GavelSlam:


I totally agree.

Over the years, they've had a way they settle with their host communities whenever such happens.

This isn't new.

Like I said, a criminal elements has hijacked their trade which obviously warrants the antipathy exhibited by many people.

Yet I insist we need to be circumspect in how we analyse this.

tesppidd:
Infant reasoning.
This is what we call agbaya in local palance.
Or maybe you just think you're very funny.

dontbothermuch:
Flee & sin no more.

GavelSlam:


Look at the vegetation of the pictures.

nonjebose:

I will engage in constructive discourse. The ecological fund allocated to many northern states over the years should have taken care of this. The problem with nomadism is the assumption held and forcefully shoved down the ordinary herdsman's throat by the fulani elites, that it is a cultural practice which must be defended to the death.

GavelSlam:


Look at your maps before making comments.

Some of you are really college read but uneducated not necessarily you.

By the way, I'm no longer Afonja?

1shortblackboy:
Afonja ? I don't use such words. Now tell me why they can't rear their cows in their place of origin

GavelSlam:


Look at your maps before making comments.

Some of you are really college read but uneducated not necessarily you.

By the way, I'm no longer Afonja?

GavelSlam:


I asked you to relate it to what I said.

I didn't ask you to copy and paste.

Sagay212:


see how healthy and fat the cows are. but the Fulani herdsmen must trek from north to south, to east to west with cows. They be looking sick like skeletons with their cows. I don't just know how any reasonable human being would love to suffer and be so comfortable with it.

GavelSlam:


I totally agree.

Over the years, they've had a way they settle with their host communities whenever such happens.

This isn't new.

Like I said, a criminal elements has hijacked their trade which obviously warrants the antipathy exhibited by many people.

Yet I insist we need to be circumspect in how we analyse this.

GavelSlam:
I am saying there is an opposition to this by various states already.

1shortblackboy:
Afonja? I don't use such terms. Now tell me why they can't rear cows in their place of origin

kernel505:
Having abused the opportunity of free grazing, they should embrace animal husbandry best practices, which is rent a space and do their thing.

GavelSlam:


What's this one saying?

GavelSlam:


Totally agree.

I appreciate that we can see desertification is affecting their trade now more than ever before.

Their leaders have only been paying lip service to issues pertaining to the environment and just like the polio incident it always comes back to bite them.

In saying that, I still believe there is a way out of this debacle. Hiding our heads in the sand can only lead to more deaths . Even now, it is unforgivable the deaths of the innocent victims.

However, I still insist there are 2 separate teams here.

One is the itinerant cattle rearer and the Boko Haram / Political version .

Believe me this incident on New Year's day was calculated and smacks of some evil beyond communal clashes.

There is another dimension.

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 .

tesppidd:
Infant reasoning.

This is what we call agbaya in local palance.

Or maybe you just think you're very funny.

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

EricBloodAxe:
You that is not funny are the foolanis not killing benue indigenes everyday? What have you done to show you are not slaves to the invaders? And yes the tor tivs and the rest of benue state and you included are a conquered territory based on recent news report. Follow the link below and tell me who the joke is upon.

https://www.nairaland.com/4296195/benue-state-belongs-fulani-right

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 .

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 issue can only be solved by a serious government who Will put its feet on the ground and say enough is enough. If you don't own a ranch,then you are not allowed to rear cows.But this present administration has proven beyond reasonable doubt that they are not different from the nomadic herders themselves.

tesppidd:
The most reasonable write up I have read on the fulani herdsmen predicament.

Actually their worst enemies are the called owners who send these peasants out to cater for their cattle instead of encouraging the use of ranches.

This has gone on for decades now.