Lower Niger Congress (LNC) has condemned what it termed “the deliberate antagonism, hostility and deadly violence that Fulani herdsmen and their armed militias are causing in the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples” in the Southern parts of Nigeria.
This was contained in a press release issued at the Lower Niger Congress secretariat signed by the LNC Secretary General, Mr. Tony Nnadi, dated 8th February 2021.
Lower Niger Congress noted with dismay the “killings and trespassing onto farms, forests and lands belonging to other communities”.
Mr. Nnadi said that this would not be happening had indigenous peoples made their own Constitutions.
He stressed that the indigenous peoples of the Middle-Belt and Southern Nigeria have formed an alliance called “NINAS” and declared a Constitutional Force Majeure to decommission the 1999 Constitution which he referred to as “illegitimate”.
Consequently, he said, “Nigeria is now a Disputed Project”.
He expressed optimism that the LNC and the rest of the NINAS Alliance with come up with an honest and timely engagement with the five demands of the Constitutional Force Majeure Proclamation “for the resolution of the rapidly degenerating Nigerian situation”.
See the statement titled “RE: Fulani Herdsmen Situation” below:
Lower Niger Congress (LNC) decisively condemns the deliberate antagonism, hostility and deadly violence that Fulani herdsmen and their armed militias are causing in the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples in the South-South and South-East, and in our NINAS Alliance (indigenous Peoples of Middle Belt-and South) territory.
Killings and trespassing onto farms, forests and lands belonging to others and other communities would not be happening had indigenous peoples made their own Constitutions.
As things stand, the indigenous peoples of the Middle-Belt and Southern Nigeria (NINAS) having declared a Constitutional Force Majeure to decommission the illegitimate 1999 Constitution, Nigeria is now a Disputed Project.
It is the expectation of the LNC and the rest of the NINAS Alliance that an honest and timely engagement with the five demands of the Constitutional Force Majeure Proclamation will precipitate an orderly process for the resolution of the rapidly degenerating Nigerian situation.
