Tensions quelled by
house member
A bloody community
clash was averted on Sunday after Fulani Herdsmen murdered a farmer in Kogi
state.
Politics Nigeria
learnt that on 9th Feb., 2017,an old man named Kadiri Musa,married with three
wives and an indigene of Egbolo community had gone to monitor his cashew
plantation at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon but met his untimely death after
he saw some Fulani herdsmen in his farm plucking his cashew.
Thinking they were
common cashew-nut thieves, he raised alarm. The Fulani herdsmen wasted no time
in pursuing Musa before shooting him on his waist. He fell on his back and one
of the herdsmen shot him in the face, killing him instantly.
They immediately
reported to the police but were dissatisfied with the level of investigation
the police carried out and decided to take matters into their own hands.
Provoked by the gruesomeness of the murder,the youths of Egbolo community began
a search around their community and a couple of days later,found a Fulani man
and retaliated killing the him in the same brutal fashion.
On hearing of the
killing of their kinsman,the fulani community in their multitude invaded Egbolo
community with teams of policemen in vans,in search of the corpse of their man.
Sighting this
scenario,residents of the entire Egbolo community, who were still mourning the
loss of musa,who was also a community leader, took to their heels for the
neighboring communities for fear of violence.
The looming crisis
was averted by a house member representing Igalamela/Odolu state constituency
in the Kogi State House of Assembly, Elder Makama. He invited both leaders of
both communities including family members of the deceased and appealed to them
to embrace peace.
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