- The Southern Nigeria Forum and the Association of Middle Belt Ethnic Nationalities have reached a resolution concerning the recent killings by herdsmen across the country
- The groups have asked indigenes of the southern and middle belt regions to abstain from eating beef for 21 days, beginning from March 21, to honor the victims of the attacks
- They further rejected the recent committee headed by Vice President Yemo Osinbajo to look into the herdsmen issue and called for the deployment of the military instead
Indigenes of the southern and middle belt regions of the country have been asked to abstain from consuming beef for 21 days, beginning from March 1, by the Southern Nigeria Forum and the Association of Middle Belt Ethnic Nationalities, Punch reports.
The groups made the request in a communiqué signed on their behalves by Rev Okechukwu Obioha and Rev James Pam.
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NAIJ.com gathers that the groups are calling on the indigenes to boycott the product for that period of time, in honor of the victims of herdsmen attacks.
The communiqué read: “In order to honour the victims of the herdsmen activities across the country, southerners and the people of the middle belt are hereby urged to abstain from eating cow meat for 21 days in the first instance, beginning from 1st March, 2018.”
The groups also rejected the recent committee headed by Vice President Yemo Osinbajo, to look into the herdsmen issue.
It stated: “We do not see the rationale in setting up the Prof Osinbajo-led committee to look into the herdsmen invasions; we rather recommend the full deployment of Nigeria’s military arsenal to crush the invading armies.
“We urge President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the immediate arrest and prosecution of all the armed militia that are committing atrocities in Benue and other parts of Nigeria.
“All the 17 southern states, 14 middle belt states and the Federal Capital Territory reject the idea of creating cattle colonies in our areas. We, instead, recommend the enforcement of private ranching for all animal keepers.”
The groups also called for the immediate implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference even as they stressed the need for the country to be restructured.
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In a related development, NAIJ.com previously reported that Pastor and President of the Laybible Translation Group, Dele Ikeorha, urged Christians in the country to stop eating cow meat in protest against the incessant attack on Christians in Southern Kaduna by herdsmen.
Ikeorha noted that the time had come for Christians in the country to resist what he termed as the “subtlety of the Islamisation agenda of Nigeria” as it required “forceful and strategic resistance to avert a greater calamity.”
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Source: Naija.ng