₦airaland Forum

Only??

what of the killings in enugu.

Wetin be this liverpool gk name?..that guy na basket o

If u like lose 2b people and 10b cows, just stop entering peoples farm.mtchewww

Kai, this is very lugubrious, saddening, mournful and gloomy. How could I be sharing same country with these set of people. 2m cows and u have the gut to take law into hand and kill people. Pmb is a disappointment on this. In a sane society pmb should be killed and feed to the dogs.

let more shall dey lose

Shit hole...

metronaija4:
A Text of Press Conference by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) on Sunday, January 14, 2018

Members of the general public are already aware of the burning national security challenges with violent hostilities affecting pastoralist community in different parts of the country.

These very unfortunate crises have since degenerated into dangerously intolerable level of killings, maiming and unprecedented destruction of property. More worrisome is the fact that the pastoralist community which has been the main target of the offensive is also deliberately been pointed as the attackers at the same time. This horrible accusation in both intent and purpose is meant not only to smear the image of the herdsmen as a peace loving community, but to also allow further criminal justification to carry out total ethnic cleansing on our members, as witnessed in different parts of the country.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria as the premier pastoralist body in the country has remained in unimaginable pains on daily basis as we receive communication of gory details of attacks, maiming and destruction of our members across the country..

For the avoidance of doubt, we totally condemn violence, in whatever form anywhere in Nigeria and by whoever. It is important to note that the pastoralist share a long relationship with many communities in the country, as they carry out their legitimate occupation of nomadism/pastoralism; carrying along their lives, families and possessions making it impossible to foment trouble.

Our disposition as the immediate neighbours to almost all Nigerians does not only make us vulnerable but also susceptible to baseless accusations by promoters of violence, despite us being the worst victims.

We are however not denying the fact that, as any other community in the country, we are also battling with misguided and criminally motivated elements who indulge in social vices and criminal activities. However, these few miscreants do not represent the mainstream of herdsmen.

In fact our case is worsen by long years of exclusion suffered by the Fulani herdsmen as the most neglected community in the country, thereby depriving us of so many things.

The current situation in our opinion is fuelled by the draconian laws put in place by some state governments with the singular aim of chasing our people out of the states simply for ethnic hatred.. The anti-open-grazing law in Benue, Taraba and other states is nothing more than a symbol of intolerance and do not in any way intend to solve the farmers/grazers conflict as the livestock breeders interest is neither captured in the law nor in its implementation mechanism.

While as a body we are not against any law that can engender peace, create societal harmony and stability, we cannot oblige any self-centred regulation with primordial sentiments based on injustice, intolerance and infringement of people’s fundamental rights. It is no longer hidden that to achieve these, some State Governments are sponsoring ethnic militia against our people, recruiting and arming locals to kill our people and rustle their livestock as seen recently in Benue and Taraba States.

Two days ago, the media was a washed with the story of Tiv militia gang arrested in Taraba State by the f them were recruited and dangerously armed by the Benue State Government to kill the Fulani herdsmen. No doubt the activities of these criminal gangs are putting our people in unbearable pains as they operate with the greatest impunity under the protection of the State Government.

Only very recently we have lost over 1000 people including children, women and the aged and over 2 million cattle to this gang. We are more disturbed today as this state government hides under the self created crises and blackmailing the Federal Government into releasing to them security operatives to achieve their illegal and wicked agenda on our people.

The trend of attacks on our defenceless members by ethnic militias oiled by a deliberate profiling through coordinated media campaigns against our members, to say the least, is the worst crime against humanity.

What started as communal clashes has since metamorphosed into a coordinated operation to exterminate our people. From the killings in Plateau State, to southern Kaduna to Benue, Taraba and Adamawa among others the story is only worsening by the day.

Let me refresh your mind on the unprovoked attack on the Fulani communities on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State. The attack, which took place around June last year on the sedentary pastoralist Fulani families who have practiced the much deceitfully advocated ranching for decades left about 700 people killed, over 20,000 cattle rustled or killed with over 300 communities burnt down. In Lau, 24 Fulanis were also killed. In Numan, Adamawa State, about 82 of our women and children were slaughtered in cold blood by Bachama militias. In Kajuru, Kaduna State, 96 were killed.

All these were committed in a span of 7 months, beginning in June 2017 to January, 2018. All the killings were done by ethnic groups who see themselves as indigenes and the Fulanis as marauders, even where the latter have been settled for nearly a hundred years. However, up till today nobody is arrested even when the perpetrators are well known to the victims. The pastoralists have been abandoned, unfortunately, to their predators.

In conclusion ladies and gentlemen, our story is a very sad and painful one. While we have suffered decades of neglect by the government with attendant consequences, the current national gang up against the herdsmen is not only endangering our survival as a people but also justifying action against us, no matter how crude and inhuman it is.

