WHY THE DIRGE NOW?

Sixteen Northern hunters
or sixteen Northerners
claiming to be hunters
lynched at Uromi in the South South
cos of the carnage wrought
on Uromi by “Northern Hunters.”
An excellent dirge is composed.
Why now?

Were these “Hunters” hunting pigs,
antelopes, lizards, monkeys, or
were they hunting humans?
Cos there are more animals
in the Sambisa Forest than
in Uromi and the South South.
Add Yankari and other forests
in the North, and animals outnumber
humans in the North.
Why hunt where there are fewer animals?
Or are humans in the South
mistaken for animals by Northern Hunters?

Terrorists or Herdsmen are
indistinguishable from “Northern hunters.”
Since security agents release
apprehended Fulani Terrorists within hours,
communities have resorted to jungle injustice.
Justice injustice follows no known legal code.
Either Nigerians condemn Jungle injustice or
Jungle injustice may condemn and consume Nigerians.

Is raping women and children
on farms by Fulanis jungle injustice?
Yes, it is.
Is kidnapping, collecting ransom,
and killing your victims
after collecting ransom jungle injustice?
Yes, it is.
Why no dirge after these bestial acts?

The once-brown Kaduna River
is now red with the blood of
Southern Kaduna indigenes.
Southern Kaduna indigenes, murdered
on their farmlands,
in their churches,
murdered at night,
murdered during the day, and
murdered everywhere.
No dirge, no reparations.

Nimbo indigenes, murdered
on their farmlands,
in their churches,
murdered at night,
murdered during the day, and
murdered everywhere.
No dirge, no reparations

Agatu indigenes, murdered
on their farmlands,
in their churches,
murdered at night,
murdered during the day, and
murdered everywhere.
No dirge, no reparations.

Nimbo farmers, driven
from their farms
by Fulanis and their cows.
Farmlands turned into Rugas.
Agatu farmers, driven
from their farms
by Fulanis and their cows.
Farmlands turned into Rugas.
No dirge no reparations

Plateau State has become
a pile of corpses.
Plateau indigenes, murdered
on their farmlands,
in their churches,
murdered at night,
murdered during the day, and
murdered everywhere.
No dirge, no reparations.

These Ikpulities are replicated
all over Northern and Southern Nigeria
by Fulani Terrorist Herdsmen
under the watch of security agents.
Since Nigeria has become a jungle,
shouldn’t Jungle Injustice become
the law of the land?
Just musing.

Has the past, present, and
continuing Jungle Injustice meted out
to non-Fulanis by Fulanis
become normal, the normal
price of Nigerians living in
places reserved for foreign Fulanis and their cows?
As foreign Fulanis translocate to Nigeria
as urged by one Northern Alhaji,
jungle injustice will soon be codified in Nigeria.

Codified and recognized under
the Civil and Sharia laws of Nigeria.
Dirges must not replace law and order.
If Jungle Injustice is not tackled,
Jungle injustice may consume
more Nigerians cos Nigeria is a jungle
where fierce animals RULE
over the meeker and less fierce Nigerians.

Terrorists or Herdsmen
introduced jungle injustice
into the Nigerian political milieu.
A detribalized Nigerian should
have an album of dirges and not just
one song after the Uromi event.
if dirges are not the solution to terrorism,
dirging after a reverse jungle injustice
is not the act of a detribalized Nigerian
but an unctuous performance by a sycophant.