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A joint press briefing between Fulani herdsmen and Idomas in
Abuja

At a meeting between the Fulani herdsmen and the people of
Agatu local government area in Abuja on Sunday, March 27,
seventeen peaceful resolutions were made to ensure peace in
the crisis affected area.

The resolutions were signed by Paul Edeh, the convener of the
One Idoma Initiative, Othman Ngelzarma; the national
secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of
Nigeria (MACBAN), Christian Eneche; the president of the Agatu
Network Forum and Muhammadu Kiruwa; the national
president of MACBAN.

At the meeting, the group said: “We have agreed to work closely
with our various communities, government of Benue and
Nasarawa states, the federal government and all willing
partners towards fostering peace and mutual cooperation,
security, and sustainable development that includes
strengthening our collective desires to promote cooperation
and help to prevent future conflicts and resolve same if it ever
arise again.”

The parties also agreed to continue to cooperate among
themselves to seek for dialogue and explore all efforts targeted
at bring lasting peace to the crisis affected areas, while making
various recommendations.

Below are the 17 recommendations made by the parties:


1. The immediate cessation of hostilities between the Idomas
in Agatu and the Fulani nomadic community carrying out
grazing activities in Agatu.

2. The national leadership of MACBAN will direct its Benue and
Nasarawa states chapters to immediately direct all Fulani
herdsmen carrying out grazing activities in Agatu to
immediately withdraw and move to Nasarawa state while
dialogue towards the peaceful resolution of the conflict is on-
going. While the Agatu youths should desist from patrolling the
river bank until when better understanding is sought between
the two parties.

3. The Federal Government is urged to immediately set up a
high power committee that will include the leadership of the
One Idoma Initiative and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) to comprehensively look into
the immediate and remote causes of the crisis with the view of
finding a lasting solution. This committee should also be
mandated to ascertain the level of destruction of lives and
properties from both sides.

4. The federal government should draw up a roadmap to
commence the immediate reconstruction, rehabilitation and re-
integration of the internally displaced persons from Agatu back
to their various communities. Similarly, the Fulanis who lost
their cattle during the crisis should be compensated
accordingly.

5. A peace football match should be organized between the
Super Eagles of Nigeria and a joint team comprising the
Idomas and the Fulanis. The Football match should be played
at the National Stadium Abuja and organized in conjunction
with NFF. The match should be aimed at raising awareness of
the peaceful resolution of the conflict and to raise funds
towards the reconstruction of the properties destroyed in the
crisis.

6. All future conflicts arising between the Idoma people of
Agatu and Fulani herdsmen should be addressed through
dialogue rather than violent means as was the recent case.

7. The federal ministry of agriculture is urged to create and
give adequate attention to the Livestock value chain
development in Nigeria in order to cater for the growing
demands of the nomadic community to address the imbalance
between agronomy and livestock development in Nigeria.

8. The federal government is urged to as a matter of urgency
support One Idoma Initiative and MACBAN to embark on
advocacy campaigns on their members in order to enhance the
spirit of brotherhood, love and tolerance especially among the
youths.

9. The ministry of agriculture is urged to immediately organize
a broad stakeholders meeting between cattle breeders and
farmers with a view to providing short, medium and long term
solutions to the crisis between cattle breeders and farmers in
Nigeria. While the federal, states and local governments are
urged to evolve a strategic framework for the implementation
of the long term solution to the problem of grazing.

10. We condemn in totality the proliferation of fire arms
especially among the warring parties and pledge to collaborate
with the federal government and the two state governments of
Benue and Nasarawa to encourage the laying down of arms by
both parties and to also appeal to the government to consider
granting amnesty to those who accept to lay down their arms
and embrace lasting peace.

11. The federal government through the federal ministry of
agriculture is urged to address the issue of grazing reserve and
mapping out of the primary, secondary and tertiary cattle
routes in Nigeria so as to put an end to the problem of
perennial clashes between local farmers and Fulani herdsmen.
The ministry of agriculture is urged to propose a Bill to resolve
the above issue while the National Assembly is urged to
consider and pass such bill into law expeditiously.

12. The One Idoma Initiative and the MACBAN should organize
continuous stakeholders meetings to assess the progress made
on the implementation of the letter of the communiqué issued
after the town hall meeting.

