youngies: There is a fresh tension in some recently attacked villages in Plateau State after the Special Task Force (STF), charged with maintaining peace in Plateau, gave inhabitants of some crisis-prone villages 48 hours to vacate their communities.

In a statement, STF spokesman, Salisu Mustapha, said that a "military operation" is going on in the affected areas located in Barkin-Ladi and Riyom Local Governments.

"The inhabitants of the affected areas are to vacate immediately with their property," the statement stated.

The affected villages include - Mahanga, Kakuruk, Maseh and Shong 2.

The statement did not say where the inhabitants of the villages should head to, and whether they would be resettled.

A resident of one of the villages said it was unfair and uncharitable for the STF to order them out of their ancestral villages without providing alternatives.

"We know no other home," he said. "Where do they want us to go? Why must they treat us as if we are foreigners in our own country."

The villager indicated that he and his kinsmen might disregard the STF's order "since we have no were to go".

The STF however, advised residents of neighbouring settlements such as KuraFalls, Kuzuk, Sharuk, Rim of Gashish Districts not to panic.

"Residents of such areas should just be very careful of their movement within the area and avoid places of military operation until further notice," the STF said.

The task force also advised people to report any suspicious movement or activities in their areas.

The military operation may have resulted from the incessant attacks by gunmen on some communities in the areas.

More: http://channelkoos.com/index.php/news/1996-tension-in-plateau-as-stf-orders-fulani-out-of-ancestral-villages

This write up is misleading. These villages are the villages constantly attacked. The inhabitants were told to evacuate coz the STF received tips that the attackers (fulani herdsmen) are fully camped around there; hence the need for the villages to leave b4 the war.

yohanna zack: Hausa/fulani hav bin and are our major problems in every aspect of our national life. Talk abut power possessiveness, religoius impossision, occupyin lands dat do not belong to them, claimin these lands as their anscetral homes. But no nigerian can claim such rites in d far north states. I think its time the hausas/fulanis residin in all the states that do not belong to them shuld be asked to leave or better stil be givn conditions as they live in these respective states.

u r a foøl for d failure 2 find ur major problem ídiot

greateros:
[size=18pt]Nairalanders! chei! see how our hate for the fulanis has beclouded our judgement to the level that with all the numerous viewers and contributors, no one take the time to see the fallacy of the story!

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Abi o.

Even the one-Nigerians are displaying their hate.

God have mercy!!

Beaf:

You started an incredibly daft argument and now you are telling us about goats clits?
Are some people brain damaged? Anyway, I wonder how come you know the intimate details of female goats privates?

Please stick to the topic.

MR MAN GO AND CHARGE YOUR LAPTOP O, YOU HAVE WORK TO DO LATER TOMORROW FOR YOUR PAY-MASTER MR LAPTOP NO 1.

honeric01:

I just don't like the fact that people are ORDERED to leave their settlement as if they are not Nigerians and then we claim we are ALL Nigerians

These were the same ppl that were badgering for eradication of "State of Origin" just a few weeks ago o. How can they oppose "State of Origin" yet supports an individual's removal from a region not considered his ancestral land?

Na wa!!

I don't think resettlement represents permanent solution but it's a good way to start. Murderers should also be fished out, prosecuted and sentenced to death. Then a military barrack should be established within a reasonable "save our soul" distance to respond to emergency promptly.

ballabriggs:

Mr Lagos, when would you relocate back to your place of origin? Or you don't know all are settlers in Lagos? OH, 20 miilion of them have settled already and you ask them to relocate? Relocate to where?

All are settlers in Lagos?? Bwahahahahahahaha

Go back to your history books, and read about my home town of Epe...

Just don't go near Epe and say that - Epe people are VERY wicked... Even my pops is scared of his own people... Bwahahahaha

And Ijebu are very fetish - I doubt you'll have the courage to say that to them... Ijebu people, not Yoruba by the way.

honeric01:

I just don't like the fact that people are O[b]RDERED to leave their settlement as if they are not Nigerians[/b] and then we claim we are ALL Nigerians

Last I checked they were not ordered out of NIGERIA!!!!!

Plateau State ordered them out of their own state which they are turning into a war zone like up north.
Plenty of land, states, their belief(religion) and tribe (in millions) exist up north which last I checked is still in NIGERIA.....no passport needed.

silent don:

This write up is misleading. These villages are the villages constantly attacked. The inhabitants were told to evacuate coz the STF received tips that the attackers (fulani herdsmen) are fully camped around there; hence the need for the villages to leave b4 the war.

Really? please who are the inhabitants of these villages and why would fulani herdsmen be camped around them in other to attack them?

