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Fulani Herdsmen Attack in Nkanu LGA Of Enugu State - Nigeria

PROMISE FULFILL - "I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country," Buhari said (August 2001).

Suspected Fulani herdsmen yesterday morning attacked Enugu Atakwu community, in Nkanu West Local Government Area. Several people were killed including ‎a seminarian of the Catholic Church.

According to Daily Post, the herdsmen, who were armed to ‘teeth’ invaded and started shooting and maiming anybody in sight.

One of the victims, a seminarian is said to have just returned from his apostolic work when he met his untimely death.

A community source said “they just came early this morning and started killing people. There is confusion everywhere now; people are running helter-skelter.”

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Yakubu, who addressed reporters along with four other priests, said four local government areas had been attacked with 808 people killed and 1,422 houses, 16 churches, 19 shops, and one primary school destroyed.

“The tragedy in Southern Kaduna is also translating to Niger State, which is close to Abuja. So you can see the danger of these killings to other cities in the country.”

“There is need for an immediate action to stop the activities of these herdsmen killing innocent people,” he said

Sani suggested that there was need for an economic master plan for Southern Kaduna to address the neglect, abandonment, poverty and underdevelopment that have ravaged the zone for a very long time.

The senator argued that “neutralising Southern Kaduna is not enough without any economic agenda”. “We must develop the area and make all parts of the area accessible by providing infrastructure and developing social amenities as the only way we can have a permanent solution.

“Also, there is need to have consultative community interactions to enable the natives and cattle rearers and others ethnic groups interact for better understanding.

“Enough is a word that can only be qualified when there is satisfaction by the side of those who are victims. The first right in the Nigerian constitution is the right to life.

“The government cannot be seen to say it has done enough until and unless these killings stop. The Federal Government must provide the necessary environment.

“I think ending this problem has gone beyond what people are thinking. It should be accompanied with an economic blueprint to face the problem of underdevelopment and neglect of the Southern part of the state.

“It is very clear that the people of Southern Kaduna are being treated as outcast. They only listen to Plateau media stations to know what is happening in Nigeria.

“Southern Kaduna depends on Plateau to exist as human beings. It is very unfortunate,” Sani said.

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