‘They want to wipe off our tribe’
Thursday, 18 July 2013 00:00 From Joseph Wantu, Makurdi News - Metro

• Tiv monarch laments the killing, maiming and razing of communities by Fulani marauders

THE story of Fulani clash and incursion on sedentary farming communities in Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau as well as Taraba states among others in Nigeria, has in no small measure assumed a dangerous level that calls for, not only urgent, but total action by all and sundry.

It is no gain saying that the attendant consequences of these violent clashes are better imagined than described in communities where they occur.

Records have it that in Benue state alone, over 50 communities in the past three years have been under siege of the Fulani nomads as they throng into the communities, ransack, maim, set properties worth millions of naira ablaze and kill unquantifiable number of lives. Women, children and aged persons are worst hit by these rascally actions.

Similarly, 40 of the Tiv communities resident in Nasarawa state are also being visited with the same holocaust of maiming, killing and destruction of farms.

It was at the heat of this crisis that the government of Benue and Nasarawa States on June 24, 2011, constituted a joint communal clashes committee to look into and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crisis with the aim of proffering lasting solutions. But as the situation portends now, it no longer warrants the release of any white paper of the said committee as it has been overtaken by events.

Explaining the situation to The Guardian, a royal father, Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse expressed worry that the phenomenon has sent thousands of Tiv people to their early graves both in Benue and Nasarawa states and their ancestral homes occupied by the Alagos, Fulanis or their associates.

Chief Abomtse said: “By the foregoing analysis, it no longer gives a picture of mere Fulani herdsmen – sedentary farmers clash, but a case of consummate hatred of a particular tribe by others in order to wipe off the unwanted tribe called Tiv both in Nasarawa and to some extent deep inside the Benue Tiv community at the borders.”

The royal father called on the Federal government, through the National Assembly, to enacts national policies to curb incessant Fulani menace now that the nation is undergoing the constitution review.

While stressing that Nigeria needs to settle once and for all, the settler-indigene dichotomy so as to give Nigerian citizens the right to live anywhere in the country; the royal father also posited that all forms and politically incorrect discriminations should be sanctioned to promote inter-ethnic interactions, maintaining, too, that the Nigerian Constitution should be amended to protect the land tenure system from abuse where peasants are often dispossessed by the rich and powerful.

He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to evolve policies and programs that will dramatically reduce poverty and increase agricultural production which remains the mainstay of the majority rural dwellers; aside using the ECOWAS protocols to convene a special conference on the ways to help settle the Fulani in their states in West Africa.

He also blamed the heinous attitude being perpetrated on the people on the visiting or nomadic Fulanis, noting that before now, the Tiv and the resident Fulani relationship used to be cordial, as the two tribes had even intermarried.

Abomtse further called for massive sensitization of the visiting Fulanis to make them know the difference between pasture grasses and farm crops; urging that the visiting Fulanis should always be made to live under the authority of their host communities and under the supervision of local government authorities as well as the law enforcement agents with all the rules of engagement.

The monarch equally advised the Fulanis in Benue and Nasarawa States to re-establish their own conflict resolving rituals to foster peace from antiquity so that peace shall reign and the sinister agenda of occupation be abandoned for ever, just as he condemned the calls by some people for barricading grazing areas for the cross border Fulanis saying it will compound more of Fulani aggressions on the people.

Recently, the governments of Nasarawa and Benue States, at a joint meeting in Lafia, vowed to intensify security through increased logistics to operatives to bring down the menace.


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PointB: ‘They want to wipe off our tribe’
Thursday, 18 July 2013 00:00 From Joseph Wantu, Makurdi News - Metro

• Tiv monarch laments the killing, maiming and razing of communities by Fulani marauders

THE story of Fulani clash and incursion on sedentary farming communities in Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau as well as Taraba states among others in Nigeria, has in no small measure assumed a dangerous level that calls for, not only urgent, but total action by all and sundry.

It is no gain saying that the attendant consequences of these violent clashes are better imagined than described in communities where they occur.

Records have it that in Benue state alone, over 50 communities in the past three years have been under siege of the Fulani nomads as they throng into the communities, ransack, maim, set properties worth millions of naira ablaze and kill unquantifiable number of lives. Women, children and aged persons are worst hit by these rascally actions.

Similarly, 40 of the Tiv communities resident in Nasarawa state are also being visited with the same holocaust of maiming, killing and destruction of farms.

It was at the heat of this crisis that the government of Benue and Nasarawa States on June 24, 2011, constituted a joint communal clashes committee to look into and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crisis with the aim of proffering lasting solutions. But as the situation portends now, it no longer warrants the release of any white paper of the said committee as it has been overtaken by events.

Explaining the situation to The Guardian, a royal father, Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse expressed worry that the phenomenon has sent thousands of Tiv people to their early graves both in Benue and Nasarawa states and their ancestral homes occupied by the Alagos, Fulanis or their associates.