One more question, camped around them, you mean the villages are on their own without any other villages around? if not, then who are the ones living in the villages the "fulani herdsmen" are camping in?

honeric01:

Because Igbos are also good migraters just like the fulanis, you think i care about bigotry? i used them because they move where the money is which i love just like most fulanis move where the grass is greener.

honeric01:

Because Igbos are also good migraters just like the fulanis, you think i care about bigotry? i used them because they move where the money is which i love just like most fulanis move where the grass is greener.

Stupid b.a.s.t.a.r.d!

bashr8: because you cant chase an igbo man out of igboland, unless your talking about ijaw and ogoni part of ph then ijaw and ogonis too will have to leave igbo speaking part of ph in return , besides you dont see igbos chasing ijaws and ogonis away because they are using militancy and kidnapping to disturb the peace of port harcourt.anyway am sure your not even from south south to start with so your ignorance can be excused

Another mugu. Those people in PH you people desperately claim are Igbos have maintained they are not Igbos, so why force them to be part of you now. This marriage by force na waoh. Them say dem no want, na by force? Is it about the Oyel? Get a life you bigot. I've mixed with races, I'm liberal minded and can't be drawn to this life of hate and xenophobia. Get a life you bigot.

honeric01:

You are a one legged goat, let me help your slow processing brain again:


Fulani are in other parts of the country, even in EDO state, please tell me or show me when or where they attacked anyone in EDO state, they are in other parts of Africa, show me anywhere they attacked their host in these parts. I was born in Lagos and i WILL and CAN claim Lagos as my ancestral home, i don't care if my parents migrated here, the fact that i was born in Lagos makes me a Lagosian, nothing can change that.

What if most of these Fulani were also of the same faith? born in plateau?

honeric01:

You ran out of sentences?

Just check out this hediot!



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M-A-S-S-A-C-R-E-! Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram kill 39 *13 villages sacked in Benue *20 feared dead on Akure-Ilesa Expressway
Written by Johnson Babajide, Sam Nwaoko and James Bwala
Tuesday, March 6, 2012


AT least 30 persons have been reported killed and 13 villages sacked at Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in a renewed attack on the council area.







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This is just as about 20 people were feared dead in an accident at Iwaraja junction on the Ilesa-Akure Expressway in Osun State on Monday.


Nigerian Tribune gathered that the suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded the affected villages with sophisticated arms, on Sunday, killing and maiming.


It was gathered that at the time of filing this report, normalcy was yet to return to the area, while villagers were said to have deserted their homes.


Speaking on the development, Joseph Mom, president of Tyoch'a Association in the council area, said that the invasion was the second within a year, adding that no fewer than 30 people were feared killed in the renewed attack.


He added that many families could not be found as a result of the attack, stressing that about 13 villages around River Benue were attacked by the Fulani herdsmen.


Tyoch'a, who could not give reason for the attack, however, said that it was carried out by the Fulani herdsmen, who always destroyed their farmland while grazing their cattle.


According to him, "we were told by our people living at the disturbed areas that the cattle rearers stormed their villages on Sunday and killed many of them. As I am talking to you now, we cannot give the actual figure of casualties, but according to information we received, they are in the range of 30 persons, while 13 villages have been sacked by the Fulani herdsmen.


"We cannot say the cause of this renewed crisis but it may not be unconnected with the grazing of their cattle. If you newsmen will recall mid last year, the same Fulani people attacked our villages and killed many of our people."


Some of the villages, he claimed had been sacked include Tse Yanshe, Namikpe, Tse-gboku and Tser Ker. He, however, appealed to the government to build security posts in all the disturbed villages to curb invasion by the Fulani herdsmen.


Confirming the report, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Ejike Alaribe, said he could not give the actual figure of casualties but noted that normalcy was returning to the troubled areas.


In the Ilesa-Akure Expressway accident, reports said two 18-seater passenger buses had a collision and instantly caught fire, trapping the occupants of the two vehicles.


Eyewitnesses were said to have told the press crew of the Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, that "an unidentifiable 18-seater bus, which was heading probably to Ekiti State or Iwaraja swerved from its lane to avoid hitting a motorcyclist, who was allegedly being pursued by officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps."


The reports added that the vehicle that swerved "hit the oncoming bus, which belongs to Akoko-Edo council, and which was said to be coming from Igarra in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State."


The press crew of Governor Fayemi, which said the team was on its way to Lagos "to attend a function," added that "the two buses caught fire immediately, trapping passengers and drivers of the two buses."


According to the crew, "five passengers were said to have managed to escape from the inferno but still got seriously injured," adding that the injured "have been taken to hospital for treatment while others who were said to be more than 20 were burnt to death."


It said, "efforts of passers-by and men of the Osun State fire services to fight the fire ended in futility as the casualties could not be saved."


