The Adamawa United Forum (AUF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the rampaging herdsmen as a terrorist gang or risk the wrath of other militia groups in the country.
The spokesman of the group, Musa Jekeko, told newsmen yesterday in Yola that the recent killings in Numan Local Council of the state and other parts of the country had shown that the herdsmen were deadlier than Boko Haram.

He said: “Looking at their operations from the prism of objectivity, it is high time government designated them as terrorists to check the emergence of other militia groups in our communities. Adamawa must remain a peaceful territory, and that depends on the effective handling of security issues in the states.”


Jekeko stated that the Federal Government’s tardiness to the activities of the herdsmen was raising questions on the sincerity of the current administration to stamp out terrorism in the country.

He decried that that from January to August last year, 72 people, including the Divisional Police Office (DPO) of Vunoklang were killed in Girei, Demsa and Numan council areas by herdsmen with no suspect yet arrested.

The AUF official said it was time to treat the herdsmen as terrorists as the effects of their activities are far devastating.He lamented the recent statements credited to some religious leaders giving a religious colouration to the killings in Shafuron village, describing the action as condemnable and misleading.

“ It is no longer in doubt that the Shafuron conflict was generated by a disagreement over the invasion of farmlands by herdsmen and has nothing to do with religious or ethnic cleansing. From the information available to us, we have every reason to question the sincerity of government in the handling of the state of insecurity in Numan and its environs.

“The service chiefs should be held responsible for the monumental loss incurred during the conflict both in lives and property due to poor handling of the security situation in the wake of the invasion of communities around Numan by the militias,” he maintained. Jekeko therefore called on the state House to urgently enact an anti-open grazing and ranching bill as part of measures to check the menace

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Both the militia and herdsmen will be crushed

No mercy

This country is sitting on top of a giant powdered keg...

Won't the military be overstretched if there are ethnic militias in NC/NE, SE, SW and SS...?

Already there is military operations in all the six geopolitical zone of the country...

This shows there are issues in all parts of the country.

What exactly are members of NASS doing to end these issues in a democracy?

Why can't the government call a meeting of ethnic nationalities to discuss and renegotiate our existence?

Nigeria has never had it so painfully bad...

sarrki:
Both the militia and herdsmen will be crushed

No mercy

Herdsmen...crushed...

...in your dream, abi?

Cooly100:


Herdsmen...crushed...

...in your dream, abi?

We won't leave any form of terrorism to thrive

Cooly100:
This country is sitting on top of a giant powdered keg...

Won't the military be overstretched if there are ethnic militias in NC/NE, SE, SW and SS...?

Already there is military operations in all the six geopolitical zone of the country...

This shows there are issues in all parts of the country.

What exactly are members of NASS doing to end these issues in a democracy?

Why can't the government call a meeting of ethnic nationalities to discuss and renegotiate our existence?

Nigeria has never had it so painfully bad...

They are all PDP militia

They will be crushed

Killer herdsmen are terrorists by default, no need pronouncing that.

But to say herdsmen are terrorists, na lie.

After all, only Igbos and boko haram are declared terrorists, not igbos and muslims respectively.

If what the militias want is for the entire fulani herdsmen to be declared terrorists, they must be very mad.

sarrki:


We won't leave any form of terrorism to thrive

Gbam.

Igbos, bh and killer herdsmen are all terrorists.

sarrki:


We won't leave any form of terrorism to thrive

...but Fulani herdsmen are already an internationally recognized terrorist group and thriving....the government is doing nothing about them.
...very soon the clueless and senseless government will be looking to get $2 billion to fight and crush these militias like they need 1$ billion to crush the defeated Boko group

Is this Nigeria eternally cursed with hopeless leaders?

From your list...Badoo in SW has killed more people than IPOB...but you senile old sissy would not include them...Why

Cooly100:


...but Fulani herdsmen are already an internationally recognized terrorist group and thriving....the government is doing nothing about them.
...very soon the clueless and senseless government will be looking to get $2 billion to fight and crush these militias like they need 1$ billion to crush the defeated Boko group

Is this Nigeria eternally cursed with hopeless leaders?

Why not breath gently

Baba have ordered the IGp and military to deal with them

Never allow hatred to overshadowed your reasoning

sarrki:


Why not breath gently

Baba have ordered the IGp and military to deal with them

Never allow hatred to overshadowed your reasoning

Were the IG and military not sent to Nsukka in Enugu to deal with them, the other time they struck...?

Nigeria is where it is today because people like you who are paid by the government to distort facts are in the majority.

From your list...Badoo in SW has killed more people than IPOB...but you senile old sissy would not include them...Why

Nigeria gradually becoming a failed state. All thanks to the dullardino.