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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were in a gun battle with military personnel on Saturday night at Gbenga Daniel’s Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The battle ensued following the invasion of the hotel by EFCC operatives during a social function during which they were shooting indiscriminately in the air to get many injured.

The action compelled some of the attendees to invite the soldiers, which led to a shoot-out between the anti-graft agency officials and the soldiers.

The reason for the invasion of the hotel by the Commission’s operatives and if there were any casualties could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report.

The videos of the incident were posted by some Twitter users early Sunday morning.

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This is the video of EFCC agents invasion of Gbenga Daniel’s conference hotel last night. This is terrifying and totally unacceptable.

Nigeria cannot be a real place, this is a cruel simulation. pic.twitter.com/xB6J7ztXFk

— Man of Letters. (@Letter_to_Jack) November 28, 2021

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In the video posted by an eyewitness, gunshots and screams could be heard with people expressing shock and apprehension.

Someone said in Yoruba, “God, don’t let me die like this! Nowhere is safe in Nigeria again!”

On Twitter, Sammy @PsalmmyR tweeted, “So they got information that soldiers are on their way. They had to run away but had a shoot-out with the soldier(s) that lasted for hours.”

In another post, Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack tweeted the video with the comment, “This is the video of EFCC agents invasion of Gbenga Daniel’s conference hotel last night. This is terrifying and totally unacceptable. Nigeria cannot be a real place, this is a cruel simulation.”

Another Twitter user, Adeshina Michael @shina_adeshina also posted the ugly incident on his page

The violence in central Nigeria is now one of the country’s deadliest security threats after Boko Haram in the northeast and banditry in the northwest.

Plateau, Nigeria – Mary Hommes wiped her face with a red scarf as she recalled the August day when attackers ambushed her village in central Nigeria’s Plateau state.

“We heard about an attack around 5am [on August 2],” the 29-year-old told Al Jazeera three days later. “Before we knew what was happening, everywhere was in disarray.”

Mary saw three women run into the bush with their babies. She ran in the opposite direction.

“That was how I was able to escape,” she explained, struggling to hold back her tears.

From a nearby vantage point, Mary witnessed the violence that followed.

“They (the assailants) asked them (the three women) to keep their children on the ground. They said they were going to kill the three women and the women were begging for a pardon.

“They started shooting them.”

The assailants left the three babies – a three-month-old girl called Ruth and two boys, aged 18 months and two years old – wailing near the lifeless corpses of their mothers. Roughly two hours later, when the violence had ended, Mary emerged from her hiding place to rescue them.

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People who fled their villages gather for a meeting in the town of Kwall [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

Residents of Maiyanga, a village in the Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) which was formerly home to 400 people, many of them subsistence farmers from the Irigwe ethnic group, said they are not sure how many people were killed that day – but that it was more than was reported by the police.

The assailants, they said, were herders.

Villagers killed, buildings burned

According to the authorities, between July 31 and August 2, similar attacks took place across communities in Bassa and its neighbouring LGA, Riyom.

On August 5, Plateau state’s commissioner of police, Edward Egbuka, said that 17 people had been killed by unnamed “criminals” and 85 buildings had been burned in the two LGAs.

However, locals who spoke to Al Jazeera said that figure is grossly inaccurate. More people were killed and more areas were affected, they have insisted.

Residents of Maiyanga and Kishesha, another rural community in Bassa, said no fewer than 20 of their relatives lost their lives on August 2 alone.

They said that the attackers, heavily armed and dressed in military camouflage or long black coats, shot their relatives or slit their throats. They also razed several houses.

Local media reported that at least 400 homes were set ablaze by the assailants in Kpachudu, Kpetenvie, Nche-Tahu, Tafi gana, DTV, Zahwra and five other villages in Bassa. Like Maiyanga, these areas are dominated by subsistence farmers from the Irigwe ethnic group.

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Baby Ruth in her new home in Kwall, after she was rescued by Mary Hommes [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

Herder-farmer clashes

Plateau state is home to about 40 ethnic groups and has been a hotbed of conflict.

The clashes, mostly between Muslim Fulani herders and Christian farmers from the Berom and Irigwe ethnic groups, is often painted as ethnoreligious. But analysts have said climate change and scarcity of pastoral land is pitting the farmers and herders against each other, irrespective of faith.