9 killed in Borno, Kano

NO fewer than seven people, including three members of Boko Haram, were killed in two separate incidents in Maiduguri, Borno State.


Also, two policemen attached to the residence of a commissioner of police in Doroyi quarters, Kano, were killed by suspected members of Boko Haram, while two others were injured, when pandemonium broke out on Monday.


However, the Boko Haram violence in Borno has led to exodus of over 5,000 traders from Maidu-guri, the Nigerian Tribune has learnt.


Three members of the sect were allegedly gunned down by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri in the early hours of Monday, while attempting to burn down Lamisula Primary School, Maiduguri.


The sect members, in another incident, shot dead four people, including a woman and her 10-year-old child in Zannari ward, Maiduguri.


The other two persons killed by the Boko Haram were unidentified shop owner and a tailor at the Bamgouru market, which was set ablaze last month.


In an operation carried out in the early hours of Monday, which was confirmed by the JTF spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Mohammed, the JTF laid ambush and killed three members of the sect while attempting to set ablaze the primary school.


The spokesman for Borno State police command, Sa-muel Tizhe, said though he learnt of the various attacks and killings, he was yet to be officially briefed.


In Kano, two policemen attached to the residence of a top security official were killed, while two others were injured.


The state commissioner of police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, confirmed the incident, adding that the hoodlums escaped with bullet wounds after they were given a chase by members of the public.


He, however, refuted a newspaper publication that Shekau, one of the Boko Haram leaders, escaped from police custody in Kano.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/mar/6/620.html

see*noevil:
OHHH NO THE IGBO'S HAVE STARTED AGAIN WE ALL KNOW THE FULANI'S / HAUSA LOVE "US" YORUBA'S AND HATE THE IGBOS .

[size=18pt]Herdsmen kill pregnant woman in Ekiti community
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Femi Makinde, Ado-Ekiti


Residents of Ago-Aduloju community in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area and other communities in Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State are now living in fear following the incessant robbery attacks on them by hoodlums suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.




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A pregnant woman was reportedly killed by the suspected herdsmen who had ambushed motorists on Ado-Ijan Road on Sunday.

Our correspondent learnt that the robbers who had been dispossessing travellers of their belongings had killed one man before the motorcycle carrying the pregnant woman got to the scene.

A resident of the town told our correspondent that the motorcyclist, who was carrying the woman got to the scene and discovered that robbers were already attacking some victims, made a detour and fled back to where he was coming from.

One of the robbers, who was said to have been enraged by the audacity of the motorcyclist, was said to have shot the woman.

Our correspondent learnt that the woman fell from the motorcycle and started bleeding until she died.

Residents lamented the deplorable state of the Ado-Ijan Road, saying the criminals were having a field day because of the condition of the road.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ekiti State, Mr. Mohammed Jimoh, who confirmed the robbery incident to our correspondent on the telephone said the command had started 24-hour patrol on the road to a stop the menace.

The PPRO said, "We are aware of the situation and we have commenced 24-hour patrol on that road. We are quite aware that they are using the deplorable state of the road to commit crime.

"I want to assure the people of the state that we are on top of the situation and we will do everything to ensure that the perpetrators are apprehended and brought to justice."


NO DISRESPECT TO THE PREGNANT LADY RIP BUT @OSIRIS IS THIS ONE OF THOSE "ENDLESS LOVE" SITUATIONS BETWEEN YOUR FOLKS AND THE HAUSA'S .

https://www.nairaland.com/882360/proactive-measure-fulani-menace-yorubaland by dudu negro


https://www.nairaland.com/882086/fulani-herdsmen-attacks-oyo-indigenes

see*noevil:
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/38100-oyo-farm-settlers-lament-attacks-by-herdsmen.html

[size=14pt]Settlers at Ilora Farm Settlement in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo State have called on the government to come to their aid, following persistent attacks by Fulani herdsmen.

They said the herdsmen, armed with double–barrel guns and cutlasses, graze animals on their farms and destroy crops.

The settlers said whenever they challenged the herdsmen, they were beaten up and injured.
The Imam of the settlement, Alhaji Saliu Ade Salami, said: “Many settlers have been victims of the herdsmen’s attack. My son’s arms were almost amputated after he was macheted by them.

“We are living in fear, because any attempt to check these cattle rearers leads to threats to our lives. They invade our farmlands and destroy our crops, which are our only means of livelihood. We have reported them to the police several times to no avail.”

Salami said some setters have relocated to other parts of the state because of the attacks.
Vice-Secretary of the Settlers’ Forum Mr. Sunday Ojo said his hectares of cassava were destroyed and eaten up by cows.

