Fulani herdsmen kill 2 in Ijaw community


 

In the early hours of Monday, January 23rd, it came to light that 2 members of the Toru-Angiama community had been murdered by Fulani herdsmen. The details of the activities that led to this are still unfolding.

Last week, 2 members of the community were held against their will by these herdmen at gun point. Again, the sequence of events that led to that are unknown.

How do nomadic herdmen roam into a community with their herd, and begin to terrorize the community? These Fulani nomads have to be restrained. If brute force, or even the government seems to be turning a blind eye to their attrocities, then the people need to collectively band together to hit them where it hurts - their main resource, cattle. The only reason they are venturing all the way to the south with their cattle is because there is a market for them. If the south can band together to gradually begin avoiding trading with them for their beef, it can be the catalyst to addressing this social ill of Fulani herdsmen

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