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TERRORISTS NOW DISGUISE AS FULANI HERDSMEN, SAYS IYC


altIn a statement yesterday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, by its spokesman, Eric Omare, IYC condemned the “slaughtering” of innocent Nigerians in the Middle Belt, Southwest and, recently, in Enugu State, Southeast.

The statement said: “We believe that the attacks are carried out by terrorists, who disguise as Fulani herdsmen. “The traditional Fulani herdsmen have been grazing their cattle for decades in different parts of the country without such attacks, until recently when the attacks became persistent.”
 

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On the whole, Nigeria remains a worthy light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel project, in spite of the crisis of value, compounded by crisis of structures, that currently threatens her existence.

All the same, as Nigerians are expecting the president to experiment the miracle of the Marriage at Cana, another critical area that has of late become Nigeria's defining identity is the activity of Fulani herdsmen.

And, while it may be convenient for us to problematize our assumptions, It is doubtful if there is any significant difference between Boko Haram terrorists who waste precious lives in Damboa and Fulani herdsmen who kill poor farmers in Yorubaland.

It is therefore necessary that the president would without further delay rise to the strategic imperative of unimpeachably confronting this affront on our collective humanity before it gravitates into a dangerous platform for hypocritical application of ethnic idioms as a means of extending political mileage and re-strategizing access to power. 

"In the final analysis, it's time Nigerians came to terms with the fact that terrorism could have more than one script!



"May the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace in Nigeria!"‎ 

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