Chief Gani Adams has rejected the Ruga settlement plan of the federal government, - Chief Adams, who is the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, says it is a policy that can break the nation just as it has overheated the polity
- According to him, the plan to establish Ruga settlement is a result of trying to revisit the jihadist agenda that was started in 1804 Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, has rejected the Ruga settlement plan of the federal government, saying it is a policy that can break the nation just as it has overheated the polity. Chief Adams stated this in an interview published in The Nigerian Tribune of Sunday, July 7, in which he said the plan to establish Ruga settlement was a result of trying to revisit the jihadist agenda that was started in 1804.
He said: "The plan to establish Ruga settlement was a result of trying to revisit the jihadist agenda that was started in 1804. We didn’t see the policy as a way to settle the crisis of herdsmen. We saw it as a dangerous trend that was coming to our abode in the South-West. "As a matter of fact, the issue of ranches is private.
The Federal Government does not have business involving itself in it or even using our resources to build communities for them. "Before the issue of these criminal Fulani herdsmen who are maiming , killing, raping, kidnapping our people, destroying their farms, burning them and collecting money from them, we had had some Fulani living in Yorubaland and they were living in peace and harmony.
"Nobody documented the lands given to them; they were being given lands by our royal fathers or landowners in the community, based on relationships, not by allowing a state government to give them 31 hectares of land on the basis of issuing documents to them and processing certificates of occupancy (CofO).
"Now, should they succeed in doing that, as contemplated by the Federal Government, they would now install an emir on that land. Our memory is still refreshed about what happened between 1818 and 1824 when some Fulani came to Ilorin as Islamic scholars. In the process of settling down, Afonja was killed in 1884.
That was how we lost the leadership of Ilorin. The same thing happened elsewhere." Chief Adams said Yoruba people never wanted Ruga. He added: "It is unwarranted, needless and a dangerous policy. It is a policy that can break this nation, just as it has overheated the polity. "Four main zones in Nigeria, Middle-Belt, South-West, South-East and the South-South kicked against it. We said we didn’t want Ruga as a policy for settlement."
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