Njiya-Goron Community threatens to wage war with Herdsmen

The Njiya-Goron community of Adamawa state is threatening to wage war with Fulani herdsmen to check continuing attacks on its people.

The chairman of the community, Manassah Nayangom in a statement in Yola on Monday, July 4 said the incessant attacks by herdsmen on the community which had claimed several lives and destroyed properties, have left the community with no option than to fight back since authorities had failed to contain the herdsmen’s attacks. 

According to Premium Times, the chairman of the community, which comprised 13 villages, said the community had so far lost 65 people and property worth over N2 billion. 

“The hunting and killing of our people at will by these blood suckers must stop; otherwise we have no choice than to take drastic measures to defend ourselves, for it appears the government does not care whether we are dead or alive. 

“There were wanton destruction and looting of our properties worth billions of naira by vandals.

“This left us with no alternative than to run to the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) in order to enforce our fundamental human rights, as we hold strongly that the right to life is a universal gift of God that no race or tribe, no matter how strong, can lay higher claim to it as being insinuated by Fulani herdsmen,” Nayangom said. 

He urged the federal government to urgently summon the political will to forge a lasting solution to the menace of the Fulani herdsmen in Adamawa state.