{"id":8996,"date":"2016-05-07T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2016-05-07T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T18:47:19","slug":"how-fulani-herdsmen-planned-and-executed-enugu-massacre-a-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8996","title":{"rendered":"How Fulani Herdsmen planned and executed Enugu massacre – a confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the Fulani herdsmen who allegedly participated in the Enugu massacre has made shocking revelations in police custody, Saturday Sun reports.<\/p>\n

The rampaging herdsmen had killed over 50 people in a recent attack on an Enugu community, a situation which has left many tongues wagging about the dangers posed by the rustlers\u2019 continuous attacks.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Zure, one of those arrested in connection with this deadly attack, has now made startling revelations of how members were recruited from different parts of the country to carry out the attack.<\/p>\n

During his confession to the Kogi state police command, Zure, who had been initially released on bail\u00a0after the prime suspect in the kidnap case for which he was nabbed, was arrested, was rearrested when the police watched a gory video of the Enugu massacre on his phone.<\/p>\n

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A police source said: \u201cHe was granted bail and because he needed someone to take him on bail, the investigating officer decid\u00aded to switch on his phone. Out of curiosity, he decided to go through the content of the phone. It was in the process that he discovered hor\u00adrible video clips of a murder scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything changed imme\u00addiately and he was taken back to the interrogation room. He later confessed that he was the one who took the video while they were slaughtering one of the victims during the Enugu killings. In the video, you could hear him shouting and saying in Hausa \u2018I have killed you now. You think that you can kill Fulani herdsmen and go free\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe personally took the picture to show his family members that he was actually successful and par\u00adticipated in the killings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zure also confessed that over 100 Fulani herdsmen were recruited for the Enugu attack, after being invited from over six states from across the federation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe con\u00adfessed that they were more than 100 and were selected from differ\u00adent states especially from Taraba , Kogi, Benue, Nasarrawa , Kas\u00adtina , Niger and Kaduna states. He claimed that the people of Nimbo had killed so many of their people in the past and government did not do anything about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe claimed that they also reported severally to Nimbo elders but they refused to investigate, that was why they de\u00adcided to retaliate,\u201d the police source added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe alleged that their people in Nimbo shared Kolanut to all cattle rearers across the country. What it signi\u00adfies is that there is going to be an attack and everyone should send representatives to support them. He alleged that this is their cus\u00adtom and has been existing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was nominated to join them because he was born and raised in Enugu by his father who is also a herdsman. Two days before the attack, they all gathered in a community in Kogi and perfected how they would ex\u00adecute the attack,\u201d the police officer added.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0police has since commenced serious manhunt for the fleeing herdsmen who they believe have fled the eastern state since the attack.<\/p>\n

And to forestall future occurrences, the dreaded Bakassi Boys may soon be reorganised to also ensure sanity returns to the region. Reports suggest that some prominent Igbo leaders, at their meeting over the weekend, decided on urgent need for the Igbo nation to organize the people for self-defence against the invasion and killing of Igbo indigenes by the Fulani herdsmen.<\/p>\n

The dreaded Bakassi Boys, a violent vigilante group mobilized to terminate the troubling armed robbery menace in the south east some years ago, were revealed to have started regrouping to strengthen other vigilante groups to provide security for local communities and towns in the south east.<\/p>\n

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