30 Killed In Nasarawa: ACF Condemns Mayhem, Says It Is Barbaric


No fewer than 30 persons were feared dead in Assakyo, headquaters of Lafia East Development Area of Nasarawa State, following renewed violence between Alago and Berom communities.

The crisis was said to have erupted between the two warring communities following a disagreement over some payment to a traditional head in the area.

Sunday Vanguard gathered that the Eggon people objected to the payment to the Alago traditional head, alleging that the other community was taking undue advantage of them.

Claims and counter claims over a piece of land by the two communities resulting in a similar incident had made the state governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al-makura, to intervene four months back following which the two communities were barred from the land.

Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Cornelius Ocholi, who confirmed the development in a telephone interview, yesterday, said his command had deployed one unit of Mobile Policemen to the area to restore peace just as he said normalcy was gradually returning to the area.

Alarmed by the communal killings, the Arewa Consultative Forum, yesterday, described it as barbaric.

ACF, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Anthony Sani, regretted that some people resort to violence as a way of settling disputes.

The statement read, ”ACF condemns the communal violence which occurred between the people of Alago and those of Eggon ethnic extractions-which claimed many lives and resulted in destruction of properties.

”ACF is not happy with the unfolding practices whereby violence is being seen and used by some people to settle disagreements which ought to be addressed by constructive engagements and due process of law.

”These practices are barbaric and uncivilized and,therefore,must not be allowed to become national ethos.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/30-killed-in-nasarawa-acf-condemns-mayhem-says-it-is-barbaric/

The federal govt should send more guns and grenades up there. If they have to kill themselves for the goodness of this contraption, so be it.

ZUBY77: The federal govt should send more guns and grenades up there. If they have to kill themselves for the goodness of this contraption, so be it.

Hmnnnnnnn

what is the meaning of the ACF condemnation? Prevent the attack and stop condemning your head after people have died!

why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

I wonder o!

ebamma: why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

The second tribe is Eggon and not Berom.

^^^^^ which specialize in dog meat eatin

ebamma: why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

. The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.

ebamma: why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

. The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.

ebamma: why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

. The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.

We have HOPE don't we? Maybe, just maybe, come June 30, when General Jona "wipes out" BH, this "dastardly act" will be a thing of the past . I laff in Greek!

^^^Lmao

Violence wnt take us anywhere

Let's follow the Path of peace for once Nigerians

Chai Sorry!! The north has already losed 30 votes by 2015. They won't start counting now, tomorrow they'll start kill-ing corpers for rigg-ing election for PDP.

In Nigeria - after religion - tribal fights over land have caused more fights than any other issue. Why do we like fighting and killing over plots of land? It's ridiculous!

deyrock: . The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.. The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.. The mata tire me oooo. Human being go behave like animal.

Animals don't behave like that!

ebamma: why do people fight over a piece of land the will die and leave behind?.

. Tell them that they only own 6ft of that land.

