Herdsmen renaming Benue seized IDPs’ communities – US-based Nigerians

A member of the House of Representatives, Mark Gbillah, has criticised the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, for blocking a petition by members of his constituency based in the United States of America.

He said what the presiding officer did was against the Standing Orders of the House.

This was just as the Mutual Union of Tiv in America whose petition was blocked by Wase alleged that herdsmen were taking over and renaming their ancestral land abandoned by Tiv people in parts of Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states due to herders-farmers clashes.

Gbillah, who is representing Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal Constituency in Benue State, had at the plenary on Wednesday, moved to lay the petition by MUTA.

But Wase, who presided over the session prevented Gbillah from laying the petition, claiming that the House does not entertain petitions from outside the country.

Wase had asked the Benue lawmaker if MUTA was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

According to Gbillah, who faulted the Deputy Speaker, the Constitution gives Nigerians the freedom of association, and that the House has committees that handle issues relating to foreign affairs and the Diaspora.

Our correspondent obtained a copy of the petition on Sunday, dated February 15, 2021, and signed by President of MUTA, Mr Simon Kusugh; and Chairman IDP Committee, MUTA, Prof. Joseph Zume.

It was titled, ‘A petition against the Federal Republic of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari.’
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The petition read in part, “The continued neglect/abandonment of hundreds of thousands of Tiv families in IDP camps across Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states has become, not only embarrassing, but also a disgrace to the entire Tiv race worldwide. The time to end the assault on the peace-loving Tiv people of Nigeria is now.

MUTA alleged that since 2013, “armed Fulani herdsmen have repeatedly wreaked havoc on communities in 20 of the 23 local government areas of Benue State, massacring thousands of people, destroying communities and, often, totally obliterating economic and cultural assets.”

Consequently, the association said “hundreds of thousands” of displaced families now occupy 27 IDPs’ camps across the state, with many more cohabiting with relatives in unpalatable conditions.

The group further said, “More depressing is that large swaths of the lands vacated by the victims have been occupied by their violators. In Kwande LGA, for example, the communities of Moon have lost their lands to armed herders who now graze their cows freely on those lands while the real owners languish in IDP camps.”

Speaking to our correspondent on Sunday, Gbillah said the action by Wase was “out of line” as the Standing Rules of the House did not set the conditions for which the Deputy Speaker dismissed the petition.

Redoil:
if you fight them then you are fighting all the security agencies combine

so, if that will bring long lasting peace then let them have it

Redoil:
if you fight them then you are fighting all the security agencies combine

so, if that will bring long lasting peace then let them have it

Mikecold:
Na so Yoruba take loose yewa too o

CaptainAyub:

If not for the terrible economy,as an Igbo man,this zoo is sweet now ooo .
Those who mocked us are now forcefully getting it from the nyash without lubrication

Mikecold:
E be sweet only if you dey your state o.


You can't go to Abuja, you can't go to Lagos on road


We when dey always do inter travel can't move again


No be who hustle go flex?

CaptainAyub:

Na plane I de enter now bros
We done abandone road for Buhari's Fulani brothers and Buhari's bad roads

Mikecold:
Una own good Na,


We when dey use goods Waka nkor

CaptainAyub:

Send your goods by road and waka by air.
Last time I travelled, Air peace ticket was 23,000 if u buy 1 week b4 d date of travel and was 27500 if if you bought that day

Mikecold:
No be lie you talk,


If trust dey water for no dey boil fish that's why

CaptainAyub:

o ga-adicha mma nwanne.
I'm an avid lover of road trips,have driven to 31 out of 36 states of Nigeria(no be say enter transport,na me de drive)
In the heat of that Kidnapping in Abj to Kaduna last year, I drove to Kano from Abuja twice b/w Oct and November.
But when this Fulani menace became serious around the south west,I reasoned that buhari has instructed his brothers to move down south,though to their collaborators area in the south west for now
I thought deeply about it and decided to de enter plane(against my wish).Cos I get phobia for heights and na so my heart go de beat like drum throughout the flight but good thing be say na 45mins e go beat like that
Enugu to Abj by road is still relatively safe sha except around KotonKarfe.
o ga-adiri gi na mma in your hustles bro,me I still de hustle but I no wan hear say uncircumcised Fulani drag me enta bush.

Macphenson:
Eer

Thunder fire any idiot that is against Eastern Security Network.

This is the end plan of the murderous Fulani people.
Cause violence in the land so that natives will be scared and run away, just as people fled to Benin Republic, then take over their ancestral lands and rename them.

Yet some fools here will be talking nonsense when sensible, wise , smart, brave and courageous people decide to defend their ancestral lands.

Redoil:
if you fight them then you are fighting all the security agencies combine

so, if that will bring long lasting peace then let them have it

Redoil:
if you fight them then you are fighting all the security agencies combine

so, if that will bring long lasting peace then let them have it

nazicartel:
when I traveled home this past Christmas, we had an issue of road blockage by the herdsmen, omoh immediately we came out from the car and started shouting at them, they started pleading, we never knew that one sneaked out to phone the Barack, within 2minutes, 2 Hilux Vans arrived. That particular day we change am for military, they started telling us they were passing and saw us shouting so they came to know what the problem is really about... But the force the military guys came ehh... I guess they thought it's some kind of boys they will start intimidating....