Pastoralists all over the continent are armed with AK47s: from Kenya to Nigeria!!---
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Murders should be brought to justice.
Let's pray that the Fulani cattle will soon be grazing peacefully in their reservation pastures, that the reservations will be located near the big meat consuming market towns in order to minimise the distances that the herders have to cover with their cattle, and that the herders will throw away their fearful weapons.
One of the reasons for having qualms about a soon fledgling military industrial complex taking off – one that would be manufacturing at least light arms, is that the nature of security being what it is, it's not a too far fetched nightmare imagining some of the weapons thus mass produced, falling into wrong hands - for a few dollars more, licensed to kill with impunity with or without a permit to carry firearms.
Like Chidi, I have also been wondering from where have the Fulani gunmen obtained their weapons? It's the same question about the Boko Haram terrorists...
On Saturday, 16 April 2016 10:08:50 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:By Chidi Anthony Opara
Herds graze
On our farmlands,
Herdsmen
With long guns
On shoulders hung
Gaze
At us with hate,
Ready to gun us
If we grumble.The pubic places
Of our women
Are not spared
Their forceful entry,
Our sacred places
Are not spared.Another horde of herdsmen
In the capital city
With bags of propaganda
On shoulders hung
Hold our future hostage.As they graze,
Herds trample
On the tranquility
Of the land
And our biles boil.(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)
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