The Taraba Statet Governor Darius Ishaku has denied sponsoring the killings of Fulanis in the Mambila Plateau crisis which has recorded a good number of people dead with Fulani having the highest number of corpse.
The governor made this known in a statement he released through his spokesman, Emmanuel Bello that those spreading lies were uninformed.
In the statement Governor Ishaku who condemned the ongoing fracas between Fulani herdsmen and farmers on Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna Local Government Area also claimed that he never gave order for the extermination of Fulani ethnic group.
According to him, bloodshed must be condemned wherever it happens, and not only when one group decides that it has been affected.
The governor who described his accusers as people displaying their inability to properly use the term, genocide, challenged those accusing him of instigating genocide against the Fulani to produce a memo, tape or video recording of how the directive was issued, adding that they were out for mischief.
Bello in the statement said “The accusers of Governor Ishaku are saying that he, at some point, actually gave orders by way of a broadcast or in some secret location that a certain ethnic group be wiped out of Taraba. They must have a tape recording of such instructions or directives. They probably have a memo by the governor where he clearly gave the plans for eliminations, stating timelines. They also probably know the armed militia he had planned with to carry out the dastardly act. Now, if they don’t have all of these, as I’m sure there is nothing like that, then, it is amazing how they could sit before journalists and tell a civilized world that genocide has been planned against them. If they want to see genocides, examples are there but certainly not in our dear Taraba State. We don’t profile people in this very lovely state or plan the eliminations of same. Life is sacrosanct here. In Taraba State, all human lives are precious to us. That is why Governor Ishaku keeps pushing for peace”