The majority of Irigwe and Berom farmers grow acha (a grain known as “hungry rice”) and millet while the chief cash crops are yams, sorghum, corn, potatoes, cowpeas and rice.

The Fulani, meanwhile, are nomadic pastoralists, often of northern extraction, who have travelled to central and southern parts of the country in search of greener pastures for their livestock. In some cases, the pastoralists permanently settle in their host communities.

However, across the years, pastoral land scarcity compounded by increasing urbanisation has forced herders onto farmlands and restricted areas, such as national parks and conserved forests. This often results in the destruction of crops and ends up snowballing into a conflict between the herders and local farmers.

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Displaced people make their way to Kwall after fleeing the carnage of the late July-early August attacks [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

In retaliation, aggrieved farmers and members of farming communities sometimes attack the herders and their livestock.

‘Is it justice to kill the cow and the owner?’

Abdullahi Abubakar, 39, is a Fulani pastoralist who said his descendants have been in Plateau state for more than a hundred years.

In July last year, his son was slaughtered while herding cattle. Thirteen-year-old Mustapha had been tending to the livestock when he was attacked.

His suspected killer, an Irigwe farmer, is currently in prison while on trial.

Mustapha, who his father described as being “really good with arithmetics”, was in his final year of primary school.

“I feel very bad,” said Abdullahi.

“They (the farmers) kill our cows one after the other. When they kill our boys, they cut their heads. They shoot them to death or slaughter them.”

He believed the killing of herders and their livestock is not proportional to the destruction of farmers’ crops. “It is not a justification. If someone destroys your farm, is it justice to kill the cow and the owner?” he asked.

A history of attacks

The herder-farmer clashes are also fuelled by the dichotomy between those who consider themselves “indigenes” – the Berom and Irigwe people – and the Fulanis, who are regarded by many as settlers.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), this tension was at the root of the first documented clash – triggered by the appointment of a Muslim politician who was not considered an “indigene” to the post of local coordinator for the federal poverty alleviation programme – in 2001.

The move “was seen by some as a provocation and was strongly opposed by Christian groups”, HRW researchers noted.

The tensions turned violent on September 7, 2001, when a Christian woman attempted to cross a barricaded street outside a mosque during Friday prayers in Jos, Plateau state’s capital city.

“She was asked to wait until prayers had finished or to choose another route, but she refused and an argument developed between her and some members of the congregation. Within minutes, the argument had unleashed a violent battle between groups of Christians who appeared at the scene and Muslims who had been praying at the mosque or who happened to be in the neighborhood,” HRW reported.

This conflict later spread to other parts of the state, like the farming communities nearly 50km (31 miles) away in Riyom.

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Stephen Jugu, a former community leader in Rankum, fled attacks on his home village [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

HRW said groups of primarily young men on both sides of the religious and ethnic divide retaliated and sought to avenge real or rumoured attacks. In one instance, on September 11, 2001, some Fulani militias invaded the village of Rankum, home to a mainly Christian Berom community.

Stephen Jugu, a former community leader in Rankum, told Al Jazeera that assailants attacked the village and burned down his house. His grandfather and two others were killed. Stephen fled.

“We moved to different parts. Some entered Jol district, some in Barkin Ladi district. Everybody found a way to escape death,” the now 52-year-old explained, sitting in an abandoned structure that used to house displaced people in Vwang, Jos South.

He was once a successful commercial farmer who grew acha and millet. But, like many others, after the attacks, he left his farm and livestock to start a new life in a new community more than 32km (20 miles) away.

Today, he barely gets by working as a tin miner.

His former home village has been renamed Mahanga by the new occupants. Although the Berom and Fulani communities now occupying Mahanga signed a peace accord in 2018, Stephen said he wouldn’t dare return out of fears for his safety.

300,000 people displaced

In the years since 2001, the intercommunal conflict in Plateau has become a recurring problem. A Nigerian government investigative committee found that between September 2001 and May 2004, it resulted in the deaths of more than 53,000 people.

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The community mourns as a victim of the herder-farmer clashes is buried in Riyom local government area [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

Between 2001 and 2018, about 60,000 people were killed and more than 300,000 displaced across four Nigerian states due to the farmer-herder conflict, according to a survey conducted by development and policy advocacy firm Zinariya Consult with support from Global Rights and Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).

