Usman Abdullahi Usman

#EndkatsinazamfaraandNorthbloodshed
Arabic grammarian Civil engineer
. ومن برسول الله لم يخش جلمدا

[Malancy @NaseerAjumawa]

Dikko Radda offers amnesty, DPO offers brotherhood, the bandits already know who their biggest supporters are.

[Malancy @NaseerAjumawa]

Katsina State governor and his cabinet are the most useless government among all the useless governments in the North, and sadly they're going to be stuck with this incompetent man for 8 years because there is no organized opposition in Katsina to send him away

[Peacock @dawisu]

The difference between between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack

- Winston Churchill

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

@mabziz Abdulsalami Abubakar is Hausa.

[● @aminuyaro_]

It takes a commissioned officer in the Nigerian Army a minimum of 25 to 30 years of active, uninterrupted service to reach the rank of Major General. 30+ active years of service to his country, but look at how the system neglected him in those hard times.

This is someone that dedicated his whole life in service to Nigeria, who contributed more than those currently in Government, whose only contribution is looting our resources and buying their ways to power.

This is really heartbreaking 💔

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

@HaithamAlwazir زرف زمان منصوب، وعلامة نصبه الفتحة الظاهرة.

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

@HaithamAlwazir مقيم

[Abdull Ibrahim, MD @Yantumakii]

This!

I dunno from which security school of thought some people got the insight that talking about terrorism especially on SM is giving the terrorists free airtime. Most government officials and their PR dogs are pained some of these news find their way to the public.

They’re actively working to suppress dissemination of news relating to insecurity.

[Uncle K Esq @Supheey]

In case we’ve forgotten, retired soldiers created a WhatsApp group and conducted a fundraising campaign to pay ransom to bandits for their colleague, Retired Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga, before it was later reported that he had been rescued by the NSA. Do you understand the level of deterioration a Country must reach for former military officers to contribute money to secure the release of a Brigadier General?

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

I am really surprised that people think it is impossible for 210 trillion ($150 billion) to disappear within 6 years in the NNPC.

[Kada NGBALE @kdngbale]

A common theme from the 18th century jihad in Futa Djallon to Sekou Ahmadu Lebbo's in 19th century Mali, is the regeneration of society through religious reawakening.

Sadly though, all that has been at play is the ultimate goal of securing resources for a certain ethnic group.

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

ومما أراه أعظمَ من هذا خطرا وضُرًّا، أنهم لا يرون الدين إلا ما أَلْفَوا عليه علماءهم الحمقى.

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

مشكلتي مع هؤلاء السفهاء الذين يكفِّرون المسلمين جهلًا واتباعًا لما سمعوا من مشايخهم، أنهم مهما حاولت أن تُنَبِّهَهم علی فساد مسلكهم الزائغ وخطره، ما انتبهوا إلی ذلك؛ فإنهم لا يدينون إلا بما يراه علماؤهم حقا ولو كان بينه وبين الحق مسافة المغرب من المشرق.

[Tawfiq Abuhalawah (توفيق) @tawfiq_Halawah]

كمية التناقضات التي عند بعض الحسابات التي تحسب نفسها على "السنة" يجعلك ترى ماذا يفعل الهوى بصاحبه!!
يرى إيران والشيعة كفارا ثم يصيح لماذا لم ينصروا المسلمين السنة!!
يرى موالاة حكام وجيوش السنة لأمريكا وإسرائيل وعندما يحاججه الناس يقول "هؤلاء لا يمثلون السنة" (فماذا تراهم يمثلون؟!)، أو يقول "هذا حنكة وسياسة وذكاء"
ثم بعدها بدقائق تجده يشبح لهؤلاء الحكام والجيوش الذين قال عنهم قبل دقائق أنهم لا يمثلون السنة!
فإن كانوا لا يمثلون السنة لماذا يجن جنونك إن عارضهم أحد؟
وإن كنت تراهم يمثلون السنة فلماذا لا تطلب منهم نصرة المسلمين السنة.
يخالفون آيات الله المحكمة ولا يرون أنفسهم على باطل، ثم يكفرون الناس برأي اجتهادي بشري مرجعه في النهاية "لأنه يخالفني" لا لأنه يخالف أمر الله.
يحاججهم الناس بقال الله وقال الرسول ﷺ، فيردون بقال فلان وفعل فلان.
تناقضات تسقط كل روايتك في عيون الناس، تظهر أنك شخص كاذب متبع للهوى، لا شخصا يريد الحق والعدل.
باختصار الحق والباطل نعرفه من قال الله وقال الرسول ﷺ ولا نعرفه من الصراعات بين الجماعات والدول والقوى.

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

ما أحسن الكلام وأحكمه!

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

@HaithamAlwazir إن المصدر المؤول في محل الرفع؛ لأنه مبتدأ مؤخر.

[Usman Abdullahi Usman @labo_usman]

@HaithamAlwazir إن هذا ناقص لأنك لم تذكر الاسم العَلَم المعدول عن الفعل، ك"عُمَرُ"

[Sahelian @Sahelianist]

"Define aura"

[Uncle K Esq @Supheey]

Lol!! Anytime I see this, I laugh. You can go to a typical neighbourhood in Kano or Zaria and find men sitting in the entrance of their households (zaure) teaching students texts that were authored years ago. This zaure style of learning has, for generations, attracted students from neighbouring countries who travel specifically to study under these scholars. You will find teachers who have handwritten books on sciences, logic, grammar, and other subjects. Yet, someone can look these people in the eye and call them illiterate simply because they do not communicate in the language of his colonial master.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.