Youth groups in the Middle Belt
have declared war on the rampaging Fulani herdsmen, saying they have signed
their death warrant.
The National Council of Tiv
Youths, NCTY, and the Middle Belt Youths Council, MBYC, have stepped out to
defend their region.
In s separate interview with the
Punch, the youths said they will no longer fold their arms and watch their
people being slaughtered by the cattle herders.
The President of the National
Council of Tiv Youths, Dr. John Akperashi, said his members had decided to die
while making sure further attacks by the dreaded herdsmen do not happen.
He said, “The battle line has
been drawn. The youths in the Middle Belt are ready and have agreed to rise up
in unison to reject the Federal Government time bomb dressed in white robes.
“The Tiv youths particularly are
pushed to the wall now and have collectively signed their death warrants, ready
to pay the supreme price if that would count, to sustain and protect our lands
from any form of colonisation, be it cattle, human or both.”
Also, the President, Middle Belt
Youth Council, who is also the youth leader of the Middle Belt Forum, Emma
Zopmal, noted that by its inaction, the Federal Government was telling the
Middle Belt youths to resort to self-help.
He said, “We cannot sit and watch
this manslaughter on a daily basis. Life does not have a duplicate and it
should not be allowed to be wasted needlessly all the time. The days of
mourning will soon be over in the Middle Belt.
“The Fulani are only 4 .7 million
in Nigeria. How then can they continue being a threat to the whole nation of
more than 160 million people that are not Fulani? Enough is enough; we are now
poised for war.”
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