Andrew Agbese
2 July 2009
Jos — The ad-hoc committee set up by the Plateau State House of Assembly to investigate the recent civil unrest in Bokkos and Barikin Ladi local governments of the state has blamed the entire fracas on the Fulani for using teenagers as cattle rearers.
The House committee then recommended that in order to forestall such crisis in future, the state government needs to enhance nomadic education and recommended that only Fulani that have attained the ages of 18 and above can rear cattle.
The committee observed that in both Dorowa and Manghor communities, in the two local governments, the natives of the two communities have been living peacefully for several years and have been willing to live harmoniously with one another.
There was a recent clash between Fulani in the two local government and natives of the area, which led to the killing of three persons.
The committee explained in the report submitted to the whole House yesterday by its chairman, Sadat Garga that in the case of Dorowa in Barkin Ladi local government, the crisis was ignited by a particular family and the killing of a Berom woman by a 14 year old Fulani cattle rearer.
The committee said it discovered that the cause of the crisis in Bokkos on the other hand, was a result of the murder of a certain woman on her farmland, which led to a reprisal attack on the Fulani escalating in the burning of their houses and the killing of two Fulani in Manghor village.
The report also indicted the Fulani for being found in possession of locally made guns and ammunitions which the committee said were recovered from some of the Fulani who were arrested by the police and blamed illiteracy as another factor that escalated the crisis from both sides.
The committee then recommended that one of the Fulani families that caused the crisis be taken to a psychiatric hospital for examination.
The committee commended the Berom community in the affected areas for not taking the laws into their hands and called on the Miyetti Allah in the state to intervene in the crisis experienced in its branch in Bokkos while calling on the Fulani to report any strange Fulani settler among them.
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