Fulani/Numan attack: Middle-Belt Forum seeks FG intervention

By Vivian Okejeme

Abuja

The Middle-Belt Forum (MBF) has called for the urgent intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari in the face-off between Fulani herdsmen and Bwatiye people in Numan, Adamawa state.
Speaking through its President, Bala Takaya, the Forum sent a note of warning to traditional rulers in the North to restrain from making inciting statements.
MBF, which elected its new leadership last week, also regretted the inclusion of former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Obadiah Mailafia in the new executive committee members, saying he was wrongly included in the list of the new exco.
The Forum said it has hindsight into the act of brigandage by the herdsmen and demanded the intervention of the President in squabble immediately by not only quelling the situation to avoid further escalation, “but also to call the said instigators to question and account for the inflammatory statement which was made with such an air of impunity and utterance which led to the on-going mayhem.
“On our part we have in hindsight been painfully reviewing the prior act of brigandage engaged in by the Fulani killer herdsmen.
“But we observe that they are the same people as the night marauders that had since long specialise in raiding and burning down towns and villages at night in the process of which they also engage in the killing of residents in their sleep or as they fled the infernos in such places like, Babale, Riyom, Mangu and Barkin Ladi on the Jos Plateau.
”Amazingly, we are yet to hear of any of the culprit involved been arrested and brought to book, even, when identified.
“Ironically, it now appears that any injury or. Casualty suffered by the invader Fulani herdsmen following an encounter and pursuit in self defence must not go unpunished?”

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