The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has vowed that there will be no peace in Nigeria if the Fulani herdsmen are denied their rights.
Speaking in an interview with TheCable, chairman of the Plateau state chapter of the cattle breeders association, Mohammadu Nura, accused some communities of depriving herdsmen their indigenous rights, hence, brewing the bad blood between the herdsmen and the local farmers that have eventually triggered fatal conflicts between the two parties
Mr. Nura claimed that “the Fulani villagers were ransacked by the Biroms (the locals). They are very many villages that were ransacked. Like in Kuru Janta, when they went there, they killed over 150 persons including women and children. This was in 2010. In Heipang, 83 persons were killed including the chief imam of Heipang. In Sabongida Kanan, 78 persons; in Kim Kim, 28 persons; in Waram, 19 persons.”
The herdsmen have been accused of being responsible for the deadly attack that claimed over 100 lives in the state on the 23rd of June.
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