Contemporaneity War Artefacts of Fulani Herdsmen: Mapping Behavioural Footprints, Weapons used and Communities Vulnerable to Attacks in Nigeria
Abraham Abdul Jatto
Independent Scholar
Senior Faculty at Eaton Business School
Leicester, United King dom
E-mail:Fatherabrahamjatto@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT This paper summarizes five years (2012 to 2016) data that maps types of Fulani herdsmen weapons sub-divided into (cultural artefacts weapons, fire, and modern fire power) used, and their characteristic behavioural footprints also sub-divided into (profiled attacks on human dignity, attacks on economic resources and physical properties). It crystallizes into communities that (Christian, Muslim and Non-faith) were more vulnerable to Fulani attacks. The research uses secondary methodology to gather data, and triangulate qualitative and quantitative methods to present the data and subsequently adopts thematic and content research analytical technique to systematically analyze every fragment of the data to answer the stated research questions. The result suggest that most Nigerian Christians believe Muslim Fulani attacks are deliberate attempt by the ethnic group to forcefully establish their presence across Christian communities in Nigeria aided by the fact that their kith and kin hold sway across all Nigerian security apparatus, at the moment. The evidence suggest that within the five years under consideration 807 communities were attacked and of these 680(84%) were in the Christian communities as against 86(11%) and 41(5%) in the Muslim and non-faith communities. Also, profile of their criminal behaviour suggests that the Fulani herdsmen were more likely to be associated with attacks on economic resources followed by attacks on human dignity. The data showed that in five years 416 different behavioural footprint were carefully and chronologically profiled across all the communities and of this 146(35%) were against human dignity whilst 152(37%) were profiled against attacks on economic resources and 118(28%) were against physical properties. The herdsmen were more likely to loot,
