Fulani Herdsmen Attack: Middle-Belt Forum Seeks FG’s Intervention
The Middle-Belt Forum has called for the urgent intervention of President Mohammadu in the face-off between fulani herdsmen and Bwatiye people in Numan, Adamawa state.
According to a statement from the forum, signed by its President, Bala Takaya, the forum warned traditional rulers in the north to restrain from making inciting statements.
The forum, which elected its new leadership last week also regretted the inclusion of former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank,
Mr. Obaddiah Mailafia, CBN, in the new Executive Committee members, saying he was wrongly included in the list of the new exco.
The forum it has hindsight into the act of bringandage by hhe herdsmen.
The forum said, “We therefore, hereby demand that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria intervenes in this matter immediately by not only quelling the situation to avoid further escalation,
but also to call the said instigators to question and account for the infamatory statement which was made with such and air of impunity and utterance which led to the on-going mayhem.
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“On our part we have in hindsight been painfully reviewing the prior act of bringandage engaged in by the Fulani killer herdsmen.
“But we observe that they are the same people as the night marauders that had since long specialise in raiding amd burning down towns and villages at night in the process of which they also engage in the killing of residents in their sleep or as they fled the infernos insuch places like, Babale, Riyom, Mangu and Barkin Ladi on the Jos Plateau.
”Amazingly, we are yet to hear of any of the culprit involved been arrested and brought to book, even, when iddentified.
“Ironically, it now appears that any injury or. Casualty suffered by the invader Fulani herdsmen following an encounter and pursuit in self defence must not go unpunished?”
Doosuur Iwambe- Abuja
