A socio-political and cultural group, Jukun Development Association of Nigeria (JDAN) has described the latest Amnesty International’s report indicting the Nigerian Army as accomplices in the killings and destructions by Fulani herdsmen as a vindication of earlier warnings by one of her sons Gen Theophilus Danjuma (rtd).
The Amnesty International in its latest report had indicted the Nigerian government of “incompetence” and the Nigerian Army of “not only gross negligence, but accomplices in the killings and destructions by Fulani herdsmen” that took place in most parts of Northern Nigeria between 2016 to 2018.
The association’s National President, Chief Benjamin Bako, speaking with newsmen in Lagos, said the report was a welcome development.
According to him, Gen TY Danjuma and JDAN have been vindicated in the eye of world that the allegations of “collussion by the Nigeria Army and Fulani herdsmen in the wanton killings in the middle belt and parts of Igbo land was very accurate after all.”
Bako described Gen. Danjuma as “a man of proven high integrity and sound moral standards, who is not given to frivolities and doesn’t speak without prove.”
He said: “As an elderstatesman Gen Danjuma’s intervention was to help the institution shich has given him fame and prominence to rediscover itself thereby purging itself of bad elements that are bent on destroying the good reputation and excellent tradition of the military institution. Rather, Gen Danjuma was called all manners of names and hunted like commoner.”
He posited that the global justice group’s report has further validated “our own call as a group that the Nigerian government and the Nigerian Army take Gen Danjuma’s view on the collusion within its ranks with the herdsmen seriously and take preemptive actions against fifth columnists.”
Bako said by beaming its searchlight on the herdsmen’s activities especially in some parts of the coubtry, Amnesty International has proven once again that it is the saviour of the world’s poor and oppressed.
Bako also pointed out that the Amnesty International’s reports should be treated as a yardstick by not only Jukun people, but Nigerians in general, in taking decisions that concerns 2019 and the future of Nigeria.
