Emancipation Centre for Crisis victims in Nigeria | May 1, 2019
In an attempt to disrupt relative Peace currently enjoyed in Plateau State and to scuttle self-efforts of IDPs for resettlement, information has been sourced out that suspected Fulani herdsmen viciously went overnight and demolished structures that are being erected by Internationally Dispwlaced Persons (IDPs) of Ruku community of Gashish District, Barkin Ladi LGA of Plateau State. The uncivil act of the threat is said to have been carried out in the night of 29/4/2019 at the outskirts of Tanti community of Bokkos LGA where the IDPs of Ruku have been hosted as a result of terror attacks that were visited on the helpless locals who have been subjected to immeasurable trauma arising from pervasive massacre of innocent lives and destruction meted out on inhabitants of the community on 23/6/2018.
The ugly development was revealed by an anonymous source which also has it that after destruction of the structures, a red flag has been pegged up at the site suggesting conquest and territorial expansion that disallows the IDPs from self-resettlement efforts that ought to have been commended, encouraged and supported as well as secured with heavy presence of security agents but the contrary appears to be the order of the day. In a further Inquisition, it’s made known that the most vulnerable IDPs who are surviving on their own cannot embark on farming activities to fend for their families, for all their farmlands have become inaccessible due to the continued threats posed to them by the killer Fulani herdsmen who have obdurately encamped themselves close to their sacked settlement that has been rendered desolate.
The locals are crying out for rapt attention to the increasing threats currently exhibited by the aggressors who are bent on inhibiting any attempt for self return of the locals who are desirous of establishing a new settlement for themselves but are being frustrated by enemies of peace and humanity that have ravaged social lives of the victims.Among many intervention programs being pleaded include1. A deployment of Special Security agents to guarantee their safety so as to restart construction of the destroyed buildings.2. Provision of more roofing materials as the ones provided by Plateau State Government are grossly inadequate in view of the raining season that has fully commenced.3. Provision of farming implements, especially fertilizer to enable them curtail a menace of food crisis that obviously looms up.4. Provision of foodstuffs and other relief materials for the affected persons whose means of livelihood has largely been dependent on gestures demonstrated by wells wishers and host communities who have exhaustively overstretched their little resources to reach out to the IDPs.5. Provision of scholarship programs to enable IDPs children and other orphans of violent conflict to be enrolled into schools for better productivities.6. Dislodgement of terror attackers’ settlements to get rid of the aggressors from the area in order to have a violent free environments.A swift response to this outcry will certainly be of enormous help to the affected persons who are in dire need of intervention.attached hereto are pictures of the affected IDPs New site for confirmationBy Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, Esq.Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria (ECCVN)