13. Both associations should visit the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, the governors of Benue and Nasarawa
States, the chief of defence Staff, the chief of army staff, the
inspector general of police, the director general National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other relevant
organizations, to enlist their support in the sustenance of peace
between the Agatu community and the Fulani herdsmen.

14. We jointly call for the provision of adequate and permanent
security in the crisis area up to the time when peace and
security will be fully restored and thereafter.

15. The One Idoma Initiative and the MACBAN resolve to write
an appreciation and commendation letter to “Ordinary” (Dr)
Ahmad Isah, the president and founder of Brekete Family on
his role as an arbiter towards the resolution of the Agatu and
Fulani Herdsmen crisis from the onset.

16. We urge the executive governor of Benue State, Samuel
Ortom to immediately visit Agatu with his cabinet members for
an on the spot assessment of the situation and ensure that
rapid development of the crisis areas are commenced. We
believe when this is done, it will go a long way in pacifying the
victims of the crisis.

17. While we conclude by appreciating the effort of the federal
government in addressing the general security problems of the
country, we have no doubt in our minds that the crisis in Agatu
will also receive the concern of the Federal government with
the view to proffering the immediate remedy to the problem.

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This Benue eeee. they even get time for dialogue after all this massacre . I don't want to call it coward move shaaaa

Who did the Agatu people voted for.? Buhari or Jonathan

Lol

no be only football match

The terms of this resolutions are worst than article of colonization.

Federal Government should do this and that?


I resolve that Federal Government should pay complete cost incurred by Traders in event of any burnt market in Nigeria for National Peace.

This is exactly how shehu usman Dan fodio settled in Hausa town of gobir, before ....

Una know the rest

BlackTechnology:
Who did the Agatu people voted for.? Buhari or Jonathan

edozint matter

Ok it is the grand patron of MACBAN

is it only me dats not seeing any agreement in what was written, did idomas and agatus are still sitting on gun powder walahi

Omenka, are u telling me that benue people have finally accepted dem ALIMI's brothers as una personal lords and savior?


Middle belt is finished

Non of the communiqué called for the punishment of those that committed the massacre or punishment of such evil in future.

No 11 of the communiqué will never be. it can only work for the defeated people in North/south and never in SE. we are ready to fight to the last. It's Cattle ranch or nothing. Never shall there be grazing reserve for herdsmen in east save if we will be granted Market/ industrial reserve in all states of Nigeria.

unless Apc and Buhari restricts those buffoons to ranching in the north.there'd still be attacks on poor farmers by the fvckinq herdsmen

Sealeddeal:
No 11 of the communiqué will never be. it can only work for the defeated people in North/south and never in SE. we are ready to fight to the last. It's Cattle ranch or nothing. Never shall there be grazing reserve for herdsmen in east save if we will be granted Market/ industrial reserve in all states of Nigeria.

Aptly put. The whole of SE/SS should never conceed to that useless grazing reserve request. Afterall they say the East is the smallest geographically and therefore should have little allocation, so why should they take from little land the east have and use it for grazing reserves. There will bloodshed if they try.

Let them go to Oyo or kano that boast of plentiful lands and have their grazing reserves there.
Land issue is a very sensitive issue in the East. We don't have much of it and we will protect the little we have and rightfuy so. Afterall it is same people that taunts and deny us rights because of the size of our land.

Tom tom is now one 10 naira in my area now oo.

Let there be peace

BlackTechnology:
Who did the Agatu people voted for.? Buhari or Jonathan

Go away with your hate! Don't you have shame? At 49 you haven't achieve any meaningful thing in life.


Don't let your children curse you when they grow.

Which Kind.........hundreds killed, no 1 held responsible........dem wan sweep am under carpet

Sounds like a good handbook for someone,
Trying to learn how to be a slave to the killers of his kinsmen,
This Idomas are so pathetic, for all your kinsmen this fulanis killed, you are not even talking about bringing the perpetrators to account, you are talking of peace,
This is capitulation, this is a disgrace,
Fulanis are a warring tribe, the do not love peace,
The only way, you can gain their respect is by, playing their war game, and winning them at it,
Let's just wait and see, it won't be long before another Benue community is invaded and destroyed by this guys

Hmm,partial settlement. They will still invade them again and again

ojnnaco:
This Benue eeee. they even get time for dialogue after all this massacre .
I don't want to call it coward move shaaaa

What u don't seem to understand is that d Fulani where d victims, it was their retaliation that brought about d agatu massacre everyone is screaming about.

Hope they can maintain d peace initiative