@Islam435 For a person whose clerics spend most of their time calling Christians Arne, Kafuri etc the hypocrisy is too much.
Muslims in the north are currently calling for the head of a Pastor. They even placed a bounty. Say the truth for once in your life.
The British built Jos from Anaguta, Afizere and Berom land
I keep saying we are lucky in the Middle Belt that these land grabbers are illiterates or we would have suffered!
British split Jos into two: Jos Township and Jos Native town but left a section of the bulk of native lands
Township was for Europeans & other skilled migrants, while Jos native town was for migrants like Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa etc
The third part remained reserved for the indigenes who were majority
What is strange in this dynamic is that despite Igbos, Yorubas, the Hausa and Fulani coming around the same time and staying in those residential areas created by the British,
only the Hausa and Fulani want to use it as a medium to claim ownership of the lands of the indigenes
None of the others are attempting to do such
What the British did was to ask the Emir of Bauchi to appoint a Chief Laborer for the Hausa and Fulani labor camp
However those settlers eventually tried to elevate a Chief Laborer to have authority beyond the mining camps and to include the indigenes - the British rejected this
This is evidenced in 1921, these settlers asked to be placed to rule over the natives in the 1921 Provincial Report and even the British rejected it
It shows that they have always been land grabbers. Their descendants are only doing what their ancestors had always tried but failed to do
What they won’t tell you is that, the Bulk of the Hausa and Fulani settlers came in the 80s - in a second wave,
after the establishment of the University of Jos and settled on University of Jos land illegally,
(which is why their primarily settlements are littered around the University of Jos environment
Despite them clearly knowing this, many of them claim to be part of the original 2000 initial laborers who came from Bauchi, Kano etc to work as laborers to the British (everyone is now a laborer - because they want to grab lands)
The Plateau people have been peaceful and have always handled their expansionism peacefully
In 1987, the tensions grew sharper in 1987, when Alhaji Saleh Hassan, a well-known Hausa politician, openly called on Hausa and Fulani youth (who call themselves Jasawa) to “recover” the Jos chieftaincy as their rightful inheritance.
That debate of wanting to rule the natives was reignited
In 1991, the settlers wrote Ibrahim Babangida (a self professed Hausa man whose father migrated from Sokoto in his recent biography) to create a local government specifically for them
Ibrahim Babangida created Jos North Local Government Area, drawing boundaries that favored Hausa settlements.
For the indigenous groups, this looked like a deliberate attempt to hand the political heart of Jos to the settlers.
Matters escalated in April 1994, when the military administrator of Plateau State Col Muhammed Mana imposed Alhaji Aminu Mato a Hausa, as caretaker chairman of Jos North. Indigenous groups protested, and the appointment was suspended, but soon after, Jasawa youths launched riots
The Jasawa were hurt and decided to take the law into their own hands a few days later as they went on a rampage, killing, maiming, burning, looting, and causing unquantified havoc.
From that moment, Jos North became the flashpoint of recurring violence.
The cycle of conflict did not stop. In 1996, violence flared again near Jos Central Mosque after the killing of Azi Chai, a young Afizere man, during an election dispute by Hausa settlers.
The next big riot followed in 1998 when Mukhtar Muhammad, another politician, identified as Hausa but admitted to be Kanuri at the commission of inquiry, was imposed again as chairman of Jos North but forced to step down after allegations of falsified credentials.
Yet in August 2001, he resurfaced again as Poverty Eradication Coordinator, a highly sensitive and lucrative post.
To indigenes, this was a provocative imposition; but to the Hausa community, it was a triumph.
So actor, @Zubby__Michael thinks Christians should leave Jos.
While he probably has good intentions, there's no way we're leaving our homeland to invaders attackers and expansionists.
You should rather use your influence to call on the authorities to secure the lives of citizens.
It's crazy to see that Arewa influencers are bleating about Alex Barbir but have said nothing to condemn the gruesome attacks unleashed against our people in Jos.
They say nothing against terror and get angry at people who call terrorism out.