Joseph Ochogwu, one of the lead researchers on the survey and an associate professor at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, explained that of the 300,000 people displaced “176,000 [were] in Benue, about 100,000 in Plateau, and 100,000 in Nasarawa and about 19,000 in Taraba”.

The growing conflict now constitutes one of Nigeria’s major security threats after the Boko Haram rebellion in the northeast and the banditry ravaging the northwest.

‘Slaughtered like a cow’

After Mary rescued the babies in Maiyanga, she made sure that the two boys were sent to live with relatives in nearby villages. Then she fled with her husband, a rice farmer, her two children and the three-month-old baby girl, Ruth. With the baby in her arms, she trekked 20km (12 miles) to the town of Kwall, where they took shelter with some distant relatives.

Later that day, Ruth’s father came to meet them, but he had to return to Maiyanga to bury his wife, so he left the baby behind.

In the days following the attacks in July and August, dozens of displaced people who had fled their different villages converged in Kwall. On August 5, Mary was among those gathered for a meeting at the town hall, where representatives of a local humanitarian crisis group had come to assess their needs.

At the gathering sat Talatu Sunday, 33, who told Al Jazeera that she fled her village of Kikoba – 20km (12 miles) away in neighbouring Kaduna state – with her three children when the attackers came.

Her husband, Yakubu Friday, did not make it.

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Talatu Sunday’s partner of 20 years was killed in the attacks and she is finding it difficult to cope [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

“He was found around a river basin. He was slaughtered like a cow. Not gunshot,” Talatu said, crying.

In Kikoba, the couple, who first met when they were just children, were potato and vegetable farmers who would cultivate their individual plots before combining their produce to sell.

Now Talatu and her children – two boys aged nine and seven, and a girl of four – stay in her uncle’s house in Kwall; her dreams of growing old with Yakubu shattered.

“Anything that God opens the door for me [to have], I will use it to take care of the family,” she said. If security were to improve, she hoped to one day return to Kikoba to continue farming on their now abandoned plots, so that she might better provide for her children.

‘They will trail you like a dog’

Forty-year-old Sunday Madaki sat in Kwall district hall wearing an oversized, faded coat and torn shorts.

He mopped his face with a dirty towel as he described how his wife and 12-year-old child were killed in an attack on Kishesha village.

“We were not looking for trouble. We were just at home and … all of a sudden we started hearing sporadic shooting.”

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Sunday Madaki lost members of his family to the violence [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

Sunday asked his wife and child to flee, but the assailants trailed them and killed them, he said.

“If you are lucky to run away, you run away. By the time you are running, they will trail you like a dog.”

He lost five members of his family in total.

“But I have forgiven them (the attackers),” he muttered, explaining that his Christian faith teaches that vengeance is for God and not something for men to seek.

Sunday and his remaining seven children now live in his brother’s house in Kwall, and will not return home until they are certain that Kishesha is safe.

‘Both sides are at fault’

While suspected Muslim herders have attacked Christian farming communities, gangs of armed Christian youth have also attacked Muslims.

In August, an attack on Muslims travelling through Jos for a religious event reportedly led to the deaths of more than 30 people.

The state government responded by imposing curfews.

Abdullahi Ardo, the Plateau state secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, a group that represents the interests of the Fulanis, said “both sides are at fault” and to blame for not abiding by past peace deals.

But, he added, the media had not been fair to the herders. “When the Fulani are killed, they will be buried but no media will broadcast,” he said.

Still, he said that he was hopeful that both groups can co-exist without conflict as they had for many years before.

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In Kwall, a mother suckles her child in the midst of uncertainties for the people who have been displaced by the herder-farmer violence in surrounding areas [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

But Confidence McHarry, a lead security analyst at SBM Intelligence – a Nigerian geopolitical intelligence platform, believed there is no end in sight to the clashes, which he said have followed the same pattern as other conflicts in Nigeria – starting out as being about resource control before becoming “an ethnic conflagration” and “then, over time, religion shifts into it.”

Using media reports, Confidence has tracked more than 177 deaths in Plateau state resulting from the herder-farmer clashes between 2019 and 2021. But, local journalist Masara Kim said many deaths go unreported.

