gambia:
May their souls rest in peace. Honestly I'm short of words, this is barbaric. Their only crime is being a Nigerian i guess.

CHRISTIANS

All these yeye Civil Society Organisations will not see this to protest about. They would rather sheepishly protest the killings in the US. Buhari and the Kaduna State Government need to do something fast about these killings. Haba

Here is the problem, and before I talk, I would like to state that I 1) am not here to excuse any one 2) I am here to talk about the why so that 3) somebody does something about the solution.

30 years ago, there were no news of any attack by herdsmen on farmers. Infact, the only news I recall that made headlines in 1993, was when a farmer was hit in the eye by an arrow fired by a herdsman. That was news.

Also, back in the day, there was one rural area that when I first visited in 1997, wide swathes of the area were still basically bushland, no farms, nothing. When I revisited the area last year, there was a lot of farms in areas where there was no farm.

Also, in 1963, our populaiton was 55million people. Today, it is 200million people. Nigeria's land mass has not changed (unless you want to consider the reclaimed land at Lekki as land mass).

What does this tell us?

The fact is, our population is growing, and this means the land that used to support Fulanis and farmers no longer supports either of them.

In one part of Benue, decades ago, Fulani herdsmen used to graze their cows deep in the bush, never seeing a farmer for miles around. Now, where there was once bush and forest, there are farmlands. The number of Fulanis too is growing, as is the number of herds of cows. So also is the number of farms.

And our cities are growing. In the FCT, there are areas that were once bushland that are now concreted over. And the land is growing.

This is what is fueling the crisis.

The land is not enough for fulanis and farmers.

That is why we are having crisis all over Africa. Our populaiton is growing. And most of our countries are not industrial at all...but agrarian. And the lad mass avialable for farming is reducing by the year. Add the fact that the Sahara is driving people down SOuth, and the Boko crisis too is making matters worse.

That is why someone needs to tell all our governors, LG chairmern, and even Aso Rock, that the time has come to sit up and start implementing programmes to mitigate this. For starters, education needs to icnrease, we need to end things like herding cows, we need to develop our railway system, even if it means taking loans for the thing...because back in the day, cows were being transported by rail in the 1960's...until corruption wrecked our rail ways in the 1970's. If our railways were still working, by now, all cows would have been transported by rail, and it would have been a few archaic holdouts that would be transporting their cows by wlaking.

And people should learn to take their legal issues to the POlice. Yes, the police has failed, but if these herdsmen had taken their legal issues there, instead of attacking inncoent villagers, maybe no one would have been dead.

We can shout Buhari, and we should do so. But these things were happening under PDP , and we were all shouting PDP is useless. Yet nothing changes because the people shouting PDP is useless, most of them were doing so because they wanted to chop. Just as the peoplenow shouting APC is useless...most of them want to get into power. And the thing is....APC is useless right now. Governor Rufai needs to put out the fires in his state.

But it takes far more than arm chair critiques, and arm chair bigotry. It takes people at the grassroot and the top being willing to change. And we have to take some hard decisions now, or else Rwanda 1994 ; the Nigerian connection is ready for filming.

Sad, see as tears full my eyes. How do you kill your fellow human without blinking? El Rufai ought to do better, we can be receiving such news from his backyard almost every week?.

Only Sahara reporters could report this. Useless govt.

Meaning of Buhari and Fulani in Dictionary na Evil and Backwardness

ghettokid1:
Buhari is a very big Curse to Nigeria

Not only Buhari, northerners

The midget is even warming up to become Nigeria's president come 2023. Let this be an eye opener to all who plan to support his presidential bid. He will export these killers to every nook and cranny of the south and provide cover for their nefarious activities.

Southern Kaduna lives matter. Let's protest against this also. I weep for Nigeria.[color=#006600][/color].

Where are the fools deriding Trump? You folks are the biggest hypocrites and fools ever to walk this planet.

ODJ124:
I pray this herdsmen meet their Waterloo...

keep praying rather than condemning those in authority that have failed the people, u are part of Nigeria problems.

They arrest boko haram and release them after some months claiming they have repented. They don't even bother arresting the herdsmen. They just allow them kill and go. At least we hear and see pictures of some boko haram the military have killed. I have never seen any terrorist fulani herdsmen men arrested or killed by the army or police while carrying out their terrorist attack.
This is to tell you that both boko haram and especially fulani herdsmen have plenty supporters in the north .

