₦airaland Forum

ddippset:
Sentiments aside, 90% of people just sit down in their homes and pass a guilty verdict on the herdsmen. Yes there are stories about herdsmen allowing their cattle to trample upon farmlands and there are stories about herdsmen killing villagers but there are also stories about villagers hijacking cattle and killing them for meat and also villagers killing herdsmen over arguments. At the risk of sounding very very politically incorrect, I would say that much of the crimes committed against herdsmen go unreported and unpublicized while much of those committed by the herdsmen get publicized. Nevertheless the security guys must be more proactive to stop the killing of anybody. Anyone who kills in the name of herdsmen, farmers crisis should be hanged.

ganye1:
This is why it is good to listen to both sides to a story. The secretary told their story and non of the comments above has shown any sympathy to their loses and this attitude is the general way Nigerians treat issues of attacks on the Fulanis. Attacks on the Fulanis largely go unreported by the Nigerian mass media. The secretary mentioned specific attacks on the Fulanis, the loses they have suffered as a result and measures they took to avert crisis but all all have been ignored. The people of southern Kaduna should take actions that are geared towards restoring peace to the area and not listen those calling for retaliation because if it comes to fighting the nomads clearly have the advantage.

Gwan2:
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As someone rightly told you...you have no idea of what you claim to know abt the scenerio you pointed out...Have you ever given it a thought why "fulani" hardly have fracas with communities up north except Christian dominanted communities especially around the middle belt region?.....Sokoto, Kebbi, Kano are also agrarian states in their own respect, why don't we hear fulani and Moslem locals fracas.
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Lemme tell you an open secret....There is an agenda to either annihilate these ethnic minorities, make them politically and economically irrelevant....What you don't knw is that...Once dis folks sees you as an infidel, it is already a license to kill at will.

Exciton:
Boycotting their beef won't stop them from grazing in southern lands. In fact, they'll only have more cows to care for... meaning more chances for conflict.

However, I do agree that we are cowards and are greedy; otherwise, this won't be an issue in the first place.

Richy4:
This is a brand new year bro.... I believe you will be adding one more year to your age....It is not good to remain a boy year in year out....You need some growing up to do both physically and mentally....I did not type this to offend you but just an advise...

wtfCode:
Just imagine what's coming out of ur mouth
Dirty humanbeing
With all that shit u just spilled from ur mouth,that shows how ur are..."unreasonable thought spilling yorubas".

shamecurls:
Well said.....A grazing reserved area needs to be apportioned to this herdsmen across all states so as to confine and monitor there operations but its a pity our ethnoreligious bigotry has gotten us this far.

Jokerman:
U quoted wrong person bro....

Jokerman:
U quoted wrong person bro....

epidi:
There is a big trouble ahead of Nigeria if the Fulanis' are allowed to settle down in any place to graze their cattle.This is the same mistake the Jos people made and they paid heavily for it.Its obvious now that it was planned all along to annihilate other tribes so that they could take over everything.Their plan will always fail like it had in the past.

