“The moment the prerogative of violence slips away the hands of
government into an unknown body, there is no government into an unkown body,
there is no government … we have been challenged with Boko Haram for so long
and now it is (the) so called herdsmen…”
– Dr.Ahmadu Ali, former Education Minister, ex-PDP Chairman.
The unnerving part
of the current herdsmen blood lust is its regularity. It is impossible to open the pages of a newspaper without a
hair-raising report in one part of the country or another. When it is not about a man butchered to death in his farm in