A Catholic priest in Jalingo Diocese Taraba state, Reverend Father Cyriacus David Kamai, has on Sunday said the federal government under the leadership of President Muhamadu Buhari has not done enough to end the farmer-herder clash in Taraba and Nigeria.
Fr. Kamai disclosed this in a chat with BusinessDay correspondent in Jalingo.
The parish priest Saint John the Baptist pastoral area Jenibanbu who said the protracted silence of the president has kept many people wondering wondered why Miyyeti Allah was always ranting in the media without anybody calling them to order.
He urged president Muhamadu Buhari to call the herdsmen to order adding that the agenda of the Fulani’s was more than cattle rearing but what he described as land grabbing.
The Catholic priest who lamented the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state appealed to the minister of humanitarian and disaster management to fast track their resettlement.
While appreciating Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku for his untiring efforts to curtail the crisis in the state Fr. Kamai called on security agencies to work in synergy for the overall interest of the citizenry.
“Most time I hear Miyyeti Allah on TV ranting and threatening people’s lives I keep thinking where they have gotten such powers. The Federal government is supposed to do much more than what the state is doing.
“From what I see and the way things are going this is much more than grazing, it is also about land grabbing because you sack people and take away their houses and schools you stay there with your cows. Are you telling us that cows are more important than human beings?”,Fr Kamai asked.
BusinessDay recalled that Jenibanibu, Yelwa, Yandan, and Abare in Jalingo Ardo Kola and Lau came under attack in recent time by suspected Fulani herdsmen leaving more than twenty thousand people in IDP camps in eight primary Schools across Jalingo.