The settlers also accused past governments of neglect.
Lamenting the deplorable condition of the settlement, Ojo said: “If adequate attention had been accorded the settlement, the situation would not have been this pathetic. Five years ago, the then government approved the electrification of the farm settlement in its budget. Till date, the transformer installed has not functioned.

“The settlement’s only source of water supply is a well with a hand pump. We often search for water from streams and the river.

“We do not have a maternity or health centre. We have one primary school. Though the teachers are dedicated, they come from town because there is no befitting accommodation in the settlement.

“We urge the Governor Abiola Ajimobi-led administration to come to our aid and save our dying souls.”
The monarch of Ilora, Oba Stephen Oparinde, declined comments.
Oyo Area Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner Bature Umar, warned the herdsmen to stop disturbing the peace in the settlement.

Umar said: “Henceforth, illegal possession of arms by herdsmen would no longer be tolerated. We will not allow anyone or group to take laws into their hands and unleash terror on others’
The settlement was established by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. It has 105 housing units and 30 shanties.

The houses are in deplorable conditions and unfit for human habitation.
About 700 settlers were estimated to be residing in the settlement, which is about 28 kilometres from Ilora.[/size]

sosodat:


Last I checked they were not ordered out of NIGERIA!!!!!

Plateau State ordered them out of their own state which they are turning into a war zone like up north.
Plenty of land, states, their belief(religion) and tribe (in millions) exist up north which last I checked is still in NIGERIA.....no passport needed.

A right they do not have.. as far as i am concerned, they can't be ordered away from any part of Nigeria because WE ARE ALL NIGERIANS and for now it will stay so until we all decide to divide.

honeric01:
Stop selecting news, you mean the fulani are the only ones killing and the beroms are not killing?

I ask again, how were they able to live together all these while before the recent attacks?

How are Yoruba and Hausas in Lagos able to live together before their recent squabbles?

How are the Itsekiris and Ijaws able to live together before their recent squabbles?

Those questions should answer your question.

joskid: A welcomed development! Infact I even want Plateau State to go a step further like the Australians did...any Muslim refugee from the Middle East or Asia in Australia has to accept that Asutralia is a CHRISTIAN country or will have no refugee status in Australia. Personally I want it OFFICIALLY declared that Plateau State is a CHRISTIAN state with predominantly CHRISTIAN indigenous people. Anyone that does not like it can go back to their Sharia states and enjoy life there!!

SUPPORTED.

Ileke-IdI:


STOP POSTING WITH YOUR C[i]LITO[/i]RIS. When did he implied that Igbos attack their "host"?

You're letting your effeminate emotion overrule your sense.

you are an irresponsible half breasted cheap wh.ore for being uselessly vulgar. I pray God and providence not to avail you with kidz 'cos they'll have this virally infected gene of yours infest them. Slimy dafty nappy head. *Spits*

kaeto: you are an irresponsible half breasted cheap wh.ore for being uselessly vulgar. I pray God and providence not to avail you with kidz 'cos they'll have this virally infected gene of yours infest them. Slimy dafty nappy head. *Spits*

You're just a child, you'll grow out of throwing tantrums.

@BlackPikiN

The trash you posted reads "fulani herdsmen/boko haram, so please which of them did the attacking or do you mean fulani are boko haram?


Secondly, i said SHOW ME CLASHES in other part of other African countries they reside in. you can read well right? you can still comprehend right?

If this is the only solution, then I feel sorry for Nigerians.

So many heartless ppl on this thread.

dejyx:

For the past five years running now every night these Fulani people attack innocent villagers in Plateau state. One of the worst was the massacre of Dogon Nahawa whereby 500 women and children were wiped off completely from earth and you are talking of peace. My friend you must be a fulani man and you want the whole people of Plateau to be wiped off so that they can turn Plateau to their graze land.

Must one be a fulani ϯo say d truth

The fulanis αve a governor, stf, multiple tribes claiming indigenes, media, all against them n as such they r mostly d victims.


