We are ready for Fulani herders, Biafra Youth League tells Miyetti Allah
By Our reporter
A separatist group, Biafra Nation’s Youth League (BNYL) says its member and the entire young people of the South East and South- South are ready and waiting for Fulanis to evade the regions, take the land by force and establish RUGA settlements as threatened by the Miyetti Allah.
The league posed the challenge following calls from some northern leaders for Fulani herders to remain in the Southern part of the country and defend themselves against any ethnic militia.
It said earlier statements credited to Prof. Ango Abdullahi on behalf of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the one lately by Miyetti Allah’s Kautal Haure are an open affront and clear threat to the rights of South East and South-South to live in peace in their native lands and are therefore not acceptable.
The group therefore, said they are ready to defend their land as well as crops and other valuables that God has blessed their people with from external aggression, adding that they have organized strong resistance groups across its areas of influence to repel any attacks by killer herdsmen,
In a statement sent to Daily Times on Sunday, Chief Press Secretary of BNYL, Comrade Kufre Obot confirmed this development, saying that “the apex Fulani group is encouraging the killer herdsmen to remain in the South and kill, in pretence of self -defence.
“But, that is dead on arrival because we have prepared our boys ready to repel any attacks. Miyetti Allah will be shocked at what they will see.”
He also disclosed that BNYL has focused on community sensitization since 2016, adding that “we are a grassroots movement. This can be evidenced from our grassroots programmes in Eket, Ikom, Ahoada, Emohua, Bakassi, Obudu and other towns which are on YouTube. As a grassroots movement we have decided to checkmate herders’ excesses,” Obot said.
In addition, the group urged communities in the South- East and South-South to organize vigilante groups to alert the league of any attempt by strangers to infiltrate villages and farmlands across the entire regions.
