Sentences with phrase «by herdsmen as»

«It is reasonably suspected that the attack might have been carried out by the herdsmen as reprisal for stealing their cows.

Not exact matches

When he was sixteen, he was captured by Irish pirates and spent six bleak years as a herdsman in County Mayo, during which he turned with fervor to Christ.

A humble herdsman of Tekoa, he appeared one day at the royal shrine of Bethel and, with a religious earnestness that moves us even yet as we read it, began to denounce the spiritual shallowness, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, the bribery, sexual indulgence, and general moral laxity which he saw all about him.

So, by NCEF's alleged political Tayiyya, the Buhari «Islamists» were pressing, into service, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen as lethal ammo, for «stealth / civilization Jihad»!

While leading the debate on the motion, Senator Danjuma La'ah said, «on the 23rd December, 2016 and even as we speak, communities of Ambam, Gaska, Dangoma, Tsonje, Pasankori, Gidan Waya and Farin Gada of Jama'a and Kaura local government area have been under serious attack by the herdsmen, resulting in several deaths, injuries, and wanton destruction of properties worth billions of naira».

Ogbonnaya who rose from the All Progressives Congress (APC) South - East stakeholders meeting said the call is uncalled for, as President Muhammadu Buhari has directed relevant agencies to take appropriate actions in halting the killings by suspected herdsmen.

Yet until killings, either by herdsmen or any other group, are treated as strictly crimes, they would continue, no matter who occupies the Presidency.

Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is not behind herdsmen killings as claimed by some people in the country...

The Command in a statement signed by its spokesman, Ahmad Mohammed said the killings were as a result of a reprisal attack between the villagers of Ohali - Elu and herdsmen in the area.

This is as the group continues to lament the attack on Chief Olu Falae's farm by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described killings by Fulani herdsmen as a threat to security in the country.

They should stop the spate of abductions of innocent citizens by a terrorist as well as killings by Fulani herdsmen across the country while mounting adequate security for citizens of the country».

A government that held so much promise because of Buhari's cult following as a man of integrity, and promised so much, by now should have investigated and get the murderers jailed, whether Fulanis or anybody at all, while attacks / killings of herdsmen should be meted / treated with the same measures.

Speaking during the event, Diko, however, expressed shock at the pains of different communities as explained by the traditional rulers on the behaviours of herdsmen.

«Terrorists Now Disguise as Fulani Herdsmen» — President Goodluck Jonathan June 2014 The above quote was the news headline after a speech by former President Goodluck...

As the Army plans to lock down some forests of Kano, Plateau and Bauchi states in the operation, more attention should be invested on southern Kaduna given the peculiarity and the nature of the constant tragic attacks by armed herdsmen.

As a criminologist, the spread of Fulani herdsmen in virtually all the nook and cranny of the country portend security threats going by their activities in the last decade.

Speaking on the Fulani herdsmen crisis in some parts of the country, he noted, «l also see the planned grazing Colonies being contemplated by the Federal Government of Nigeria as a subtle ploy to legitimate and settle foreign Fulani herdsmen who will be used by Islamist to prosecute jihad in Nigeria.

Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.

Personal affairs such as health and the accident of his son get jet - speed attention but the health, education needs, unemployment and electricity needs of Nigerians, and carnage of farming communities by Fulani herdsmen get the country's unification consideration and setting up of a committee and no arrest.

The killings in Plateau communities have continued unabated as 8 people were said have been killed by suspected herdsmen in Nding loh, Fan District of Barkin...

No less than forty (and according to some reports as many as one hundred) innocent and defenceless indegenous Christians, including women and children, were butchered in their homes by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.

In Bassa LGA within the past week, about 40 persons have lost their lives as a result attacks by herdsmen in Nzharuvo, Dundu and Rafiki / Dong villages.

«No Niger Delta leader or person from this region that truly shares the pains of the people will subject him / herself to the antics of our oppressors; not now that our existence and dignity as a people is being threatened by Islamic mercenaries masquerading themselves as Fulani herdsmen.»

«Having said that, let it be known that we find the statement by the Presidency stating that 756 Nigerians were killed by Fulani herdsmen in two years under the government of former President Jonathan as a mischievous assertion by a callous Presidential spokesman who thinks that death is something to be trivialized.

