In only one year, according to the general, Fulani herdsmen killed 2,500 people and displaced 62,000 people in the four states. In my reaction to his timely warning in my column for this newspaper, titled: Fulani herdsmen? The president has nothing to gain from the killings in Benue and other states. Interestingly, the Benue State police command informed the public they had arrested seven of the herdsmen involved in the new year attacks. As horrendous as the Benue killings are, they are in no way worse than those in Borno and Yobe since 2009.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2018 04:41 UTC