After reviewing the current challenges as they affect our members we are of the humble opinion that following steps can go a long way not only in dousing tension in the country but will also go a long way in reducing the perennial conflict to the barest minimum.

1. We carest minimum.

1. We confirm the position of His Royal Highness the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that in spite of the fact that 732 of our people were killed in Mambila and 82 women and children killed in Numan and nobody was arrested. We hereby demand for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes without further.

2. We further state that the refutal of the Emir’s position by the Taraba State Governor is merely a continuation of his desperate act of hiding the state government’s involvement and protection of the perpetrators of these acts.

3. Pay compensation to the victims of all crises to reduce their level of suffering.

4. The Federal Government should create a Federal Ministry of Livestock Development to attend to the multidimensional needs of the industry as is obtained in many countries and the enactment of a national law to carter for the peculiar needs of pastoralists in particular and the livestock subsector in general since the mischievous anti open grazing laws promulgated by some states have woefully failed to address the contentious issues.

5. We call for a federal judicial commission of inquiry into all these killings so as to unravel the truth and the offenders.

6. We wish to register our appreciation to all those who have refused to be blinded bypath of truth and justice especially the governors of Bayelsa, Plateau, Kogi and Nasarawa states, in the face of these complicated circumstances.

7. We disassociate ourselves from any other group or individual that is out to foment trouble in the country.

8. We also welcome the Federal Government’s current resolve to address the lingering crises and submit ourselves for any positive participation to restore mutual and harmonious relationship in the country.

9. We demand for immediate disarmament of all illegally armed militias across the country in the interest of peace, security and stability. Finally, we condemn in totality any attempt of branding herdsmen as terrorists as is being clamoured from certain quarters. We view this as the continuation of the hate agenda on our people and a very dangerous trend for the country.

Baba Usman Ngeljarma

National Secretary MACBAN

http://www.metronaija.ng/miyetti-allah-lost-1000-people-2-million-cows-taraba/

You are all mad including your father Buhari

Blue3k:
2 million cows these guys can lie. The that would be 10% of the total cattle population. Why are you guys in Taraba when open grazing was banned their anyway. The police should solve the rustling and murders that happened obviously.

Herdsmen are most neglected on what sense. The anti open grazing law is to primate ranching. Go to the 34 other states where it's legal or start a ranch. You don't have fundamental right to herd cattle.

The militias popes up after the killing. People will protect themselves. The government failed to and this organization didn't speak up when herdsmen were on murder spree.

u suppose to know Nigeria always double the figure of what they lose
1 million is 2 million

Is this since God created d world or what? Evil liars!

Is taraba benue?

If they lost 2million cattle in Taraba state alone,then they must remember to teach Buhari how to breed his own cattle because they don't seem to be growing in numbers.Afterall he is their radical patron.
Bloody liars and murderers!

2million cows. How many cows dey the full state?

Can someone summarise this nonsense

It is only when people cry out that they often remembered that they too have lost or have been killed. They think other Nigerians are fools

two million cows is roughly half a trillion naira.
i don't even know if this people think before releasing figures.

Story! Story!! Story!!! Why is this your claim just coming up? if not for the general condemnation of benue killings, this you claim wouldnt had seen the light of the day. another liar mohammed in the making and keep playing with human lives as if you created one

Very idiotic claim by these murderers.

TheFreeOne:
https://www.thehealthpilot.org/buhari-decides-restructure-nigeria-establishing-fulani-herdsmen-colonies-across-nation/

This is so vivid

It is a complete lie, pls ask them did they report to the police? I bet you all this cow eating farmers crops is done intentional so it could trigger to this killings, so they kill and then use the cow to justify their killings.

You're throwing up figures of herdmen and cattle lost in decades not even decade while you have killed thousands just in past two years besides casualties recorded during GEJ's administration.Your nomadic lifestyle is obsolete and primitive, go and buy land for grazing period!

metronaija4:
A Text of Press Conference by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) on Sunday, January 14, 2018

Members of the general public are already aware of the burning national security challenges with violent hostilities affecting pastoralist community in different parts of the country.

These very unfortunate crises have since degenerated into dangerously intolerable level of killings, maiming and unprecedented destruction of property. More worrisome is the fact that the pastoralist community which has been the main target of the offensive is also deliberately been pointed as the attackers at the same time. This horrible accusation in both intent and purpose is meant not only to smear the image of the herdsmen as a peace loving community, but to also allow further criminal justification to carry out total ethnic cleansing on our members, as witnessed in different parts of the country.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria as the premier pastoralist body in the country has remained in unimaginable pains on daily basis as we receive communication of gory details of attacks, maiming and destruction of our members across the country..

For the avoidance of doubt, we totally condemn violence, in whatever form anywhere in Nigeria and by whoever. It is important to note that the pastoralist share a long relationship with many communities in the country, as they carry out their legitimate occupation of nomadism/pastoralism; carrying along their lives, families and possessions making it impossible to foment trouble.

