Makurdi—The Benue Youth Forum, BYF, has
raised concern over the recent statement credited
to the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, MAKH, a Fulani
sociocultural association
The BYF said it is saddened by the content of the
communique issued at the end of the expanded
National Executive Committee, NEC and State
Chairmen meeting of MAKH where they lashed
Governor Samuel Ortom saying “the meeting
condemned the continuous profiling of Fulani
pastoralists by the beleaguered Governor of
Benue Samuel Ortom through his satanic anti-
grazing law that he has been using to officially
consficate and auction millions of cattle
belonging to Fulanis in Benue- Nasarawa, Benue,
and Benue-Taraba boarder communities.”
But reacting yesterday in Makurdi, the National
President of BYF, Terrence Kuanum said, “it is
indeed shocking that the apex socio-cultural body
of Fulani ethnic nationality who have variously
taken responsibility for the genocide in Benue
after openly declaring war on the people because
of the promulgation and implementation of the
Open Grazing and Ranches Establishment Law of
the state are now the ones crying blue murder.
“That the group accused Governor Ortom of
confiscating cattle belonging to Fulanis in
Benue’s borders with Nasarawa and Taraba
states when of a truth, the Fulanis are the once
unleashing terror on the people in a bid to take
over their lands is another irony.
“They have no moral rights to question the anti-
grazing law of the Benue state government,
especially as they are known for their penchant
for breaking laws because they enjoy the backing
of high-profile politicians particularly those of
Fulani extraction. ”
“They also need to know that there is nothing as
retrogressing as calling for the development of
415 grazing reserves in the country as nations
desirous of developing have moved past archaic
and anti-development processes and patterns
such as the ones the Fulanis are calling for.
While cautioning that Fulanis should not think
that Nigeria belongs to them, the BYF also
“condemned in totality recent comments by
former Bauchi state governor, Isa Yuguda in
which he alleged that Governor Ortom made a
law to chase Fulani herdsmen out of Benue
