FRESH ATTACK IN JOS

Yesterday, Sunday 7th march, 2010, we woke up to the news of yet another attack by Hausa/Fulani settlers on Dogo Na-Hawa village in the outskirt of Forum, Barakin Ladi LGA. Visitors to the scene of the massacre said grenades and heavy artillery were used leaving about 2oo persons dead. The State Governor was on hand by afternoon to supervise the mass burial of brutally murdered men, women ad even a 4 day old baby. The State Police Commissioner confirmed that some arrests have been made of likely culprits.

The perpetrators claim they are indigenous or would like to be considered indigenous to these areas. Do people normally go around vandalizing their own ancestral homes? Who is fighting a war of genocide and against who is the war? Would any right thinking person believe their story any more?
We are waiting for the reaction of settlers like Hon. Samaila Mohammed who has just proposed a bill on the floor of the House of Reps to the effect that all those born in Jos before 1960 should be considered indigenous stock of Plateau State.

By his submission, Hon. Samaila admitted that he is NOT currently indigenous to the constituency he represents in the House. How could he represent me fairly when he hates me by all his actions and utterances? Its only from Plateau State that such nonsense occurs. This nonsense was created deliberately by IBB's presidential fiat as his contribution to the the Hausa North's war of emasculation against all minority groups (tribal and religious) in the nineteen northern States of Nigeria.

Plateau State indigenous peoples and the Federal Government should quickly come and solve this problem by reversing President Ibrahim Babagida's so-called Jos North and Jos South LGAs. The indigenous peoples of these two LGAs never asked for their creation. The Hausa/Fulani settlers must have. Our request was for Jos East and Jos West LGAs with a boundary between them running along Bauchi Road from our border with Bauchi State down to the boundary of B/Ladi LGA. The old Jos LGA should be reverted to until the communities in it jointly append their signatures to the boundaries of the new LGAs they would like to have.