —Prof Banji Akintoye" https://www.google.com/amp/s/tribuneonlineng.com/fulani-already-prosecuting-their-war-against-nigerians-prof-banji-akintoye/amp/
His pidegree
"Professor Banji Akintoye is an eminent ….. African historian with
famous works in the history of the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria in
West Africa….. (with) …...and a Ph.D. in African History at the University of
Ibadan"
https://www.obafemiawolowofoundation.org/30th_anniversary_akintoye_profile.php
PROFESSOR UZODINMA NWALA
"Fulani have taken over Nigeria’s affairs – Prof Nwala, ADF
president"
ONE EVIL SOUTHERN
NIGHT…..
In one evil Southern night, the North lost all their men of substance!
On the political side,
1 Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister was brutally murdered.
2 Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello KBE, M.H.A., Sardauna of Sokoto, whose real name was Ahmadu Rabah, was brutally murdered.
On the military side, the
top four most senior officers from
the North, were brutally murdered
1 Brig. Zakariya
Maimalari
2 Col. Kur Mohammed
3 Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
4 Lt. Col. James Pam
While it is true Ironsi was not a part of the coup, his subsequent actions put doubts around him, though he was indeed a target but escaped, and went on to set up a board of inquiry to investigate the rebellion of 1966,
MEMBERS OF THE
INVESTIGATING BOARD OF INQUIRY
Military historian Max Siollun on the 93rd page of his 2009 Algora published book he titled,
"Oil, Politics and Violence Nigeria's Military Coup Culture
1966-1976)"
identified members of the board of inquiry as
● 1 Lt. Col Gowon,
● 2 M. D. Yusuf,
● 3 Assistant Commissioner of Police Isa Dejo ( Special Branch police officers) and
● 4 British police officers.
●
Captain Baba
Usman
Siollun then added on the 94th page:
"According to the Eastern
Region
Lt-Colonel Gowon was in charge of producing the white paper but
procrastinated on it, and every time he was asked in SMC meetings to report on
its progress, replied that he needed more time…...
"Captain Baba Usman (who was closely Involved in the
investigation) subsequently claimed that the Special Branch report was ready at
the end of March 1966."
Ironsi delay as Supreme Commander in bringing the January coup plotters to justice in addition to the Decree 34 of 24 May 1966 led to five vital bloody repercussions:
1 The May 29 1966, attack on Igbos in the North
2 The Counter coup of July
3 More pogroms against Igbos
4 The secession
5 The above were the remote causes of the civil war, but the immediate cause of the war was Gowon, who reneged on the terms of Aburi accord.
The civil war was caused by the only two Supreme Commanders ever to rule Nigeria, Ironsi and Gowon!
IMPLOSION!
The action of some Igbo traders in the North was the catalyst that helped to provoke the planned pogroms in the North, against them.
On the 200th page of his 1971 Methuen & Co LTD,book:
"Studies in African History"
book he titled
"The Nigerian Army 1956-1966",
N. J. Miners, who was a teacher in King's College Lagos, for the nine year period between 1957-1966 wrote:
"Quite apart from the May Decrees,there were reasons enough for
discontent in the North. In the first place, there was the provocative behavior
of many Ibos. After the murder of the Sardauna,Ibos in the North held parties
to celebrate their victory, displayed photographs of the Sardauna and his
'conqueror', Major Nzeogwu, in the markets and gave great offence by
continually playing a particular gramophone
(page 201)
record which simulated the sound of machine gun fire. Their boasting
and derogatory remarks about the Northerners are perhaps, understandable, now
that they had achieved relief from years of threats and increasing economic
discrimination.
But it did not convince the indigenous Northerners of the genuineness
of the Military Government's good intentions."
This action by Igbo traders in the North, helped to fuel the anger and hate that propelled the organized pogroms against them.
BUHARI LIKE IRONSI: DAWN
OF POWER DAWN OF HARDSHIP
N. J. Miners, added on this from page 201
"Secondly, the early months of the Ironsi regime coincided with
sharp increases in the price of foodstuffs"
By a strange coincidence, when Ironsi came to power, there was an increase in the prices of foodstuffs, just as the Naira rapidly lost value when Buhari came to power in 2015 and has gone from bad to worse under covid-19.
Damilare Famuyiwa, in his March 1, 2019 account published in nairametrics he titled:
"Next Level: Exchange rate under Buhari by 2023"
…..provided the following information.
"The naira has been weakened against the U.S. dollar since June
2015 when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) scrapped the currency peg that had
kept it at an artificially-high value of around N198 per $1.
Following the scrapping of the peg, naira lost over 40% of its value
against the US dollar. While the Central Bank had pledged to move to a
free-floating exchange regime, it intervened in the foreign exchange market
after the devaluation to keep the naira within a narrow range of N282 to N285
per USD"
https://nairametrics.com/2019/03/01/next-level-exchange-rate-under-buhari-by-2023/
JANUARY 1966 COUP D'ÉTAT, THE ELIMINATION OF THE CREAM OF THE NORTH….THE BASIS OF NORTHERN ANGER.
Military historian Max Siollun, on 97th page of his very first book titled:
"Oil,
Politics and Violence"
….a book that took him over ten years of research, published by Algora books in 2009, wrote:
"The suppressed rage of Northern NCOs had been a ticking time bomb
since January. By mid 1966, there was an unwritten consensus among Northern
soldiers that there would be a 'July rematch' with their Igbo colleagues. This
'rematch' is today referred to as the 'counter-coup.' With their overwhelming
numerical presence in the infantry (approximately 70-80% of the army's
infantrymen were Northerners), it was clear that a revenge coup by Northern
soldiers would have drastic consequences. Northern soldiers decided to take the
law into their own hands. Their long list of grievances was growing daily:
•The murder of their
military and civilian leaders.
•The January Majors had
still not been tried and were being paid while in detention.
•The Unification Decree.
•Rumours of a further Igbo
coup to eliminate all remaining Northern soldiers.
•The promotion of several
Igbo Majors to Lt-Colonel.
•Aguiyi-Ironsi allegedly
surrounding himself with other Igbos.
•Aguiyi-Ironsi's plan to
rotate the military governors.
•The planned swap of 1st and
4th battalions.
A platoon commanders course in Kaduna brought several junior Northern
officers together (including Lieutenants Sani Abacha, Abdullahi Shelleng,
Haladu Hannaniya, Muhammedu Jega, Yakubu Dambo and Wali) they typed and sent an
anonymous letter to the most senior Northern officer Lt-Colonel Gowon. The
letter warned that unless senior Northern officers took action to avenge the
murders of January within a certain deadline, the junior officers would take
the law into their own hands. It is not known whether Gowon communicated the
contents of this letter to his colleagues in the SMC"
Continues
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