{"id":60828,"date":"2018-01-29T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60828"},"modified":"2018-01-29T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:55:53","slug":"between-jegas-killer-herdsman-and-leadership-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/between-jegas-killer-herdsman-and-leadership-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Jega\u2019s \u2018Killer Herdsman\u2019 And Leadership Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Musa Simon Reef<\/div>\n
One of Nigeria\u2019s cerebral columnists, Malam Mahmud Jega, has not only paid<\/div>\n
his dues, but commands remarkable readership across the country, especially<\/div>\n
in the North where his analytical prowess has become almost an awesome<\/div>\n
machine of intellectual coercion. To most of his readers, including yours<\/div>\n
sincerely, when Jega writes, there is little to add or subtract. His<\/div>\n
writings are always backed with facts and his sense of history is simply<\/div>\n
amazing. To me, he is one of the very few writers that can be trusted with<\/div>\n
the pen.<\/div>\n
I have known Jega through his writings many years before I met him. Jega\u2019s<\/div>\n
sense of humility is renowned, just as his observance of ethics of the<\/div>\n
journalism profession is unquestionable. Perhaps, that explains why I<\/div>\n
remain a regular reader of his column. However, for some auspicious<\/div>\n
reasons, I missed out on his January 15, 2018 column published in Daily<\/div>\n
Trust, titled, \u2018This Thing Called \u2018Killer Herdsman.\u2019<\/div>\n
After reading a rejoinder to his article by Barrister Ballason Gloria<\/div>\n
Mabeiam, another columnist with Blueprint Newspaper, I was persuaded to<\/div>\n
read Jega\u2019s entire piece. After going through the article, I was worried<\/div>\n
that the columnist\u2019s piece was bereft of his insignia: thoroughness and<\/div>\n
absence of a roadmap on the way forward.<\/div>\n
The greatest problem facing us as a nation today is not Boko Haram, which<\/div>\n
the Buhari-led government claimed it has technically defeated, but<\/div>\n
herdsmen\u2019s attacks that have cast gloom on the nation\u2019s life. In most parts<\/div>\n
of the North-central geo-political zone, including Southern Kaduna and some<\/div>\n
states in the North-east where these herdsmen have left hair-rising spectre<\/div>\n
of killings, bloodshed, tension and suppressed anxieties have become the<\/div>\n
order of the day.<\/div>\n
Jega\u2019s write-up is laced with historical dialectics of once upon a time<\/div>\n
peaceful herdsmen metamorphosing into present day \u2018killers.\u2019 However, the<\/div>\n
article is disturbingly mute on how we can clear away the current<\/div>\n
frightening clouds of present uncertainties hovering over our nation\u2019s<\/div>\n
skies brought by these attacks.<\/div>\n
From the writer\u2019s column of January 15, there was the obvious attempt to<\/div>\n
justify the narrative that the continued murderous attacks on Southern<\/div>\n
Kaduna as reprisals for the post-2011 violence. His reference to migratory<\/div>\n
traits of herdsmen and their ignorance to conventions are non-debatable,<\/div>\n
just as the writer paints the picture of the \u2018killer herdsman\u2019 as someone<\/div>\n
who neither forgives nor forgets any offence unleashed on him by any<\/div>\n
community.<\/div>\n
Not a few believe that many issues abound that clearly portray herdsmen as<\/div>\n
the most favoured group by the Federal Government. Many Nigerians are<\/div>\n
asking why billions of Naira are appropriated in national budgets for the<\/div>\n
development of grazing reserves. Why is the government so committed to<\/div>\n
ensuring the welfare of the pastoralists when they are also exempted from<\/div>\n
taxes? Some are wondering why government is not concerned with providing<\/div>\n
lands for spare parts dealers and poultry farmers. It is obvious that the<\/div>\n
seeming privileges for herders did not start with Buhari. Former President<\/div>\n
Goodluck Jonathan was said to have budgeted N100 billion for grazing<\/div>\n
reserves, but the Buhari-led administration is yet to discover how the fund<\/div>\n
developed wings.<\/div>\n
And because herders have been seen as most favoured, it is normal for some<\/div>\n
groups to be envious of them. Instead of being taxed by government, they<\/div>\n
walk freely and sometimes engaged in destroying farmlands. They seem to be<\/div>\n
above the law as they walk and graze their cows oblivious of traditional<\/div>\n
and state authorities. How can government re-enforce the peaceful mien of<\/div>\n
