Amnesty International has claimed that clashes between farmers and herdsmen have claimed at least 168 lives in 2018 alone.

In a statement on Monday, Osai Ojigho, country’s director of the organisation, called on the government to find a lasting solution to the crisis.

“The Nigerian authorities’ response to communal violence is totally inadequate, too slow and ineffective, and in some cases unlawful,” Ojigho said.

“Clashes between herdsmen and farmers in Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Ondo and Kaduna have resulted in 168 deaths in January 2018 alone.

“Hundreds of people lost their lives last year, and the government is still not doing enough to protect communities from these violent clashes. Worse, the killers are getting away with murder,” he said.

She said in 2017, 549 deaths were recorded across 14 states, while thousands were displaced.

“In 2017, clashes between nomadic herdsmen and local farmers resulted in at least 549 deaths and thousands displaced across Enugu, Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Cross Rivers, Adamawa, Katsina, Delta and Ekiti states.

“The government must totally overturn its response to these deadly clashes to avoid this crisis getting out of control. They need to investigate and bring suspects to justice,”‎ she said.

She also said the military was currently performing operations in 30 states of the country.

Ojigho cited an incident in December 2017, when a fighter jet had fired warning shots in an Adamawa village to prevent reprisals between the villagers and herdsmen.

“The frequent deployment of soldiers has resulted in many cases of excessive use of force, unlawful killings and extrajudicial executions throughout the country,” the statement read.

“The Nigerian military is currently performing security operations in 30 out of Nigeria’s 36 states and the federal capital territory, often taking over routine policing duties.

“The government’s reliance on the military for help in handling what should be public order situations has also seriously undermined the role of the Nigerian police.

“In some cases where the Nigerian security agencies did respond to communal violence, they used excessive or unlawful force resulting in even more deaths and destruction.

“On 4 December 2017, Nigeria’s air force sent fighter jets to fire rockets at villages as a “warning” to deter spiralling communal violence, as hundreds of herdsmen attacked at least five villages in Adamawa state to avenge the massacre of up to 51 members of their community, mostly children, the previous month in Kikan.

“An Amnesty International team visited the villages in the aftermath of the air raids and gathered witness testimony from residents who described being attacked by a fighter jet and a military helicopter as they attempted to flee.

“Launching air raids is not a legitimate law enforcement method by anyone’s standard. Such reckless use of deadly force is unlawful, outrageous and lays bare the Nigerian military’s shocking disregard for the lives of those it supposedly exists to protect.

“This is unlawful and excessive force on a catastrophic scale. It is yet another tragic example where Nigeria’s armed forces are found applying deadly military tactics to law enforcement situations.

“As the herdsmen shot people and torched homes, and the air raid resulted in fire, it was not possible to establish how much of the death and destruction was a direct result of the air attacks or attributable to the attack by herdsmen.

“Houses started burning. Children started running for their lives. Mothers packed up their children and escaped with them. We men were unable to fight back and we started running too. This jet burnt our houses and properties to ashes.

“In some villages, the rocket attacks happened at the same time as the herders raids, while in other villages the air force arrived shortly afterwards, witnesses told Amnesty International.

“Locals in each village also provided Amnesty International with lists of the dead, which totalled 86 names.

“The Nigerian authorities must investigate these attacks and, where these investigations indicate criminal responsibility, prosecute those responsible and bring them to justice,”‎ it added.


http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/30/amnesty-international-reveals-many-nigerians-fulani-herdsmen-killed-2018/

Amnesty international again

the mods can try to bury the truth, but it must come out one day

Buhari their chief patron was in Ethiopia preaching peace while his county was burning.
Buhari must be sent to their cattle colony next year!

168people x12 months = 2016 people

168 souls, I mean mothers, children, men, boys and girls murdered in cold blood in less than one month! Yet the sh!thole is not at war!? The continued existence of Nigeria is a crime against humanity.

IPOB INTERNATIONAL
According to e-rodents and fools.

royallord1:
Amnesty international again

NO IPOB international.

we never even commot January

And Ipob has killed zero, so Ipob are terrorists

Nigeria is one of the worst places to be alive in 2018.

Imagine 168 souls in less than a month,even worn torn countries do not record such an amount of deaths in a short period of time.

More people die in Nigeria than in Syria,Iraq Afghanistan etc,and these countries are at war,and Nigeirans are under the illusion that they are not at war.

Imagine the security operatives dropping air missiles on a 'soft' area,after fleeing from herdsmen you are now hit by the missiles from those who are suppose to guide you?Life is Cheap in Nigeria.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

maslong:

NO IPOB international.

Hmmmmm

What do you expect from a shithole country? 2019 we are waiting

BiafraIShere:
168 souls, I mean mothers, children, men, boys and girls murdered in cold blood in less than one month! Yet the sh!thole is not at war!? The continued existence of Nigeria is a crime against humanity.

168 people slaughtered by Fulani herdsmen? Well according to Government, Fulani killers are just criminals. For Government, the real terrorist are IPOB who have not killed anyone.

maslong:
IPOB INTERNATIONAL
According to e-rodents and fools.

Read your comment again and ask yourself why you are commenting like a derailed and deranged person.

The body count keep rising while the tyrant is engrossed with perpetuating himself in power.

Sai Baba, Sai Failure

g

come 2019, some person's truly deserve be shown this way!!......it all lies in our hands

Buhari and his men are on a mission...
But I announce to them that there time is up!!
Abacha would be a better story to tell when GOD is through with Buhari...
He should step aside now to be safe... It's sooo clear that GOD'S Judgement is Looming on him...
GOD HATES Buhari!!!!

Buhari is on a mission to kill 200.

GavelSlam and all Buhari zombies come and defend Buhari against amnesty international.

Ov course d plan is already in motion

Sad, very sad

Jeez! How did we end up with this bastard called buhari,as president? So many lives have been wasted under this retarded evil being and nothing seems to be getting better. I'm so pissed!

Yet Mr. Buhari does not believe this to be enough to proscribe them as terrorists. Until they murder in thousands?

Only a heartless person still supports a murderous President.

That's an average of 5 people daily. If they continue at that rate that means they would have murdered over 1,800 people by the end of 2018.

That's outrageous.

The only solution to this menace is ranching.

guterMann:
Nigeria is one of the worst places to be alive in 2018.

Imagine 168 souls in less than a month,even worn torn countries do not record such an amount of deaths in a short period of time.

More people die in Nigeria than in Syria,Iraq Afghanistan etc,and these countries are at war,and Nigeirans are under the illusion that they are not at war.

Imagine the security operatives dropping air missiles on a 'soft' area,after fleeing from herdsmen you are now hit by the missiles from those who are suppose to guide you?Life is Cheap in Nigeria.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

Dude that's already happened. Over 20 million people now face devastation in the North according to UN. Since last November, UN ranks Nigeria with Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan..funny those countries are currently at war. This btw is from Boko haram only, now imagine with the fulani herdsmens kill included. But to Nigeria, they "technically defeated" boko haram, the fulani herdsmens are "criminals". It's IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu is their problem and are "terrorist"

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/20m-now-face-devastation-un-ranks-nigeria-somalia-yemen-south-sudan/

I think trump was being nice and diplomatic when he called them a shithole. It more of a hellhole to be precise