By Muazu Abari
Yola
The chairman of Numan local government area, Adamawa state, Rev. Arnold Bulus Jibila, has faulted those linking last Monday’s attack, in some Fulani settlements to ethno-religious cleansing, describing it as a reckless and misleading statement capable of inciting communities against one another.
He explained that the attack was trigger by farmers/herdsmen clashes and not ethno religious agenda.
“We have to be careful with the way some people are linking this incidence to religion and ethnicity because this is something that is common everywhere in Nigeria today. Even recently, one happened in Zamfara and I believe almost 99 percent of inhabitants of Zamfara are Muslims. Do we call it religious? No the truth is that, this is a clash between herdsmen and farmers. So we should not give it ethno-religious colouration”, he said.
Arnold, who strongly condemned in strong terms the brutal killings of some herdsmen’s in the affected communities, described it as unjustifiable, barbaric and ungodly adding that the perpetrators must be fished out and brought to justice.
He said nobody can send a Fulani man or Bachama man out of Numan as they are brothers and must tolerate each other.
“The local government first of all, have taken the responsibility of facilitating the movement of the injured to the hospitals. We have been responsible for their medical bills right from general hospital here in Numan and when we realised that the hospital does not have all the required facilities for their treatments we moved them to Specialist Hospital, Yola.
