400 indigenous groups spread across 15 northern states under the aegies of Conference of Authoctonous Ethnic Nationalities Communities Development Associations have vowed to resist attacks and killings in their region by herdsmen.
Addressing a press conference in Jos on Thursday, the Secretary General of the group, Suleman Sukukum noted that the region had suffered the worst forms of criminality in the hands of herdsmen including kidnapping for ransom, trade in human flesh and parts, human slave trafficking including child trafficking, and sex slavery; banditry and cattle rustling with the government doing little or nothing to stop them.
According to him, “Millions are displaced with over 1.5 million in Benue State alone. Thousands of Women are raped with over 700 Women in Kebbi State alone; Thousands of Houses have been destroyed with over 2,500 homes in Irigwe land alone between 2nd and 12th of August. Our girls are being trafficked because they are internally displaced. Our ability to farm, attend school and carry out our legitimate businesses is being denied by these terrorist activities.
“Our experience indicate a weakness in the level of engagement and sincerity of public officials in dealing with these issue; the role of corruption and the failure of our security system to use information or Intel in responding on time and adequately to various early warning signals.
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