Nigerian Farmers Also Need United Nations' Help To Save Them From Fulani Militias.

The Darfur crisis in Sudan in which Arab militias called "Janjaweed" have killed hundreds of thousands of sedentary black African Farmers and displaced nearly five million others has pitched the world against president Omar Al-Bashir, against whom an arrest warrant has been issued by the International Criminal court in the Hague for his alleged support of the barbaric militia group. Arab herdsmen who migrated from their indigenous areas in the northern part of the country with their animals in search of greener pastures introduced violence as a means to acquiring grazing areas from the natives. Resistance from the locals resulted to the formation of the dreaded Jajaweed militia that went on one of the most gory killing sprees-next only to the Rwandan Genocide-in recent times.
In Nigeria, following the same pattern, Fulani herdsmen from the northern part of the country and their kinsmen from some African countries have descended on farming communities across the country, particularly the Middle Belt area, with their cattle and have turned the area into a killing field. Thousands have been killed since 2011 when they intensified the attacks (in the same barbaric manner like the Janjaweed) against Nigerian crop farmers. It is interesting to note that our security forces have, so far, not been "able" to confront these militias. It is also interesting to note that the Federal govt under president Buhari has bluntly ruled out the use of the military to halt the killings. According the the interior minister, the crisis is an internal security issue to be handled solely by the police. Yet the same govt launched a military task force, attended by the president himself, to protect cattle against rustlers within the same country.
As Nigeria continues to deploy her military personnel to Darfur, Sudan, many Nigerians would be wondering why a country that sends its police and military forces to maintain peace in other countries in crisis that are purely internal to those countries would refuse to use the same military to resolve one of the major security problems in the country.
We need intervention from the United Nations to resolve the Fulani herdsmen crisis!

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