In 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.”
OUR VIEWS
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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