Those people who burnt your house were not Boko Haram, they were Fulani militias Not every militia group is Boko Haram Most of the groups attacking the Middle Belt are of Fulani origin, Boko Haram consists of mostly Kanuris I lived in Plateau during this period and witnessed this first hand and can attest to the truth in this Militias mostly of Fulani origin came into the city on September 7, 2001 and went house to house burning and pillaging. What initially begun as disagreements over political appointment, saw an influx of Fulani fighters into streets of Jos North I saw these militias with my eyes as they wore partial military regalia Some would wear the military trouser and just an ordinary shirt, while others would wear the military top but just a normal trouser That was my first time seeing non state actors on the rampage They targeted native houses in Jos North which had a considerable settler population in a bid to drive the natives out of the local government Lots of University of Jos staff who used to live in a predominant settlement of Angwan Rogo (along Bauchi Road) were murdered while a few others were lucky to have fled Those people went on a rampage for almost 2weeks without adequate security intervention. Dead bodies littered the streets. A state of emergency was declared in Plateau for 6 months while the Governor was sacked replaced with a military administrator (Chris Ali) by the Obasanjo administration. The Obasanjo government also desolved the Plateau state legislature at the time due to those events It was an unforgettable experience because September 11 happened a few days after which is a historic event Why we knew it was tactical to displace the natives was that, there were no attacks on governmental residential areas that housed Southerners and other natives The target was displacement of natives who owned private houses and lands It was so bad that what initially begun in Jos North soon spread to other local governments where there were settlers The worst happened in Wase, Shendam and Lantang I have posted numerous times about the proliferation of arms in the lower plateau during the period by these Fulani militias What was initially ethnic between the natives of Plateau and the Hausa and Fulani settlers turned religious as these settlers demanded that the native Muslims choose a side and used religion to blackmail native Muslims (by asking them to prove that their new faith is more important than their old tribal loyalties)

HAVE YOU NOTICED THE SILENCE FROM THE SETTLERS IN PLATEAU STATE THEY ONLY KNOW JIHAD AND ASKING FOR POLITICAL POWER

All the people who said “Christian Genocide is a hoax” And that it is “farmer - herder” have all ran away I can see that these ones chanting about unaliving people are herders and all the people in Enugu and Jos are farmers Thunder will fire all of you

I lived with them, I grew up with them They all think like this. The exception to the rule is almost non existent. One guy told me, he can’t wait for riot so he could kill me These are the real enemies of the Middle Belt people! You see that Jos he mentioned, it wasn’t a coincidence