Our disposition as the immediate neighbours to almost all Nigerians does not only make us vulnerable but also susceptible to baseless accusations by promoters of violence, despite us being the worst victims.

We are however not denying the fact that, as any other community in the country, we are also battling with misguided and criminally motivated elements who indulge in social vices and criminal activities. However, these few miscreants do not represent the mainstream of herdsmen.

In fact our case is worsen by long years of exclusion suffered by the Fulani herdsmen as the most neglected community in the country, thereby depriving us of so many things.

The current situation in our opinion is fuelled by the draconian laws put in place by some state governments with the singular aim of chasing our people out of the states simply for ethnic hatred.. The anti-open-grazing law in Benue, Taraba and other states is nothing more than a symbol of intolerance and do not in any way intend to solve the farmers/grazers conflict as the livestock breeders interest is neither captured in the law nor in its implementation mechanism.

While as a body we are not against any law that can engender peace, create societal harmony and stability, we cannot oblige any self-centred regulation with primordial sentiments based on injustice, intolerance and infringement of people’s fundamental rights. It is no longer hidden that to achieve these, some State Governments are sponsoring ethnic militia against our people, recruiting and arming locals to kill our people and rustle their livestock as seen recently in Benue and Taraba States.

Two days ago, the media was a washed with the story of Tiv militia gang arrested in Taraba State by the Army who confessed that over 1000 of them were recruited and dangerously armed by the Benue State Government to kill the Fulani herdsmen. No doubt the activities of these criminal gangs are putting our people in unbearable pains as they operate with the greatest impunity under the protection of the State Government.

Only very recently we have lost over 1000 people including children, women and the aged and over 2 million cattle to this gang. We are more disturbed today as this state government hides under the self created crises and blackmailing the Federal Government into releasing to them security operatives to achieve their illegal and wicked agenda on our people.

The trend of attacks on our defenceless members by ethnic militias oiled by a deliberate profiling through coordinated media campaigns against our members, to say the least, is the worst crime against humanity.

What started as communal clashes has since metamorphosed into a coordinated operation to exterminate our people. From the killings in Plateau State, to southern Kaduna to Benue, Taraba and Adamawa among others the story is only worsening by the day.

Let me refresh your mind on the unprovoked attack on the Fulani communities on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State. The attack, which took place around June last year on the sedentary pastoralist Fulani families who have practiced the much deceitfully advocated ranching for decades left about 700 people killed, over 20,000 cattle rustled or killed with over 300 communities burnt down. In Lau, 24 Fulanis were also killed. In Numan, Adamawa State, about 82 of our women and children were slaughtered in cold blood by Bachama militias. In Kajuru, Kaduna State, 96 were killed.

All these were committed in a span of 7 months, beginning in June 2017 to January, 2018. All the killings were done by ethnic groups who see themselves as indigenes and the Fulanis as marauders, even where the latter have been settled for nearly a hundred years. However, up till today nobody is arrested even when the perpetrators are well known to the victims. The pastoralists have been abandoned, unfortunately, to their predators.

In conclusion ladies and gentlemen, our story is a very sad and painful one. While we have suffered decades of neglect by the government with attendant consequences, the current national gang up against the herdsmen is not only endangering our survival as a people but also justifying action against us, no matter how crude and inhuman it is.

After reviewing the current challenges as they affect our members we are of the humble opinion that following steps can go a long way not only in dousing tension in the country but will also go a long way in reducing the perennial conflict to the barest minimum.

1. We confirm the position of His Royal Highness the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that in spite of the fact that 732 of our people were killed in Mambila and 82 women and children killed in Numan and nobody was arrested. We hereby demand for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes without further.

2. We further state that the refutal of the Emir’s position by the Taraba State Governor is merely a continuation of his desperate act of hiding the state government’s involvement and protection of the perpetrators of these acts.

3. Pay compensation to the victims of all crises to reduce their level of suffering.

4. The Federal Government should create a Federal Ministry of Livestock Development to attend to the multidimensional needs of the industry as is obtained in many countries and the enactment of a national law to carter for the peculiar needs of pastoralists in particular and the livestock subsector in general since the mischievous anti open grazing laws promulgated by some states have woefully failed to address the contentious issues.

5. We call for a federal judicial commission of inquiry into all these killings so as to unravel the truth and the offenders.

6. We wish to register our appreciation to all those who have refused to be blinded by sentiment and are standing on the path of truth and justice especially the governors of Bayelsa, Plateau, Kogi and Nasarawa states, in the face of these complicated circumstances.

7. We disassociate ourselves from any other group or individual that is out to foment trouble in the country.

8. We also welcome the Federal Government’s current resolve to address the lingering crises and submit ourselves for any positive participation to restore mutual and harmonious relationship in the country.

