No fewer than 7,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State who were allegedly attacked and displaced by Fulani herdsmen are said to be traumatised, depressed, with several of them contemplating suicide.
The displaced persons who are made up of women, children and the aged, were former residents of nine out of 15 communities who were forced out of their homes on March 8, 2018, the day President Muhammadu Buhari was in Plateau for a two-day official visit.
Spokesman of the Concerned Youths of Bokkos Local Government Area, Arch. Macham Makut, disclosed this on Tuesday in Jos while briefing journalists on the suspended RUGA settlement programme by Federal government.
Makut revealed that the communities from where the people were displaced in Bokkos Local Government Area had already been earmarked for the suspended RUGA settlement without the consent of the people now languishing in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps.
He vowed that the youths will vehemently resist any move to impose any unfair policy on the displaced communities and called on the Federal government to take urgent measures towards the resettlement of the people.
“Following the untold hardship currently face by IDPs in Bokkos Local Government Areas, women, children and the aged are traumatised, depressed and many others are contemplating suicide because of their pains.
“As patriotic citizens, we acknowledge the Federal government’s regard for the peace and progress of its citizens, in keeping with its constitutional responsibility.
“However, that the RUGA settlement policy was drawn without the consent and input of the farmers whose lands are expected to be converted for the RUGA project is highly questionable and tantamount to land-grabbing.
“The government is considering resettling the herdsmen while thousands of crop- farming peasants who were violently evicted from their homes remain in IDPs camps and other uninhabitable shelters is to say the least, insensible, divisive and an unwarranted assault. We in Bokkos LGA, from the attacks of last year 2018 alone, have 7,000 displaced persons from about nine communities which are now desolate.
“These people have not been resettled but we are aware that only the unilateral implementation of the RUGA programme was suspended. This was not even because Nigerians opposed it but because it was not in accordance with the design approved by the National Executive Council, National Economic Council and the National Food Security Council.”
Makut explained that Plateau State has been under violent herdsmen attacks for almost two decades, leaving behind thousands of people killed, several displaced and properties worth billions of naira destroyed.
“None of the victims of these dastardly acts has ever received any Federal government compensation or grant to start life again, despite losing all their means of livelihood and in some instances, breadwinners to the attacks.”
Makut kicked against the cattle colony, ranching and Ruga settlement and urged Federal government to encourage livestock farmers to imbibe the culture of ranching their animals as it is a personal business just like farming is to the rural farmers.
“Ranching has been successfully employed in some climes as a way of resolving herds attacks on crops of farmers. Anything short of this is unacceptable to us and any attempt to force the RUGA policy on our farming communities in Bokkos LGA, now or later will be firmly resisted through all available legal means.”

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/9-plateau-communities-uprooted-by-herdsmen-earmarked-for-ruga/

It was planned all along.

Buhari must know that Nigeria is multi ethniciced..nd those not belong to one tribe.....the youths in that area should not agree.....

Just imagine this life threatening madness.Nigerians need to fight this subtle threat to subjugate other ethnic nationals to the fulanization agenda under this satanic govt.

Nigeria is irredeemable !


Nowenuse

Fulanis terrorist displace locals from their homes and instead if the Buhari govt to get the locals back home they have instead turned the community into a RUGA thereby endorsing the invasion .. Buhari is clearly the sponsor of these imported herdsmen terrorist.

Racoon:
Just imagine this live threaten madness.Nigerians need to fight this subtle threat to subjugate other ethnic nationals to the fulanization agenda under this satanic govt.

Just imagine the owners of the land are languishing in IDP camps while Buhari is reward the Invaders with Ruga there .. Buhari needs to tell Nigerians why he is importing Fulanis populations from all over Africa and giving them Nigerian Land

FarahAideed:
Fulanis terrorist displace locals from their homes and instead if the Buhari govt to get the locals back home they have instead turned the community into a RUGA thereby endorsing the invasion .. Buhari is clearly the sponsor of these imported herdsmen terrorist.

I tell you. but the indigens 're very useless and stupid.

ebele is a community bordering esan land in edo. in one night they ended fulani occupation in thier bushes. only the people close by ever got to know, no vanguard no can or bbc just low key killing.


that's what these fulani herders deserve. community leaders arm youths enter Bush and kill them. those tales of payback is rubbish. fulani people fear was children abeg

FarahAideed:


Just imagine the owners of the land are languishing in IDP camps while Buhari is reward the Invaders with Ruga there .. Buhari needs to tell Nigerians why he is importing Fulanis populations from all over Africa and giving them Nigerian Land

tell me what the stupid cowards 're doing inside idp camps.


if the soldiers 're preventing the attacks they should attack the barracks first before marching on fulani people.


and yes. I saw boys in auchi attack a military barracks before soooo it's not impossible.


instead the useless men 're in idp begging for food. idp camps should be for women and males below 14.

all the men in that idp from 15-66 deserve to die

Not even an arrest and persecution of the invaders? Chai

Let's not forget that these same Fulani's are all over Mali, Ghana, Benin, Niger causing havoc. It is only in Nigeria that they chase out land owners and use their federal dominance to fill those lands up with their own.

They are doing it live.

Wetin concern me with northern issue.....

lordkush:
I tell you. but the indigens 're very useless and stupid.

ebele is a community bordering esan land in edo. in one night they ended fulani occupation in thier bushes. only the people close by ever got to know, no vanguard no can or bbc just low key killing.


that's what these fulani herders deserve. community leaders arm youths enter Bush and kill them. those tales of payback is rubbish. fulani people fear was children abeg

If that pattern is repeated in many communities then maybe Buhari will act more responsibly.

Plateau governor is a fool