Herdsmen Killings: "This Is A Killer Government" - Fayose Slams Buhari

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Herdsmen Killings: "This Is A Killer Government" - Fayose Slams Buhari

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a captured president who has been reduced to offering condolences to Nigerians slaughtered by herdsmen.

He said the President has failure in firm action to stop the atrocities.

Fayose wondered why a retired Army General and a former military Head of State who contested and won election on the premises of providing security to the citizens have suddenly become lame duck.

The Governor said in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi.

He said, “This is a killer government”, the governor said, adding that it is shameful that Nigerians are dying daily with Buhari clueless and incompetent to handle the crisis.

“It is beyond dispute that the Buhari administration has lost the battle against insurgency and the Fulani herdsmen. Buhari is helpless as he is reduced to offering condolences on a daily basis.

“Nigerians are dying on a daily basis. Innocent souls are being wasted by herdsmen and the Buhari administration has lost all moral right to continue in office. Why is he still sitting in office? Doing what, if I may ask”, he added.

He wondered that this was a government that lambasted the PDP administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for cluelessness.

He said, “ the same Jonathan administration era is now looking like the golden age of security of lives and properties in Nigeria”

“At no period since 1999 has life been this cheap. Life has become nasty, brutish, and short under the Buhari administration”, he said. Gov. Fayose also expressed misgivings about recent spate of controversial judgments by courts which he said gave the impression of collusion between unscrupulous judges and the Buhari administration to truncate democracy and lead the country into anarchy.

“The situation is getting so bad that we do not know whether the Constitution of the country has been unofficially suspended.

“Nigerians have been unlucky with Buhari as president. He is too old, too analogue, too incompetent, too clueless and is not ready to admit and yield for a competent leader. This country has never had it this bad. Gradually, Buhari is becoming a maximum ruler,” he added.

                                                  

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Senator Sani Reveals The Identity Of Herdsmen Sponsors, Finger Some Governors

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Senator Sani Reveals The Identity Of Herdsmen Sponsors, Finger Some Governors

Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central has alleged that some governors were responsible for the mass murder executed by Fulani herdsmen in some parts of Nigeria.

The lawmaker in a series of tweets on his Twitter page, said Governors operating the policy of conditional cash transfer were the cause of herdsmen killings in the country.

Sani urged the federal government to treat such governors as a national security risk.

His tweets read, “The roots of Herdsmen mass murder and kidnappings in other parts of Nigeria is in the policy of ‘Paying Fulani Herdsmen’ by some Governors.They appeased a monster with public funds and now the monster is going door to door;Sahel,Savanna and mangrove forests.

“Any Governor of a state operating the policy of Conditional Cash transfer to Killer Herdsmen is their patron. And he must be seen and treated as a national security risk.”

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Nigerian Troops Nabs Herdsmen, Recovers Guns After A Shoot Out In Benue

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Nigerian Troops Nabs Herdsmen, Recovers Guns After A Shoot Out In Benue

Troops of the Nigerian Army, Sunday said they apprehended five gun-wielding herdsmen in six communities in Benue State, after a gun duel which led to the killing of one herdsman.

It was learnt that the troops of 72 Battalion Special Forces on Saturday nabbed the herdsmen at about 1.30pm in the communities identified as Gbajimba, Baka, Tomanyi, Iyode, Dogon Yashi and Chembe.

According to the army, the armed herdsmen on sighting the troops, said to be on Operation Cat Race, engaged them in a shoot-out.

It was gathered that during the exchange, one herdsman was killed while another was injured. Also, one AK-47 assault rifle was recovered after the encounter.

The army said the bandits, however, fled into the bushes on sighting the troops and none was arrested.

The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Texas Chukwu, confirmed the arrests in Benue on Sunday in a press release.

The army spokesman said, “Troops on clearance operation in Gbajimba, Baka, Tomanyi, Iyode and Dogon Yashi made contact with armed herdsmen who engaged them in a gun duel. In the exchange of fire, one herdsman was killed while three others were arrested. One AK-47 assault rifle was recovered after the encounter.

“Additionally, two herdsmen engaged in destructive activities on farmlands were arrested at Chembe community. Earlier, troops of the battalion on patrol at Jatoaka town arrested 10 armed robbery suspects. All the suspects have been handed over to the police.

“Also in Taraba State, troops of 101 Special Battalion conducted clearance operations along Suntai-Muji-Kungana Road and encountered bandits who blocked the road, harassed and dispossessed road users of their valuables. The bandits fled into the bushes after they were engaged by troops. A search of the area led to the recovery of a dane gun.”

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Islamic Group Slams Danjuma For His Self Defence Comment

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Islamic Group Slams Danjuma For His Self Defence Comment

 

A Muslim group, the Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), yesterday criticised a former minister of defence Lt. Gen. T.Y. Danjuma (rtd) over his comment against the military and for asking Nigerians to defend themselves.

We reported that Danjuma, at the maiden convocation ceremony of Taraba state University in Jalingo, Taraba state capital, advised Nigerians to defend themselves before killer herdsmen wiped them out.

The National Chairman of JIBWIS Ulama’u Council, Sheikh Muhammadu Sani Yahaya Jingir made the criticism yesterday in Abuja at the Annual Islamic Convention and appeal fund launch of the organisation.

“It is not advisable for an elder statesman, who was a former defence minister and chief of Army Staff to be calling on youths, who were graduating from a university to take up arms against the nation’s military and organised Federal Government as if we don’t have a government. He should be called to order,” Jingir said.

He also urged Nigerians to be law abiding and see themselves as each other’s brother’s keepers.

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Gov. Ortom Of Benue State Reacts To Danjuma's Self Defence Comment

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Gov. Ortom Of Benue State Reacts To Danjuma's Self Defence Comment

Governor of Benue State on Monday reacted to the statement by former minister of defence, retired Gen. T. Y. Danjuma that Nigerians should defend themselves from possible attacks by aggressors.

NAIJA VOICE had reported that Danjuma, while speaking during the weekend at the maiden convocation ceremony of Taraba state University in Jalingo, urgedNigerians to defend themselves against ethnic cleansing.

According to him, it was regrettable that the Nigeria Army was no more neural in the fight against terrorism in the country.

Reacting, Ortom said the statement making the rounds was a misrepresentation of Danjuma’s statement.

He stated this after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

Ortom said “I’m not sure that if you listened to him very well. It is a misrepresentation of what the former minister said.

“He did not tell anybody to take up arms. He only said that people should protect themselves.

“Of course, you know that self-preservation is the first law of nature.

“You can’t just wait in your house and allow someone to come and kill you. You can resist the person, but you don’t necessarily need to have arms. I think that was what the minister was saying.

“There is need for people to arise to defend themselves not necessarily using weapons that are banned. You can use a stick and disarm someone.

“Some years ago, I was able to disarm armed robbers with seven AK 47 without anything. I think that is the kind of thing he is trying to say. Nigerians should rise up to do this.

“Security matters are not just left in the hands of security men, it requires every one of us to put our heads together and be courageous to be able to surmount it,’’ he said.

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