Vanguard must apologise to berom people for using their name erroneously in a 'bloodbath news report'. The crisis was between Alago and Eggon people, both of Nassarawa state. Beroms are in far away plateau and nowhere near Assakio. A little historical perspective might help in understanding how these unfortunate incidents came about and refused to go.Most of the crises in central Nigeria in which land issues are at stake are the legacies of the British/Fulani alliance's divide-and-rule tactics, otherwise known as the Indirect Rule System. It is a historical fact that the Othman Danfodio led Jihad was not successful in penetrating most of the areas that today formed Nassarawa and Taraba states. Therefore, when the British colonialists sought to use the Fulani Caliphate's model of governance over other ethnic groups that had no such centralised system of leadership the Fulanis saw an opportunity to exercise their influence over those tribes that had resisted or defeated them on the battle fields during the Jihad. Their prime target was the Tiv people who had inflicted on them painful defeat during the Jihad, and who were not in the good books of the colonialists because of their tireless resistance to white man' s disregard for their own value systems. Among the tribes under the indirect rule system were those whom the British/fulani alliance had chosen to favour over the others. Men from such favoured tribes were crowned as chiefs and given some level power to decide cases, including land disputes. The Jukuns with an interesting history of kwararafa empire, which the British studied with keen interest, easily fit the cap in the Wukari area. Besides the Kanuri controlled emirate of Lafia, the Alagos were the next favoured tribe under the indirect rule over tribes like Tiv, Koro and a few others. The Tivs whose scattered settlement and egalitarian nature ran counter to the concentrated settlement of most ethnic groups and their centralised system of government fared worse under the indirect rule system as they were completely excluded from membership of council of chiefs. It then became easy for the Fulanis to access land whereever they wanted since these chiefs controlled lands under their jurisdictions and were bound to submit to the wishes of their fulani 'kingmakers'. Therefore, after the British left the Fulanis became the next "colonial masters". The Assakio mayhem is traceable to this submit-to-my-will-I-favour-you tactis of the British/fulani system which saw the more "ammenable" and ambitious Alagos being appointed chiefs over other tribes even in areas where such other tribes had settled long before the Alagos arrived. In the Assakio land dispute, Eggons are saying that the right people to decide who should own the piece of land in dispute are the Koros who were already settled in Assakio before the rest of them, including the Alagos, arrived. See what a foundation that was laid with the bricks of inordinate ambitions is now supporting as a structure! May the love of God, His wisdom and mercy be our guide at all time. Amen!

oh God

ZUBY77: The federal govt should send more guns and grenades up there. If they have to kill themselves for the goodness of this contraption, so be it.

Have you xrayed your braincells recently ?

rawtruth: Vanguard must apologise to berom people for using their name erroneously in a 'bloodbath news report'. The crisis was between Alago and Eggon people, both of Nassarawa state. Beroms are in far away plateau and nowhere near Assakio. A little historical perspective might help in understanding how these unfortunate incidents came about and refused to go.Most of the crises in central Nigeria in which land issues are at stake are the legacies of the British/Fulani alliance's divide-and-rule tactics, otherwise known as the Indirect Rule System. It is a historical fact that the Othman Danfodio led Jihad was not successful in penetrating most of the areas that today formed Nassarawa and Taraba states. Therefore, when the British colonialists sought to use the Fulani Caliphate's model of governance over other ethnic groups that had no such centralised system of leadership the Fulanis saw an opportunity to exercise their influence over those tribes that had resisted or defeated them on the battle fields during the Jihad. Their prime target was the Tiv people who had inflicted on them painful defeat during the Jihad, and who were not in the good books of the colonialists because of their tireless resistance to white man' s disregard for their own value systems. Among the tribes under the indirect rule system were those whom the British/fulani alliance had chosen to favour over the others. Men from such favoured tribes were crowned as chiefs and given some level power to decide cases, including land disputes. The Jukuns with an interesting history of kwararafa empire, which the British studied with keen interest, easily fit the cap in the Wukari area. Besides the Kanuri controlled emirate of Lafia, the Alagos were the next favoured tribe under the indirect rule over tribes like Tiv, Koro and a few others. The Tivs whose scattered settlement and egalitarian nature ran counter to the concentrated settlement of most ethnic groups and their centralised system of government fared worse under the indirect rule system as they were completely excluded from membership of council of chiefs. It then became easy for the Fulanis to access land whereever they wanted since these chiefs controlled lands under their jurisdictions and were bound to submit to the wishes of their fulani 'kingmakers'. Therefore, after the British left the Fulanis became the next "colonial masters". The Assakio mayhem is traceable to this submit-to-my-will-I-favour-you tactis of the British/fulani system which saw the more "ammenable" and ambotious Alagos being appointed chiefs over other tribes even in areas where such other tribes had settled long before the Alagos arrived. In the Assakio land dispute, Eggons are saying that the right people to decide who should own the piece of land in dispute are the Koros who were already settled in Assakio before the rest of them, including the Alagos, arrived. See what a foundation that was laid with the bricks of inordinate ambitions is now supporting as a structure! May the love of God, His wisdom and mercy be our guide at all time. Amen!

