The Zamfara massacre: making sense of nonsense

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By Rotimi Fasan

NIGERIANS are fast losing count of the number of casualties lost in the series of attacks attributed to armed herdsmen across different parts of northern Nigeria and the rest of the country. Each day comes with different news and it all looks like it has got to the point where people have become so desensitised they simply take these killings and related violence in their strides. Nigerians now wake up daily to reports of violent deaths in different parts of the country. It is apparent most of the attacks that result in the deaths are hardly reported except where the casualty figure is so high it counts in its scores. There is death everywhere and most of it is today ascribed to herdsmen that allegedly pay furtive, nocturnal visits to farmsteads they thereafter proceed to waste and lay bare. They don’t stop at burning and looting these farms, they inflict…



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