We, at the INITIATIVES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TRUE LOVE FOR NIGERIA, hereby join our comrades and other compatriots to condemn the criminal and inhuman activities of the Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria. Enugu and the Agatu communities are fresh incidents of this terror while many other communities in the Southern parts of the country have also fallen victims to the Fulani herdsmen terrorist activities.
We condemn the laid back approach and what we call the criminal silence of President Buhari in this matter. We would like to remind Mr President that his foremost duties as the president of the country is to ensure the safety of lives and properties of the citizens by protecting same. While it is appreciable that Mr Buhari is just completing his first year in the office, we believed that if he had applied the same urgency and speed with which the Nigerian security forces were drafted to crush the peaceful protests of Biafra agitators and the liberty given to the COAS to enter the armoury and move State weapons to crush the Shia muslim community simply for disallowing the COAS a passage right, the current decapitation of Nigerian citizens by the Fulani herdsmen terrorists would have been prevented.
We want to believe that Buhari's statement that he belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody is not a statement of deceits because the signals coming from the presidency seemed to confirm that Buhari's criminal quietness is relative to him being a Fulani himself. Whereas, we believed that his relationship to these herdsmen, both by tribe and as one of their patrons (past) should actually be used for the benefits of the country in the spirit of statesmanship.
We have not by any chance consider the legislative arms guiltless in this matter as they too have done far less than what is expected of the people's representatives in a democratic atmosphere.
THE LONDON PROTEST AGAINST FULANI HERDSMEN TERRORISM - 3 May 2016
We are fully in support of the London protest going on today 3rd May 2016 and we enjoined all lovers of peace and those who values the sanctity of human lives to join with the voices of justice in solidarity with the victims and for the purpose of forcing President Buhari and the entire leadership of the country to rise up to their duties to prevent a situation where people will have to be encouraged to defend themselves because of the failures of the leadership.
It is our utmost demand that the Fulani herdsmen should be disarmed in the first instance as the constitution of the country did not permit anyone to be bearing arms without license.
We also demand that Buhari should come forward on this matter and speak to the citizens while measures should be put in place to stop the Fulani herdsmen from their indiscriminate grazing and destruction of people's farms. Let the Fulani herdsmen buy their own grazing lands where such is available and as determined by the State and local government executives of the area.
We do not want more bloodshed in Nigeria and we are appealing to the Northern State governors to exercise extreme caution in some of the statements that have been reported to have emanated from them. Nigeria could only continue to remain One when we subscribe to justice, fairness and equity.
We believed strongly that true federalism with fiscal autonomy and resource control as identified at the 2014 National Conference and documented in the Confab Report recommendations are the reasonable paths to a genuine One Nigeria nation.
God bless Nigeria.
(signed)
N:B INITIATIVE is the parent organisation of the United Social Democrats Party of Nigeria (USDP), a people-welfare focused political party.
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