A member of the House of Representatives, Istifanus Gyang, has said that Fulani herdsmen should be profiled and proscribed as terrorists by the Buhari led Federal Government.

According to him, Fulani herdsmen should be treated in the same manner as Boko Haram insurgents.

Gyang, said this in Abuja yesterday while reacting to a statement by a socio-cultural organisation, the Plateau Patriotic Youth Movement (PPYM), asking him to face his legislative business and desist from playing petty politics with the crisis in the state.

Gyang also condemned the fracas between security personnel attached to the Joint Military Task Force and residents of Sopp community in Riyom Local Government Area, in which three youths were shot.

The legislator had accused the soldiers of “sexual harassment and deliberate shooting”.

But the PYYM asked him to “deliver practical dividends of democracy rather than play politics.”

Reacting, Gyang said “Anyone or persons saying that the attacks and killings in my constituency are a basis for partisanship and politicking must either be insane or is simply being insensitive to the bloodbath that has been witnessed all this while.

“I take exception to such unfortunate insinuations. We must not trivialize issues that have to do with the lives of a people that are being hunted and killed as men hunting wild game. It is indeed sad and very unfortunate.

“Today, one-quarter of Barkin Ladi LG and one-third of Riyom LG are under occupation by the very persons that were welcomed and accommodated by their Berom hosts. The narrative that the attacks are simply conflicts between farmers and herdsmen is no longer tenable.

“The truth is that there is a quest by the herdsmen to forcefully acquire land and territory for occupation. Under this unfortunate development, the Nigerian state and government, which have the constitutional responsibility of protecting citizens from aggression have left the victims at the mercy of the marauding herdsmen.

“These attacks have to be profiled and classified as acts of insurgency and treated with the same response as Boko Haram has been handled.”


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Una go wait taya!

A very unrealistic fella , so he expect Buhari who is the grand patron of Miyyeti Allah to proscribe his own group in whom he is well pleased ..hahahahahah..lets get serious thats never going to happen but what can happen instead is for the honorable to start mobilising his people to make sure they vote Buhari out

Can a terrorist call his family members terrorist? Nigeria is a zoo

Let's see how the dullard declares himself terrorist.

No, except if they kpai Tinubu first before them go call them terrorists

We are watching .

thats mission impossible for pmb. Dog nor dey chop dog ooooooh

The Plateau states govt should do something to clip their wings.

Buhari is dia life patron

How can a sane man make such irresponsible demand?

Oga Rep, you can't declare FULANI HERDSMEN as terrorists. Fulani Herdsmen are people of Fulani ethnic group involved in the business of cattle rearing. Neither the ethnic group nor the trade is illegal. There are lots of legitimate Fulani Herdsmen in the trade, it will be unfair to punish people a whole ethnic group and trade because of the activities of some terrorists.

However, the call should be declaring FULANI MILITIA as terrorists.