Thanks for this brief but highly informative and largely plausible and unbiased analysis.

Human history is full of instances of nasty and desperate power games that are often characterized by divide-and-rule/conquer antics, and it would, unfortunately, continue to be so!.

NorthSharp:
Thanks for this brief but highly informative and largely plausible and unbiased analysis.

Human history is full of instances of nasty and desperate power games that are often characterized by divide-and-rule/conquer antics, and it would, unfortunately, continue to be so!.

I don't share your pessimism, or is it optimism? ...considering the fact that those being manipulated shall one day see through the veil of deceit, and shall take steps to return to where they were b4 the arrival of the 'manipulators'.

I wouldn't want to believe that the name "EGON" was mistaken for "BEROM" of an entirely different state. It looks like a coverage of identity to me.

Berom again. These people never tire! Berom again. These people never tire!

They honestly should

rawtruth:
Vanguard must apologise to berom people for using their name erroneously in a 'bloodbath news report'. The crisis was between Alago and Eggon people, both of Nassarawa state. Beroms are in far away plateau and nowhere near Assakio. A little historical perspective might help in understanding how these unfortunate incidents came about and refused to go.Most of the crises in central Nigeria in which land issues are at stake are the legacies of the British/Fulani alliance's divide-and-rule tactics, otherwise known as the Indirect Rule System. It is a historical fact that the Othman Danfodio led Jihad was not successful in penetrating most of the areas that today formed Nassarawa and Taraba states. Therefore, when the British colonialists sought to use the Fulani Caliphate's model of governance over other ethnic groups that had no such centralised system of leadership the Fulanis saw an opportunity to exercise their influence over those tribes that had resisted or defeated them on the battle fields during the Jihad. Their prime target was the Tiv people who had inflicted on them painful defeat during the Jihad, and who were not in the good books of the colonialists because of their tireless resistance to white man' s disregard for their own value systems. Among the tribes under the indirect rule system were those whom the British/fulani alliance had chosen to favour over the others. Men from such favoured tribes were crowned as chiefs and given some level power to decide cases, including land disputes. The Jukuns with an interesting history of kwararafa empire, which the British studied with keen interest, easily fit the cap in the Wukari area. Besides the Kanuri controlled emirate of Lafia, the Alagos were the next favoured tribe under the indirect rule over tribes like Tiv, Koro and a few others. The Tivs whose scattered settlement and egalitarian nature ran counter to the concentrated settlement of most ethnic groups and their centralised system of government fared worse under the indirect rule system as they were completely excluded from membership of council of chiefs. It then became easy for the Fulanis to access land whereever they wanted since these chiefs controlled lands under their jurisdictions and were bound to submit to the wishes of their fulani 'kingmakers'. Therefore, after the British left the Fulanis became the next "colonial masters". The Assakio mayhem is traceable to this submit-to-my-will-I-favour-you tactis of the British/fulani system which saw the more "ammenable" and ambitious Alagos being appointed chiefs over other tribes even in areas where such other tribes had settled long before the Alagos arrived. In the Assakio land dispute, Eggons are saying that the right people to decide who should own the piece of land in dispute are the Koros who were already settled in Assakio before the rest of them, including the Alagos, arrived. See what a foundation that was laid with the bricks of inordinate ambitions is now supporting as a structure! May the love of God, His wisdom and mercy be our guide at all time. Amen!

Thread would have reach 10+ pages or even hit Fp if the strife involve either "Hausa", "Muslim" or "Fulani". Some folks not satisfied with idly reading and leaving without having orgasmic kicks resort to spreading wild tales that predates the country just so to drag and try to incriminate the above quoted. Pity! a very ridiculous mindset.