UMAR MUHAMMED
A 22-year-old woman, Mrs. Zulai Ibrahim, who was delivered of a baby in the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Kadarko, Kiza Development Area of Nasarawa State, has cried out for help.
Ibrahim, in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, said the Fulani herders/farmers crisis had subjected her and her newborn baby to hardship.
The mother, who gave birth on Thursday, lamented that ever since the delivery, things had been difficult for her.
She said, “Imagine what this little innocent baby has been passing through in this IDPs’ camp with the scorching sun. I appeal to the state government to do the needful and ensure that the persistent killing of our people is brought to an end.
“Our people can no longer go to their farmlands anymore. The rainy season is approaching and we can no longer go close to our farms for fear of being attacked by the Fulani herdsmen, who have been grazing on our farms.”
Meanwhile, Governor Umaru Al-Makura distributed relief materials to the IDPs in the Kadarko area of Azara Development Area of the state on Saturday.
The governor, while addressing the IDPs, said, “On behalf of the Government of Nasarawa State and the good people of the state, I commiserate and sympathise with all your families in the whole state over the present challenges you have been facing in the camp.
As governor of Nasarawa State, I want you all to be able to go back to your homes peacefully.”
Al-Makura, however, explained that his worry was how he could join hands with the military, the police and other security agencies to ensure that nobody migrated to people’s farmlands, caused fear or destroyed their crops.
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