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How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by BeeBeeOoh(m): 12:33pm On May 17, 2016
The Fulani herdsmen attacked at 6:00 am, just after morning prayers in Nimbo, an idyllic village in southeast Nigeria where farmers grow yams and pawpaws. Kingsley Onyebuchie sits in a Nsukka hospital room on May 5, 2016, after surviving a Fulani herdsmen machete attack in Nsukka, southeast Nigeria.

Over the past year Biafran independence protests have erupted across Nigeria’s south-east where many protesters where injured or killed during clashes with the Nigerian Police and army.

At first the villagers thought it was a joke. The nomadic cattle rearers, who have clashed with farmers over grazing rights in central Nigeria for decades, had never come this far south. But then they saw 20 young men descend from the hills and emerge from the palm tree forest, shooting AK-47 assault rifles in the air and waving machetes. “We started hearing the sound of gunshots everywhere. They shot so many people,” Kingsley Oneyebuchie, a 31-year-old civil servant, told AFP.

“They shot one of my brothers, they used a knife on my dad, they killed so many,” he said from his hospital bed in the nearby town of Nsukka, bare-chested and wearing only red athletic shorts. Oneyebuchie ran his fingers tentatively over a 20-centimetre (eight-inch) track of blue surgical stitches at the base of his scalp. “They used machete on me. After using machete on me, they thought that I died,” he said. Oneyebuchie was lucky to survive the attack on April 25. At least 10 people are thought to have been killed and scores of others injured.

[size=13pt]– Ethnic lines –[/size]

In the past year, raids by Fulani herdsmen have increased in the southeast. The worst happened some 200 kilometres (125 miles) away in Agatu, Benue state, in late February, where hundreds of people — most of them Christian farmers — were reportedly killed. The bloodshed mirrors that after Nigeria gained independence in 1960, when Igbos dominant in the mainly Christian southeast, were pitted against Hausa and Fulani in the largely Muslim north.

Kingsley Oneyebuchie stands in a hospital room on May 5, 2016, after surviving a Fulani herdsmen machete attack in Nsukka, southeast Nigeria. Ongoing clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and farming communities in Nigeria’s middle belt and southeast states have accounted for the death and displacement of many people. The ethnic violence led to two military coups, hundreds of deaths — and ultimately a civil war, when the southeast broke away and declared an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967.

Some one million Igbos died either fighting for the fledgling nation or from starvation and disease in a brutal conflict that by its end in 1970 left the southeast broken. Now, stricken villagers maintain the only solution to the Fulani attacks — and perceived northern domination of political posts from the president downwards — is an independent state. “We need to know that this is Igbo and this is Fulani,” said Oneyebuchie. “We want them to leave our place so that we will be free.”

[size=13pt]– Growing conflict –[/size]

According to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report, “Fulani militants” killed 1,229 people in 2014 — up from 63 in 2013 — making them the “fourth most deadly terrorist group” in the world. Most deaths happened in Nigeria’s religiously mixed so-called Middle Belt states.

But the apparent migration south into Igbo territory is being used by an increasingly hardline pro-Biafra movement as an indication the Nigerian government doesn’t serve or protect the region and is stoking discontent in the southeast. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Hausa-Fulani who opposes the pro-Biafran movement, took until late April to speak out about the herdsmen, saying he had ordered military and police to “take all necessary action to stop the carnage”.

He has proposed setting up a grazing plan that includes the establishment of cattle ranches and importing grass feed from Brazil. Critics argue his response is too little, too late and overly ambitious. “I have yet to hear this government articulate a firm policy of non-tolerance for the serial massacres,” Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said recently, describing the ranch plan as “optimistic”.

– ‘A second genocide’ –

And elderly woman stands outside her house on May 5, 2016 in Nimbo, southeastern Nigeria, where nomadic Fulani herdsman attacked the village. Ongoing clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and farming communities in Nigeria’s middle belt and southeast states have accounted for the death and displacement of many people. STEFAN HEUNIS / AFP

The arrest and detention of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu last year catapulted him and his more hardline pressure group into the mainstream. “Buhari has authorised a second genocide on Biafra,” IPOB, which has been campaigning for Kanu’s release through public protests, said about the herdsmen. “Biafrans are on the verge of being exterminated,” it added.

In Nimbo, the farmers use less emotive language but their underlying message is the same. Today the village is deserted, with shiny new padlocks fastened on the wood doors of mud-brick houses and hectares of cassava and melon crops abandoned until safer times.

“We have been complaining to government, complaining to everyone, no help,” said Thaddeus Okenwa, a 65-year-old cassava farmer with a raspy voice and muscular hands. “We are now just managing because nothing goes normal. If they can give us our own independence, let’s go.

