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Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by IkennaNweke(m): 6:50am On May 03, 2016
THE unrestrained invasion of communities and massacre of innocent citizens by the Fulani herdsmen across the country is now causing provocation for bloody uprising from the South East since the incident in Enugu State.

Prominent Igbo leaders, at their meeting at the weekend, decided on urgent need for the Igbo nation to organize the people for self-defence against the invasion and killing of Igbo indigenes by the Fulani herdsmen.

The dreaded Bakassi Boys, a violent vigilante group mobilized to terminate the troubling armed robbery menace in the south east some years ago, were revealed to have started regrouping to strengthen other vigilante groups to provide security for local communities and towns in the south east.

Former leaders of the group who are still alive have been summoned to facilitate the regrouping of the Bakassi Boys and also handle the recruitment of new members.

A source from the long-disbanded vigilante group revealed that their assignment is mainly to contain the Fulani mafia and ensure that they no longer cause destruction in any part of Igbo land. He added that they are fully empowered to respond speedily to attack on any part of Igbo land by the Fulani mafia, as he called them.

“The action has become necessary because it appears the Federal Government is not ready to protect our people being attacked by the Fulani mafia. This Fulani and farmers clash has been happening in the north central and we thought it is a northern problem,” he said.

“Now, they have moved to the south to trouble our peace loving people. They kidnapped Chief Olu Falae in Yoruba land, they are now invading Igbo land, yet the Federal Government is not doing anything to protect our people.”

Moreover, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) have already issued a warning, urging the Federal Government to intervene and stop the Fulani herdsmen from further killings in the south east.

Some leaders of the two liberation struggle groups disclosed that both MASSOB and IPOB may recourse to arms struggle to protect Igbo land if the invasion and killings by the Fulani herdsmen continue.

Furthermore, the Ohaneze Ndigbo also expressed concern over the Fulani invasion of Igbo land, describing it as serious threat to national security. The Ohaneze Ndigbo also supports the idea for self-defence in Igbo land but warned against the reoccurrence of the 1966 episode that snowballed into the Nigerian civil War in 1967 that ended in 1970.

The Niger Delta militants are also gearing up for confrontation with the herdsmen should they extend their attack of communities to the south-south. Some of the militant’s leaders who spoke to this reporter warned “the Fulani herdsmen to stay off Niger Delta territory or face war.”

The militants vowed that they are on red alert in the zone.

It was reported that about 30 people were killed by Fulani herdsmen during an attack on Ukpabi Nimbo, an agrarian community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, penultimate week.

Several armed Fulani herdsmen, said to be over 100, were alleged to have invaded the community in the early hours of the day.

Continuous gunshots were said to have woken the people who became helpless and defenceless during the sudden attack and had to flee their homes.

Many of the villagers were gathered to have escaped to neighbouring communities in the Uzo-Uwani area.

Corpses were said to be picked from farmlands and deposited at the morgue in Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka, Enugu State.

The police authorities in Enugu had earlier confirmed the incident. However, the police later said that the killings in the community were as a result of clashes between two cult groups in the state.

The Fulani herdsmen violence has become a perturbing issue on national security drawing the attention of several stakeholders to the threat it poses to national integration.

An Islamic organisation, Muslims Against Terror, was gathered to have called on the Federal Government to declare the Fulani Herdsmen as a terrorist group.

The group had condemned the actions of the herdsmen, declaring that the wanton destructive activities of the herdsmen are against the tenets of Islam.

“We, the Muslims Against Terror organization, condemn the acts of killing of innocent people, farmers and others by alleged ‘Fulani Herdsmen’ in Nigeria,” the group had stated.

“We urge the Nigerian government to firmly condemn these wanton acts and declare the perpetrators terrorists and an insurgency according to the law and deal with them with the full power of the military.

According to them, Islam (Muslims) actually teaches and the Quran states clearly ‘that anyone who kills a human being- it shall be as though he has killed all of mankind, if anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he has save the lives of all mankind.

“We express our condolences and sympathize with the people of Benue, Enugu, Delta, Anambra, and government of Nigeria and the families of the victims killed by the Fulani Herdsmen,” they had declared.

Moreover, Right Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Speaker, House of Representatives, a fortnight ago, had advocated for deliberate and proactive steps to end the incessant farmers and herdsmen clashes across Nigeria, which he said could break the country’s unity.

Also, an elder statesman in Lagos, Dr. Moses Iloh, speaking to the National Daily, warned that the Fulani herdsmen killings may lead to disintegration of the country if not brought under control.

The elder statesman, however, expressed the view that Fulani herdsmen may not be the ones that killed people in Enugu State, arguing that politicians being investigated and prosecuted for corruption may be using certain groups under the guise of Fulani herdsmen to cause bloodshed in order to destabilize the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Dr. Iloh said that the Fulani he knows are peaceful people who go about their trade without molesting anybody. He was of the view that those politicians want to divide the country, then, nobody would hold them accountable for looting the treasury of a broken country.

