Newsbreak: Herdsmen attacks: Danjuma addresses British House of Lords in London on threats to ethnic minorities
By Kunle Orija
On the heels of consistent herdsmen attacks, former Defense Minister, Lt Gen Theophilus Danjuma will on Wednesday speak on herdsmen upsurge and the impact on stability in Nigeria. He has been invited to address the British House of Lords on how the attacks have been affecting ethnic minorities especially in the North.
He will be hosted by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Baroness Cox of Queenbury
Nigeria has been a theatre of violent clashes between armed herdsmen and farmers leading to the deaths of no fewer than 500 persons this year alone.
Irohinoodua heard that Danjuma will be speaking in London at Committee Corridor, House of Lords on Wednesday September between 2pm and 3pm.
The former Chief of Army Staff will be joined by the Anglican Bishop of Jos, Archbishop Ben Kwashi. Only last week Tuesday, about 95 houses were burnt by herdsmen while eight people including three children were killed. The victims included a clergy man and his wife, who was killed in her bathroom. The Tuesday attack was the third this year. In June over 150 people were killed in Barkin Ladi, the Jos local government area where the last killing took place.
International observers have put the number of deaths since the crisis began to at least 5000 people including women and children.
Earlier, the former Defense Minister, in the wake of violent killings and government’s suspected complicity had asked victims to defend themselves a call that stirred condemnation from the Nigerian Federal authority.

This strategic move was long over due. It's time for the people to rise up and defend themselves. There is a hidden agenda on the side of government, herdsmen, the military and other collaborators. The international community must know exactly what is happening and if need be, for foreign intervention to save the middle belt and other ethnic nationalities from this relentless attacks by the fulani herdsmen.