Bluffly:
God Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, I pray to you at this moment in the name of your only begotten son Jesus Christ who died on the cross of Calvary for my sake. The maker giver and taker of life, the breath that I breathe in, Please I pray, whoever that has orchestrated these killings should be crushed. either cattle rustler or rustler cattle, Fulani herdsmen or herdsmen Fulani, any party involved in this killings, Please visit them with you divine judgement. This barbaric acts must stop. And if they deserve mercy please be merciful but this barbaric acts must stop

Bluffly:
God Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, I pray to you at this moment in the name of your only begotten son Jesus Christ who died on the cross of Calvary for my sake. The maker giver and taker of life, the breath that I breathe in, Please I pray, whoever that has orchestrated these killings should be crushed. either cattle rustler or rustler cattle, Fulani herdsmen or herdsmen Fulani, any party involved in this killings, Please visit them with you divine judgement. This barbaric acts must stop. And if they deserve mercy please be merciful but this barbaric acts must stop

Angelanest:
Pictures have emerged showing a Fulani family which were allegedly killed some weeks ago by Berom tribe in Plateau state. There have been accusations and counter accusations following the ethnic-religious crisis which saw over 100 people killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Plateau.

dermmy:


Lol.this ur signature sef won scatter my ribs

oooduancalmdown:

God is not coming to help u. Protect yourselves! Enough of these nonsense prayers already! If I may ask, what region are you from?

oooduancalmdown:

God is not coming to help u. Protect yourselves! Enough of these nonsense prayers already! If I may ask, what region are you from?

Arysexy:
The evil Buhari brothers are clutching at every available straw to justify the ethnic and religious cleansing they are perpetrating in MB. From rustled 300 cows reprisal, to this fake news.

Let me also know if the rev father's and parishioners slaughtered in early morning mass at Benue few weeks ago rustled cows or killed Fulani to deserve d atrocious desecration of the Church.

God punish all of u starting from cow buhari, bastard osinbade to d least supporter of this evil govt.

AdeagboRA:
From it is shown clearly that this crisis is purely tribal !
But some bigots among the religious leaders and media outlets will want to cause religious crisis and confusion out of this !

For example, look at this headline..

ebbo:
For those of us that ply the road to Jos often, we understand what it takes to get trapped in those senseless violence, so much that it has become the usual practice that on approaching Jos, we send out a call to those living inside it to find out whether it is safe to proceed.

Some years ago, my sister and uncle were caught up in that unfortunate chaos. They were fortunate enough to escape (out of luck) to the Muslim quarter of Bukuru town. If they had escaped to the wrong location or belong to a different faith, their fate will completely be different.

In the university in 2008, my room-mate had the unimaginable misfortune of losing his father in the conflict. His parents were caught in the unfortunate chaos, father and mother separated. The fact he was a Yoruba man did not apply. All his killers cared was that he was a Muslim and therefore guilty and condemned to die in their hands.

At Secondary School in the early 2000s, I was moved to tears when a Fulani classmate narrated how he lost three generations of his family in Heipang. Their family had lived there for generations only for them to be wiped out in a single surge of violence. His escape was only a miracle. His mother who was lucky to be away for a wedding fainted at the sight of him because his funeral rites were already conducted in absentia, having thought to have shared the terrible fate of his other family members.

All the individuals mentioned in the above instances may be reading this post. I have known real people who have been slaughtered while passing through Jos. I could be one of them, given a different quirk of fate. My family members could also be victims, God forbid!

As a result, there is the tendency for someone like me to see the conflict through those lenses, that my people are the victims and the 'other side' is the perpetrator. The same way someone whose local community in Plateau live in constant fear of invasion and attack by armed marauders, where local people could not farm their lands in peace or carry on with life in security and safety will see his people as sole victims and others as perpetrators.

That is how one-sided, mutually rejecting narratives set back the wheel of reconciliation. The crises in Plateau is so muddled up that it is now completely detached from its root causes. It first began as local politics borne out of ethnic and sectarian political struggle between the so called Hausa settlers and the native Beroms in Jos North.

For long, the Fulani, who have a long history of cultural intercourse with those local communities are kept out of those conflicts. It was until the Shendam anti-Fulani pogrom that the Fulani was brought into the equation, and from that, cycles of reprisals and counter-reprisals have so distorted the reality on ground, bringing a dominant ethnic and sectarian narrative to the fore.

That makes peace even difficult. Because all sides have genuine grievances, all sides have genuine complaints of victimhood. The first step towards peace is not in apportioning blame, the first step towards peace is in accepting that all sides have a point and that peace is possible only through dialogue and not further confrontation.

The Jos conflict is different from Boko Haram or even rural banditry where the enemy can be criminalized and targeted. In an ethnic or sectarian conflict, you cannot criminalize an entire ethnic or sectarian group. And above all, you cannot enforce peace by sheer use of force. Force should only be used to create an enabling environment for reconciliation and dialogue.

I know some may feel force alone could do this, but if that's possible, we will not be where we are today. Obasanjo declared a state of emergency but the killing still continued. Since 1999, the Plateau conflict continues under four successive Nigerian presidents, two Muslim, two Christians. If it were a Muslim conspiracy, the two Christian presidents would have stopped it. Likewise if it were a Christian conspiracy,

somehow:
I still maintain, Are the fulanis i grew up seeing at our backyard then different from the current ones or someone or some poeple are fueling and hiding behind the recent hate on some tribes/religion to perpetuate evils in some parts of Nigeria?

Please think deeply before posting or commenting anything or quoting me.