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Crime / Re: Soldier In Borno Kills Army Captain, 4 Others, Then Kills Himself (Graphic Pics) by mustaphasaidu: 1:36am On Nov 13, 2017 |
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Crime / Re: 16-Year-Old Girl Who Was Gang-Raped By 4 Boys, Dies Of Strange Ailment (Photo) by mustaphasaidu: 1:26am On Nov 13, 2017 |
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Crime / Re: 16-Year-Old Girl Who Was Gang-Raped By 4 Boys, Dies Of Strange Ailment (Photo) by mustaphasaidu: 1:26am On Nov 13, 2017 |
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Crime / Re: 16-Year-Old Girl Who Was Gang-Raped By 4 Boys, Dies Of Strange Ailment (Photo) by mustaphasaidu: 1:26am On Nov 13, 2017 |
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Crime / Re: Mambilla Militia Attack Cattle Owned By Fulani Herdsmen Again In Taraba. Photos by mustaphasaidu: 11:18pm On Jul 16, 2017 |
International Press Release on the True
Position on the Recent Crises between
Farmers and Grazers on the Mambilla
Plateau.
By Sardauna Local Government
Stakeholders.
Preamble
We are disturbed by the sad events on the
Mambilla Plateau and condemn in strong
terms the outbreak of communal unrest
between grazers and farmers on 17 June
2017, which started in Nguroje Village Area
and spread to other parts of the Mambilla
Plateau resulting in the loss of lives and
properties.
Remote Causes
It is a well-known fact that between 30
December 2001 and 2002, certain armed
Fulani militia invaded the Mambilla villages
of Leme Yirima, Tunga Lugere, Damu etc
where 7 Moslems of Mambilla extraction
were murdered in the mosque during
morning prayers at Leme Yirima, and this
attack escalated to other parts of the
Plateau which resulted in wanton
destruction of lives and properties.
That attack by the Fulani militia was an
attempt to dispossess the Mambilla of their
ancestral land. This attracted the attention
of the State, Federal Government and the
International Community, particularly the
United Nations. The crises led to the flight of
many people from the area to Cameroon and
other parts of Nigeria as refugees.
This also led to a fact-finding mission made
up of the UN High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) in collaboration with the State and
Federal Government in an effort to reconcile
and resettle the refugees and internally
displaced persons. Consequently, the
UNCHR recommended that for a lasting
solution to the grazers-farmers crises, a
peace reconciliation committee made up of
stakeholders of all the tribes on the
Mambilla Plateau be constituted.
Accordingly, the then Governor of Taraba
State, H.E Rev. Jolly Nyame directed the
Local Government Council to constitute the
said committee, which was headed by the
then Local Government Chairman Transition
Committee, Alh. Aliyu Jibo, a Fulani man.
The Ten-member committee consisted of
representatives of all the tribes. At the end
of the committee’s meeting (which held from
7-8 June 2003), a communique which
identified the problems and proffered
solutions to the crises was issued to the
Government for implementation. The
problem identified by the Committee were as
follows:
“4.0 The Meeting identified the
following as the major problems that
militated against the coexistence.
1. Land conflict was identified as
one of the major sources of
conflict between the farmers and
grazers.
2. Improper allocation of land by
the authorities.
Illegal occupation of land by
farmers and grazers.
1. Tribalism, hatred, rumor-
mongering, oppression, and
suppression by the rich.
2. Political differences/lack of
justice.
5.0 SOLUTIONS
The meeting resolved and
recommended the following as
solutions for peaceful co-existence.
1. The state government and Local
Government should constitute a
high-powered committee to
revisit the issue of land
allocation in Sarduana Local
Government using the existing
laws.
2. a.) All lands illegally occupied
during and after the crises
should be vacated under the
supervision of the Local
Government.
b.) All lands properly allocated by the
Local Government Land Committee
should be upheld under the supervision
of the Local Government.
c.) All lands illegally occupied by both
farmers and grazers before the crises
should be referred to the high-powered
committee for proper redistribution.
d.) All land matters should be handled
by the high-powered committee and/or
the Local Government instead of the
military personnel.
e.) In the spirit of give-and-take, those
who have much land should give those
in need (farmers and grazers).
3. The leadership of the Local
Government, Village Heads, Religious
leaders, Opinion Leaders etc should
preach to their subjects against
tribalism, hatred, rumour-monergism,
suppression, oppression, political
differences and injustice and live by
example as enjoined by the two holy
books (the Koran and the Bible).
4. Considering the population, terrain,
land mass and the army of unemployed
youth, there is the need to create more
Local Governments, Chiefdoms, and
districts from the present Sardauna
Local Government.