Anasko:
John Shiklam in Kaduna
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) believes that peace can only return to Southern part of Kaduna State only if both parties involved in the killings forgive each other and stop reprisal attacks.
Addressing a press conference at the weekend in Kaduna, Assistant National Secretary of the association, Dr. Ibrhahim Abdullahi called on he people of the area forget about what has happened in the past and move om. “We call on the entire people of southern Kaduna to forgive what has happened. Both parties should learn to forgive.
“This crisis will never end if you think you would go and revenge what happened to you , so we’re appealing to all parties to sheath their swords and embrace peace” Abdullahi said.
The association also declared support to steps so far taken by the government of Kaduna state and all the security agencies aimed at ensuring the return to normalcy in the crisis ridden area.
Abdullahi called on leaders, especially, political and religious leaders to desist from making inflammatory statements that could escalate the situation in southern Kaduna.
“There should be no hate speech, we should avoid those speeches that paint us as fanatics or ethnic champions. Let us all work for peace. We inherited a peaceful southern Kaduna and I don’t think we are sensible if we bequeath to our children and grandchildren a southern Kaduna that is fighting itself. We want to assure that we will continue to work with people of goodwill. In southern Kaduna there are good people that are out for peace” he said.
Narrating the events that led to the current crisis that started sometimes in May, Abdullahi recalled that “an argument ensued between two pastoralists that were trying to pass through a stalk route with which resulted in a fight with a farmer.
“Bother parties were wounded and were taken to hospital for treatment and I think one of the Ardo from that area volunteered to pay for the treatment of the Fulani that were wounded, but some youths thought otherwise and organised themselves, killed the Ardo, set him ablaze, burnt about 67 of Ardo’s settlement and there we go.
According to him, “MACBAN with some well-meaning sons of southern Kaduna sat down together and started working on peace even up to the stage of signing an agreement.
He said further that a meeting of both parties was held at the Palace of Chief of Godogodo, “we asked all the nomads that were affected by those crises to return.”
He said both parties were about to sign the agreement for peace when another killings happened again as “Four nomadic youths rearing their animals were killed and we started again from square zero.”
Speaking further, he said some 42 belonging to some nomads from Plateau state were killed will passing through the area. “Later a new dimension was introduced to the issue where people just go out wherever they see a Fulani man with his cows, they attack and killed him.
“They block roads and stop vehicles, anybody with the sign of Fulani man should be brought out and kill etc. “That’s what has been happening. In one of the killings, a Mining Engineer with his brother from Niger Republic, who had signed a MoU with Nasarawa State Government to prospect for solid mineral and was traveling to Nasarawa state was stopped and killed.
“Some nomads returning to Plateau state from Niger state where they went for a function, and somewhere in Denghi and Delmai at the border with Plateau, about thirteen of them were killed in Darade and one of them is still missing, and the vehicle they boarded was completely burnt. We had to quickly go, meet and discussed with them.
“Some Fulani traders returning from Lafiya were followed and tracked from Kagoro and finally got at Samaru, some were killed, but two of them were saved by a Kataf man who hid them in house for two days before returning them. “That’s why we’re saying the idea of revenge and retaliation is wrong. If you want to attack Samaru now to revenge what happened to your brothers you may likely kill that Good Samaritan. So let’s avoid vengeance” Abdullahi stated.
He maintained that “as an association whose members has been unjustifiably accused and maligned, we think that it is time for us to make our stand and set the record straight for posterity.”
Meanwhile the Nigeria Police yesterday said it would establish a mobile police base in Kafanchan to address security problems in Southern part of Kaduna State.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, announced this to news men during a fact finding visit to the trouble area, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
“From the discussion I had with Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-rufai, we have decided to station a mobile police base in Kafanchan. We are here to see things for ourselves so that we have a lasting peace in the whole area.” The IGP said a panel had been set up to investigate the crisis in the area thoroughly, including the allegation that 800 people were killed in the crisis.
Idris said some of the reports on Southern Kaduna were exaggerated. He said most of the leadership of the villages had a lot to contribute to peace and unity of the area. “Some of the community leaders need to be cautioned. They are contributing to creating situation that does not exist.’’
He said the police were committed to restore lasting peace and later met with community leaders in the area. NAN recalls that Operation Harmony aimed at restoring lasting peace in southern Kaduna was inaugurated on Dec. 24.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/01/01/fulani-cattle-breeders-list-condition-for-peace-in-southern-kaduna/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

ddippset:
Sentiments aside, 90% of people just sit down in their homes and pass a guilty verdict on the herdsmen. Yes there are stories about herdsmen allowing their cattle to trample upon farmlands and there are stories about herdsmen killing villagers but there are also stories about villagers hijacking cattle and killing them for meat and also villagers killing herdsmen over arguments. At the risk of sounding very very politically incorrect, I would say that much of the crimes committed against herdsmen go unreported and unpublicized while much of those committed by the herdsmen get publicized. Nevertheless the security guys must be more proactive to stop the killing of anybody. Anyone who kills in the name of herdsmen, farmers crisis should be hanged.

kettle84:
did the so called population increase happened on 29 May 2015?

