AGATU KILLINGS: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, THIS CALLS FOR WAR---IDOMA PEOPLE

Fulani herdsmen’s invasion of Benue communities
since assuming a war dimension when Gabriel Suswam
held sway as Governor of the state has rudely refused
to abate. Instead, the blood-spilling bush monsters
called fulani herdsmen or cattle rearers have appeared
bent on turning the entire state to a killing field, with
the state’s current affair now replete with history of
increasingly day-by-day killing of Agatu and Tiv farming
communities of the Benue people, despite worldwide
condemnation of the dastardly killings.




Yet, some may argue that Fulani people are not at war
with Tiv and Idoma. Neither, they would want to say,
will it be right to qualify the killing of the Benue people
by the Fulanis as a case of war between Fulanis and
Benue people. This, they would say, is because a war
in its ordinary parlance, ought to involve a hostility by or
from both sides in a conflict. It takes two to tango, you
would say. But in this case involving either the Tiv in
Logo or Agatu community in Idomaland, the hostility
has appeared more often than not to be coming only
from the Fulani herdsmen, which makes the situation
so pathetic, because these Benue farming communities
who are always caught unawares have no weapons to
match the fulani’s; neither have the communities
launched any attack or invasion against the herdsmen
before. It has always been the Fulanis on the offensive.
The herdsmen come with sophisticated weapons of
mass killings against the sleeping Tiv or Agatu
communities and sporadically they go shooting, killing
and sacking them from their villages. In the herdsmen’s
killing spree, they don’t spare innocent women and
children, a situation, which makes it more
condemnable.


However one look at the situation, Benue must be
sensitized to regard the unending Fulani killing of her
people as a new form of war that they must be locked
into against the Angwoyi race and rise and declare a
full scale war against them. Benue people must hunt
them down to kill them until they are completely wiped
out of their farmland.


But, that is only if the federal government disturbingly
fails to permanently halt the Fulani massacre of Benue
communities forthwith and guarantee peace, safety of
life and property in not only the Tiv and Agatu
communities, but also the entire country.
Benue men must wake up from slumber and start
defending themselves and their farmland against the
Fulani invaders. By this, I do not imply that it is only
Benue people that have become victims of the
herdsmen. Of course, cases of invasion in Anambra,
Enugu and elsewhere, by the herdsmen are sometimes
in the news.


But why other states can afford to overlook the
herdsmen invasion of their communities and farmers is
because they have other mainstays unlike Benue that
has only farming as its major occupation and source
livelihood.


The herdsmen who always use disproportionate
weapons to kill Benue communities of farmers
whenever any of the farmers allegedly kill their cow in a
clash over alleged destruction of farmers’crops or
grazing on farmland are not only looking to take the
land, but also reduce the farming communities to
graveyards, by killing all the people in the state, if
Benue men do not wake up from sleep now and go
head to head with them in a battle.
It is only a mad man that goes to sleep with his roof
on fire, Benue! Enough of sleep.

Source: Benue news