Get a clearer pic, read this ; -

Analysis on the Pllateau By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

The Fulani and the Genocide Dream of Jang. The death of a Senator and a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly has once more drawn the attention of the country to the unending crisis on the Plateau, not because there was cessation in the conflict before their deaths but because the crisis has started to take a new dimension altogether. The list of victims has, for the first time in the history of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria, started to include the elite, and the politicians especially.
While the sad development seems to worry everyone and there are renewed calls for peace from many quarters, reports indicate that the Joint Task Force (JTF), whose actions was responsible for the escalation of the crisis recently, is busy destroying Fulani settlements in Barikin Ladi amd Riyom Local Government Areas, adding fuel to fire. Luggere, a Fulani stronghold, was destroyed yesterday and its inhabitants forcefully dispersed.
"This morning", the Secretary of Miyetti Allah in Barikin Ladi Local Government, Malam Mohammed Adam told the Daily Trust yesterday, "soldiers came and started burning Fulani settlements. As I speak to you now, they are busy burning all Fulani settlements in Shong II, Wuro Bello, Gure Danegu, Dyola, Rakweng, Sharu, Kuzeng, Luggel, Rachi, Matse and Afan. They are backed up with helicopters and tanks."
Once more, in the quest for peace, the Nigerian authorities are repeating the mistake they committed with Boko Haram in 2009. They have not quenched that fire since. Yet, they are starting a bigger one.
The BackgroundA proper understanding of the conflict must be located within the framework of the genocidal agenda of the Berom. They have vowed to cleanse the areas they dominate of the Hausa and the Fulani. Today, except in their strongholds like Sabongidan Danyaya, Barikin Ladi town, and few other tin settlements like Dorawar Babuje, all the Hausa villages in Berom-dominated areas have been wiped out. The countryside has been cleansed of nearly forty such settlements.
The flight of the Hausa and sedentary Fulani was not prompted by cowardice, I believe, but by the luxury of the alternative they have. They could migrate into the comfort of other Hausa communities in other towns in the state or neighbouring ones to continue with their farming and petty trading. Of course, their flight comes with a lot of loss of capital and property. Nevertheless, they should be grateful to nature for endowing them with that option, which it has denied the cattle Fulani. This fact is at the core of the ongoing conflict.
It was not that the Berom spared the Fula naturalis in cognizance of the longstanding association between the two groups. Not at all. Many attacks have been moffered by Berom militia but, this time, unlike in the case with the Hausa, the Fulani in all their major settlements in Beromland have so far been repelling such attacks successfully with equal, if not superior, force. It is this balance of terror that has enabled the Fulani to stay put there, while the fuel of genocide continues to burn in the heart of the Berom emperor, His Excellency, Governor David Jonah Jang. The Fulani has to do this because nature has not offered him a better choice as it did to others.
Nature has consigned the Fulani to his cattle and in Africa the cattle has consigned him to the bush. He has no option except to live in the countryside where his master – the cattle – would flourish. In the gospel of his survival, he must cherish the grass and fight to the last drop of his blood for his natural master to graze uncultivated forests and grassland. Since his appearance in West Africa a millennium ago, he has obediently followed his cattle to wherever they led him. There is hardly any country in West, Central and, now, East Africa where he has not set his foot on and he continues to press southward, following the African Drainage Basin, until one day his herd drinks from the Orange River in South Africa.
The conflict with the Berom has endured precisely because it is among the very few cases where attempts were made in history to expel the Fulani completely from a place. Nowhere has this strategy ever succeeded in the history of West Africa since it started in the period of Sonni Ali, one of the kings of the ancient Songhai Empire. Conflict with the Fulani could be prolonged and they may even sustain heavy casualties and disappear for a while; but soon their cattle would guide them back, one way or the other, to settle on the once hostile land. Only the tsetse fly has succeeded in barring the them from some territories, before. Today, even that threat is gone, with deforestation and the availability of effective drugs against bovine blood parasites. Their cows are today successfully grazing in the Niger Delta, on the Atlantic coast.
This understanding is important in the scheme of any dream, conflict or peace that involves the Fulani. His natural burden to cater for the cow must be recognized. This has led him to the innate belief that his cattle have a universal right to natural grass wherever it may be, just as the Americans believe in mankind’s universal rights to natural resources. Beromland cannot be an exception. All the Fulani asks for is grass, water and respect for his life and property. Nothing more. He is not interested in competing with the Berom in politics, education or trade. Almost all African tribes he visited so far have granted him those rights and that of passage through their territory to wherever his masters would take him.
If only the Berom, as many other tribes did, would appreciate the burden that his Fulani brother carris and allow him to graze the uncultivated fields without harassment or attempt to evict him, peace with the Fulani would be as easy as breathing air.
Is this a special demand that the Fulani are obliged to beg for? No. The Fulani are Nigerians as much as any other group. Every tribe in Nigeria traces its origin somewhere outside the country and from where, according to its elders, it immigrated. The Berom, for example, trace their origins to Niger Republic! Admittedly, the Fulani are the most recent arrivals, starting just some 500 years ago, but that does not make them less bonafide citizens of Nigeria. He is a native of Nigeria. By official connotation, a native is any non-European living in the country at the time of British conquest. The Fulani is entitled to constitutional rights like any other Nigerian. He may be living alone in the bush, with his nuclear family and herd of cows. He may be illiterate with no knowledge of the constitution or common law. He may be weak, without a political body supporting him or protecting his rights. But Nigerian he remains, undeniably.
Over the past 400 years, the Fulani herdsmen have lived on the Plateau peacefully with all other native groups without any major conflict. They have contributed to its rural economy, including jobs for families whose members they employ to attend to their cows. They have raised many children of other tribes and benefitted them in various ways. A story that Governor Jang is never tired of telling people is how he was raised by a Fulani family and sponsored his early education. Now he is paying them back with deaths and destruction! His majesty, the Gbong Gwom of Jos, Mr. Gyang Buba, ascribes his Fulani surname to a Fulani neighbour his family once lived with. And so on. The two examples speak volumoft about the peaceful coexistence that has developed over the centuries between the Fulani and other tribes on the Bauchi Plateau - as it is properly called in geography.
EscalationThe Fulani believe that the recent escalation in the crisis is caused by a new Berom strategy. Knowing very well from previous major encounters that his people are no match to the Fulani even with the resources of government at his disposal (he once offered to buy their men braziers when thousands of them fled their towns after their defeat in one of those encounters last year) and neither can he convince the federal government to withdraw the soldiers from the streets, Jang has now resorted to using the JTF under its new Commander to fight his proxy war against the Fulani. If one commander could decline the offer, he can be replaced by another whoEqui would take it.