APC supporters may your family members be killed like this Amin

This is to justify the claim made by Nnamdi Kanu that Nigeria is truly a Zoo

It's only in animal kingdom that predators prey on their preys, where animals kill each other for game and food


This killings have been happening unabated and nobody seems to be doing anything about it

Innocent children being killed by Fulani herdsmen and Bubu the Mumu does nothing but keep borrowing money upandan


Nigeria is truly a Zoo! May the blood of these innocent children and people being massacred by Fulani herdsmen be upon Bubu the Mumu, HELL-Rufai, and all his Zombie followers in the North and South and most especially his supporters on NAIRALAND, AMEN.

where are we heading?

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Too bad

u keep typing nonsense all the time, I know u are mature but it seems bigotry has really taken the better part of u,grow up son ,enough of this rubbish u keep dropping all the time, shows some empathy to the affected families, we are like passengers on earth make the best use of ur time to stand for what is right.

Yet the man in Aso Rock says they are not terrorists. It was Ipob that kills no one that was branded terrorists. A way of giving a goat a bad name so as to kill it.

Sunnycliff:
Buhari and his men should continue. Now they can't kill the Igbos they are now killing themselves. It's an insult to call Nigeria a zoo, because there's sanctity of animal life in the zoo.

Typing Rest in Peace is the height of hypocrisy because those souls are never resting in any peace. Their blood demands vengeance.

Buhari is a failed CinC, an army recruit won't be as bad as him.

Those mumu protesters in Lagos for George Floyd, won't see this one happening in their nose. They should better open international borders, this place is the worst place a human can ever be. Spits

they are not killing themselves. southern Kaduna are Christian while northern Kaduna are Muslims. The Muslims are trying all possible means of reducing the population of the Christian and I believe its because they want to have the upper hand when it comes to winning elections with numbers.

WHO THE Bleep RAISES HIS HANDS TO KILL CHILDREN?? CURSED ARE U TILL YOU BREATHE YOUR LAST

Funny these same people will tell you that living in Nigeria is better than abroad.

Yes We work more and pay more taxes but atleast we don't have to deal with slaughtered women and children, literally babies killed in their sleep by people who have the same skin as you.

Nigerias tribalism is worse than any kind of racism anywhere on Earth.

Seenyo:
#2015 ...I thought I voted change but I was damn wrong!

May God also punish you join for thinking such thought

The blood of those innocent children will also be upon your head except you ask for forgiveness from God and start voting the right people into power

Hong Kongers protested against might China.
Iranians protested against their hardline government.
Americans are protest against police brutality; the killing of George Floyd and racial profiling.
The French are protesting against police brutality, racial profiling...
In Nigeria :
* Gross corruption by our leaders / politicians
* Ineptitude by our government
* Police/ SARS killing innocent Nigerians
* Fulani Herdsmen are killing Christians
* Boko Haram insurgency
* Kidnappings
In spite of the adverse effects the six points enumerated above have on the Nigerian masses, Nigerians have been sheepish reluctant to protest.

When will all these end?

Tribalism is the worst thing that can happen to any nation, having a bigots in position of leadership greatest mistake any nation can make, when all the head of security are from a particular section of the country what do u expect?

This is heartbreaking.. the leaders aren't even concerned, they only care about getting their share from the 27bn naira renovation fund.

This people no get joy aswear

Is high time people should start defending them self

Chai... see those children

Who are these herdsmen? Are they ghosts that the authority can not arrest them to account for all the atrocities they are inflicting on innocent souls! Every time they would kill people and go free without being apprehended by the police or the military. What is really going on in Southern Kaduna that the state government is not able to bring under control or is the state government in support of the killings hence the nonchalant attitude! May the good Lord comfort the people of southern Kaduna he is the God of all comfort. If there has been any time in man's history that people needed to go closer to God it is now. Christ is about to come. Surrender your life to God if you would want to escape the impending judgement that is about to come to the world.

When people fail to plan,they plan to fail. Our leaders always wait for emergency b4 planing (that is if they decide to plan at all).
Herdsmen or pastoralists on d other hand are nomadic or semi-nomadic people whose primary occupation is raising livestock.
People who kill people are criminal elements,they are murderers,they are pschologically sick people, they are militias,they are cowards, they unlawfully take other people's lives without justification or valid excuse, most times with malice. They have to face justice. Don't refer to them as herdsmen,Muslims,Fulanis or Christians because they are yet to be aprehended or identified. They are thieves!! They will soon meet their Doom.