Emmanuel Onwubiko: It’s herdsmen terrorism, not farmers/herders crisis
of favoritism in matters of the raging attacks witnessed in different farming communities by armed Fulani herdsmen.
The federal government has so emboldened the Miyetti Allah officials to an extent that its secretary-general even took to the media castigating this writer for condemning the incessant violent attacks of farming communities in different parts of Nigeria. In this dispensation, Miyetti Allah officials are handled like sacred cows who are above the law.
The farmers killed in Benue state who were given mass burial by the Benue state government were slaughtered by armed Fulani herdsmen in their farms and most were killed in their sleep or in their churches including many Roman Catholic priests. So where did the press get the wrong notion of farmers versus herders crises?
According to Okowa, suspected herdsmen accompanied by unidentified armed personnel attacked the communities in what has become an annual routine, killing over eight persons and injuring many others. “I have directed the Commissioner of Police and the Brigade Commander, 63 Brigade, Nigerian Army, to rise to the occasion and bring the culprits to justice.
The media must not be allowed to keep spreading the false narrative of a war raging between two equally armed combatants known as farmers and Fulani herdsmen. This war only exists in tje myopic minds of those in government who are supporters of genocides. In the widely acclaimed book titled “Social Intelligence: The Revolutionary new science of human relationships,” the author narrated a story that looks like the manifestation of dishonesty by the current Nigerian government towards confronting the crisis of terrorism of armed Fulani herdsmen and other foreign mercenaries.
The author then told us that the one who suppressed her true feelings felt tense and ill at ease in the conversation, distracted and preoccupied. So as we see our government officials continue to sympathize with mass murderers, we also notice that millions of Nigerians including millions of good Fulani people are not happy that these killings are left to spiral out of control.
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