The incessant killing, raping and ravaging of innocent people, property and farmlands by some miscreants masquerading as Fulani Herdsmen is absurd, barbaric and morally disgustful.
It sends a strong signal to the Government on the need to urgently create both the community and state police.
This is because this type of violent campaign being propagated by the so called Fulani herdsmen against the host community pose a direct threat to the existence of Nigeria as one entity.
The horrendous behaviour if left unabated would jeopardized Nigeria’s economic and further hatred among the components of a country described by the Tafawa Balewa as ‘mistake of 1914’ and reduced to ‘a mere geographic expression’ by chief Obafemi Awolowo.
That is the reason why most Marxist analysts now refer to Nigeria as a ‘withering away state’.
Most of them believe that Nigerian state has lost its distinctive feature which according to Marx Weber is to legitimately monopolise the instrument of coercion. In Nigeria today, many criminal elements such as Fulani herdsmen, cattle rustlers, ethnic militias, kidnappers among others now use this weapons to terminate people’s lives and cause mayhem and carnage in the community.
One of the instances where this illegitimate organisation has used these weapons was Godogodo area of Southern Kaduna, Jema’ah Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
It was gathered that on the 15th October, 2016, the Fulani herdsmen swooped the community and massacred over twenty (20) persons and set half of the community on fire.
In retaliation to this bloodbath, some members of the community block the highway and hacked over 15 innocent Fulani men to death the following day.
Also, on the 25th April, 2016 some herdsmen ransacked Nimbo community in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area in Enugu State and killed over 40 persons before daybreak. The catastrophe was prodigious to the extent that state governor, Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was in tears on his arrival to the gory scene.
In similar manner, the sanguinary Fulani herdsmen on the 29th February, 2016 massacred over 400 persons in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. An incident many Nigerians described as the tragedy of the year.
It was also on record that the monsters in the guise of Fulani herdsmen stormed Oke ikole, in Ekiti State on the 20th May, 2016 killing two persons and wreaked havoc on the community.
This orgy of violence across the country and many other carnages make many analysts to portray Nigerian as a fragile state that needs to establish state and community police in order to quell this butchery.
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