Press Release
The Middle Belt Union totally condemn the massacre of Nigerians in
Numan by Fulani militias. We hold the government of President Muhammadu Buhari
responsible for this crime against humanity. There were plans to massacre by
Fulani herdsmen in reprisal attack over attack on Fulani village by an
alleged Bachama militia, but the government of Adamawa State
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration have not only protected
both local and foreign Fulani herdsmen/militias and defended them, but kept making
excuses on their behalf, trying to paint these incessant terrorist attacks as
communal clashes instead of terrorist attacks, when local law abiding peaceful
farmers are being painted as the aggressor thereby encouraging the Fulani
militias who know they can get away with any crime anywhere in Nigeria.
We thank the Sultan of Sokoto for his statement on
the barbaric incident in Adamawa. The Sultan sternly told the government to
protect the people as it is their duties and responsibilities to do so and to
arrest perpetrators.
The Buhari administration has completely
failed in handling the Fulani herdsmen problem and kept aggravating it by their
inactions and utterances.
We, the people of the Middle Belt, want to show our
disaffection by saying that if the government refuses to take immediate action
and arrest the terrorists, we would mobilize our people against the ruling government
in the coming election because it will be that the government does care about
us.
By George Onmonya Daniel,
PRO,
PRO,
The Middle Belt Union