Not at this time that our lives and dignity are being threatened by Islamic mercenaries masquerading themselves as Fulani herdsmen with impunity.

The People of Southern Kaduna in Diaspora (SOKAD) has described as, «deficient of logic and reason» the non inclusion of Kaduna state by the sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) set up to visit frontline States suffering from herdsmen versus farmers violence.

He said: «Since President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Archbishop of Canterbury in London on Wednesday, and spoke on the likely impact of gunmen trained by former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, on the killings by herdsmen in Nigeria, some people have virtually flown off the handle, ululating as if wailing was going out of fashion.

The statement read in part, «Governor Ortom commiserates with families of the victims, describing the attack on the young protesters as insensitive to the current mood of the people who are in grief over the killing of many innocent persons by armed herdsmen in Guma and Logo local government areas of the state.

The Governor appeals to the people of the state to remain calm and resist the temptation to take the law into their hands as the State Government is exploring every lawful means to restore peace in the communities affected by renewed herdsmen attacks.»

Mr David said the situation was worsened by the Boko Haram insurgency, as well as the persistent clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the region.

This came as the cleric prepares to appear before the Department of State Services today with not less than 30 lawyers for reportedly asking members of his church to defend themselves against attacks by Fulani herdsmen.

A statement by the State Commissioner for Agriculture, Kehinde Oloruntoba, said the exercise is was not targeted at any particular section of the state as it was committed to finding lasting peace between the herdsmen and farmers.

Everyone welcomed the law in the face of unrelenting attacks by herdsmen, who seem to be getting more emboldened in their unchecked act of casual killings of farmers and destruction of farmlands aparently as there was no retribution.

While commiserating with the Enugu State Government and families of those who lost their lives in the carnage, the unions warned that they will «no longer tolerate further attacks on our people by these terrorists who disguise themselves as herdsmen».

The Christian Association of Nigerian has condemned the killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna describing it as ethnic and religious cleansing by «Islamic fundamentalists disguising as Fulani herdsmen», with evil intention of wiping off non-Muslims.

The police boss described as untrue, comments by some notable Nigerians that the law enforcement agents had yet to apprehend any herdsmen in connection with the killings in the state.

For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

Rather than arrest and prosecute the Fulani herdsmen, security forces usually manned by Muslims from the North offer them protection as they unleash terror with impunity on the Nigerian people.

A group, Mdzough U Tiv, Lagos State chapter, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to proscribe the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, as a solution to the killings by herdsmen in the country.

A man, simply identified as Suswam Suswam, has been killed while several others sustained gunshot wounds following attack on mourners by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

While the military was quick to illegally and unconstitutionally declare armless IPOB members as terrorists for peacefully agitating for their rights, it becomes so dumb and voiceless to the gruesome genocide being carried out by the killer Fulani herdsmen against Nigerians.

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has declared May 22 as work free - day in honour of two catholic priests allegedly killed by Fulani herdsmen in the state...

He said that the inauguration of the council by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday was not only timely but also commendable, adding that it would enhance food productivity as well as bring to a halt the persistent farmers - herdsmen clashes across the country.

The chairman said that the pronouncement of the ban on night grazing by herdsmen showed that the governor was unaware of events in the state as well as his powers as governor.

The Senate on Thursday expressed grave concern at the incessant attacks by herdsmen across the country with a warning that, if the ugly trend was not nipped in the bud, it would turn out to be as deadly as Boko Haram insurgency.

Yet, if past orders are anything to go by, it is doubtful if the herdsmen can be stopped, especially as the IG himself has already labelled what is happening as communal crisis.

The governor was reacting to the criticism that greeted his comment in which he was quoted as carpeting the Catholic bishops who paid a visit to Buhari last week and expressed their misgivings about the President's perceived nepotism and killings by Fulani herdsmen in parts of the country.

After the incident launched by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday morning, one of the masterminds simply identified as Shagari was arrested by security agents.

The Coordinator of the OSYC, Mr. Oluwatuyi Adekanmbi, said herdsmen had turned themselves to terrors in Ondo State by perpetrating in series of crimes which included: rape, farm destruction, killing as well as kidnapping in their land.