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Middle Belt Forum accuses Buhari of supporting herdsmen to annihilate locals, take over ancestral lands

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The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting with Fulani herdsmen to annihilate and dispossess the peoples of the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria of their ancestral lands.

The group which declared its support for the position taken by the Nigerian Christian Elders’ Forum, NCEF, over the ceaseless bloodshed in the country, said the killings are a deliberate plan by the Buhari-led administration to hand over their lands to marauding Fulani herdsmen, saying, “This plan to subjugate and conquer our people and Southern Nigeria will be vehemently resisted.”

The statement by the MBF National President, Dr Bitrus Pogu, on the matter reads thus in part; “As categorically declared by the NCEF, current attempts at implementing the ‘Fulanisation’ agenda enjoys the active support of the Buhari-led government. There are many proofs to back up the NCEF’s assertion that there is a collusion between herdsmen and the Federal Government in advancing this campaign. In the past four years of the Buhari administration, tens of thousands of Nigerians have been decimated, with several thousands killed on account of Fulani herdsmen terrorist invasion of peaceful communities across the country. Despite the troubling death toll, none of the culprits has been arrested or brought to book.

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“While attention of the present government is being focused on combating the dread of Boko Haram in the North-east zone, the present administration has been demonstrating fudging attempts at battling rampaging Fulani terrorists whose bloodthirsty disposition has brought devastation and anguish on our people.

“For avoidance of doubt, we wish to inform Nigerians and the international community that the Middle Belt peoples are now victims of a conspiracy to subjugate them and disinherit them of their ancestral lands. We are calling on men and women of good conscience to spare no efforts in exposing the ongoing heinous crimes against humanity in a bid to unveil the dark spot of human conscience surrounding the massacres of Nigerians and destruction of communities in the Middle Belt Region and other parts of the country.

“The Forum has confidence that history and God is on the side of the just. We remain steadfastly confident that someday, we shall witness an end to these tragedies that have befallen the Middle Belt Region and our nation,” the Middle Belt Forum observed.

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