It, thus, becomes logical to see the incident as a fallout of the recent killing of 73 persons in Benue State or that the seven Fulanis were killed just because they shared a common culture and origin with the killer herdsmen that have been terrorising Benue State. And, shocking is the fact that the excerpt from the police statement on this sad incident, published in newspapers, did not mention if the men caught were in possession of arms. The leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders in Benue State, Garus Gololo, was noted as saying that the seven persons were Fulanis. But such claims do not change the fact that seven human lives were brutally wasted. There were claims that the seven persons killed at the Gboko bus park were not Fulanis. Seven Fulani nomads heading to Okene, Kogi State, from Jalingo, Taraba State, were reportedly lynched, doused with petrol and set ablaze by irate youth at Gboko central motor park, Benue State, as reported by PREMIUM TIMES. In retaliation, it was also said that a Fulani man also killed a Tiv woman in the same State.Īnother horrid scene played out last week. The handwriting on the wall is clear.Ī few days after the 73 victims of the herdsmen carnage in Benue State during the New Year were buried en masse, it was reported that a Tiv man killed a Fulani man in Ekiti State. To claim otherwise, or get carried away by the politics of who occupies Aso Villa in 2019 is living in a fool’s paradise, until the ticking time bomb explodes. It now appears that the prolonged herders/farmers crisis in Benue State is gradually morphing into a lethal inter-ethnic crisis. If the slaughter of 73 people by herdsmen in Benue is barbaric, wicked, and condemnable, the killing of seven Fulanis by irate mob in Benue State is likewise inhuman.Īll is not well with Nigeria. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
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