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Terror Attacks: ARG Wants More Action From FG, State Governments

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Comrade Kunle Famoriyo of ARG...
Comrade Kunle Famoriyo of ARG...

Governments at all levels in Nigeria have been charged by Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) to put in more efforts to stop terror attacks in the country.

The Yoruba socio-cultural group in a release made available to PMParrot on Tuesday by its spokesman, Kunle Famoriyo also specifically noted that Boko Haram elements and herdsmen militia are two terrors casting shadows of death over Nigeria and governments at all levels must respond adequately.

Read the full text of the statement here:

The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) read the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s disclosure about the various deployments of troops to various flashpoints across the country to curb herders and farmers violent encounters.

ARG welcomes the deployments and hopes it is the beginning of several more steps that needed to be taken to completely forestall needless terror, the enormity of which was captured by the Global Terrorism Index (2017).

The report stated that “Between 2010 and 2016, Deaths from Fulani extremists resulted in more than 3,000 deaths across four [African] countries, with 92% of fatalities taking place in Nigeria.”

Both the Boko Haram and herdsmen militia are two terrors casting shadows of death over Nigeria and governments at all levels must respond adequately, through approaches that simultaneously deal effectively with the terrorists and also address the underlying triggers of conflict.

To this end, we want to suggest the following for urgent consideration of the federal and state governments.

First, there should be an executive order declaring an amnesty window for all arms-bearing herders, farmers and other terrorists wherever they may be found in our country. After the deadline, anyone caught anywhere with arms should be arrested and prosecuted under the Terrorism Act. Without an initiative like this, no positive or sustainable peace can be fostered.

Second, all Houses of Assembly should make digital animal identification statutory as there is no part of the country today that is strange to the use of GSM technology.  If all herds are digitally identifiable, clashes between farmers and herders and rustling might be largely controlled, if not eliminated. Such identification technology will also facilitate Nigerian livestock farmers for meat export business.

Third, the Federal Government has exclusive legislative responsibility for immigration and border control matters, hence the time has come for effective and sustained border control, with the claim that the criminal herdsmen are from other lands determined to subvert Nigeria’s sovereignty and dominate indigenous Nigerians.

Fourth, for the sake of repetition, it is worth saying again that the time has come to end open grazing in Nigeria, and respective legislative houses, particularly in the South West should act accordingly.

Lastly, we hope the federal government has realised the need to urgently restructure Nigeria by unbundling the Exclusive Legislative List. Who would have thought that less than five years after ‘Chibok,’ we would have ‘Dapchi’ to contend with? The folly of kicking against True Federalism matters like state police is the needless loss of young Nigerian lives and we cannot like the ostrich continue to bury our heads in the sand.

Signed: Kunle Famoriyo, Publicity Secretary, Afenifere Renewal Group

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