Following a renewed attack by Fulani herdsmen in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State Monday, which left about 40 persons feared dead at a funeral ceremony of one of the slain Police officers in the crisis at Alakyo village of Nasarawa State, the herdsmen have said the attack was necessary to rescue their cows taken by the Agatu people.
Information Nigeria reports that eye witness accounts told how the mourners who had just buried the slain police officer whose remains were brought from Nasarawa State at the early hours of the morning and were praying and singing dirges in honour of the slain policeman, were suddenly attacked by the Fulani herdsmen who came in their numbers.


In the ensuing milieu occasioned by the sporadic shooting of guns by the herdsmen, 40 persons were purportedly killed while several others, who escaped, sustained varying degrees of injuries.
However, the secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Rearers Association in Benue State, Mr. Garus Gololo in his reaction, admitted the herdsmen carried out the attack but added that it was in a bid to recover their about 550 cows seized by the Agatu people.
Gololo, who spoke on phone to journalists noted that the herdsmen valued their cows more than anything else and accused the Agatu people of being economical with the truth.

http://www.informationng.com/2013/05/benue-killing-we-value-our-cows-more-than-anything-say-fulani-herdsmen.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

So Fulani herdsmen cannot report the confiscation of their cows to the police, but they'll rather shoot at and kill unharmed citizens in order to get back their cows.

Quite interesting.

U value ur cows more than human life,ok where hear u sir.that's the reason u ppl kill human beings any how because u don't value life that's very pathetic come from the ppl who wants to rule this country come 2015.go are rule those cows u value and not Nigeria

And think just like them

The Fulani at War, As Nigerians Helplessly Looks On.

There is a war raging in Nigeria between the Fulani and various ethnic groups. It is a classical multifaceted war; stimulated, driven and fuelled by environmental, political and cultural differences.

Clausewitz defines war as “an act of violence to compel our opponents to fulfill our will.” In the past years the Fulani- and various other ethnic groups skirmishes manifested as a full-scale war, and can as well be likened other armed conflicts taking place globally, in the last years. The combatants are armed with sophisticated assault weapons, and are determined to wreck maximum havoc. The killing of men, women, and children and the destruction of farm crops and animals are a regular feature of this war.

Recent happenings in Nigeria have unfortunately given the impression that top ranking Fulani elite have already taken sides with the Fulani herdsmen, in the agenda to partition farmlands land into Fulani cattle grazing reserves and resources are being garnered to actualize this agenda. A national grazing bill is being introduced at the National Assembly to give legality to this conspiracy of land dispossession, and usurpation.

The fact must be pointed out that the nomadic Fulani are conflicted in much of West Africa. In Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Ghana, Niger as in Nigeria, the story of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and crop farmers abound. In all cases it starts with a Fulani herdsman or herdsmen driving their cattle into crops farms to graze. The farmers in order to protect their crops, farms and livelihood, attack the Fulani or attempt to chase them away. The Fulani retaliate by opening fire or violently defending their cows by killing or maiming the farmers. The conflict escalates as the Fulani migrate from that scene to yet another.

If the Fulani value their cows more than anything , why are the grazing these cows on people's farm lands there by making farmers to go hungry, why not not just tie the cows and worship them like they do in India.

@people they only way fulani's can be cut to size is if people stop eating meat, this will cause a glut in the cow meat business and would drive a recession in that business freezing the income of fulani herdsmen and making them to switch business into farming

These Fulani people can only be of the Devil .. Why do Nigerians even buy their dirty meat

Hmmm

Rather than eat meat please eat fish , fish has more medicinal value and eating fish will force the price of cow down and also force out wicked herdsmen who have not learnt to stop killing their fellow human beings

Imagine this kind mentality. Cow brains is all they have got

kuluTemper: So Fulani herdsmen cannot report the confiscation of their cows to the police, but they'll rather shoot at and kill unharmed citizens in order to get back their cows.

Quite interesting.

This is why i question the actions of my people inYorubaland who in similar but smaller scaled episodes in the past would take their grievance to the police instead of engulfing fulani settlement in a salvo of assault ammo.

We see here how fulani express grievance......this is how others must show emotions when offended by the actions of fulani. It is a barbaric act to report a barbaric offense to authority. barbaric acts must be paid in barbaric currency.

asorocker: If the Fulani value their cows more than anything , why are the grazing these cows on people's farm lands there by making farmers to go hungry, why not not just tie the cows and worship them like they do in India.

@people they only way fulani's can be cut to size is if people stop eating meat, this will cause a glut in the cow meat business and would drive a recession in that business freezing the income of fulani herdsmen and making them to switch business into farming

Dude, boycotts dont work in Nigeria. This is not USA. If you boycott meat fulani will still come killing people for boycotting meat.