And of taking it many people are accusing the new JTF commander, Major-General Henry Ayoola. Thus, under him, the death of a promiscuous, heavy drinking mobile policeman under the JTF and the loss of his rifle at Karaku were instantly, without any investigation, hanged on the neck of all the Fulani and troops went on mass destruction of their homes and cows in Bangwai and dozens of their villages in Barikin Ladi local governments. Yet, when the Fulani complained of the destruction, the JTF publicly denied knowledge of such attacks. And it continues to claim ignorance on what is now common knowledge.
Are we witnessing a repeat of Maiduguri here? Every rational Nigerian will agree that the strategy of using crass force to settle civilian issues does not work. This was the mistake that the Nigerian authorities made in the case of Boko Haram and for which the country is paying dearly today. When compared to the international brotherhood of the Fulani, Boko Haram could just be a drop in the ocean.
Government is punishing the victims of the Berom genocide agenda. Why is the conflict in Plateau State now reduced to Berom territory only? Are they the only tribe among whom the Fulani live in the state? Why would, in the quest for peace, must the homes of innocent citizens be destroyed? Why is the JTF denying them the return to their ruined homes? How can the death of a policeman and the loss of his rifle justify these human rights abuses? Let us not forget that the conflict with Boko Haram started by the shooting of their members at a funeral procession who did not wear a motorcycle helmet. Is riding a motorcycle without a helmet enough a justification to kill many Nigerian citizens?
If the JTF had taken it's time investigate the killer of the promiscuous policman, the crisis would not have escalated in the first place. The lives of the Senator and many others would have been saved. But many people believe that it is an agenda.
The AgendaThere is a general understanding amongst the residents of the State that only the state governor has the key to its peace. That key doe not have a duplicate. Unfortunately, as General Jeremiah Husaini (rtd), one of the elders in the state, said this morning over the BBC, the governor is not disposed to the peaceful resolution of the crisis. He impervious to advice, said the retired general.
One may dismiss Husaini as a persistent Tarok opponent of governor Jang. He is not, at least on this case. Though the crisis started before his tenure, by 2007 when Jang was sworn in as the governor, most of the ethno-religious conflicts in the state have ceased. Dariye’s dream of cleansing the Plateau of Hausa-Fulani had clearly proved unattainable and abandoned especially after he was rustled by Obasanjo and the EFCC. People of various ethnic groups were moving about freely in the state without any hindrance. Business returned. Some who fled had even started returning. However, Jang renewed the genocidal dream by committing himself to three Berom-centred goals: developing his Berom homeland, cleansing it of the much bigoted Hausa-Fulani, and vesting all political power in Jos and its environs in his tribesmen. This is why the entire state is quiet, except Beromland.
Jang has largely succeeded on all the three objectives. At the expense of human lives, he has made other groups inconsequential in the scheme of things in Jos and its environs. That was his strategy behind conducting the local government election of 2008 against all security advice. He has also built a good road network in his entire Beromland, to the envy of other ethnic groups in the state. The roads leading even to remotest Berom villages are either completed and asphalt rendered or about to be completed. He has, as we noted earlier, also succeeded in expelling most Hausas and many sedentary Fulani from most of the tin mining settlements in Beromland. The only people he is yet to beat are the cattle Fulani.
Expelling the Fulani from Beromland is a record that Jang would like to achieve but from what is going on, the Fulani have vowed never to allow him win that gold medal. So long as grass will continue to grow there, so long as the land and property the Fulani legitimately acquired remain there, so long as their lives and property are vandalized without the protection from government, these African gypsies, from all indications, will continue to fight for their dear lives and those of their masters. Their basic constitutional rights are the minimum that I know they, like any other group of Nigerians, will never compromise on.
The Road to PeaceThe road to peace therefore is one: the constitution as I have always argued. Let the dream of cleansing Beromland of Fulani end in the heart of Jang and he will find the Fulani instantly willing to embrace peace. This has happened in other parts of the state. As the governor, Jang has vowed to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians under his domain. He must keep that promise. Only then will Berom and Fulani live in peace. Otherwise, this crisis will last for generations to come.
As a side note, the JTF under its new commander must not be partial on this matter. If it cannot protect the Fulani, it must not join forces with Jang to eliminate them and their property. Attempting to do so will definitely lead to loss of more lives of Berom and their supporters. The Fulani cannot be eliminated. They have never been.
Let me assure all concerned that in spite of the ongoing brutality the Fulani will survive this crisis. So far they have survived the hostilities of ancient Mali, Songhai, Gobir, and Borno empires. Some of those empires they crippled, some they stamped out completely in spite of their small number, and with the rest they were able to live peacefully until the present time. In all those instances, they were equipped with nothing but three things that nobody can deny them: the valour of the nomad, two, the strength that they derive from their unmatched group feeling – or ‘
asabiyya as Ibn Khaldun would call it and, three, the strong thirst for justice. That group feeling has been responsible for the defeat of most sedentary dynasties in the past. It is also the key to the survival of the nomads today. As for their thirst for justice, they are never satisfied until it is served in full measure their aggressors, either by the authorities or by them.
The power of Jang cannot match that of Ahmad Sekou Toure, the longest serving Mallinke President of Guinea who revived the hate of his ancestor, Sonni Ali. Toure assassinated and murdered in cold blood over thirty thousands Fulani intellectuals, leaders and tribesmen during his 26-year tenure. But they survived him, using their estrangement to work harder until they gained control of over 80% of the Guinean economy today. Jang, in spite of the support he is able to buy, is not more than a child trying to break a coconut with his teeth. Ridding Beromland of Fulani can only be temporary and certainly makes it more vulnerable to attacks by their brothers from other parts of West Africa. Take this to the bank.
As a minority in the area and on the disadvantaged side in the conflict, the Fulani were not successful in initiating peace with the Berom in the past. All their attempts were rebuffed. It is the move of the more preponderant and government-backed Berom that would be successful, given their monopoly over land and state resources. But the Berom, even if they want peace, are under the spell of their emperor, Jang. He controls their paramount chief and their youths. He has a choice between peace and violence.
The choice of violence, on the one hand, is not a wise one because violence is a two-way commodity: Pain on this side, and pain on the other. With the egalitarian Fulani, you get just as much pain as you give him. The road to peace, on the other, is quiet and its results are three-dimensional: In this case, peace to the Berom, peace to the Fulani and peace to other Nigerians living on the Plateau.
With the support he enjoys from the press, his ethnic group, law enforcement agents, Plateau courts and the state treasury, Jang may foolishly choose to remain recalcitrant and prefer violence to peace. We pray that he one day sees the light, become wiser and listen to elders of the State such that the lives of to meddle into Plateau affairs.
Lastly, may peace be upon the leader who brings peace to his people. And already blessed are the people who seek justice, no matter the odds, without surrendering.
Bauchi,
12 July 2012

