A leader of the Fulani ethnic group has provided a detailed insight into why his people attacked the Agatu people of Benue, sacking several communities and killing hundreds.
According to Saleh Bayeri, the Interim National Secretary of Gan Allah Fulani Association, the February bloody conflict in Benue was a reprisal attack by his people against the Agatus who he accused of killing, in 2013, a prominent Fulani man. He said the killing of the man reverberated amongst every Fulani in West Africa.
“A prominent Fulani leader, Ardo Madaki, was invited to the palace of the district head of the area on the grounds that a solution was being sought to the problem. However, the Agatu militia beheaded Ardo right in front of the district head.
“This action reverberated across all Fulani people in the whole of West Africa and the clamour for revenge began to grow strong. He comes from a very well respected clan and the Agatu sent the Fulani a chilling message with his murder,” he said.
“Till date, no action was taken, even by the village police station on this murder,” he said.
He also said the Fulani have records of how the Agatu killed over 300 of their people, adding, “but because we don’t have people in government or the media, no one said anything when genocide was being carried out against our people”.
Bayeri called on government to set up an independent judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the killings of the said 300 Fulani.
“We have a full inventory of all the Fulani people killed by Agatu and we would produce the evidence as long as the inquiry commission is not under the National Assembly
“We have no confidence in the national assembly because of the overriding influence of the former Senate President David Mark, who knew how the Fulani were being massacred and did nothing but use his influence to cover it up” he said.

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/03/attacked-agatu-fulani-spokesman/

ok

Lalasticlala, i ask, isn't this guy supposed to be picked up immediately? At least, as an accessory to murder of hundreds?
Fulani's are above the law?
Where is arase, buratai and their co-travellers in selective amnesia?
The shiites didnt kill anybody, but elzakzaky was shot to pieces, dead or alive now, only God knows.
IPOB did not kill anybody yet kanu is being bullied around.
The fulanis kill wantonly and here is one of their leaders admitting it openly and nobody will arrest him?
Nigeria is a zoo indeed?

Junior66:
ok

What is okay about a man admitting being privy to murder of hundreds of people

Buhari is a nonsense leader I swear. How can you allow your brothers to go about killing, maiming and plundering just because they are herdsmen like you?... Buhari will do nothing to them, you're a fool if you think the dullard will send the Army after his own people.

OK ooo

DickDastardly:
Lalasticlala, i ask, isn't this guy supposed to be picked up immediately? At least, as an accessory to murder of hundreds?
Fulani's are above the law?
Where is arase, buratai and their co-travellers in selective amnesia?
The shiites didnt kill anybody, but elzakzaky was shot to pieces, dead or alive now, only God knows.
IPOB did not kill anybody yet kanu is being bullied around.
The fulanis kill wantonly and here is one of their leaders admitting it openly and nobody will arrest him?
Nigeria is a zoo indeed?

I don't like to call this country a zoo, but what goes on in it is akin to what happens in not just a zoo but in a jungle.

Mrfahaz:
OK ooo

I am very angry with you now

This man should be picked up immediately

One more "Ok" from anybody going forward and somebody gets it

vinkod007:
This man should be picked up immediately

exactly!
cc
obiagelli

A National Crisis
Of late, the attacks of Fulani herdsmen in most states of Nigeria have become a recurrent decimal in the country’s recent socio-political history. Indeed, worried by this dangerous trend in the country’s nascent democracy, not a few Nigerians have called on Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), who is the Nation’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, to act decisively regarding the activities of the herdsmen.
Recall that the attack by the Fulani herdsmen is not limited to the Middle- Belt region alone, but cuts across the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, threatening the country’ s fragile unity.
Jus recently in a chat with Independent , Barrister Ledum Mitee , former President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) said the manner in which the herdsmen move around with sophisticated weapons would make a serious thinking person wonder if they are real cattle rearers or human hunters. He called on the government to investigate the herdsmen with a view to establishing whether they armed themselves to protect their cattle from robbers, or for something else.
“It worries me that the Federal Government has not come out with a categorical statement on the activities of these people. I remember what they did to Chief Olu Falae’s farm and how they threatened him. In many communities across Nigeria, you find these herdsmen causing one problem or the other. This is not acceptable”.
“Recently, soldiers were deployed to some parts of Ogoni, claiming that they went there to search for a gun runner and in the process innocent people were killed. Why is it that these herdsmen have not been investigated? Why are they going about with dangerous weapons without any interruption by the security agencies? This is selective treatment”, Mitee,” said.
Chief Adi Wali, a social commentator from Aluu community in Ikwerre local government of the state where the herdsmen were said to have penetrated some years ago, urged the government to pass a law regulating the activities of these men.
“I will suggest that government designate a grazing area for them. In doing so, there must be all necessary amenities such as schools, clinics, markets, mosques and recreation centers. They should make a law to regulate them. Such law should forbid them from trespassing with effective security to ensure strict compliance with the lay down rules
“They cause a lot of havoc wherever they go to. You will notice that when they came to the south-south, they desecrate our sacred forest and if you try to stop them, they resort to fight. These people are armed. They kill. They rape and they steal. Government must urgently do something about it.
“I will also suggest that there must be an enlightenment campaign between the landowners and the herdsmen. This will create a good understanding between them. And again, the actual cattle owners should warn their boys to stay out of crisis so that this country can be at peace”, Wali noted.
Menace Of Herdsmen In South West
The menace of Fulani herdsmen as well as their attendant destruction of farmland is also of serious concern to the farmers in Ekiti State, who are currently having running battle with the marauders.
Several farmers have so far lost their crops to cattle and are groaning in pains.
Just last week, Dr Taiwo Akande, Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, raised the alarm over the invasion and destruction of the institution’s farmlands by the Fulani herdsmen.
At a pre-convocation media briefing, Dr Akande said the institution had suffered unquantifiable loss in both monetary terms, academic and research materials to the Fulani attacks.
She called on the Federal Government to intervene in the crisis, as the police and eminent Nigerians like Chief Afe Babalola, whose university is located directly opposite the polytechnic, had tried to curb further damage, but to no avail.
The Rector said the systematic destruction of the institution’s farms and project sites had been on for over two years, even as she also lamented the evil actions of land grabbers and illegal settlers.
Although the Ekiti State government has urged people of the state to move from subsistence farming to commercial one, many farmers are scared of going into large scale farming because of the fear of losing what they toiled for to the herdsmen and their cattle.
Only in 2011 Mr. Bamidele Okunola, a farmer in Ikere-Ekiti, had approached First Bank Plc and Amoye Microfinance Bank Ltd, Ikere-Ekiti for a N2 million loan to expand his farm. He used his only house as collateral and planted maize and cassava on 50 hectares of land with the loan. The crops showed signs of bumper harvest, but Okunola lost everything to the herdsmen, who invaded his farm with their cattle.
After that, the herdsmen returned and set fire on Okunola’s farm, thereby destroying the remaining crops on the farm. Today, the banks are after him for the repayment of the loans failure of which he will forfeit his assets.
Hon. Sikirulahi Ogundele, former Chairman of Ifo Local Government in Ogun state and a governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, however said the audacity to kill and maim people by the herdsmen could be attributed to the subterranean support they enjoy from people in power............continue below

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/03/a-national-crisis/

DickDastardly:
exactly! cc obiagelli

The killings have been on both sides, interesting.

DickDastardly:
I am very angry with you now

swerve.....

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