9. We demand for immediate disarmament of all illegally armed militias across the country in the interest of peace, security and stability. Finally, we condemn in totality any attempt of branding herdsmen as terrorists as is being clamoured from certain quarters. We view this as the continuation of the hate agenda on our people and a very dangerous trend for the country.

Baba Usman Ngeljarma

National Secretary MACBAN

http://www.metronaija.ng/miyetti-allah-lost-1000-people-2-million-cows-taraba/

Fulani people, The worse is yet to come.

Just curious...who counted the cows? I don't think there is any way a country will lose 2million cows and 1000 people without making headlines. That's quite huge and unbelievable.

BIG FAT LIES. THAT IS WHAT THEY SAY EVERYTIME THEY JUSTIFY THEIR KILLINGS. THE ONES FULANI MEN KILLED IN GHANA WAS ALSO AS A RESULT OF RETALIATION ABI.

MIYETTI ALLAH ARE BIG FAT LIARS USING LIES FOR ISLAMIZATION AGENDA

Nothing but a press release meant to deceive the uninformed. The Hausa-Fulani agenda of islamization using herdsmen as foot soldiers must be stopped at all cost. All options should be employed to stop them.

The truth remains no amount of abcs under the sun can justify the barbaric and satanic slaughter of humans being witnessed for a while now!!!

If we all begin to kill and justify, who will remain?

Fulani cattle breeders are really neglected for a long time and so many were killed and their cattle. We can recall recent cattle rustling all over the country. But since most of them don't have any access to media outfit to express their grievances, they are left to leak their wounds in silence.

Sadly, the government has failed to tackle the enormous challenges between them and the farmers. Though some of them vent their anger by killing farmers even after little altercation. So bad!

We need peace to enable us grow as a country. Also, bad governance, poverty, unemployment and sentiments are among factors that continue to worsen the situation.

May peace reign in Nigeria.

This group are professional liars??

Where can rustlers hide 2m cattle?

Your god father will soon be out of office.

Bigboss111:
Fulani cattle breeders are really neglected for a long time and so many were killed and their cattle. We can recall recent cattle rustling all over the country.

SMH, travelling traders get robbed all the time and I don't recall them organizing
attacks on the community where the robbery took place. Why should rustling be any different?

But since most of them don't have any access to media outfit to express their grievances, they are left to leak their wounds in silence.

Ordinary people don't have access to media, to get media space you either pay for it or be a victim.
There is no free lunch anywhere

Sadly, the government has failed to tackle the enormous challenges between them and the farmers. Though some of them vent their anger by killing farmers even after little altercation. So bad!

There is no challenge between them and farmer, you guys are just creating problem where none exist.
An herdsman have no right to graze on private lands, that is the position of the law but because they
have powerful patrons, they are making claims where they have no claims.

We need peace to enable us grow as a country. Also, bad governance, poverty, unemployment and sentiments are among factors that continue to worsen the situation.

May peace reign in Nigeria.

Peace will never reign until you stop pretending and call a spade a spade.

TheFreeOne:
https://www.thehealthpilot.org/buhari-decides-restructure-nigeria-establishing-fulani-herdsmen-colonies-across-nation/

one big haters of islam,u know ur name ? we exceptionally call u kafiri that is infidel,u are worse than idol worshipper but indeed we heard abt u in a long time. The justification of killing fulani as nothing u claimed is a clear bias and hatred to promote tension in the state of the country just bkos u hate buhari,secondly the caliphate u talked abt is a better way of life than ur obvious wrong christianity way where u only worship a man that have penix and anus as a god,to my understanding any person that failed to realized a God must be pure and capable is a mad man and just supressung truth just bkos he find his parent on the path,jesus christ and his followers have no ground to curse or insult islam bkos he lacked the features that comprises an entity God but the moment God become as a man with penix and blossom anus just like ur garri egba anus then i will say sorry to u as i pity ur senses following a man that can even get tied as mentioned in ur scriptures full of doubt and differences. I never read replies in case u try to do that but remember i am one of the northern illitrates as u can see how i use my wordens i hope u can read and understand the jargons

Must you guys tour the whole country with your cattle?

Can't you guys have your own ranch in your domain, I mean your source, enough of saying you have spent over decades of years in a place, you will always be a stranger, so go back to your source (orisun) or abide by the rules of your host.

Come to think of it this way, most of these herdsmen are employed by the rich few in the north to take their cattle for grazing when they can actually afford a ranch for their cattle

Fulani herdsmen, can't you guys just sit and think for once, how come the rich are using you and your family for hard task with little reward while their family are living in affluence.

Fulani herdsmen, send your children to school and resist these few rich Fulani who want to continue to use you guys as slave and their children will still use your children as slaves.

Bastard lieing at will. Good punish blood suckers