Help retrieve our 55 villages from Fulani herdsmen —Berom leaders

THE Berom Educational and Cultural Organisation (BECO) has raised the alarm over what it called the expansionist agenda of Fulani herdsmen in Riyom and Barakin Ladi local government areas of Plateau State. The organisation claimed that no fewer than 55 communities have been forcibly taken over by the herdsmen.

The Plateau State government recently signed a law to discourage the trend where armed people would invade a land, claim ownership and forcibly occupy it.

The national president of BECO, Mr Gyang Dudu, who disclosed this to Saturday Tribune, said the inhabitants of these communities had been forced to flee to different parts of the state for refuge. He added that most of them were presently living with relations in Jos, the state capital, and headquarters of their respective local government areas.

Dudu said: “They were chased away from their ancestral communities. The Fulani herdsmen did not just occupy their houses and acquired their properties but they are now building more houses on their lands. We have petitioned the appropriate authorities but are yet to get response from them.

“The government is planning a census and demarcation. If the right atmosphere is not prepared for the natives to return to their ancestral communities, who are they going to count? Are they going to count foreign illegally occupants?

“The state government made a law against land grabbing but it seems enforcement has become a problem because these people are not deterred at all. We don’t want to take the law into our hands since the government has come up with this law but we are disappointed that the government is not implementing the law and working towards ensuring that these displaced people go back to their ancestral communities.”

The BECO leader, who claimed that land grabbing by foreign Fulani elements is gradually becoming a norm, implored the state and federal governments to address the situation.
“The government should be responsive. It is wrong for anyone or group to push the natives into exile.

“Most of the IDP camps have been closed. Our people are not even comfortable with the idea of living in these camps. Many of them are presently living with their relatives and loved ones in Jos and other places,” he added.

Also, the convener of the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria (ECCVN), Mr Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, expressed disappointment that the state government was yet to implement the anti-land grabbing law. Mwantiri stated that the territorial agenda of the Fulani herders was becoming more intense because the legislation has not been tested.

He said: “I can tell you that no fewer than 55 villages have been sacked and occupied by these Fulani herdsmen in Riyom and Barakin Ladi local government areas alone. They are presently living there comfortably and even building more houses unmolested.

“We learnt that government is about to do registration of voters who are they going to count in such places? Are they going to count illegal occupants while the legal owners are in exile? They have started developing the lands while those who are supposed to stop them are looking the other way.

“My submission is that the government is giving legitimacy to illegality. As a result of the activities of these intruders, most of our people in these local governments can no longer access their farms. Those displaced have since left the IDP camps and living with their relations in Jos and other places.”

One of those displaced from Shonom village and who is now living with his cousin in Jos, Dauda Pam, said attempts by him and other displaced people to return to their village were resisted by the herders who unleashed terror on them on arrival.

When contacted, the state Commissioner of Information, Mr Daniel Majang, said it was because of developments like this that the state government signed anti-land grabbing bill into law. Majang implored those whose lands are being illegally occupied to approach the courts for redress.

Nigeriabiafra82:

[s]If you can deny lekki massacre with live video evidence
You can deny your parents too
Though we know you are a member of ponmo crew
BMC we are not expecting you to believe or use your brain when your master have not ask you to[/s]

gidgiddy:
I still dont understand why the Nigerian press have refused to give coverage or investigate this allegation that 53 women were arrested in Obigbo, tranfarred to various Army barracks in the North, where they were serially raped for months

post=99962968:

Let go there bro let know who is the champion

post=99962686:

Create thread let compare Dave and Obiano in all sectors let know who is number one in southeast

Jman24:



You even have time explaining to that comedian

Coldie:

So u can't produce your own food and u want to form Biafra

Coldie:
they stood on their own for 3 years and ended up producing all forms o malted children with kwashiorkor.

And FYI the blockade wasn't for 3years it happened for months.


Thirdly the war wasn't up to 3 years know this now

Omoluabi1stborn:


Kabiyesi does not mean King. It means - "there is no one like you"
Ooni which is short for "Oonirisha" does not mean King.
Alaafin does not mean King.
These are all just regional identifiers for various Obas.

What is King in Yoruba language is "Oba". The prmordial Yoruba Orisha "Obatala" means the "King of purity". Oba meaning king, and Ala meaning purity. There is also Obaluaye, Obalufon etc. All meaning King of different things/entities/concepts.


OBA in Yoruba means one who presides, reigns or in charge; the verb is 'ba' (to preside) while the noun is 'oba'. Hence, the names likes, Obasanjo, Obayemi, etc, also words like Ijoba(reign, ruling), Omoba(prince), Omobabinrin(Princess), etc.

Kabiyesi, Kabiesi is gotten from kabi ọ́ o si, meaning ' there is no one like you'. It's a praise word or greetings for Oba/king or God.

Oòni, Alaafin, Ewi, Ọwá, Olu.., Oni..., are different tittles for different Oba/king in Yorubaland to identify their territories. Linguistically, King simply means Oba.


I'm waiting for Benin version

kokomilala:
[s]Oh,so these Easterners are human after all? I saw how they regaled the much-vaunted exploits of the ESN ,and how it was the best thing that happened after sliced bread.And, I was shocked at how they gleefully and invidiously ridiculed the people of Yewa- some of them,not all- who have found temporary refuge in Benin Republic.
I've noticed the Igbos just like unnecessary competition over petty,grave , flippant and almost impossible-to-achieve things with the Yoruba.But they've forgotten that Yoruba states, particularly,Lagos ,has provided economic and social refuge for many of them overtime.So,in a sardonic sense,who are more refugees?[/s]

Difrent:


[s]Aren't you masters of Revisionism .
What is know to every one is what you are stubbornly lying about and looking foolish about it . History is full of accounts of your forefathers romance with this same fulanis you claim to hate ...even Ojukwu was pardoned by fulanis and he foolishly also joined their party . When y'all blab about abori , why didn't Aguyi ironsi implement it but rather chose to further Unify Nigeria
Why didn't GEJ (your adopted son) implement the report of the 2014 confab , at least he had a full year after the report before leaving office , he won't because IBOS DON'T WANT TO EVER LEAVE FULANIS
forget all this noise In the heat of the moment ......the Ibos are waiting for the next fulanis man to want to contest elections so they could swarm him like flies swarm poo[/s]

SuperBold:


Your joke is as funny as contaminated water in Enugu

SuperBold:
If I hear any IPOB miscreants sound here, we go airlift am go Mogadishu barrack order by Uzodinma and Umahi

udede:
where did we got it wrong in this country