Masara, who has lost two siblings to the crisis, said the attacks are becoming more sophisticated.

“When it started in the 2000s, you [would] hardly see five out of 200 people armed with guns,” he said, explaining that back then many used “machetes and other crude weapons”. Now, however, guns are more widely used.

‘Local vigilantes’

A special task force, codenamed Operation Safe Haven, has been deployed to Plateau state since 2001, with members based within 30 minutes of some of the villages attacked on August 2. But with the Nigerian security forces facing a Boko Haram rebellion in the northeast and banditry in the northwest, and with military operations taking place in more than 30 of Nigeria’s states, Confidence believed they do not have the capacity to tackle this conflict.

Plateau state police spokesperson, Gabriel Ubah, said the police mobilise teams to communities when there are reports of attacks. “We try our best to ensure that arrests are made and investigate,” he explained.

Abdullahi from the Fulani association believes the solution could be for the government to support local vigilante groups to combat the violence.

“Each community has vigilantes who know their hamlets very well. The government should empower the local vigilantes more. They know the nooks and crannies of their environment,” he told Al Jazeera.

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A military checkpoint in Riyom local government area [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

The search for a lasting solution

Meanwhile, for a lasting solution, experts have suggested banning open-grazing – the system that allows indiscriminate grazing of farmlands by cattle – and instead promoting ranching, which would allow pastoralists to access a large expanse of land for grazing without encroaching on farmers’ land.

Nigerian herders must accept “modern animal husbandry”, said Femi Falana, a lawyer and rights activist, pointing to Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia, where ranching has been adopted.

“The worsening insecurity in the country including the violent clashes between herders and farmers can only be seriously addressed if policymakers are prepared to abandon primitive ideas and embrace scientific solutions,” he added.

On May 17, 17 governors in Nigeria declared a ban on open-grazing but President Muhammadu Buhari questioned the legality of it, saying the government was working on alternative solutions.

One of those is the National Livestock Transformation Plan (2018-2027), which aims to provide ranches across the country. As part of its commitment, the Federal Government, in July, approved a 6.25 billion naira ($15m) investment to launch a pilot scheme in Katsina state.

Safe, for now

Meanwhile, back in Kwall, Arogo Jesse, the assistant secretary-general of Kwall Youth Development Association, said the town was fast turning into a refugee camp.

“For now, the displaced persons meet every day in the morning from 10am to 12pm to pray and meet again later around 4pm. We don’t have much food for the IDPs and that is why we provide at least one meal for them in the afternoon,” Gastor Barrie, the chairman of the Relief and Intervention Committee in Plateau state, told Nigerian media.

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Solomon Dalyop, founder of a local NGO, addressed the grieving displaced people in Kwall [Alfred Olufemi/Al Jazeera]

Mary, her family and baby Ruth are still living with her extended family, who have also housed a few other displaced people in their simple mud home.

Solomon Daylop, a lawyer from Riyom and the founder of the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria (ECCVN), drove to where baby Ruth now lives following the August 2 attack.

Mary told the ECCVN team that, with nobody to breastfeed the infant, she was rejecting all food and feeding her was a challenge. Solomon promised to regularly check up on her and to assist with support from his organisation.

Mary has since told Al Jazeera that Ruth has gradually adjusted to her new environment and is feeding.

The coming months will not be easy, especially with the uncertainty about where they will all end up. But for now, at least, Ruth is safe.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/11/28/horrors-on-the-plateau-inside-nigerias-farmer-herder-conflict

Brimstone77:
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this boy do you have s*nse at all??

The news said that he will arrest youths and force them to admit being ipob members..

I don't no how you lots in the zoo reason..

You don't have any right to kill an already arrested/disarmed terrorist..

You only have the right to kill a terrorist on the battlefield i.e on the process of engagement..

You take arrested terrorists to court and let court decide their fate..

But you b*zos won't fail to display your ignorance online..

plaindealer:
This is so reckless and irresponsible, they just endangered this man's life.

SR just tagged this man for barbaric and sadistic killing by ipob terrorists, all based on dumb and idiotic ipob terrorist propaganda.

SR is the news and propaganda wing of terrorists all over Nigeria from BH to bandits and ipob terrorists..