Spirit96: POLITICS HAS INCAPACITATED D ACTION OF D STF 4 TOO LONG IN THAT AREA. IT'S TIME 2 BURY POLITICS N USE ANY MEANS 2 BRING AN END 2 D MENACE.

sure ma broda, lets leave politics and play safe

shymmex:

How are Yoruba and Hausas in Lagos able to live together before their recent squabbles?

How are the Itsekiris and Ijaws able to live together before their recent squabbles?

Those questions should answer your question.

A cheap way to run away from the question.

Now let me help you.

Do the Yoruba and Hausa still live in the same Lagos after all the clashes? YES

Do the Itsekiris and Ijaws still live in the same Delta after all the fighting? YES

Were any of them told to vacate their villages in 48hrs without options? NO

Hope i answered you well?

ballabriggs:

Another mugu. Those people in PH you people desperately claim are Igbos have maintained they are not Igbos, so why force them to be part of you now. This marriage by force na waoh. Them say dem no want, na by force? Is it about the Oyel? Get a life you bigot. I've mixed with races, I'm liberal minded and can't be drawn to this life of hate and xenophobia. Get a life you bigot.

your very stupid , who is claiming them , only some ikwerres claim not to be igbo but they are not the only igbo groups in rivers they are about 15 other igbo groups who dont claim such , i dont blame you ignorance is killing nigerians like you. talking about oil if you where not stup..ip you would have known that abia ,imo and anambra all have oil plus anambra is actually the only state that have built their own refinery but no you thrive on ignorance and stupid.ity

shymmex:

All are settlers in Lagos?? Bwahahahahahahaha

Go back to your history books, and read about my home town of Epe...

