The
Benue State chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Abba
Yaro has described the massive killing of over 50 Benue people by the Fulani
herdsmen as an invitation for civil war, reports ITRealms.
A
press statement made available to ITRealms
in Abuja, Yaro decried the recent killings as an attempt to spark second civil
war in Nigeria, insisting that, it is clear case of ethnic cleansing around the
Benue Valley which must be stopped immediately.
While
calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately call the Fulani to
order and as well direct security agents to fetch out the killers, he also
called on all Benue Sons and daughters, irrespective of Party affiliation to
rise in defense of Benue Community.
"This
is above Party politics, it is human lives, how can you kill a pregnant woman
and removed the unborn child yet slaughtered it? It is barbaric, unspeakable
and generally unpalatable".
Yaro
says the Anti Open Grazing Law in Benue is not targeted at any section of the
people but for the general security of Benue State, a measure against cattle
rustling and a solution to herders/farmers clash.
"The
implementation is ongoing and we are in support of our governor, we are not
deterred, the Anti Open Grazing Law has come to stay.
"Nigerians
should not see the killings as a Benue problem but National crisis, the absence
of peace in Benue is an absence of peace in Nigeria.
"We
must treat it as a national ethnic cleansing by the Fulanis and collectively
pressurize Mr President to put an end to it. If Boko Haram can be defeated,
IPOB stopped, Fulani killings can be stopped", he observed.
He
further call on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Buratai, the Interior Minister
Lt Gen Danbazau, the Director General of the Department of State Services
(DSS), Lawal Daura, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris to protect
Benue community or "we rise in self defence, which will amount to the
second civil war."
Yaro
emphasized that, "if the Fulanis are not called to order by the relevant
authorities to stop the ethnic cleansing, like the lawless Fulanis are doing,
Benue people shall take laws into their hands in selfdefense".
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