By Dennis Brown James
The Federal Government’s
passive condemnation of the killings and mayhem unleashed by Fulani herdsmen
across the federation recently is not what is required to douse the tension
and apprehension in many quarters in the country today.
To say
that this carnage has led to a severe disruption of our national economy is a
mere understatement. Apart from the fact that many communities have been
sacked, abandoned or now live in perpetual fear of imminent attacks, many
farmlands have been obliterated with scores of farmers killed.
The
Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari should
reach a consensus with all the warring parties on how to nip these mindless
killings in the bud before it is too late to do so.
The
pockets of reprisal attacks and counter attacks witnessed in various
communities that were affected in these tensions are an indication that this
might snowball into national chaos that might leave Nigeria ’s national fabric badly
affected and threaten her corporate existence, to the consternation of many of
us. The activities of the herdsmen may still bring about the previous
bookmaker’s prophecies that Nigeria
will disintegrate in 2015.