Just don't go near Epe and say that - Epe people are VERY wicked... Even my pops is scared of his own people... Bwahahahaha

And Ijebu are very fetish - I doubt you'll have the courage to say that to them... Ijebu people, not Yoruba by the way.

Good Mr Lagos. Now you sabi say Ikorodu and Epe na from Ijebu dem settle? Ikorodu was founded by Oga the hunter who settled from Sagamu. Epe sef na hunters and farmers from Ijebu settle there. Those place were virgin lands before the settlers. There is hardly any Ikorodu family wey no get relationship with Ijebu or Sagamu. So which day we go pursue them back to Ijebu now? Fact is, if we start to dey dig everybody origin, we go see say everybody na settler one way or the other. So why chase 20 million people out of a place they have lived all their lives.

The Fulani are traditionally a nomadic, pastoralist, trading people, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their domain,
keeping somewhat separate from the local
agricultural populations.
In Nigeria, the Fulani are often
categorized with the Hausa as a conglomerated ethnic group Hausa-Fulani. Following the Fulani War, their histories in the region have been largely
intertwined. Outside Nigeria, the two groups are
usually considered distinct.
Notable Fulani in Nigeria Usman dan Fodio, founder, Sokoto Caliphate Nana Asma’u, scholar, author, and pioneer of women's education, Sokoto Caliphate Umaru Yar'Adua, former President of Nigeria Shehu Shagari, former President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, former Nigerian Head of State Ahmadu Bello, first Premier of Northern Nigeria Atiku Abubakar , former Vice President of Nigeria Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician, former vice president and the brother of
former Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , First Nigerian prime minister Vice-Admiral Murtala Nyako, current Governor of Adamawa State,former Chief of Naval Staff Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General/ Special Adviser - Africa in the UN; former
Minister of Foreign Affairs. Professor Jibril Aminu, pioneer cardiac surgeon, former minister of education and
petroleum. Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, central bank Governor of Nigeria Aliko Dangote , Richest person of African descent. Mohammed Shata, Former Internal Affairs Minister Fatimah Tuggar Visual Artist

honeric01: @BlackPikiN

The trash you posted reads "[size=20pt]fulani herdsmen/boko haram[/size], so please which of them did the attacking or do you mean fulani are boko haram?


Secondly, i said SHOW ME CLASHES in other part of other African countries they reside in. you can read well right? you can still comprehend right?

Yeah, just confirmed that you are an hediot and a f00l all rolled up in one big super combo pack!

I wonder why some fools are vomiting crap about these bastard,any where they are they must create problem,taraba state,benue state as a case study,these cowards go about killing innocent men,women and children at night,it happen recently in several villages in benue state,hundreds of people lost their lives and properties,anybdy that is ignorant of where they go shuld remember that there is a newly created fulani empire in northern mali,they can be welcome there,i wish them self journey through the desert to their ancestral home,now nigerians knw why major gideon orkar wanted to what he wanted to do.

Ileke-IdI:


First I'm Ghanaian, then I was brazillian, now I'm Fulani Yoruba? Whatever that is lol.

What can't Nigerians discuss with open-mind and fairness?

Y'all are busy looking for the easiest solutions, that you forget that the easiest solutions are often temporary.

thats becoz u are d biggest confused chameleon av seing so far in my life.. U have no identity.. U dnt knw where u represent.. U dnt even know who u are.. U fhucking need a psycologist to help u out

Anaskie: Stupid b.a.s.t.a.r.d!

Anyone as valuable as me in your home.

BlackPikiN:

Yeah, just confirmed that you are an hediot and a f00l all rolled up in one big super combo pack!

You are a bigger fool than i thought..

Show me from EDO state

And show me from other parts of Africa they live peacefully..

ballabriggs:
Igbos sell fake drugs and kill our people in PH, why don't we send all igbos out of PH.

Are u sane at all?

lacasa:


Must one be a fulani ϯo say d truth

The fulanis αve a governor, stf, multiple tribes claiming indigenes, media, all against them n as such they r mostly d victims.

Why are you distorting the truth? From Plateau to Benue to Taraba, why is it only the Fulani? why?
Even all the way to Ekiti, why must it always be Fulani? If we don't face the truth, the mistakes and the killings will happen again.