The apparently "we're-above-the-law" rampages of the Fulani herdsmen across the Nation have began
generating irate reactions from Nigerians.
Not only are there no serious pronouncements coming from the Federal
Government on the activities of these compatriots of the President, government
media houses (e.g. the NTA news on 19th October) are beginning to
ascribe the totally repugnant atrocities of the herdsmen to “unknown gunmen!”
We
compile a few demonstration of the stout resistance building up in the country
to the menace of the Fulani herdsmen and their clamour for special grazing
routes and grazing lands all across the nation:
“The conference
frowns at all attempts to surreptitiously conscript our land and hand them over
to Fulani herdsmen or any herdsmen of any tribe, in the name of grazing routes
and grazing lands. We urge government to
ensure that this does not happen as it is a time bomb.
" Conference affirms that Nigeria is a
multi-ethnic and multi-religious society and in no account should institutions
or individuals attempt to impose one religion or cultural practice on the rest
of the nation.
Sigd: Rt Rev
Tunde Adeleye Chairman, Rev Nsa Eyo Secretary
Communique
issued at the end of the Conference of the ordained ministers of Scripture
Union upbringing held on Thursday 19th May 2016 at Wadell Chapel, Calabar (SU
(Nigeria), Calabar Area. Published in The Punch of Thursday September 8, 2016 pg
34.
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“But I must say that
I’m extremely pained because we have been hearing of this in various parts of
the country. It has come to the South East, it has come to Enugu state yet
again…… I call on the federal
government, I call on the security agencies to step up; it is their
responsibility to protect the lives and property of the Nigerian citizen. No
life is worth losing for any reason whatsoever and when you hear the story
about how this happened, it pains the more…“This was simply an unprovoked
attack. Cattle came into a farm and cattle was just chased away; does that
warrant murder in cold blood? Hon. Chukwuemeka Ujam, Nkanu East/Nkanu West
constituency, Enugu State
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Ebonyi State
“About 3,000 Ishiagu women
in Ebonyi state yesterday, staged a peaceful protest to the Palace of the
traditional ruler of the community, HRH Ezego Moses Ngele, against the
destruction of farm crops by herdsmen.
“The
women, comprising mostly peasant elderly farmers, marched peacefully to the
palace of the monarch, where they demanded urgent action to end the alleged
indiscriminate destruction of cash crops and other farm produce by herdsmen
grazing their cattle in the area.
“They chanted solidarity songs and
brandished green leaves as they urged the traditional ruler to prevail on the
herdsmen to stop using their cattle to destroy their crops.http://dailypost.ng/headlines/
“It will
be difficult for us to feed ourselves when cattle move around and likewise to
achieve our ‘one man, one hectare policy’,” . Governor,David Umahi of Ebonyi
State (http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/ebonyi-governor-threatens-to-arrest-herdsmen-for-wandering/165822.html
)
Enugu
State
“Residents
of Attakwu, in Enugu West Senatorial Zone, Friday, expressed outrage over the
attack on them by Fulani herdsmen. This is as they have maintained that they
would no longer allow herdsmen to remain in the community. DAILY POST reports
that it was a day of rage on Friday as they attempted to lynch their traditional
ruler of the community, His Royal Highness, Igwe Greg Ugwu.
“The
youths, who consistently booed the monarch, blamed him for the invasion of the
community by Fulani herdsmen. It was the same case for the chairman of Ndiagu
Attakwu union, Mr. Ndubuisi Ogbodo, as the youths nearly descended on him after
he failed to make strong worded statement over the attack.
“Ogbodo
had while speaking, showered encomiums on Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as well as
security agencies. The situation did not go down well with the residents….[They]
insisted that this was not a time for “message of peace”, but a time to issue
the herdsmen quit notice.
Federal Capital
Territory FCT
At the FCT, an Irate
Senate Committee on the FCT lambasted the Minister of the FCT for continued
laxity in dealing with Fulani herdsmen who now constitute top nuisance.in the
Territory. The Committee thereafter
ordered that all cattles found roaming the city centre should be summarily
apprehended and slaughtered. http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/09/senate-committee-orders-slaughter-of-cows-loitering-within-fct/
……
Kaduna State
The
Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), in collaboration with Coalition of
Professionals in Southern Kaduna, on Friday staged a peaceful protest in
Gwantu, Sanga Local Government Area, over “incessant attacks by herdsmen”. The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many communities in the area had come
under attacks that claimed scores of lives. The attackers also destroyed crops
and livestock The protesters, who were led by
SOKAPU President, Mr Solomon Musa, and the Chairman, Coalition of
Professionals, Mr Mark Jacob, condemned the “systematic and continuous killings
of innocent people” in the areas. Daily Post Staff@dailypostngr
The
latest
report, also from the predominantly Christian Southern Kaduna indicates
over 40 people massacred by Fulani herdsmen.
And irate mobs have started to lynch any Fulani around in
retaliation. All these, and no serious
actions coming from the Federal government.
The President actually is the Grand Patron of the herdsmen. Godogodo
area of Kaduna death toll hits 40, as mob hacks 14 herdsmen dead
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The article The butchers from the
north by Chief
Fani-Kayode tries to explain why all this spontaneous national anger:
"The butchers from the
north are better known as the Fulani militants and herdsmen. They have
unleashed horror and levied war against the people of Nigeria over the last one
year.
The saints are the
Christians that they have slaughtered all over the country in that same period
of time.
I consider every
single saint that they have killed as a martyr because they died for their
faith. I honor them with this essay and I dedicate it to their memory.
On 24th August 2016
Mr. Phil Smart wrote the following on Facebook:
“Catholic seminarian
butchered, pregnant woman’s stomach cut open….as Fulani herdsmen continue
killing in Enugu”.
The words were
accompanied by a picture of a Catholic priest whose body had been shredded into
pieces like fresh mincemeat or a Japanese sirloin steak.
There was another of a
pregnant woman whose stomach had been slit open right down the middle and whose
unborn foetus and guts were hanging out for all to see. Clearly she had been
carefully and clinically gutted.
Many other bodies were
strewn all over the burnt out fields and compounds of the village and some were
so badly mutilated and chopped up that it would have been difficult to convince
anyone that they once belonged to human beings. Not even babies were spared.
In truth this was not
the work of men but rather of demon-possesed hybrid entities that the famous
British conspiracy-theorist Mr. David Icke describes as “shape-shifting
reptilians” and sociopathic beasts.
Read the rest of Mr
Fani-Kayode’s article at http://dailypost.ng/2016/08/29/femi-fani-kayode-butchers-north/
RANCHES,
GRAZING RESERVES AND (FULANI) PASTORALISM IN NIGERIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREhttp://churcharise.blogspot.com.ng/2016/05/ranches-grazing-reserves-and-fulani.html
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