Thread by @savndaniel

FULANI HERDSMEN IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

A thread:

Some concerned Nigerians, have registered their deep concern over the unlawful activities of FULANI HERDSMEN in the Southern Part of Nigeria.

"They are hitting the roads, to kidnap, rape and rob...They are coming to the South."

"In security outfits too! I saw two last week on a bike. Stopped suddenly 2 cars before mine. They were stopping vehicles and were harassing pedestrians speaking in Hausa or something and one was staggering badly."

"Drunk or high on something.
Young men in maybe middle 20s looking like Mai-shoemakers. See people racing away, BH or bandits smelled all over them. Well armed ooo!"

"At Ajah area just after VGC around 8:30pm. Last week. In Lagos oooo! We are here playing."

"Yes oo. And that’s not the first time.
My job exposes me to a lot of danger so I dress to fit and blend in when the occasion presents itself."

"Lagos is Swimming with strangers.
Southerners are just so careless. I am aware Fulanis have been buying up lands all over the south."

"Any empty and available land for sale, they pay cash and possess. My sentiments exactly. My colleague was almost beheaded in front of the offfice two months ago by a deranged machete wielding phone snatcher."

"Most worrisome was that after he had successfully taken the phone he went ahead with his murderous intents until he ran for his life."

"From AYA junction, stretch to Kugbo, and as far as Keffi Road, they have been terrorising the environment..."

"All we know is collect money, play big man to intimidate our peers, carry women and throw parties.
We are drunk and obsessed on our Ego Tripping. There in Abuja, the axis I mentioned, they rob and cut down people in the afternoon..."

"They run the street. Oluomos boys bow to them. As long as the money is right. One told me early this year in front of my office that they own Nigeria now so I can’t do anything to them. After I told them they can’t park their bikes all over our entrance gate."

"My southern people hustling there too ( who have always obeyed our laws) advised me to leave them alone. They are made people they chorused. We will learn by force."

"A Pastor in our church stopped to buy fruits, they came immediately at him, demanded for his phone. As he was wasting time, they grabbed the phone from him, tore out his watch, forced his wallet from him."

"When he wanted to fight them one woman screamed at him, he stopped and wanted to take his other phone from inside his car to make call, that was when he heard the swoosh sound. He missed being beheaded."

"Yesso. Their black spot is opposite my estate. We repeatedly reported to police about nocturnal meetings of over 2000 persons on a wide empty land called 10 families. People around screamed at him to drive off. When he raised his face, he saw them casually walking away."

"They are mad people they said’.... not made. That’s it. That's what they tried few days after Buhari was rigged in at DeiDei Market. The Igbo boys there over run them and started cutting them down."

"Instead of the police to step in or arrest people, they brought in Army and condoned off the area to avoid spillover. The traders said they condoned off the area hoping they will finish the traders. And we are still fighting ourselves over personal opinions."

"Osinbajo will come out and spew rubbish when he has been reduced to the lowest of salves. People are still forming godfather in parties.
We are gone past all that. We are at War now."