He, however, urged the President to take urgent steps to tame the rising violence in the country.






http://nationaldailyng.com/2015/bakassi-boys-regroup-for-fulani-mafia/

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Nobody: 6:58am On May 03, 2016
It is simple.

You can't kill someone unjustly and expect not to be killed.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and we will all know that no single person or group has monopoly over violence.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by LoveMachine(m): 7:03am On May 03, 2016
This is serious.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by ckmayoca: 7:14am On May 03, 2016
Long overdue

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Richiez(m): 7:15am On May 03, 2016
Bakassi boys? Look at what the fulani herdsmen has brought upon themselves lipsrsealed

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by nyabingi(m): 7:18am On May 03, 2016
this is really true, there is a kind of militia recruitment currently going on in the SE through the age grade system, a lot of Igbo traders who lost shops during the Lagos markets demolition are actually taking the opportunity as they are also sponsored by big politicians and business men across the Niger, OMAtA another group in Onitsha have been regrouping since the ENUGU massacre!

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by kuuljay(m): 7:20am On May 03, 2016
There is a difference between a man carrying an AK 47 and a man with a pomp Action and machete grin grin angry grin grin

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by wowmenow: 7:23am On May 03, 2016
That's how the Fulani president keep quiet until babangida overthrow him 1984

The northern governors and their sultan instead of them to call the boys to order they are busy playing politics with it

This is the result now tension everywhere

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by bonechamberlain(m): 7:24am On May 03, 2016
a welcomed development.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by malton: 7:25am On May 03, 2016
undecided

Only?!

Isakaba boys nkor?

Yeyenuses everywhere!

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by eyeview: 7:29am On May 03, 2016
....And Buhari may lead to the eventual break up of this nation.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Candyrain(m): 7:32am On May 03, 2016
Just watch the security agencies swing into action to arrest these bakassi boys.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by kcnwaigbo: 7:33am On May 03, 2016
kuuljay:
There is a difference between a man carrying an AK 47 and a man with a pomp Action and machete grin grin angry grin grin

bros you really need to make enquiries about the dreaded bakassi militia!!! Even AK-47s are useless where they are

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by otitokoroleti: 7:35am On May 03, 2016
malton:
undecided
Only?!
Isakaba boys nkor?
Yeyenuses everywhere!
letz c hw it ends

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by kuuljay(m): 7:41am On May 03, 2016
kcnwaigbo:


bros you really need to make enquiries about the dreaded bakassi militia!!! Even AK-47s are useless where they are
chest beating grin grin grin grin. Go and ask any tiv or jukun man about fulani militias? They have been battling for decades?

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by kcnwaigbo: 7:43am On May 03, 2016
kuuljay:
chest beating grin grin grin grin. Go and ask any tiv or jukun man about fulani militias? They have been battling for decades?

You really have no idea about the deadly group. You need to make some researches

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Bondesniger(m): 8:02am On May 03, 2016
i smell big trouble bakasi, militant VS headsmen
you what i mean big big trouble

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by emmalexabl(m): 8:29am On May 03, 2016
Smh........

So this is how the 2nd civil war take start..

Time to leave 9ja for good !!

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by White007(m): 8:32am On May 03, 2016
If true, this will be a welcome development, since Buhari and his APC govt are so nonchalant about the killing of it's citizen, it is only imperative that the people resort to defending themselves.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Isoni(m): 9:00am On May 03, 2016
Ayene idem amo a fighting for grin grin grin

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by ayusco85(m): 9:00am On May 03, 2016
I love thid

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by nyabingi(m): 9:00am On May 03, 2016
nyabingi:
this is really true, there is a kind of militia recruitment currently going on in the SE through the age grade system, a lot of Igbo traders who lost shops during the Lagos markets demolition are actually taking the opportunity as they are also sponsored by big politicians and business men across the Niger, OMAtA another group in Onitsha have been regrouping since the ENUGU massacre!

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Nobody: 9:01am On May 03, 2016
nyabingi:
this is really true, there is a kind of militia recruitment currently going on in the SE through the age grade system, a lot of Igbo traders who lost shops during the Lagos markets demolition are actually taking the opportunity as they are also sponsored by big politicians and business men across the Niger, OMAtA another group in Onitsha have been regrouping since the ENUGU massacre!


And you have just snitched on your own people.

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Ucheosefoh(m): 9:01am On May 03, 2016
Interesting this is the best decision taken so far against this terrorists

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by yomalex(m): 9:01am On May 03, 2016
As expected
Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Nobody: 9:02am On May 03, 2016
Glory be to God.We are nearing there-

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Nobody: 9:02am On May 03, 2016
Ngworo

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Sydney22: 9:02am On May 03, 2016
Wow nice move cheesy

Remember those days
"Justice in town"

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by winkmart: 9:02am On May 03, 2016
THAT WHAT THEY DESERVE...NICE MOVES

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by Leke001: 9:02am On May 03, 2016
good one there
Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by VICTORCIZA(m): 9:03am On May 03, 2016
KILL THEM ALL

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Re: Bakassi Boys Regroup For Fulani Mafia by brunofarad(m): 9:03am On May 03, 2016
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