The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on security agents in Nigeria to stand up to their task and bring the alleged perpetrators of the reported murder of 60 Fulanis, including women and children, in Taraba to book.
MURIC described the alleged recent murder of the Fulanis as barbaric and an ethnic cleansing that would do Nigeria no good.
Through its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the group noted that the act was carried out in Shaforon, Kikem and Kodemti villages in Numan as fingers are pointing at Bachama militia men.
“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) strongly condemns this wanton waste of human life. It is horrendous, heartless and barbaric. It is nothing short of ethnic cleansing and a crime against humanity.
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“It will be recalled that over 130 Fulani people were also killed in June this year as hundreds of Fulani villages on the Mambilla Plateau were raided by members of the Mambilla tribe allegedly on the orders of the chairman of Sardauna Local Government Area, Mr John Yep.
“We are deeply disturbed by the rate at which ethnic violence is erupting in Nigeria.
“We are equally constrained to blame the recent attack on authors of hate speech, particularly those motivated by anti-Fulani, anti-North and anti-Muslim sentiments.
“We contend that these primordial emotions are inter-connected and cannot be separated with microscopic accuracy.
“Those who whip up anti-Fulani sentiments do so because of their hatred for Muslims and their inability to tolerate Islam. Those who speak evil of Fulanis are fully aware that more than 95% of the Fulani population is Muslim,” a statement from the group to NAIJ.com said.
MURIC further claimed that these same people incite Nigerians against herdsmen.
“They have forgotten that every profession has inherent values and every Nigerian worker renders one service or another to the nation. Instead of appreciating hard-working itinerant herdsmen, tribal and religious sentiment blind authors of hate speech.
“We contend that all the anti-Fulani imbroglio would melt like ice cream in the hot sun today if the Fulani population revert to Christianity en-masse.
“While we commiserate with the Taraba people on these brutal killings, we charge the Nigerian security agencies to bring the culprits to book.
“We call on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to investigate these atrocities.
“We also urge the United Nations to set up an international judicial commission of inquiry into this horrible crime against humanity.
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“MURIC invites authors of hate speech to change their mindset. Perception has the capacity to becloud minds and rob humanity of fair assessment.
“Ethnic jingoism limits human interaction, blocks opportunities and debilitates understanding while acrobatic religiousity deprives humanity of that thin veneer of civilization and erodes its infinitesimally small atom of sagacity,” the statement added.
NAIJ.com earlier reported how the Nigeria police arraigned a herdsmen before a Makurdi chief magistrate court for open grazing, criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt, culpable hom*cide and illegal possession of firearms.
The report said the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Imo Edward, told the court that on November 2, 2017, at about 07.30 pm, the DPO Logo Division received a distress call from the unit commander police mobile force 13 squadron on special duty at Ayilamo.
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Source: Naija.ng
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