Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has stated that the armed Fulani herders who have continually attacked the state are Malians, not Nigerians.
These armed herders speak a Hausa and Fulani language that is different from what is available in Nigeria, according to Alia.
A number of individuals have been killed in a spate of armed herder attacks in Benue State.
Local government areas including Otukpo, Ado, Logo, and others had been targeted by these armed herdsmen.
according to the governor, these AK-47-wielding attackers don’t resemble Nigeria’s native Fulanis.
The Benue state governor revealed this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, she revealed this.
“We know Nigerians—by our ethnicities, we can identify a Fulani man, a Yoruba man, a Hausa man—we know them.
“Even the regular traditional herders, we know them. They work with cows, herding them with sticks.
“But these folks, the attackers, are coming in fully armed with AK-47s and 49s. They do not bear the Nigerian look. They don’t speak like we do. Even the Hausa they speak is one sort of Hausa.
“It’s not the normal Hausa we Nigerians speak. So it is with the Fulani they speak. There is a trend in the language they speak, and some of our people who understand what they speak give it names.
“They say they are Malians and different from our people. But they are not Nigerians—believe it.”
This is coming after the Afia community in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue state was yet again attacked by gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of eleven residents and numerous injuries.
Speaking at a security meeting held to evaluate the recent wave of violence in the region, His Royal Highness Chief Iyorkyaa Kaave, the Ter Ukum, made the revelation in Makurdi.
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