The Igede people of Benue State
in Anambra and Delta states have berated the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly shielding Fulani herdsmen from facing the wrath
of the law over obvious terrorist activities.
The ethnic group also faulted the
government over its lack of interest and inability to take commensurate action
against the incessant killing of people by herdsmen.
A patron of Ominy Igede Anambra
/Delta States and immediate past President General of the association, Chief
Patrick Akobo, in a statement in Onitsha, described the latest killing of over
73 people in Benue State by the herdsmen as a “killing beyond pardon and an
affront to an average Benue man and woman.”
Chief Akobo urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to set up a special Police squad to control the menace of the
Fulani herdsmen who have repeatedly attacked and killed en-mass, the people of
Benue in their homes and farms.
“The popular view is that, Mr.
President being a Fulani himself, is turning a blind eye to an obvious act of
terrorism and well planned criminal activity with a hidden agenda and shielding
of his fellow kinsmen from facing the full wrath of the law.
“Mr. President sir, it is nothing
to be happy about that you have been able to control to some extent the Boko
Haram insurgency, only for the herdsmen to take over from them to cause more
havoc, but be informed that from the look of things, if nothing is urgently
done, the attack will only increase and cause tension in the country, and
reprisal and counter attacks will be the order of the day, thereby sounding the
drum of war.
“We are hereby imploring the
Federal Government to stop handling the Fulani herdsmen menace with kid gloves,
but to urgently take action to save the lives of innocent Nigerians. Nobody has
monopoly of violence. There is elastic limit to what Benue people will take
from the hands of the Fulani herdsmen,” he said.
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