The news of the menace of Fulani herdsmen terrorising individual and small community or group of people probably isn't new to anyone reading this. What may be unknown or strange to any reader about the Fulani herdsmen terror issue is the fact that the government of Nigeria and most state government find it extremely hard to
label them a terrorist group or even acknowledge their impact to the point of trying to put a solution in place.



Below are some reasons it will be extremely hard to compel the FG to proscribe the Fulani herdsmen terrorizing farmers and settlements as terrorists or a terrorist group even when their attrocities appear to be open knowledge.

1). The utterances of Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeder Association

This association unlike IPOB - a group of freedom seekers whose persecution is generating heat and comparison to Fulani - does not come out to make implicating statements that can be easily traced back to them. They may pass their message through print media and come out to deny it. IPOB for example has many implicating pictures and videos in social media implicating them as a terrorist group.
If a picture is worth a thousand words and a video is pictures in motion, then there is a library of material implicating groups like IPOB.

2). Their Language of Communication
Yes, With their most common language of communication, hausa, needing translation it is easier to issue threats and still claim the actual message was different but lost in translation. This isn't the case for IPOB and that yoruba guy in a foreign country (grandson).

3). The way the Fulani herdsmen say what they say
They say things with expression that can be open to wide variety of translations. This is true for Buhari (their grand patron) and the everyday thugs who use code to communicate.
Remember the Dog and baboon statement? Can it be easily proven in a court of law that he threatened human beings? That's exactly what I am saying.

4). The tactic of the Terrorizing herdsmen

They strike like the normal gangs of robber in some cases. Think of it, if the goverment doesn't tag Baddoo of Ikorodu or 1-million-gang of Badagry as terrorist group, what makes you think they will tag Fulani herdsmen who attack people in similar fashion but in smaller and sparse groups as terrorists ?
Most of the crime they commit they don't commit with their herds present. So how can we conclude
5). The power play situation
The core north controls this country and see the Fulani herdsmen as nothing because they hardly go after the core northerner. The herdsmen prefer to attack small groups of non-muslim people who the majority of muslims have no feeling for. Add the fact that core northerners dominate the army, it becomes even harder to proscribe one of their own as terrorist.
Imagine for a second Jonathan being the one to order military to go after ND militants. Very unlikely right?

6). The origin of Fulani herdsmen
Not all Fulani herdsmen are actually from Nigeria. This makes it hard to tag them properly. The El Rufai episode where he paid the killers of his people is still fresh in memory.

Seun, lalasticlala, mynd44 ? ? ?

Ok

Complete Rubbish

Nah nah,not related

Nice write up. It is good the Kanus of the country hear and observe these things.

Government can take pragmatic steps to curb the violent herdsmen. What is lacking is the political will

aolawale025:
Government can take pragmatic steps to curb the violent herdsmen. What is lacking is the political will

Your are right but that's not all to it. Even when the political will exist it still face resistance of core north forces.

Garba Shehu proved me right

The Rohingya people Buhari wasted UN podium to cry on their behalf, have been waging a Jihadi war with full backings from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

This man nah heavy terrorist

The question to ask is who categorized Fulani Herdsmen militia as the 4th most dangerous Terrorist organization?

"Systematic and coordinated ethno-religious Killings does not make one a Terrorist. It's simply Jihad."

----Pa Buhari

Fulani herdsmen, buhari, Nigerian soldiers and police are terrorists.

"Political correctness is communist propaganda. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

—Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It”

FSBoperator:
"Systematic and coordinated ethno-religious Killings does not make one a Terrorist. It's simply Jihad."

----Pa Buhari

The man is a funny one.

We do not need the OP to tell us,
They are not terrorists,
They are freedom fighters who have criminal elements in them,
Which the Government is trying to rehabilitate.

Fulani herdsmen is a blanket name for an amorphous group of people spread across West Africa.

They have no known structure or chain of command or agenda.

At best, they can be described as pockets of criminals across the region.

Note all Fulani herdsmen are criminals though.

While their activities is detrimental to national security, they cannot be classified as a terrorist group.

5). The power play situation
The core north controls this country and see the Fulani herdsmen as nothing because they hardly go after the core northerner. The herdsmen prefer to attack small groups of non-muslim people who the majority of muslims have no feeling for. Add the fact that core northerners dominate the army, it becomes even harder to proscribe one of their own as terrorist.
Imagine for a second Jonathan being the one to order military to go after ND militants. Very unlikely right?

This is a very wrong assertion. You were making sense until you came up with this lie.

Fulani kill in borno, yobe , bauchi , zamfara , Kano , katsina kaduna , Niger , birnin gwari , Zaria , kogi , etc. And these are all Muslim dominated states.
So, the problems of Fulani herdsmen started when buhari came into power?

If you want that blanket declaration for herdsmen, it means whenever you see a man with herds , he's a terrorist.

This is more like saying if one Ibo trader sold a fake stuff to you, every other Ibo shop should be ransacked and shut down, And every Ibo trader must be tagged a counterfeiter?

Does Fulani that attack have identity, operational base, a known leader who lead the attack? Do they come out to block road? Do they confront the military? Do they burn down police station? Do they kill policemen? Are they asking to split Nigeria? How do describe them as terrorist?


You guys don't think. Animal husbandry is as old as man and you want to tag a means of livelihood of an ethnic group as terrorism. Not minding it's not every herdsman that's a criminal.

If every Ibo man is not an ipob member, every herdsman is not a criminal killing people .

FSBoperator:
The question to ask is who categorized Fulani Herdsmen militia as the 4th most dangerous Terrorist organization?

You are a wise man sir.
That is the question the writer of this article
has cleverly or mischievously evaded.

emmapowerful:


You are a wise man sir.
That is the question the writer of this article
has cleverly or mischievously evaded.

Did OP mention that in the whole thread ? Am i missing something here? @FSBoperator ?