Human Rights Activist Chief Femi Falana
(SAN) would on Monday, 25th of April, file a
case of genocide and ethnic cleansing at the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague
and the ECOWAS Court, against Fulani
herdsmen for their continued massacre of the
innocent people and farmers in Jukunland, of
Southern and Central Taraba State, in North
Eastern part of Nigeria.
Falana called on the Federal Government to
take urgent and drastic action against the
massacre being perpetrated by Fulani
herdsmen against innocent farmers before they
throw the nation into another avoidable war.
He expressed shock at the scale of the
“unprecedented massacre of unarmed farmers”
being killed by these herdsmen in Jukunland in
Taraba State and the other parts of North
Central Nigeria everyday, describing it as “a
mindless pogrom”.
He spoke when he received in his office the
leaders of the Jukun Development Association
of Nigeria who had come to submit to him, a
1000 page document detailing the targeted
cleansing of their people by the rampaging
herdsmen.
He said: “It is very clear by the pictorial and
other evidence contained in this evidence that
the people of the North Central Nigeria are
going through terrible things daily in the hands
of these herdsmen. Lives and properties are no
longer safe from these people who killed and
maim, and rape women at will just because
they wanted their cattles to graze on other
people’s farmlands.”
He therefore charged the Federal Government
to move security agencies to the North Central
state of Taraba in other to protect the lives of
innocent Nigerians who are being killed in their
farmlands everyday by these blood sucking
herdsmen, before the people resort to self help.
The National President of the Jukun
Development Association of Nigeria Mr
Benjamin Bako said the group had approached
the legal luminary to help defend their cause
and draw attention to the plight of their people
who are being killed everyday by the ravaging
herdsmen.
Bako disclosed that the group had compiled a
thousand paged document to back their claim,
detailing the atrocities of these violent men in
their land in the last four years.
He said it is baffling that most of the violence
had gone unreported in the mass media,
despite the large and worrisome scale of the
pogrom.
“Jukun Development have officially compiled a
1000 paged document containing details of
Fulani herdsmen atrocities, including names of
all the individuals killed and properties
destroyed by the herdsmen in the last four
years in Jukunland to human rights lawyer
Chief Femi Falana (SAN), whonhad been
briefed to formally file a case of genocide on
behalf of the association”.
The association’s president while submitting
the document urged the rights activist to fight
for the right of the jukun people and other
tribes to live in their ancestral homelands
peacefully, wondering why President
Mohammadu Buhari has kept mute all this
while despite the avalanche of security report
that must have been reqching him concerning
the deteriorating development in Southern
Taraba.
Bako called on Nigerians and the international
community to stand up and condemn the
genocide and ethnic cleansing ongoing in
Southern Taraba in North Central Nigeria,
before it spread to other parts of the country.
He said the association has since submitted
copies of the document to Human Rights
Watch, Amnesty International and other rights
organisations around the world.


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Nice move but I would advocate for self defence. Every human has the right to self defence. I wonder how a community will allow few Fulani herdsmen to chase them out of their homes. Can't they organise their youths to defend their territories, since the government can't guarantee their safety

When a Fulani dullard rules, the people perish.

The story should be Falana Sues buhari to ICC and ECOWAS court for genocide