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Why Is Everyone Afraid Of Fulani Herders? - Look At This Reportage by dumahi(m): 11:19am On Nov 11, 2020
Honestly, I am beginning to think that these herders and their sponsors are using very powerful voodoo on Nigerians. They keep murdering people in cold blood, raping women (including old and pregnant women), destroying crops, and scaring farmers away from their farms. But everyone is afraid to say it when there should have been nationwide protests against it.

The UNO keeps mum about it. The mainstream media keeps misleading the public by calling the serial murders by Fulani herders by the name 'herder-farmers clash'. I have been asking to be shown where the clashes have been taking place but no one has shown me that. If not for social media, all of us would have been deceived into thinking that these are cases of crop farmers and herders clashing. Even during the #EndSARS protests, there weren't placards about it. Why?

Below is a September 2020 report from Nairametrics detailing the cause of the current food crisis being faced across Africa, showing that Nigeria is billed to be one of the worst-hit countries. Notice how this report carefully avoided mentioning Fulani herders as even contributors to this crisis when they are actually the MAJOR CAUSE OF IT by the way they destroy crops, thereby discouraging farmers from investing more.

The report from the FAO also shows that the Democratic Republic of Congo is emerging as the country with the world’s largest food crisis in terms of absolute numbers, with Burkina Faso listed as the country with the worst deteriorations in acute hunger in recent months.

The food crisis is made worse in Nigeria by the longstanding religious and ethnic conflicts and even organized crimes by some bandits, which has greatly affected farmers working on their farmlands. In addition to these, the farmers were already contending with the issue of flooding or drought, which has negatively been impacting on the agricultural sector in a period the country is desperate and very desirous of economic diversification. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in food prices as can be seen in the reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in a country that imports over 10% of its food supply.

With a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, which is regarded as the world’s most food-insecure continent. This is made worse as importers of food items struggle to gain access to dollars for their imports due to scarcity of foreign exchange which is triggered by the crash of oil prices and low foreign inflow. This is expected to be exacerbated by the recent order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Central Bank of Nigeria, to stop the allocation of foreign exchange to importers of food items.

The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello, warned in April, “We are heading toward famine and starvation.”The FAO report which states that Congo has about 21.8 million people that are acutely food insecure, also points out that Burkina Faso has witnessed an almost 300% uptick in the overall number of people experiencing acute hunger since the start of 2020
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  https://nairametrics.com/2020/09/18/nigeria-among-countries-to-be-worst-hit-by-food-crisis-globally/
Re: Why Is Everyone Afraid Of Fulani Herders? - Look At This Reportage by phrancys001(m): 12:41pm On Nov 11, 2020
Because buhari is their godfather
Re: Why Is Everyone Afraid Of Fulani Herders? - Look At This Reportage by GallantDuke(m): 12:44pm On Nov 11, 2020
We are not afraid of them because cowardice is not in our blood as Igbos

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