Nigeria: Death and the Invisible Herdsmen

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

I have followed the raging debate on the widespread atrocities attributed to Fulani herdsmen across the country with meticulous attention. From the two-part narrative of Olusegun Adeniyi which ended penultimate week, to the rabidly partisan intervention of Shaka Momodu in his Thisday column of about the same time; the general consensus seemed to be that the country is presently confronted with a major challenge which must be quickly resolved before it further compounds the already precarious security situation in the land.

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