Nigerian Farmers Killed For Food Control: The West And Their Game 

There is an ancient truth whispered by those who understood the mechanics of power; “he who controls the food controls the people”. It was never merely about feeding mouths; it was about feeding submission. To dominate a people’s stomach is to own their will. To dictate what they eat, when they eat, and how they eat is to become god over their survival. And today, this sinister truth is being replayed in Nigeria, hidden beneath the blood-stained hooves of invading herdsmen and the glittering labels of Western “food aid.”

Across Nigeria, farmlands that once blossomed with yam, maize, vegetables, cassava, and rice now lie in ashes and silence, soaked with the blood of farmers, who were the unsung lifeline of our national pride and survival. Those who survived among the farmers have become refugees in their own homeland, driven away by the Fulani herdsmen menace. What began as “clashes” has transformed into calculated warfare: an invasion with a mission beyond grazing. As farms are abandoned and farmers are broken, the nation’s food chain has become the weapon.

This is not chaos by accident, for it is sabotage by Western design. As Nigeria’s food security collapses, the barns empty which forces many among us to beg for grain, the West has appeared again, smiling behind their poisoned chalice – bearing solutions in the name of genetically modified (GMO) seeds, wrapped in promises of higher yield and pest resistance, but hidden in those seeds are chains. Chains that bind nations to dependency, not freedom. Chains that rewrite nature’s code to favor control, not abundance.

The logic is chillingly simple: destroy indigenous food production, then supply “modern” alternatives that only the supplier controls. Once Nigerians begin to depend on imported, patented seeds and foreign fertilizers, once we abandon our native crops for engineered substitutes, we shall lose not only our agriculture, we shall lose our sovereignty. The Fulani herdsmen crisis is therefore, not merely ethnic tension or religious conflict; it is part of a broader geopolitical agenda. Every burnt farm and displaced farmer is a move in the grand chessboard of global food domination. A starving population will sign any treaty, accept any aid, swallow any poison, and sell any birthright for a morsel of bread.

And so, while our leaders dine in luxury, fueled by stolen public money, our farmlands., farmers, and the ordinary citizens are dying, while our future is being traded for genetically modified crumbs. They will call it “development,” but it is dependency. They will label it “biotechnology,” but it is biological warfare in disguise. What is more genocidal than replacing natural nourishment with laboratory-engineered poison? A crop that feeds  today but kills tomorrow.

In Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, there was a popular saying: “Ebale alebhu Uromi”, which means, “Food is what people eat in Uromi”. Even when austerity hits other parts of the country, Uromi will keep swimming in superabundance. The home town of Anthony Enahoro, King Ogbidi, Anthony Aneni, and that of C. Reuben. The land was so full of abundance of food that the saying became a popular slogan in the entire Esan land. But since the invasion of farmlands by Fulani herdsmen, marked by killings, kidnappings, and the destruction of crops, Uromi has suffered soaring food prices caused by severe shortages in the region. The same grim reality affects many other parts of the country where herdsmen’s atrocities have taken root.

If we do not fight the system that protects the killer herdsmen, the day will come when Nigerians no longer own what they eat or grow. The same people who control our oil and dictate our politics will soon determine what fills our plates. The herdsmen who will also suffer the consequences in future may carry guns ignorantly now, but the real bullets are the GMO seeds waiting in Western laboratories that will send both the herdsmen and their victims to Western slave cages.

The seeming unending Western war against Africa for exploition and control purposes will not always be fought with bombs, coup plots, killing of the braves, or ballots. It is now being fought on the farm. The first battlefield is the soil; the first victims are the farmers. If we lose control of our food, we lose control of our destiny. Because once they own what we eat, they own what we become.

Never you forget this: He who controls the food controls the people; but he who guards his soil guards his freedom.

– Ambassador Ezewele Cyril Abionanojie is the author of the book ‘The Enemy Called Corruption’ an award winner of Best Columnist of the year 2020, Giant in Security Support, Statesmanship Integrity & Productivity Award Among others. He is the President of Peace Ambassador Global.