Chief Abomtse said: “By the foregoing analysis, it no longer gives a picture of mere Fulani herdsmen – sedentary farmers clash, but a case of consummate hatred of a particular tribe by others in order to wipe off the unwanted tribe called Tiv both in Nasarawa and to some extent deep inside the Benue Tiv community at the borders.”

The royal father called on the Federal government, through the National Assembly, to enacts national policies to curb incessant Fulani menace now that the nation is undergoing the constitution review.

While stressing that Nigeria needs to settle once and for all, the settler-indigene dichotomy so as to give Nigerian citizens the right to live anywhere in the country; the royal father also posited that all forms and politically incorrect discriminations should be sanctioned to promote inter-ethnic interactions, maintaining, too, that the Nigerian Constitution should be amended to protect the land tenure system from abuse where peasants are often dispossessed by the rich and powerful.

He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to evolve policies and programs that will dramatically reduce poverty and increase agricultural production which remains the mainstay of the majority rural dwellers; aside using the ECOWAS protocols to convene a special conference on the ways to help settle the Fulani in their states in West Africa.

He also blamed the heinous attitude being perpetrated on the people on the visiting or nomadic Fulanis, noting that before now, the Tiv and the resident Fulani relationship used to be cordial, as the two tribes had even intermarried.

Abomtse further called for massive sensitization of the visiting Fulanis to make them know the difference between pasture grasses and farm crops; urging that the visiting Fulanis should always be made to live under the authority of their host communities and under the supervision of local government authorities as well as the law enforcement agents with all the rules of engagement.

The monarch equally advised the Fulanis in Benue and Nasarawa States to re-establish their own conflict resolving rituals to foster peace from antiquity so that peace shall reign and the sinister agenda of occupation be abandoned for ever, just as he condemned the calls by some people for barricading grazing areas for the cross border Fulanis saying it will compound more of Fulani aggressions on the people.

Recently, the governments of Nasarawa and Benue States, at a joint meeting in Lafia, vowed to intensify security through increased logistics to operatives to bring down the menace.
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Look at this Stupid Tiv Chief, Who cares if Fulanis want to wipe Tivs out from the surfaces of the earth, Don't you people have any Army General?, i dey laugh

wipe out a tripe asin with cane??

Willy4Willy:
Look at this Stupid Tiv Chief, Who cares if Fulanis want to wipe Tivs out from the surfaces of the earth, Don't you people have any Army General?, i dey laugh

Looooooooooooool, who cares really idiot

Better go n form ur OMBATSE 2 defend ur people against d Hausa fulani terrorist. Stop wasting ur time expecting d govt to protect ur people because d hausa fulani are in total control of d police in d con3. Hence d police provide cover 2 ease their movement 2 whatever destination they are going. Or do u think d hausa fulani militias just disappear from Niger republic,kano,Sokoto etc & appear in ur state? They must hav pass thru check points n even hosted by their brothers living next door to u. Wake up b4 its 2 late

I think Nigerians should care. The menace of these herdsmen is getting out of hand. They and Boko haram collectively constitute the biggest security challenge in the North, nay, Nigeria.

More attention should be paid to their activities by the security agencies.

PointB: I think Nigerians should care. The menace of these herdsmen is getting out of hand. They and Boko haram collectively constitute the biggest security challenge in the North, nay, Nigeria.

More attention should be paid to their activities by the security agencies.

Nigerians should care quite alright but judging from the antecedents of the TIV who would want to risk his head saving them again knowing fully well that they will turn around and join the same Hausa Fulani to fight those people when it suits them.

The TIV should use their tongue to count their teeth , a few checks some few years back would reveal when the rain started beating them. Every one remembers with surprise how some people boasted of spilling the last drop of their blood to keep Nigeria United can the same people spare some drops of blood or sweat to defend their home stead ?

Nothing is happening, is just that those that fought for the unity of Nigeria is reaping the results of their hard labor.

kettykin:

Nigerians should care quite alright but judging from the antecedents of the TIV who would want to risk his head saving them again knowing fully well that they will turn around and join the same Hausa Fulani to fight those people when it suits them.

The TIV should use their tongue to count their teeth , a few checks some few years back would reveal when the rain started beating them. Every one remembers with surprise how some people boasted of spilling the last drop of their blood to keep Nigeria United can the same people spare some drops of blood or sweat to defend their home stead ?

It is unfortunate what happened in the past. In any case, my argument for caring does not necessarily imply any 'physical' intervention, however speaking out against the threat of the Fulani herdsmen pose is important even for us east of the Niger. Someone once said say when our neighbor's house is on fire, we don't haggle over the price of hose. Point really is that we need to watch halt the advances of the marauding herdsmen before they cross the river.

These people are giving BH a run for their money.

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There's time for everything.


Time to sow and time to reap.





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Suswam still be governor or he is in Arsehole rock with Retardeen

I had wished these so-called Middle Belt goons got it right in 1967. Simply put, I can never find any wrong in their plight.

Do you if Hausa/Fulani have finished obliterating Tivs? any good news.