Lifestone:
So tell me a place in the whole write up where there was a single prove of his identity as the one killing Igbos. Again I wonder how the Nation you are seeking will look like if you guys just believe an allegation without an iota of proof

freeborn02:
Have you seen now that the enemies of Igbos are not yorubas? Your enemies are among yourselves.

Idiko1:
The above post is a complete fallacy and a failed reverse psychology at its worst form. Every son or daughter who works with law enforcement outfit in Nigeria is now responsible for extra-judiciary killing of Igbo youths. This futile attempt on childish propaganda. Ndigbo had already identified their enemies in Nigeria before now.

conductor20000:
According to an illiterate online unity beggar, the Indigenous People of Biafra (over 70m population) are criminals and you're begging them to remain in the same country with you.

Your foolishness has no boundaries

Godons1:
Another IPOB propaganda and fake news.

Cyberterror:
You are very stupid to suggest that Ipob are innocent people.

conductor20000:
[s][/s]
This same useless rhetoric.

Fulani bandits are killing and kidnapping every moving thing in the North because of money.

Agberos and omonile are breaking people's heads and demolishing their houses because of money.

The one Tinubu is doing to Yoruba moozlems nko? After being killed by Fulani herdsmen he asked the villagers, "where is their cows"? "how did you know they are Fulani herdsmen"? Just because of a useless position he wants to contest.

Don't use because of one efulefu to say what you don't know about Igbos. Igbos are the most united and unbiased tribe in Africa. You should see how old women IN Anambra rejected N5k from APC. Can old women in your tribe do it?

Did you see how we rallied together for Nnamdi Kanu? Can your tribe do it?

Did you see how villagers flogged out Meth sellers from Igbo communities? Can your tribe do it?

Be guided.

Ezewuzie01:
Mugu get sense. IPOBs are enemy soldiers by every standard. The tag of terrorist has removed any protection or rights they would have had.

Ezewuzie01:
Why call him a traitor? Did he pledge his allegiance to Nigeria or to Biafra? Answer that question first before calling him a traitor.

Cyberterror:
Ipobs are terrorists. He is doing his job of eliminating terrorists.

EXCLUSIVE: Department Of State Services’ Officer, Samson Enweruzo Unveiled As Notorious For Forcing False Confessions Out Of IPOB Suspects, Involvement In Illegal Raids, Arrests, Extrajudicial Killings In South-East

Enweruzo studied at Government College, Owerri and the Federal University of Technology, also in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

An operative of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), identified as Samson Enweruzo is behind some of the extrajudicial killings and brutalisation of people in the South-East, in the name of finding Biafran agitators, SaharaReporters has learnt.


Enweruzo, who hails from Imo State, SaharaReporters further learnt, was involved in the invasion of the home of one Chuks Egwuatu and the illegal arrest and torture of four of his (Egwuatu’s) siblings.

SaharaReporters had reported how secret operations suspected to be targeted at eliminating Igbo youths started on Monday, 8th November 2021 when security agents invaded the house of Egwuatu at Asha Street, Topland Amechi Road, Enugu State, by 5 pm with the aim of taking him away secretly for elimination without a trace.

A civil society group, the International Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights Initiative (Intersociety), had drawn attention to the illegal raid in a letter to the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, dated November 10, 2021.

The group had also sent copies of the letter to the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the DSS, Amnesty International and other organisations, detailing how four siblings of Egwuatu, including a minor, were arrested when the security operatives could not find him.

According to Intersociety, on failing to arrest Egwuatu, the security operatives took away four of his siblings, claiming they were DSS operatives in Enugu and that Egwuatu should report to the agency’s office to secure the release of his siblings.

“Names of the arrested/abducted siblings of Egwuatu still be held by the claimed men of DSS in Enugu include Egwuatu Chukwuebuka (Male) Age: 20, Oruebube Hosanna (Male) Age: 18, Egwuatu Stephen (Male), Age 12, Idara Godwin (Female) Age: 22,” the group had said.

A top source in the DSS has however identified Enweruzo as supporting extrajudicial killings in the South-East and notorious for forcing false confessions out of persons suspected to be members of the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) or its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN).

SaharaReporters learnt that Enweruzo studied at Government College, Owerri and the Federal University of Technology, also in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

He is supporting the extrajudicial killing of Igbo youths,” the source said.