the Fulani? Jega was completely silent on what government should do to the<\/div>\n
\u2018killer herdsman\u2019 in order to recreate the peace and respect for<\/div>\n
traditional authorities that were once his hallmark. Why must herdsmen be<\/div>\n
allowed to continue their migratory trait in a modern world devoid of any<\/div>\n
form of respect for farmers\u2019 right to their source livelihood?<\/div>\n
Let\u2019s agree that the post-2011 post election violence started from the<\/div>\n
northern and spread to the southern part of Kaduna state. Over six years<\/div>\n
after, why continuing these attacks against the southern part that has lost<\/div>\n
nearly, if not over, 1,000 people and still counting? Has the \u2018killer<\/div>\n
herdsman\u2019 not attacked enough to revenge for his losses?<\/div>\n
Nearly three years since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed reins of power;<\/div>\n
it is obvious the herdsmen have become more vicious in their blood thirsty<\/div>\n
mission. Despite the loss of lives in various parts of the country, the<\/div>\n
Federal Government is yet to send a strong signal of its commitment to deal<\/div>\n
with anyone involved in taking the lives of Nigerians in the name of<\/div>\n
herders\/farmers\u2019 clashes. Murder of anyone by anyone is criminal act, and<\/div>\n
government must rise up to its constitutional responsibility of punishing<\/div>\n
criminals involved in murdering Nigerians. The long arm of the law has been<\/div>\n
shortened in bringing to books people involved in herders\/farmers\u2019 clashes.<\/div>\n
When cattle rustlers threatened Zamfara and some parts of Katsina and Kano<\/div>\n
States, among others, President Muhammadu Buhari, dressed in full war<\/div>\n
attire, deployed a military formation to end the ugly episode. However,<\/div>\n
when attacks by suspected herders continued in Southern Kaduna,<\/div>\n
presidential spokesman Femi Adesina was quick to say that military<\/div>\n
deployment was unnecessary as Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai was on top of<\/div>\n
the situation.<\/div>\n
When the gruesome killings in Agatu, Benue State, attracted national and<\/div>\n
international outrage, they were not enough to inspire the federal<\/div>\n
authorities to deploy the military to bring the killers to book. Then,<\/div>\n
Taraba almost went up in flames over the anti-grazing law, and was soon<\/div>\n
followed by killings of herdsmen in Mambilla. A Federal Government\u2019s<\/div>\n
delegation, led by Minister of Internal Affairs, General Abdulrahman<\/div>\n
Dambazau (retd), flew into Jalingo and quickly visited venue of the<\/div>\n
bloodbath, and thereafter returned to Abuja, after issuing empty threats to<\/div>\n
deal with the killers.<\/div>\n
Considering the seeming levity government has displayed in dealing with<\/div>\n
these killings, it gave vent to potential killers to embrace the culture of<\/div>\n
violence. If the Buhari-led Government had re-enacted the serious posture<\/div>\n
it adopted in Zamfara on the issue of cattle rustling, the killings in<\/div>\n
Southern Kaduna, Benue, Taraba and Adamawa would not have been. Many<\/div>\n
believe that Buhari\u2019s handling of \u2018killer herdsman\u2019 has not been strong<\/div>\n
enough to end bloodshed.<\/div>\n
What the Buhari-led government needs to do now is to punish those denying<\/div>\n
Nigerians the right to live as enshrined in the country\u2019s constitution. The<\/div>\n
allegation that those killing Nigerians are foreigners should be thoroughly<\/div>\n
probed in order to unearth the identity of these killers. As long as we<\/div>\n
show differences in opinions and reactions to these mindless killings, so<\/div>\n
long will the problem remain with us. There is also the need for government<\/div>\n
to tackle all forms of criminalities being perpetuated in the name<\/div>\n
herders\/farmers\u2019 clashes. Government must renounce its seeming lethargy and<\/div>\n
rise to the task of tackling these killings by herdsmen.<\/div>\n
The problems that confront us as Nigerians are not beyond us to resolve.<\/div>\n
What we all need from our leaders is sincerity of purpose and the political<\/div>\n
will devoid of political sentiments. That explains why Nigerians,<\/div>\n
particularly patriots and journalists, should always tell the truth to<\/div>\n
powers that be in a bid to promote peace and never give up in the face of<\/div>\n
adversity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Reef is the Editor-in-Chief of Forefront, and can be reached via:<\/div>\n
simonreef927@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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