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It’s only in your imagination that 800 Fulanis were killed, CAN replies Sanusi
Taraba State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has described as false, the recent claim by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that over 800 Fulani people were killed in Taraba last year.
Sanusi had during a recent interview on the heels of killings allegedly carried out by Fulani herdsmen in Taraba, Benue and others states of the federation, claimed that no less than 800 Fulani people were killed on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State last year.
The Emir had added, “I personally handed over to the Federal Government a dossier with the name and pictures of 800 Fulani people slaughtered in Taraba as well name of persons known to have participated in the act of ethnic cleansing but nothing has been done.”
However, Taraba CAN in a statement released on Tuesday by its chairman, Rev. Dr. Ben Ubeh,said that such killings as claimed by Sanusi, only existed in the Emir of Kano’s imagination.
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Ubeh said, “The records are there in most of the national dailies that reported the communal clash on the Mambilla last year. NGOs, UNCHR and other international organizations visited the Mambilla in the wake of that crisis, but in all of these the highest number of death recorded from both side was 18.
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“How is it possible to manipulate the figures and force all the different agencies to report 18 death figure. Obviously, the 800 Fulani people that were slaughtered according to Sanusi only existed in his imagination.”
Ubeh therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to do away with the idea of establishing cattle colonies, saying that the government should instead assist herdsmen to build private ranches.
He further called on the government to urgently attend to the plight of more than 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) currently in camps following herdsmen attacks in Taraba.
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