“We don’t pray for war now, but this (the Fulani issue) can cause it because you can’t be a stranger in your home”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/how-2/

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by gidgiddy: 1:02pm On May 17, 2016
We suffer genocide, we shall suffer indignation, we shall suffer abuse. But one day, I and my fellow Igbos will have our own independent nation and finally be rid of the British instrument of oppression called Nigeria.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by kullozone(m): 2:51pm On May 17, 2016
Kinda Long Sha.I Believe The Cows Are Better Than The Herdsmen Themselves.There's No Word In The Dictionary To Describe Them Yet.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by shomoyess(m): 2:52pm On May 17, 2016
Wariizdis
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by tunergy(m): 2:52pm On May 17, 2016
Have mercy oh lord
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by ozoigbondu: 2:53pm On May 17, 2016
Buhari brothers from Libya Murderers

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by buharisbae(f): 2:53pm On May 17, 2016
all this libyians dealing with shest beaters since 1200BC

well actually i feel ur pain bruhh the herdsmen deserve to have a palace in hell

heartless fools...Over to the wailers to continue

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by seunlayi(m): 2:53pm On May 17, 2016
[size=18pt]This guys from Libya wicked sha[/size]

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Nobody: 2:54pm On May 17, 2016
Despite all this evidence.... watch our police office tell you it's still "SUSPECTED fulani herdsmen"

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by shawnbrawn(m): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
WTF!!! I feel 4u man. Tenk God ur alive.
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by pretydiva(f): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
Why r these herdsmen so heartless undecided
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Kaira333: 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
Thank God for saving ur life

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Wadasco(m): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
am just here as...
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by flyca: 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
Wishing him speedy recovery

But why do Nigerian doctors stitch wonds like sac? angry

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by johnstar(m): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
grin
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by dabbyz(f): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
oh God. what future do we have in this country?
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by kings09(m): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
Nawa oo. Dis buhari's ppl frm Libya sef...yet buhari wants to set up a grazing route and ranches for Libyans. Instead of callin dem terrorists, he calls dem Libyans. undecided

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Shehucom(m): 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
Fulani here, Fulani there... We'll get over them soon
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Elchappo: 2:55pm On May 17, 2016
All I know is that soon we shall Fly the Flag of Freedom...

The Colonial beast shall be sent to abyss to self destruct while we inherent our kingdom that flows with milk, honey nd Okpa...

Umu Igbo wenu ndidi..

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Dollyak(f): 2:56pm On May 17, 2016
dabbyz:
oh God. what future do we have in this country?
Not really a great future sadly. Nigeria is a mess filled with monsters. To know if a country has a future check the attitude/views of her citizens. The country is irredeemable. Slowly but surely, the reality of the dire situation is sinking in.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by naijamerican: 2:57pm On May 17, 2016
So sad and pathetic. I can't stand this useless government. God punish Buhari and whomever is still supporting that devil.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by teemoderate(m): 2:57pm On May 17, 2016
Nigeria!!!! Where are we heading to!!!
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by holyokoto(m): 2:57pm On May 17, 2016
We are still in the era of Fulani invasion
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by MakeWeTalk: 2:58pm On May 17, 2016
B00hari must be in support of this, because he has not done anything against it.

instead his focus is oil.

Do dead people use oil?

But but if you notice these fulani herdsmen which are actually the mobile version of Boko Haram,
only attack Christians.

Remember he complained bitterly about the killings of Boko Haram members, while happy to deploy the
army against IPOB & Niger Delta




With Buhari calling for Full Sharia, we can see that this is a JIHAD!

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/buhari-calls-total-sharia-nigeria/


Now it makes sense why Buhari once he got elected removed military check points to aid the jihad.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/185501-breaking-buhari-orders-dismantling-of-military-checkpoints-nationwide.html


REMEMBER THAT THE ATTACKS ARE PLANNED.



NIGERIANS PLEASE WAKEUP AND ACCEPT THIS IS A PLANNED JIHAD.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by chikay2010: 3:00pm On May 17, 2016
What a nation.God have mercy on your children. There is anarchy in the land.
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Blitz888(m): 3:02pm On May 17, 2016
And soon Omenka will come here do the bidding of his masters....

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by laprince(m): 3:02pm On May 17, 2016
hmmmm. Federal government is not even accusing cameroon or Benin Republic. Na far away Libya.

Just because, Libya is in crisis. If say na Gaddafi time, Nigeria for no try dt shit: accusing Libya.

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by CR77(f): 3:03pm On May 17, 2016
Na wa oo

One Nigeria cool
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by SKAMM(m): 3:04pm On May 17, 2016
Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by koolaid87: 3:05pm On May 17, 2016
gidgiddy:
We suffer genocide, we shall suffer indignation, we shall suffer abuse. But it one day, I and my fellow Igbos will have our own independent nation and finally be rid of the British instrument of oppression called Nigeria.

Amen, but for now, you're still a Nigerian..Okay?

Keep dreaming......

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Re: How Fulani Herdsmen Cut My Head With Matchet- Onyebuchie by Abeymills(m): 3:06pm On May 17, 2016
Bubuhari is evil

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