How would you define terrorism?

Current definition is any individual or group that uses violence to achieve a political goal.

In spite of all the killing being orchestrated by the herdsmen, the current administration believes that they do not fit that current definition!
In 2016 alone, 2,500 people killed; 62,000 people displaced; $13.7 billion lost to the clashes and 47 per cent of the internally-generated revenue in the affected states were lost.

The problem with statistics is that when they are about human beings, you cannot put faces to them. Human beings are thus reduced to stark, impersonal numbers. The death of 2,500 Nigerians and the displacement of 62,000 others may do no more than give you a momentary jolt only for you to shrug it off. You are not likely to think of them as struggling Nigerians in our rural areas who were doing nothing criminal but pursuing their legitimate livelihood as peasant farmers who fed the nation.

In December 2015, they attacked parts of Southern Kaduna. The vicar-general of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Rev Ibrahim Yakubu, said 880 people were killed; 53 villages destroyed, 1,422 houses burnt down and that 18 churches and one primary school were also torched.

The question now is, what has changed? I have this nervous feeling that Fulani herdsmen are now a franchise. People kill and do other dirty jobs, own up to it and still walk freely. Fact is, we do not want to say the truth