“He forces any youth he arrests to accept being a member of ESN, and then he brutalises them. He is currently in Enugu with his team; he came on special duty to the East.

“He is confirmed to be involved in raiding Chuks Egwuatu in Enugu and torturing his siblings.

“He slaughtered tens of youths in Anambra this year, went to Imo State and did same this year. Then he came to Enugu and has killed four youths extra-judicially, tortured the siblings of Egwuatu such that all of them went home with scares on their bodies.”

Intersociety had in its petition signed by its President, Osmond Ugwu demanded the immediate unconditional release of Egwuatu Chukwuebuka, Minor Egwuatu Stephen, Oruebube Hosanna and Miss Idara Godwin.

It had also demanded “adequate monetary compensation” for them, adding that relevant authorities should apologise to them in national newspapers for the violation of their fundamental human rights.

“We call on DSS and Police in Enugu state to ensure that the perpetrators of the acts of invading the house of Mr Egwuatu by 5 am be treated as kidnappers irrespective of the agency they represent and be prosecuted as such,” the petition had also noted.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/11/28/exclusive-department-state-services’-officer-samson-enweruzo-unveiled-notorious-forcing

redsun:
You imagine the amount of heavy metal on the foods that grow in that godforsaken land. It's a highly toxic and carcinogenic atmosphere,and that is why the life expectancy there is below fifty years or thereabout.

ba7man:
before your lie spreads.....

southniyikaye:
Written by gumi and associate..
Maybe their take over plan isn't working and they already fathom what their actions will bore after this regime..
So they may start putting nonsense like this out

The objective of this study is to uncover the systematic but neglected genocide against the majority Hausa-Fulani and Muslims groups of Nigeria and alert all the stakeholders.

The results show that over the years, there is factual systematic genocide against the Hausa-Fulani majority and the Muslims groups in Nigeria by the non-Muslims using various means and strategies – peaceful and violent, historical narratives, the media, public offices and positions; the various Nigerian state authorities have not been taking enough measures to avoid or stop the genocide.

The genocidaires are and their actions are known to the Nigerian state authorities and in most instances move and operate with impunity. Implication: The study found evident systematic genocide against the Hausa-Fulani and Muslims in Nigeria. Immediate and remote legal, political and socio-economic measures must be taken by the Nigerian state authorities as the situation is further degenerating, and threatens humanity, Nigeria’s unity and sustenance.

In less than a century (1900-1987), about 170 million people were killed in genocides and mass murder around the world (Rummel, 1994). Not only through physical violence, genocide is also perpetrated and executed through diseases, malnutrition, starvation, forced sterilization, dislocation, displacement and rape (Alvarez, 2010:7 & 12)

From available literature, no extensive study has been conducted to explore the systematic genocide against MHF of Nigeria. Therefore, this study uncovers the systematic, covert and overt genocide being executed against the MHF amidst deliberate bad publicity, orchestration of conflicts and violence, hiding the Christian and other non-Muslims atrocities, and a of game of blame the victims (Muslims) by the Christians and other non-Muslims, specifically from the north and other parts of Nigeria. While the Igbos have been falsely using the alleged genocide against them as a means of garnering local, international and ethno-religious sympathy and appeal (David, 2018:27).

There is a systematic genocide against the MHF groups of Nigeria. The groups are completely gripped in fear, uncertainty and pessimism, especially from the North where hate, gruesome killings, guerilla war, and elimination have been declared and normalized against them; thousands of children and women are being un-naturally turned orphans and widows; properties/investments worth billions of Naira being destroyed,; they no longer travel around Nigeria freely as they are murdered/hacked to death with impunity; they live in a state of hate, negative stereo-typing, and blame the victim game (Hassan, 2015:40). Properties are being lost, and apart from the use of local weapons, there are increased use of sophisticated weapons – artillery guns, bazookas, and the deployment and use of ex-soldiers as fighters by the ethno-religious groups against the MHF (Arowosegbe, 2016:7-8 ); between 1999 and 2015, over 5,500 Hausa-Fulanis were killed by the Odua Peoples‘ Congress (OPC) and local vigilantes members in Oyo and Saki; within the same time, and about 12,000 Fulani pastoralists were killed by the OPC members in ―Ajegunle, Eruwa, Gaa Kondo, Igbo–Ora, Ijebu Ode, Imeko, Ikenne, Iseyin, Mushin, Owode Egba, Oyo town, Saki, Sagamu, Sango–Ota, Waasinmi and Yewa‖ in South-Western Nigeria (Arowosegbe, 2016:15).

