A group under the umbrella of the Concerned Plateau Fulani Forum, CPFF, has vowed to institute legal actions against anyone including government and security agencies whenever they blame the Fulani people for the violence and killings in Plateau State.
The CPFF, in an exclusive statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, said blaming the Fulani people, especially herders for every act of violence in the state amounted to ethnic profiling with the aim of exterminating them or chasing them out of the state where they also belong.
In the statement signed by its Coordinator, Saleh Haruna, the Fulani group said it has noticed with dismay that anytime there is an attack anywhere in the state, government officials and security agencies are always quick to blame the Fulani whom they have given different names like ‘militias and bandits.’
Referencing the report by a fact-finding committee set up by Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang to investigate the remote causes persistent attacks, killings, and destruction in the state where it was revealed that at least 450 communities across 13 Local Government Areas have been destroyed and left desolate while over 12,000 lives have been lost in two decades of violence spanning 2001 and 2025 perpetrated by Fulani militias, Haruna said the report was only aimed at blaming the Fulani herders without taking into consideration that they too have suffered losses of their people and their cattle which have been rustled in several communities across the state.
“We are not happy with the regular tagging of Fulani people as bandits, criminals and aggressors whenever there is violence or attacks in any part of Plateau State,” Haruna said in the strongly worded statement.
“It is becoming a pattern, and a dangerous one for that matter, that whenever there is an attack in the state, the government and security agencies are quick to identify the perpetrators as Fulani people.
“They do this without proper investigations to identify the real culprits, forgetting that our people have also suffered massive losses of lives and cattle that have been rustled over the years.
“Only last week, a fact-finding committee set up Gov. Caleb Mutfwang led by one Maj. Gen.Nicholas Rogers (Rtd), submitted a report to the governor where it said over 12,000 people were killed and 450 communities destroyed by Fulani attackers.
“To us, such outlandish claims were only meant to paint our people as unrepentant aggressors and meant to set us up for attacks by the people. We don’t know what they wanted to achieve by that report other than to paint our people as criminals.
“There was no part of the report that said that our people have also been attacked and killed in Mangu, Bokkos, Riyom, Barkin Ladi and other parts of Plateau State. All it did was to say that Fulani militias and bandits have killed 12,000 people and sacked 450 communities.
“Our questions are: what did the committee aim to achieve? What was its true mandate? Was it only to look at one side and forget the other?
“With the foregoing, the Concerned Plateau Fulani Forum, CPFF, henceforth say enough is enough. We will no longer tolerate further profiling of Fulani people in Plateau State and henceforth, we will institute legal actions against anyone who blames our people for acts of violence in the state,” Haruna said.If You’re Reading From Phoenix Click On Read Original To Read Full Article
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