BoneBlogger:
A medical doctor and neurologist with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi state, Nura Alkali, has weighed in on the Fulani herdsmen saga as he revealed how strongly he is opposed to nomadic cattle-herding. The doctor also revealed how he stopped to take pictures of herdsmen fleeing with their cattle in December 2017 after their people were attacked in Numan, Adamawa State.

Read what he shared on Facebook earlier today;

The mutual hatred among us is so pervasive that I wonder if we are truly civilized. In fact, some of us are so hateful that they hate themselves to spite others. You know yourselves. Your landless kinsmen are so much hated that even their infants are killed in cold-blood. But rather than help them acquire land in safer areas, you urge them to remain landless, which in your twisted mind, is a revenge on their enemies.

You are their worst enemy, like it or not. By "you", I mean everyone supporting nomadism while avoiding its dangers and enjoying sedentary life in our towns and cities. I'm also referring to past and present leaders who are ostensibly Fulani but did little to help nomads adopt modern methods of animal husbandry that would allow them lease/own land and access healthcare and education available to other Nigerians.

You are motivated by misplaced ego, but you are not alone. So-called "Fulani leaders" also did little to solve the problem, preferring instead to promise "bringing perpetrators to book" after each deadly conflict over farmland versus grazing land. But why am I not surprised? If the children of nomads can be doctors, engineers, lawyers and accountants like us and our children, who can we oppress again? Who will rear our cattle?

I took these pictures during a trip to Yola from Gombe on 1st December 2017, at around 8:30-9:00 am. These nomads were fleeing Numan, Adamawa State, after a hostile tribe massacred 54 of their women and children a few days earlier. I told my passenger that it was a sign for a revenge attack. I was so sure that I parked to take the pictures. That also gave me the chance to throw a jibe in Fulfulde at a group of herdsmen:

"Nomadism in this age is not bravery, but stupidity. Educate yourself and you would rear cows in comfort". He was aghast, but he still found the voice to tell his comrades that I was talking sense. An uneducated youth of 19-20 years. And here you are, a graduate or postgraduate insisting he should forever remain a nomad. Shame on you. Unfriend me if you hate my opinion since I'll always oppose nomadic cattle-herding.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/01/doctor-speaks-nomadic-cattle-herding-shares-photos-fulanis-fleeing-attack-adamawa.html

lastmessenger:
Sometimes I wonder why it is so difficult for these herder's to embrace the modern method of cattle rearing instead of wondering about the whole country destroying farmlands which in turn results to unnecessary clash.
This herdsmen men issue can only be solved by a serious government who Will put it feet on the ground and say enough is enough. If you don't won a ranch,they you are not allowed to rear cow. But this present administration has proven beyond reasonable doubt that they are not different from the nomadic herders themselves.

lastmessenger:
Sometimes I wonder why it is so difficult for these herder's to embrace the modern method of cattle rearing instead of wondering about the whole country destroying farmlands which in turn results to unnecessary clash.
This herdsmen men issue can only be solved by a serious government who Will put it feet on the ground and say enough is enough. If you don't won a ranch,they you are not allowed to rear cow. But this present administration has proven beyond reasonable doubt that they are not different from the nomadic herders themselves.

laudate:


I love this phrase...."If you don't own a ranch, then you are not allowed to rear cows. " It should be passed into a law!

GavelSlam:
Why not kill them already?

Agreed, they need to modernise at the same time the request for allocation of Ranching Land is being rejected across the country .

laudate:

Kill who? Cattle owners (not herdsmen) are not poor people by any standards. How much is a cow? And how many are in a herd? Let them form cooperatives, buy land, liaise with private developers and build ranches. End of story.

GavelSlam:


Why not kill them already?

Agreed, they need to modernise at the same time the request for allocation of Ranching Land is being rejected across the country .

laudate:

Kill who? Cattle owners (not herdsmen) are not poor people by any standards. How much is a cow? And how many are in a herd? Let them form cooperatives, buy land, liaise with private developers and build ranches. End of story.

Adekdammy:


I am sure you are from the north, you have a large land mass, why can't you give them portion of lands for ranching than walking length and breadth of the country destroying farms.

Or better still, you don't want them to be educated like you so you can continue to use them to play the game of politics to the advantage of the minority elite of the north.

EricBloodAxe:
Who told this doctor that the foolanis were fleeing? They were only migrating to their conquered territory Benue State where half the state is an emirate and its Tor Tiv peoples answerable to the sokoto caliphate.

GavelSlam:


What's this one saying?