Says Houses Abandoned By Nigerian Victims Fleeing Terrorist Attacks In Plateau, Benue Are now being Occupied By Their Attackers ....

Mr Christian Chim a public policy analyst who made this known during a programme on Arise News on Friday, lamented that the terrorists are taking over all the strategic places and settling there, while the people they attack cannot move back to their communities.

Christian is the Executive Director of Africa's Morning Centre for Public Policy & Good Governance, has disclosed that houses abandoned by victims fleeing terrorist attacks in North Central Nigeria are been occupied by their assailants.

He asserted that the terrorists sometimes attack with weapons that are superior to what the Nigerian Army has. He said that the assailants were not regular pastoralists, adding they were full-fledged terrorists.


He said, "You need to ask yourself what happens to these communities after they have been attacked. Usually, a particular community is attacked like three or four times over a one-year period and the people in that community feel so unsafe that they move to the neighbouring community or an IDP camp. You would expect that those communities will remain empty. No, they won't; people come in and settle there.

"As I am speaking with you, go to Liev council ward in Kwande local government area of Benue State. They have almost 38 communities in Mango local government alone that have been repossessed by people.

"Plateau, for instance, used to be a mining site when Nigeria was big on mining, these people are taking over all of these strategic places. They are taking over bodies of water and they settle there and so it is not as if they attack and people can move back to their communities.

"When people try to move back to their communities, the attacks resume and they run away. So, some other people are living in their houses now. If you go a bit further to see the modality in the upcoming census, NPC (National Population Commission) is not going to count those demolished houses. NPC instead is going to be counting those new settlements close to the demolished houses.

"So, there is a serious problem; the ones we have on our hands are beyond what is being painted by the media. Let's still stick to the cause of the problem. You find a community where they will tell you they are coming and they will come.

In some cases, 250 people while the community has like 20 or 30 vigilante services against people who have pump-action rifles when you know that the effective range of a good pump-action depending on the bullet you are using is 30 metres.

"These guys have 400m weapon that they can fire at you from 400 miles away and they aim you and they get you. Sometimes they have air missiles, they have weapons that can fire at an operative range of 800m. They come with 50m calibre of weapons and the military-grade rifle they are coming with is superior to what our Nigerian Army has.

"This is not your regular pastoralists; this is a full-fledged terrorist organisation and when you hear the vice president telling people to live in peace or to embrace peace, know you are embracing death. I've been to these places, I've seen shallow graves, I've talked to kids and I've seen people who have different kinds of things the pictures are all over our laptops.


https://saharareporters.com/2023/12/29/houses-abandoned-nigerian-victims-fleeing-terrorist-attacks-plateau-benue-are-occupied

How did you think they stole the land of Israel from the Jews hundreds of years ago, now that the Jews want it back they are hating.

Where have all the soldiers gone,
Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Long time gone,

Where have all the Soldiers gone, gone to south east everyone...
When will they ever,
When will they ever learn

This is serious!

This is exactly why people should vote right and not allow their community leaders make choices for them. Those influential people in your community have run away leaving you to fend for your lives

Only genuine leadership can stop this. As it stands now, the affected communities can find an unconventional way to deal with the issue without waiting for the government. If the soldiers are protecting your attackers count them as your enemies too.

There's only one way to fight terror; More terror, calculated to overwhelm them too!

If they go to your village and kill you. Find their brothers in their villages and do the same. When everyone have lost one or two persons, they will know their mission is self annihilation.

Systematic take over.....

The simple truth we are yet to analyze is that our military hierarchy is compromised.

Forget all the talks of them being stretched too thin to be effective.

Whatever happened to the "intelligence" at their disposal?

I pity this people but you can't help them because they are not ready to help themselves. How did APC managed to win Benue state during presidential election, is it by rigging or by cheer foolishness by people

Terrible.

There is that omenka guy? Your fathers, mothers and uncles and elders are fleeing the village. You are here on nairaland pledging full support for an ineptitude politician that's supposed to protect them.

Even you aunt left her plantain plantation, and your cousin left his cassava farm unharvested.

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