5. The meeting also resolved that the
purported petition written to His
Excellency by the Miyetti Allah Cattle
Breeders Association dated 1 st June
2003 be disregarded by His Excellency
as the contents were already discussed.
6. It was also agreed that from then
henceforth anybody who breaches the
law, no matter his position, should be
punished in accordance with the law to
ensure justice to all.
7. In the spirit of give-and-take, the
meeting agreed that all concerned
should forgive each other and forget
their past differences and live together
in peace and harmony with each other
as family.”
For the avoidance of doubt, members of the
committee as constituted were as follows:
1. Hon. Alh. Bakari Dan Jatau – Kaka
(Chairman).
2. Rev. Zechariah Yieju (JP) – Mambilla
– Member
3. S.M Vakude – Mambilla – Member
4. Alh. Labaran Mijinyawa – Hausa –
Member
5. Mr. Linus Ngah – Panso – Member
6. Mr Joseph Donatus –Kambu –
Member
7. Alh. Hassan Ardo – Fulani – Member
8. viii. Mal. Idrisu Nalalle – Fulani –
Member
9. Dr. Umaru Bakari Dorofi – Fulani –
Secretariat
10. Aliyu Umaru Njeke – Mambilla –
Secretariat
This was done under Alh. Aliyu A. Jibo
(Fulani man), who was the then Chairman,
Transition Committee of the Local
Government, who countersigned the
Communique.
From the above, the Committee had five (5)
Hausa-Fulanis, three (3) Mambilla, one (1)
Kaka, one (1) Panso and one (1) Kambu.
It is of interest that while other
recommendations of the above committee
were immediately implemented, the
fundamental recommendations that:
1. “The State Government and
Local Government should
constitute a high-powered
committee to revisit the issue of
land allocation in Sardauna
Local Government using the
existing Laws”.
2. “All land matters should be
handled by the high-powered
committee and/or the Local
Government instead of the
military personnel”.
3. “In the spirit of give-and-take,
those who have much land
should give those in need
(farmers and grazers)”.
And,
4. “All lands illegally occupied by
both farmers and graziers before
the crisis should be referred to
the high-powered Committee for
proper redistribution”,
…were never implemented by the previous
governments until the constitution of the
Justice Nuhu Adi Judicial Commission of
Inquiry by His Excellency, the Executive
Governor of Taraba State, Arch. Darius
Dickson Ishaku on 13th June this year,
2017 .
It can be recalled that on 10 th May 2017,
the Taraba State House of Assembly adopted
a resolution that culminated in the
constitution of a House Ad-Hoc Committee
on Communal Crisis between Armed
Herdsmen and Farmers in Takum and Ussa
Local Government Areas and Alleged
Security Threats in Nguroje State
Constituency, which in its report also
recommended:
“That a Judicial Panel of Inquiry be set up
by the Government to investigate and
scrutinize how lands are acquired on the
Mambilla Plateau. And also investigate the
way and manner certificates of occupancy
and grazing permits are issued to
individuals with a view to addressing the
situation”.
Prior to this, there have been pockets of
crisis between farmers and graziers, which
were known to security men and series of
meetings and consultations were held by
stakeholders of the ethnic groups from
Sardauna Local Government to douse the
rising tension in the area.
Furthermore, Government convened a
meeting of the representatives of the ethnic
groups of the Mambilla Plateau (Mambilla,
Kaka, and Hausa-Fulani) in the EXCO
Chamber, Government House, Jalingo, where
they aired their grievances, resolved to live
in peace and pledged to work with the
Judicial Commission to be constituted by
Government.
Immediate Causes of the Crisis
1. While the Judicial Commission has
invited memos from the general public
and/or those concerned, two Mambilla
Community Leaders were arrested in
Nguroje at the instance of the Fulani
over a matter that was the very
subject of the Judicial Commission’s
investigation.
2. Following the arrest of the said
Mambilla Community Leaders and the
resultant tension in Nguroje, the Local
Government Council Chairman, Hon.
John B. Yep, visited Nguroje to calm
frayed nerves only to be attacked by a
Fulani gunman who fired gunshots at
the Council Chairman, shattered his
windscreen and narrowly missing
assassinating him.
These two incidents shattered the peaceful
atmosphere in the area and created much
alarm among the people thereby sparking off
the unrest that immediately ensued.
3. Again, the Fulani killing of innocent
Mambilla and Kaka people in Mayo
Sina, and the complete decimation of
the Mambilla Villages of Lijire and
Damu whose dead bodies and injured
inhabitants were evacuated to Gembu
General Hospital incised the people
and sparked further unrest as a
reaction to the killings by Fulani
militia that were going on
uncontrolled in those villages.
