Islamisation Agenda: Big Powers, Fulanis May Be Complicit In South Nigeria Psychological Arrest

The planned agenda to Islamise the Southern part of Nigeria and the Middle Belt by Fulanis may have been long conceived and the current regime of the former Military dictator, Muhammadu Buhari may only be carrying out the agenda consolidation after all. Nigeria since 2015 has been under a militarized democracy with soldiers given the power the Police should be carrying out.

However, contrary to impressions that Buhari is the kingpin of the Fulani oppressive regime which has held South Nigeria and the Middle belt hostage with incessant killings, kidnapping, and robbery being carried out by imported Fulanis from across Northwest African countries, many of the French colonized nations with the support of France and some Europeans nations may have long been working clandestinely to adopt Nigeria as their homeland.

Since its inauguration in 2015, Buhari’s dictatorial regime has contemptuously held the South part of the country and the Middle belt in brutal hostage, turning deaf ears into incessant killings and kidnappings carried out by Fulani kinsmen-strangers imported from Mali, Chad, Niger, and Sudan. This is in pursuance of the Fulani retention of power in Nigeria after the emergence of Boko Haram in 2010 as the latter continues to cause mayhem in the Middle Belt of the nation and in the spirit of Fulani’s South Nigeria Islamisation agenda. France allegedly has been a party to the Boko Haram sponsorship, unknown to many who think the terror group is Nigeria’s make-up bully to allow Fulanis retain power undisturbed

More evidence of Fulani Islamisation of the South part of the country came to fore recently when it has been established that the Arabic logo on some of the nation’s legal tender, the Naira emerged through the wordings of Nana Asma’u, the daughter of Uthman Dan Fodio, the father of Sokoto Caliphate and religious bigot who had vowed to deep Quran into the sea of the Nigeria South coast. The inscription of the Islamic word written in ‘Ajami’ and which means “victory is from God” may have been done deliberately as a symbol of the emotional, economic and religious capture of the people of the Southern part of Nigeria, unknown to the Southern Nigeria indigenes. The Arabic inscription on the Naira notes logo is written in ‘Ajami’ and the inscription is as old as Naira itself.

 Nana Asma’u, the daughter of the founder of Sokoto Caliphate, Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio, was a renowned and prolific poet. The BBC reported that she played a major part in the use of Ajami.

However, because the Naira inscription was drawn from Ajami writing, it could be said affirmatively that Uthman Dan Fodio daughter, Nana influenced the inscription on the Naira notes. Nana was one of the first women to write several books in Hausa and Fulfulde using Ajami. Her father as the progenitor of Sokoto Caliphate has sounded the message louder and more clear now than ever before that Fulani Islamisation of South Nigeria had long been conceived and may be beyond Buhari‘s kinsmen’s current bloody activities being carried out in southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt.

The Naira notes Arabic inscription had been innocently tolerated by the Southern part of the country as part of a reflective image of a multi-cultural and multi-lingual society Nigeria had been and also as liberal-natured as South Nigerians have always been.

As more awareness has been growing over the clandestine move, a Lagos-based lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, recently filed a suit before Justice Mohammed Liman, contending that having Arabic inscriptions on the naira notes may have pegged Nigeria as an Islamic state which is contrary to the country’s constitutional status of a secular state that Nigeria is.

Omirhobo claimed that even though he did not know what the Arabic inscriptions on Nigeria’s legal tender means,he sought the court to give an order to  Central Bank of Nigeria to replace the Arabic inscriptions with either English language, which is the country’s official language, or any of Nigeria’s three main indigenous languages – Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo.

According to Omirhobo, the Arabic inscriptions on the naira note makes the CBN to have violated sections 10 and 55 of the Nigerian Constitution, which has made the country a secular state.

The legal practitioner wanted the court to restrain the CBN from further approving, printing, and issuing naira notes with Arabic inscriptions, concluding that Nigeria is a secular state.

The Central Bank of Nigeria however repelled the move opposing any move to take away the Arabic logo inscription on the Naira notes.

In the counter-affidavit, the CBN said contrary to Omirhobo’s claimed the Ajamiinscriptions on some of the country’s currencies do not connote any religious meaning or carry an Arabian alignment.

CBN through Federal High Court said  it would cost a huge amount of money to discard the existing notes and print new ones without it, adding that the Arabic inscription is not a symbol or mark of Islam, but an inscription to help non-English speakers or uneducated populace who are literate in it to ease trade.

The CBN also tackled the lawyer on the claim that the Arabic inscriptions were a threat to Nigeria’s secular status.

The apex bank said, “The inscriptions on the country’s currencies do not and at no time have they threatened the secular statehood of the nation nor have they violated the Constitution of Nigeria, as every design and inscription was finalized with the approval of the relevant government bodies.’’

 The CBN explained that the “Ajami inscriptions” on the naira notes dated back to the colonial era and they do not imply that Arabic is an official language of Nigeria.

“The Ajami was inscribed on the country’s currency by the colonialists to aid those without Western education in certain part of the country who, back then, constituted a larger part of the populace. The Ajami is not a symbol or mark of Islam but an inscription to aid the populace uneducated in Western education in ease of trade.”