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#MambillaMassacre: Two years after massacre, peace returns to Mambilla




Peace has gradually returned to Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna local government area of Taraba state two years after attacks on Fulani villages and towns by suspected Mambilla militia. During the attacks over 1000 people were said to be killed and more than 30 villages were burnt down while thousands of Fulani including women and children were forced out of their homes.
When Daily Trust’s reporter visited the areas recently, economic and social activities have resumed in Nguroje, Mayo Ndaga and all the areas affected by the crisis. The area known for its tourism, livestock and solid mineral potentials was hit by communal conflicts in 2002 and 2017. The state government has initiated peace and reconciliation programs which brought all the tribes in the conflict to a roundtable meeting, which resulted in the prevailing peaceful atmosphere in the once troubled area.

Federal and Taraba State governments had at different times provided relief materials to the victims of the crisis. Governor Darius Ishaku in November this year personally distributed cheques worth N300 million to victims of the Mambilla crisis. He however told the General Officer Commanding 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos, Major General Nuhu Ambazo who visited him in his office that peace has finally returned to Mambilla plateau. He  said his administration was doing its best to ensure that the prevailing peace was maintained.

Meanwhile, chairman Miyyetti Allah in Sardauna LGA Alhaji Ahmed Bellows  has decried the failure  of Taraba State government and law enforcement agents to arrest and prosecute perpetrators of the attacks. He told Daily Trust  at Ngoruje that over 800 Fulani including women and children were murdered by Mambilla militia during the 2017 attacks on their villages and towns. He said up to now, none of the perpetrators was  arrested and prosecuted even though such persons were known.

“The perpetrators are now moving freely and even boasting that nothing will happen to them,” the Miyyetti Allah chairman said.


-Daily Trust 

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