The National Coordinator, Niger Delta Peace Coalition, Mr. Zik Gbemre, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to check the activities of Fulani herdsmen, who have allegedly continued to kill innocent farmers in the country.
Gbemre, who spoke with our correspondent while reacting to the gruesome murder of one Mr. Sunday Idama, a 50-year-old senior staff of the Delta State University, Abraka (Library Department), by suspected Fulani herdsman in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, called on the Federal and State governments to do all within their powers to checkmate the menace.
He said, “We are saddened to read a post by Noah and others, about one Mr. Sunday Idama, a 50 years old Senior staff of the Delta State University Abraka (Library Department), and a father of 14 children, who was brutally murdered by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday, 24th March 2017 in his cassava farmland in Ovre Abraka.
“The spate of these mindless killings by so called Fulani herdsmen, especially in Delta State, is seriously getting out of hand and a growing disturbing trend.
The question is, what is President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the National Assembly doing about these increasing killings of farmers by these so called Fulani herdsmen? Enough of this mindless killings.”
Gbemre called on the Delta State Police Command and the state government to urgently stop these killings and deal with those behind it with the full weight of the law. He noted that the said Fulani herdsmen should stop the killings of farmers in the name of protecting their cattle, which were always destroying the economic crops of farmers in the state.
“There is no justification whatsoever that would warrant such mindless killings. Some are saying that these so called Fulani herdsmen are not really herdsmen, but are Boko Haram members hiding under the guise of Fulani herdsmen to freely move around states across the country to commit murderous crimes,” he said.
Gbemre added that the disposition of the President and members of the National Assembly did not suggest that they were serious about addressing the problem. “These killings of our farmers has to stop.
Enough is enough! We simply can’t continue losing our brothers, and family members through the hands of these criminals, who call themselves herdsmen,” he said.
