– Ado Boderi accused Agatu farmers of killing 10,000 cattle
– Akpa Iduh, condemned the continued unprovoked attacks on Agatu people
– The Inspector- General of Police, Solomon Arase says he has deployed police officers to the area
community clash in the Northern part of Nigeria
The Fulani community in Benue state has made shocking accusation against farmer in Agatu community.
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The Nation reports that Ado Boderi, who spoke on behalf of the Fulani community on March 3 accused the farmers of killing 10,000 cattle belonging to its members.
Boderi, who made the accusation at a meeting between Agatu community, Fulani community and Police Inspector General Solomon Arase, said criminal minded people from both sides intensified the crisis despite the swift intervention of the state governor.
The spokesman insisted that Fulani herdsmen were a peace-loving people, whose main concern was the problem of cattle rustling.
Speaking on behalf of Agatu people at the meeting, Akpa Iduh, condemned the continued senseless attacks on his people by “Fulani mercenaries.”
According to him, the crisis which started over five decades ago recently transformed to war because of the kind of weapons the herdsmen are using against his people. He claimed that “Fulani mercenaries” are killing both children and pregnant women on sight, he disclosed that his people became powerless after they accepted the state’s amnesty programme and submitted illegal arms to government.
“The herdsmen are bent on turning our land into their grazing area, thereby rendering us homeless and without food. Is it because we are minority and poor that they are using their numerical advantage and wealth against us? We are going to remain in Agatu until the day they have succeeded in killing all of us,” he said.
Responding to the claims of both parties, the Inspector- General of Police, Solomon Arase, told them that enough police officers have been deployed to halt the clashes between the people and the herdsmen.
Arase further revealed that four additional units of police teams have been deployed to the area to completely arrest the crisis.
“I am in Benue on the directives of Mr President on a fact- finding mission and to also see if there is a way to resolve the crisis.
“We have enough security officers to end the ongoing crisis between farmers and herdsmen in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue.
“We have also deployed additional four units of police teams in the area to arrest the situation.
“There is no way we can all live together without having disagreements with one another at some point; it is the way we manage the disagreements that matters.
“Both the farmers and herdsmen must learn to cohabit with one another as a nation for the peace and progress of our people,” he said.
It was reported that only one ward was not affected in the bloody clashes out of the 10 council wards in Agatu local government area.
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Meanwhile, the immediate past president of the Senate, Senator David Mark on March 4, condemned the continued hostilities between Agatu community and Fulani herdsmen of Nasarawa state that has claimed hundreds of lives with properties worth millions of naira destroyed.
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