This action of the Fulanis is an apparent
disregard for the Judicial Commission that
was preparing to look into the subject of
dispute in the area. It is clear that the
masterminds of the arrest and the gunfire
incident in Nguroje deliberately did so to
create unrest, undermine and frustrate the
Judicial Commission’s work that was
already in the process.
Correcting Public Misconception
We are dismayed by the flood of
misinformation being churned out to the
public about the crisis by the Fulani leaders.
1. The Fulanis falsely claim that only the
Fulanis were either killed or maimed in
the crisis. This is far from the truth.
Many people around Lijire, Damu and
mayo Sina villages are yet to be
accounted for.
Ligire and damu are Mambilla villages which
were completely wiped out by the Fulani
Militia and these villages contain hundreds
of inhabitants. There are unaccountable
number of dead and wounded Mambilla
people inside those villages. Are the Fulani
Leaders saying that these are not human
beings that were killed?
2. The Fulanis also claim that only
Fulani properties were destroyed.
However, facts on the ground show
that that the Mambilla and Kaka
people also lost their properties in the
crisis.
It must be noted that the Mambilla and Kaka
communities are unarmed and defenseless
in the face of armed herdsmen marauding
the villages. It is clear that the armed
Fulanis want to wipe out these defenseless
villages.
3. The Fulani leaders also went on air to
state that a certain politician was
fuelling the crisis. This is deliberately
vague. All tribes on the Mambilla
plateau have prominent politicians
including the Fulanis who hold almost
all the Federal appointments from the
Mambilla Plateau.
4. The Fulani also misled the world by
stating that over 300 Fulani
communities were razed to the
ground. This is a great deceit because
the entire Mambilla Plateau has only
43 village Areas; about 40 of which
are Mambilla and Kaka village areas.
Where did the Fulanis get their over
300 communities?
5. The Fulani leaders also engaged in
savage deceit when they showed
photographs of the victims of the
bomb blast in Adamawa some time
back as pictures from the Mambilla
crisis.
Their strategy in the crisis is causing
maximum deception to the public.
Our Position
1. We are surprised that there has
suddenly been a prompt response
from the security forces to the Fulani
call for their deployment. This
response from the security is
unprecedented in the history of the
armed herdsmen crisis in Nigeria.
Within just 48 hours, the Taraba State Police
Commissioner has temporally relocated his
office to Gembu on the Mambilla Plateau, a
Hausa-Fulani GOC of the Army has been
moved to the Mambilla Plateau and an army
battalion have been moved in.
At the same time, a military surveillance
helicopter has been dispatched to the
Mambilla Plateau and is hovering over the
Mambilla Plateau to protect the Fulanis.
This is a sharp contrast to the army’s
refusal to respond to calls for intervention in
the mass murder perpetrated by the Fulani
herdsmen against the defenseless people of
Takum, Ussa, Lau, Donga, Bali and Yorro
Local Government Areas of Taraba State.
Similarly, the genocide committed against
the villages in Agatu in Benue State,
Southern Kaduna, Kogi, Ekiti and Delta State,
etc NEVER attracted the army’s response
despite the nationwide outcry.
The security forces have never been drafted
in the swift manner we now see in the
Plateau. We suspect that this is a plot to
annihilate the people of the area using
security forces, as their entry into the area is
in swift response to the Fulani call.
Why did the army not take swift action in
the long assault and killing of people in
Agatu and all other places mentioned
above? Are those killed in those places, not
human beings? This is outrightly baffling!
2. We call on the security agencies to
immediately end the selective and
arbitrary arrests and protection of
individuals and particular groups in
the ongoing crisis.
In the first place, they were used by certain
persons to spark off the current crisis and
must do all it takes to restore the people’s
confidence in their intervention.
3. The Taraba State Government should
expand the scope of inquiry of the
just-constituted Justice Nuhu Adi
Judicial Commission of Inquiry into
the land crisis on the Mambilla
Plateau to include investigation of the
remote and immediate causes of the
latest outbreak of communal crisis in
Nguroje Constituency, the persons
instigating it, and to recommend
appropriate punishment for those
found wanting.
4. Finally, we appeal to the people of the
Mambilla Plateau to be patient and
embrace peace for the overall
development of the Mambilla Plateau
and Taraba State at large.
Signed:
1. Mohammed A. Tepsi
2. Ismaila D. M
3. Marcus Bovoa
For all and on behalf of Sardauna Local
Government Stakeholders. |
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