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I devoted time in the past explaining the context of inadequate national security architecture to the herder-farmer situation in Nigeria. I added that this was the main reason diverse criminal acts happened in different parts of the country, and most of them weren’t closures. In the event, crimes were interpreted based on local feelings sometimes influenced by the historical, ethnic and religious circumstances of those concerned. In the North, especially almost similar acts of criminality were given different tags. It is banditry, kidnapping, and cattle rustling in the far north, but we hear of attack by “suspected Fulani herdsmen” and “ethnic cleansing” in the North-Central. My interest in explaining this in past years was based on my concern that these incidents had become a basis for stoking embers of hate, not just against whoever was engaged in criminal acts but an entire ethnic group. For a clearer understanding, I explained in the past that acts of criminality happened in both Muslim and Christian-dominated areas in the North. Destruction of crops and killings happen on farmlands owned by both non-Fulani and town Fulani. It’s regular in Jigawa and in Gombe States, where a Fulani Muslim man has just informed me, that it’s currently happening on their farmlands. In parts of Nasarawa State, herds ate up farmers’ crops in the current harvest season. In Birnin Gwari LGA, as well as in Giwa LGA, which is in Zauzau Emirate, Kaduna State, killings have been perpetrated by elements called bandits for years. I stated that those acts of criminality should have been stopped if the nation’s security architecture was what it should be. Meanwhile, in some parts of the north, every attack is attributed to “suspected Fulani herdsmen” in news reports even though further investigations that I carry out show that sometimes these are just two communities in minority ethnic group areas attacking each other. The template of “suspected Fulani herdsmen” has bred misinformation. This seems powered by a determination to spread hate against an ethnic group, as well as the confessed vow of some to permanently keep Nigeria on the US list of nations, where religious beliefs are threatened. Such persons and the misinformation they provide constitute much of the sources that some entities in the UK and US cite in the reports submitted to their governments about Nigeria. It’s this phenomenon I proceed to interrogate here, while I also ask a question, as I conclude this piece that I started last Friday. What do those who say there are no herder-farmer challenges, those spreading misinformation, seek to gain from demonising all Fulani? Why are criminal few not separated from non-herding law-abiding Fulani people as it’s done to other ethnic groups in Nigeria? These are relevant questions because Yoruba people say, “When we cry, we still see.” It’s noteworthy that no news outlet in Nigeria reports “Yoruba armed robbers” or “Igbo fake drug makers”. But there were reports of “Fulani killer herdsmen”, which made one Fulani man sue some media houses for N100m for discrimination. Nonetheless, as some Nigerians dedicate themselves to pushing a narrative abroad that there are no herder-farmer “clashes” (published by the UK-based CSW), other reports by credible international organisations support the view of the government of Nigeria that there’s such a problem. For instance, as far back as May 11, 2004, a report by Amnesty International stated that the previous three months saw “at least 350 people killed in clashes and reprisal attacks between Christian Tarok farmers and Muslim Fulani cattle herders in different locations in Plateau State.” The international NGO had also stated: “As the Nigerian government deploys security forces to restore order in Yelwa, Shendam Local Government Area in Plateau State, following a recent outbreak of violence between Fulani cattle herders and Tarok farmers, Amnesty International is urging the Nigerian authorities to ensure adequate protection from further attacks and to carry out thorough, independent and impartial investigations into the killings... In the recent spate of violence, the attackers, mainly Christian Taroks, were armed with assault rifles, machetes and bows and arrows. Most of the victims were Muslims, including an unconfirmed number of women and children...” On December 17, 2018, Amnesty released a report cataloguing violent clashes between members of farming communities and members of herding communities in the northern parts of Nigeria “over access to resources: water, land and pasture”. Amnesty further states that clashes in Nigeria between farmers and semi-nomadic herders have killed “more than 3,600 people since 2016, more than 2,000 people killed in 2018 alone”. This is in the same country where some Nigerians go to CSW and other platforms to claim there have never been herder-farmer challenges, thereby contradicting past Nigerian leaders as well as President Bola Tinubu whose accurate views on herder-farmer matters I referenced last Friday. So, this makes me ask the question again: What’s the goal of those who spread falsehood and hate? Related News A fresh look at NBS data on kidnapping in Nigeria Kidnappers’ trillion-naira paradise Police summon C’River farmers, herdsmen over clashes What have these people achieved, since the Nigerian president holds a view different from theirs on the challenge? Or is this solely about getting an ethnic group hated? This is concerning as it breeds divisiveness that has lasting consequences for everyone. It threatens the peace of Nigeria, and much as it’s within the rights of anyone to seek to defend their people so it’s also within the rights of the rest of us to defend the unity and peace of this nation. Those who go around making people in the south of Nigeria hate an ethnic group in the north, I ask: What do they hope to achieve? Is it just to pursue a narrative that herder-farmer didn’t happen, get all religionist sympathisers worked up in the process, and thereby plant hatred in the born and unborn? Those who make the Surrey-based CSW in the UK, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and several other religion-based news outlets write reports that demonise every Fulani person. What have they achieved? They want foreign governments to put pressure on Nigeria’s political leadership. The same leadership that they’ve publicly dismissed and called liars because of the falsehood of no “herder-farmer clashes” that they spread. Their view is the opposite of the President’s perspective (referenced last Friday) on the herder-farmer challenge, yet they think they could achieve anything that way. Their narrative can lead to more instability in Nigeria, but they expect the president to listen to them. Is that how things work? These people need to take a second look at their approach because credible foreign NGOs, such as Amnesty International, don’t even agree with their skewed narratives. International organisations involved with migration, refugees and internally displaced persons don’t agree with them considering the meetings such entities regularly organise in Nigeria to offer useful advice on the herder-farmer problems. Also, embassies of Western nations in Nigeria don’t agree with them as they report to their governments facts as credible NGOs, such as Amnesty report. On top of these, the US recently removed the name of Nigeria from among nations where religious beliefs are threatened. Moreover, as I stated on this page in the past and as Moritz and Mbacke (referenced last Friday) also wrote in their academic essay, there can’t be peace and lasting security if falsehood and hate were what those involved spread about one another. But who goes about pushing the hate narrative rather than admit the inadequate security context and work for solutions accordingly? Where do they mostly push it and among whom? Religionists pushed it. They did this in places of worship and among religionists. So, religionists end up hating fellow humans that their religions enjoin them to love. This should stop.World Juniors standings: Updated scores, results for every 2025 IIHF hockey game | Sporting News
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