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| Benue people to boycott beef over Fulani attacks |
The Movement Against Fulani Occupation (MAFO), a Middle Beltan group yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, demanding the Federal Government to take decisive action against the Fulani crisis in Benue State and all other religious related issues across the country.
The group which condemned the wanton killings in Agatu, Tarka, Buruku, Kwande, Makurdi and other parts of the state, called on the indigenes of the state to boycott eating beef until the herdsmen end their attacks.
Addressing the protesters, leaders of the group, Pastor Dave Ogbole, Rev Father Solomon Ukeyima and Elder Narths Apir, in their various addresses demanded that the Federal Government institute a probe into the killings and the reason why Fulani herdsmen were allowed to traverse freely with sophisticated weapons as against the law.
While also lamenting the scale of destruction witnessed, the leaders described the current crisis as worrisome, saying it is aimed at desensitizing the national consciousness.
“The on-going ethnic cleansing has been mischievously labeled Fulani/herdsmen crisis under circumstances that are at best efforts to desensitize the national consciousness to the enormity of the scale on which Benue State people are being wiped-out on a daily basis”, one of the leaders stated.
The group which later presented its position to the Benue State House of Assembly urged it to expedite action on the Fulani/ Headsmen Bill already with the Assembly and to also look deeply into the issues raised as contained in their position.
It also requested the Federal Government to provide compensation and relief to the victims of the invasion, so as to alleviate their hardship.
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