There is a conspiracy of psychological genocide among the non-Muslims and the Nigerian Christian dominated Media, especially the Southern based; some elements in the conventional security agencies are being used to destroy/distort evidences and exhibits, frustrate cases/thwart investigations/complaints by the victims; nothing is being done to the perpetrators of the genocide as most of the times, governments deliberately or otherwise aid and abet genocide (Totten & Parsons, 2009:3). This target groups which constitutes over 29% and 50% of Nigeria‘s ethno-religious groups composition are being un-naturally and violently killed, scapegoated, despised, resented, stereo-typed, laced and mocked at in an increasing and escalating rate (Mohammed, 2018:118, 119, 132).

Summary and Conclusion

No genocides occur overnight, but preceded by some clear indicators and only occur where the world, a state or people close/turn their eyes or neglect such indicators and existing realities. With those, there is a systematic and multi-dimensioned genocide being executed on both covert and overt ground against the MHF in Nigeria. Evidences and measurement standards are available, robust and viral to prove this genocide against the target group. The strategies being used are such that they are simultaneously executed having been preceded by rivalry and conflicts. The role being played by some Nigerian state authorities is typical to bureaucratic perpetration of the genocide and exactly what and how it had earlier occurred in other countries.

Some elements/bureaucratic perpetrators of the genocide within the Nigerian security agencies and other public services to cover up the atrocities and thwart all efforts, destroy evidences towards proper investigations, prosecution and punishing the culprits. With those, the targets are continuously being killed, economically crippled and impoverished, physically displaced and psychologically traumatised. All the perpetrators (their identities, whereabouts, and activities) in the genocide are known to the Nigerian state authorities. There is a complicity between some Nigerian state officials (especially within the armed forces), CAN and the other perpetrators to continue the systematic genocide in addition to instill Islamophobia, manufacture lies, and destruction of the genocide evidences. The perpetrators are fully funded, harboured and public intelligence reports are leaked to them.

Their activities are covered up by their fellow culprits and strengthened by state authority‘s negligence, inaction to prosecute those responsible. All past genocide records show that they started at lowest levels, but neglected by the states and society after which they grew out of control and plunged states and societies into savage, inhumanity and anarchy. This study is limited to the general act of genocide against the HFM groups of Nigeria. Further studies can investigate and reveal each of the issues raised in this study and conduct an in-depth investigation of the extent of the genocide and the specificity of its systematic kind and nature.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337422858_Uncovering_the_Systematic_Genocide_Against_the_Hausa-Fulani_and_Muslims_Groups_in_Nigeria

Brimstone77:
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Funny people..

They made this public to create a tense atmosphere for a successful attack..

If you no you no..

Now people living in this area will be in panic mood,some might possibly relocate to other neighboring villages to avoid being caught in a cross fire making the whole environment easy and prone to attack..

Few will understand this game..

The same DSS capable of obtaining such info are also capable to foil the attack secretly ...

Why making it public??

Terrorists have formulated plans to launch attacks on Ogun border communities and other border communities across the country.

This was revealed by the Department of State Services.

The DSS said it has intelligence that the terrorists intend to hatch their sinister plot on military bases in border towns.

The secret police, however, asked Customs and other security agencies in the country to put counter-measures in place to frustrate the dark plot by the insurgents.

In a letter dated November 25, 2021, addressed to the Customs Area Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun Area Command, Abeokuta, the DSS said:
“Available intelligence indicates plans by insurgents and criminal elements to carry out simultaneous attacks on military posts and bases in various border communities across the nation anytime from now.

“In view of the foregoing and the likelihood, such attacks not limited to the military personnel only, all law enforcement and security agencies with operational bases at border communities are advised to take note of the above threat and emplace countermeasures with emphasis on personal security of operatives to frustrate the planned attack, please.”

Nigeria has been bedeviled by deadly attacks by terrorists for over a decade.

Thousands of innocent Nigerians including scores of soldiers have been fell by the terrorists.

helinues:
We have been keeping goats with yams and still expecting the yams to remain some