Opinion: DSS STATEMENT AND THE FULANI HERDSMEN PROBLEM by Nimrod

This writer knows a reasonable amount of well educated and well intentioned Hausa-Fulani. This article puts to light the same things a hood number of them have commented against.

Throughout history the major premise of violent conflict has always been the contention for resources. People groups, communities, and nations have gone into full scale war over material resources. This is not uncommon.

BREAKING NEWS: Fulani Herdsmen Kills Seminarian and Others in Enugu State

Today is a Very Sad Moment for the People of Enugu State as Fulani Herdsmen Invaded the Sleepy Community of Ndiagu, Attakwu, Akegbe-Ugwu in Nkanu-West Local Government Area of Enugu State, in early Thursday morning, by over 50 Fulani Herdsmen armed with machetes, Killed a Catholic Seminarian, Lazarus Nwafor and others.

PRESS RELEASE: ALLEGED TENSION AS FULANI HERDSMEN SACK COMMUNITIES IN ENUGU.

CP Ojukwu

The attention of the Enugu state command of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to various publications in some sections of the media dwelling on

(1)Herdsmen Scare: Enugu Community Abandons  Farmland  as reflected in Daily Sun of August,2016 page 5.

(2)Tension as Fulani Herdsmen Sack Communities in Enugu as also reflected in Saturday Telegraph of  13th August, 2016 Page 8.

Enugu State Command hereby present the fact as follows for the guidance of members of the public who may have been misinformed:

The Adventures of Fulani Herdsmen and Buhari’s Loud Silence! – By Efe Wanogho

Since flag independence in 1960, and more specifically, since return to Civilian Rule in 1999; no Nigerian leader has taken far-reaching and indelible steps to strengthen national unity. NONE!

If we don’t first tackle the elusive issue of nation building, whatever growth initiatives by successive administrations would be sham, pretentious, and merely peripheral. Today, decades after the physical exit of the colonialists, Nigeria is still an amalgam of strange bedfellows.