By:Adamu Hamza Marree Talum
Our monarchs have both heads and wisdom not
sentimental myopia like the orchestrators of Gongola People's Forum and with
this inherited wisdom they admister peace, justice and equity which remain appreciating
in their chiefdoms. I want to first all bow in reverence for our royal father
The Amna of Shelleng and the absolute ruler of Shelleng community who had gesticulatory
shunned the spiteful orchestrated meeting called Gongola People's Forum, an
organization made by people that are originally not from the then Gongola
State. This effort worths mentioning and it proves that traditional leadership always
flows in blood not by contestations carried out during electioneering.
Shelleng a cradled community with
traditional historical and administrative grandiloquence spearheaded by its
absolute ruler known as Amna who reverently remains the only honcho and the
sire of his kingdom. It is indeed a traditional kingdom that has been with
leadership for more than six hundred years (600yrs) ago. Through its fair
traditional administration has made it inextricably intertwined with some ethnic
groups which as a result, the Kanakuru today and those ethnic groups regard
themselves as culturally playmates. For instance, the Mbula people of Borom,
the wajah people of Balanga Local Government Area of Gombe State and the Kitije
clan of Fulbe predominantly found in both Gombe State and Taraba State. The
history remains inerasable as some contemporary issues that are built based on
spites and hatred begins to come up cocooned with the name Gongola People's
Forum which got it way through selfish political hoipolois to belittle our
royal father by surreptitiously inviting him to create ethnic roncor while
sidelining his superior, the Lamido Adamawa State to lounge its diabolically
formed Gongola People's Forum.
Unless we go back to history, we cannot
admire and appreciate the ethnic connections which will be fathomed for beckoning
and this, to the expectations of well-meaning persons will baricade the
unaccountable possible destructions that some of these thoughtless maneuverers are
trailing behind them some fracases that may woefully destroy the living
tranquility among humanities or the dwellers of Adamawa State.
The base of this article is to once again appreciate
the yeoman's services of the two royal fathers that refused to honor the
invitation made by some ethnic chauvinists with the name of forming Gongola
People's Forum chaired in Adamawa State. For their debute in such tea-party
would have subjected them to a high level of appealing caricature which inturn
would have flouted at the prerogative of their historical thrones. Therefore,
Our Royal Father is more than to beckon with such timidity. Long live the possessor
of Shelleng and the integrity of Deera.
Similarly, same set of people materialized
to form the Forum. Besides, the forum was said to have been made to unit the ethnic
groups flourished within the circumference of the then Gongola State which
encompasses Adamawa and Taraba States now. The spiteful exclusion of some ethic
groups which were part of even the then Gongola State remains a focal point of
observations. Frankly speaking, all the Fulani cacuses were taken a backseat at
the tea-party known as Gongola People's Forum, including the chairman of the
Adamawa State Emirate Council, Our Royal Father, the Lamido of Adamawa State.
This attempt made even the thoughtful ethnic groups to kick against the
underlying agenda that may metamorphose after the evolution of the said Forum.
Meanwhile, the auxiliary meeting was held at Mamudu Ribadu Square, bearing the
name of the ethic group whose members are taken a backseat in the formation of
the forum in question.
The agents of ethnic vendetta that came to
form such lopsided forum should know of this that historically Kanakuru as ethnic
group who are also founders of shelleng community have historical linkage with
the Kitije clan of Fulbe as far back as more than two hundred and sixty year
ago. Have the history in details:
Aliyu Bin Ukuba was the first witi Pullo that
resided among Kanakuru for Islamic teaching even though, the then Kanakuru were
Muslim for their ancestoral appendage to Kanuri people of Borno State. He
emerged to underscore Islam among the people of Deera who are now popularly
known as Kanakuru. Bin Ukuba had his son whom he bore with his wife he brought
to shelleng territory as Usman Sabbunde. That is the man who later married to daughter
of the then Amna Shelleng called Gong-gong among Kanakuru accent. Amna
Gong-gong ruled Shelleng from 1760 to 1789 and he was the tenth (10) Amna of
Shelleng, despite the fact that there were others who ruled Shelleng but the
date of their eras were missing, at a time when many Kingdoms were not in existence.
Such daughter of Gong-gong the blessed memory was the mother of Buba-Yero of
Gombe State, Hamma-Ruwa of Taraba State and Hammadu of Tibati cameroon.
Today, the upsprings of those people are
the royal houses of the cities mentioned and they yearly come to their
accestoral abode i.e shelleng, especially during menjauli cultural festival.
That is a festival that is organized by Amna Shelleng every year to honor his
progenitors.
It was this aged long relationship that the
so-called shenagans wanted to break it by keeping aside the all Fulbe while
inviting handful number of people who are originally outside the terrain of the
then Gongola to promote their ethnic spites against Fulbe. It is high time such
campaign of jamboree stopped. The tribes of Gongola are inceptionally united so
no other amalgam is required. Long live our Royal Fathers, long live Adamawa
State.
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