ICC Note

Fulani herdsman attack is getting more sophisticated and militant as they kill unarmed and unsuspected Christian farmers. Fulani Militants have killed over 50 people just in the last month including Christian elders and women.  Fulani Herdsmen have been responsible for the majority of Christian persecution in what is known as the middle belt region of Nigeria, killing thousands in the last decade. 

11/09/2016 Nigeria (Today) – There has been a clash between suspected Fulani herdsmen and the people of Ndi Okereke Abam in Ovukwu autonomous community, Arochukwu local government area of Abia State, which has left about five people badly injured and battling for their lives in an undisclosed hospital.

The injuries they sustained was said to have arisen from bullet and machete wounds inflicted on them by the suspected Fulani herdsmen during the clash between them and the indigenes of the Arrochukwu community.

Speaking with newsmen the President General of the town union, Chief Chukwuma Egbuta Okubi, said that the incident happened last Friday when the herdsmen led their cattle into the farms destroying the crops in the farmland of his people.

Okubi said that the matter was made more painful by the fact that the suspected Fulani herdsmen would uproot the cassava and yam for their cows to eat, including trampling on the entire farm land, thereby making it difficult for our people to hravest their farm produce.

He said: “The herdsmen are trying to make our people to go hungry as they have decided to lead their cows to feed on our crops which are our main source of livelihood instead of the grass they normally graze their cows on, this is the height of provocation.”

The President General said that they had asked the herdsmen to leave the community after an altercation on the same matter but after some time they returned with a promise not to destroy the crops and have been living peacefully until last Friday’s incident.

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