A former Youth and Sports Minister under the administration of the government said recent killings in the Bokos Local Government Area (LGA) in the Plateau State should not be described as a conflict between farmers and herdsmen, but rather as a phenomenon of terrorism and genocide.
Dalung said this when he spoke on television on Monday, April 7.
“One of the main problems on the plateau is the criminal errors based on racial identity or community relations,” Darren said. “The violence here is not a conflict between farmers; it is terrorism. The enclaves of these groups are similar to the Northeast where they steal cattle, grab the land and build parallel governments in the bushes.”
His comments are in response to the recent wave of attacks launched in parts of the Plateau State.
According to the Bocos Cultural Development Commission (BCDC), more than 10 people were suspected to have killed on Wednesday night. By Saturday, the death toll had risen to 52. The latest massacre happened just a week after another attack in a nearby community.
“There is nothing like the conflict between herders who clash on the plateau. These are terrorists. They have enclaves. They grab the land, wrestle cattle and replace the natives. In the bushes, there is a government, and these places are known,” Darren said. ” Darren said.
Dalung criticized the federal government’s handling of the crisis, saying the recently established livestock department was an invalid distraction.
“Let’s not hide from the Livestock Ministry. The Livestock Ministry can’t even do anything about this issue. If you sum up this, you’ll go back to this issue of lack of political will. If you want to deal with the political will of the situation, these people will be assigned correctly. They are terrorists. They are terrorists.”
He further debunked the excuse of the poor accessibility of security operators for affected communities.
“Safety says, well, we can’t do anything because there are no access roads. I can’t understand that because in a technology-driven economy like ours, is the problem with access roads? What happens to drones, cameras and other sophisticated intelligence-gathering gadgets?”
Darren warned that the continued failure to accurately mark the crisis inciting perpetrators and keep vulnerable communities out of protection.
“If we have to be very honest in dealing with plateau conditions, first of all, we will have to pretend to be a conflict of domesticators. Not terrorism at all. It is terrorism. It is genocide. It was an international definition of genocide. When a group of people attacked another person, when you erase it from someone on the earth or a business of one person, it was a person who belonged to the archives, and it was a policy. Genocide.”