Fulani herdsmen became emboldened to kill Nigerians because their grand patron Buhari is shielding them.

up till date no single herdsman has been apprehended ever since they started killing Nigerians in their hundreds all over the country.

adilbee:
That's the truth, most of the crimes committed against Fulani go unreported and unpublicized while much of those committed by the herdsmen get publicized.
Many people taking Fulani's as ignorance people and very easy to cheat them, but they don't know that a Fulani man will never forgive, they are ready to kill or to be kill.

Jokerman:
You guys are making noise now because there is a moslem president...

God will catch you guys soon when Nigeria elects a Christian president....

Don't worry, continue doing mischief...

Corrinthians:
As usual, nnamdi kanu's zombies would be the first to arrive a thread like this and pour brown smelly spittle everywhere.

They were nowhere to be found on the thread containing a video of their heroes, boko haram fighters, killed by the nigerian army.

Pained souls.

ItsMeAboki:
You are 100% correct; the poor perception of the public for the herdsmen is the result of information mismanagement where one side has the loudest voice and ear of the public.

The media has woefully failed in giving factual and balanced report over the issue; they often invite only one side to discuss or relate opinions forgetting that there are always two sides to a story.
In this way, the herdsmen are always seen as the aggressors; while their nomadic lifestyle, poor education and lack of exposure lends them no voice and access to the media to counter such false claims against them.
The bias by the media is not surprising because majority of the houses are owned, manned and controlled by the largely Christian southerners who in turn have long established open hatred for the Hausa Fulani and Islam.

At the same time, political leaders are fanning the embers of hate and mistrust among the ppl through so many unguarded utterances and loaded speeches of hate as ethnic champions - in order to advance their selfish agenda.

It is unfortunate that we live in a country where some ppl are hell bent on disuniting it.

ephi123:
I can see it is only northerners on this thread that are supporting the evils of these herdsmen. We know you guys do not value human life and can shed them at will but the rest of us do.

Imagine anyone justifying such evil. Very appalling. Truly we have little in common with these bloodletting, anti-peace people.

“Some Fulani traders returning from Lafiya were followed and tracked from Kagoro and finally got at Samaru, some were killed, but two of them were saved by a Kataf man who hid them in house for two days before returning them. “That’s why we’re saying the idea of revenge and retaliation is wrong. If you want to attack Samaru now to revenge what happened to your brothers you may likely kill that Good Samaritan. So let’s avoid vengeance” Abdullahi stated

Corrinthians:
As usual, nnamdi kanu's zombies would be the first to arrive a thread like this and pour brown smelly spittle everywhere.

They were nowhere to be found on the thread containing a video of their heroes, boko haram fighters, killed by the nigerian army.

Pained souls.

BetaThings:
I am not supporting anyone
Anyone who kills unjustly should be put to death - no middle ground to this and I don't believe in the fallacy of does penalty does not deter
I don't care about deterrence, I am interested in sending to the void those who cut the lives of others short

But the truth is that it is possible that the entire truth is not being told
When Jos people killed and ate Muslims in 2010, a lot of people did not know because it was not reported
But it did happen

Did you read this



If the guy is saying no to reprisal attack, it does not mean that criminals should not be prosecuted

wtfCode:
Just imagine what's coming out of ur mouth
Dirty humanbeing
With all that shit u just spilled from ur mouth,that shows how ur are..."unreasonable thought spilling yorubas".

adilbee:
That's the truth, most of the crimes committed against Fulani go unreported and unpublicized while much of those committed by the herdsmen get publicized.
Many people taking Fulani's as ignorance people and very easy to cheat them, but they don't know that a Fulani man will never forgive, they are ready to kill or to be kill.

Pidgin2:
Are you one of the herdsmen?

ephi123:
You have no sense at all I'm sorry to say. We are talking about innocent people being killed right in their places of abode, and all your brain can think about is kanu. Pray tell what is the link between the two topics? It is a new year, definitely not too late to get some sense.