16/12/2025
ON THE JASAWA 17TH ANNUAL COMEMMORATIVE SESSION OF FANTASY, FALSEHOOD AND WASTEFUL ILLUSIONS: A RESPONSE TO THE JCDA DIATRIBES.
Our schedule is once more interrupted by a cocktail of stumbling and wobbling narratives of the November 2008 attack on Jos metropolis. This gruesome attack, at the instance of Hausa-Fulani settlers of Jos, led to hundreds of lives and destruction of properties worth billions of naira. On the 28th November, 2025, a coterie ofidle story tellers went to town with a fictional narrative of thee very sad event, in a desperate attempt to reinvent the storyline, thus making the perpetrators look like the victims of an event planned and executed by themselves.
This vaulting narrative is contained in a copy of a sordid world Press Conference, by a group called, the Jasawa Community Development Association (JCDA). The group is said to have met in a mosque, in Jos on 28th November, 2025, to commemorate what it termed, the killing of Muslims in Jos, in a post-election violence in 2008. The meeting also allegedly, presented to the world, documented evidence of persistent, targeted and coordinated attacks against Muslims in Jos and Plateau state, from 2001 to 2025.
BECO wishes to make a few quick clarifications on the layers of shallow falsehood and deliberate distortions, either contained therein or deliberately avoided by the historians of the Jasawa Development Association. First, the document under reference does not merit any response at all, because it set out deliberately, to misinform the public space, especially given the global impactful agitation for international intervention on the ravaging Christian genocide in Nigeria. What the Fulani terrorists in Jos have just done is to offer its own contribution towards muddling up the articulated and well delivered agitation by focused individuals and organizations, against the ravaging Fulani terrorism in the country. In a nutshell, we make bold to state categorically, that the Fulani killings on the Jos Plateau did not start in 2008. Stretching it backwards to 2001 does not in any way present any better or correct picture of the bloodshed, either. BECO states categorically, as follows;
1. The culture of violence and bloodshed in our land is alien to us. It was introduced into Jos as early as in 1932. This is however, not including the wars of resistance against the forces of Usman dan Fodio and his terrorists. The 1932 confrontation was by the Hausa-Fulani settlers of Jos against the Igbos, due to a rumored withdrawal of western investment capital from the Jos mines. This rumor threw the mining camps into serious confusion, pertaining to the possible loss of jobs, take-back of the land and native authority of Jos by the Berom, who were still very bitter at the British colonial conquest. The fear of the Berom by the Hausa-Fulani settlers on the one hand and the increasing dominance of the rapidly increasing Igbo population in the city ignited intense hatred between the two non-indigenous ethnic groups. Inevitably, the situation invariably ignited the violent mode of the Hausa-Fulani culture, to vent their anger on the Igbos. Divine intervention however, prevented an open confrontation at the very last minute, with the filtering in of positive news of an impending recovery in the world tin market and instead of capital flight out of the Jos mines field, the reverse was the case. Thus the high tension was averted or managed.
2. In 1945 Jos witnessed its second physical confrontation. This was the first bloodshed in the city, as the Hausa-Fulani settlers physically confronted the Igbos again, in a violent confrontation resulting in the death of two persons. This was the very first incident of bloodshed in a riot in Jos and, it was due mostly to both internal and external factors. Among the factors was the negative effect of the global economic depression as well as the rise of nationalism and calls for independence. The Hausa-Fulani accused the Igbos of sabotaging their means of livelihood in Jos, whose people like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, played front roles in the independence struggles. Here, the Hausa-Fulani settlers were obviously the aggressors, just like in 1932.
3. There was yet another uprising in Jos in 1994, remotely caused by the Ibrahim Babangida government’s creation of Jos North LGA and the immediate cause being the attempted appointment of one Aminu Mato, a Fulani, as Caretaker Chairman of the contentious Jos North LGA. This vexed appointment which was against the wish of the indigenes of the LGA, by the Military Administrator of Plateau, Col Mohammed Mana, a Muslim from Adamawa state. Eventually the appointment was turned down due to relentless peaceful protests of the indigenes of Plateau. However, it was not the case when Hausa-Fulani settlers took to the streets to demonstrate the cancellation of the appointment of one of theirs. There was total breakdown of peace in the city the day Hausa-Fulani settlers took to the streets of Jos. At the end of the bloody demonstrations the casualty stood at four people, with properties worth millions of naira destroyed, stolen or both. A Committee headed by Justice J A Fiberesima was constituted to unravel the causes of the riot, which after a thorough investigation, found the Hausa-Fulani settlers guilty of causing the violence.
4. Jos had experienced some lengthy period of peace since 1994, until 2001. The truth however, remained that ethnic and religious tension and hostilities were building up throughout 1994 to this year. All it needed was a striking point to have the o**y of bloodshed on course. It came to pass on a fateful day, on a Friday, when Muslims had blocked passages to observe their prayers, including those passages to private residences. A Christian lady named Rhoda Haruna Nyam, of ChwelNyap/Congo-Russia, was prevented from entering her house as the passage was blocked by praying Muslims. The ensuing altercation set Jos on fire, as the entire ChwelNyap caught fire instantly, before long Bauchi Road, Ali Kazaure and other predominantly Hausa-Fulani dominated areas of the city answered.
Jos was once more on fire, as shouts of Allahu Akhbar, deafened the atmosphere. After a weekend of deadly violence, the military was called in to quench the violence. A thousand lives had been lost, with massive properties destroyed. A Judicial Commission of Inquiry headed by the erudite Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, was set up to investigate the incident. This Committee, among others, roundly held the Hausa-Fulani responsible for causing the bloodshed
5. The 2008 riot, which was being commemorated, by the JCDA, this year, is noted. We are however taken aback that 17 years into this sad event, nothing was ever heard of it in the circle of the JCDA, till now. At least there was never a mention of this date by the settlers before now. Did the Hausa-Fulani settlers forget and possibly lived in forgetfulness till now? What made this year so strategic and important that attracted the attention of a sleepy community, into a world press conference? We will really wish to disconnect the resurgence of the memory resurgence syndrome of the JCDA with the global agitation for an end to genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Unfortunately, the psychology of manipulation of the Fulani terrorist backers and financiers is not known to frown at falsification, If anything at all, it encourages the practice with amazing ease and reckless abandon. This year in question (2008) saw a major break from the period of appointments of caretaker Chairmen for LGAs, to the conduct of elections into offices of the Local Government Councils, in the state. The elections were conducted and concluded peacefully across the 17 Council areas of the state. It was at the collation centre for Jos North, getting to the following morning, when signs of losing the election began to dawn on the Hausa-Fulani terrorists that trouble started. And before long, from its inception at Ali Kazaure Street, into the entire city like a wild fire, the entire Jos was a huge conundrum of hell fire. After the inferno was put down and peace restored, 400 people was the official figure of casualty. A Judicial Committee of Investigation, chaired by the international jurist of high repute, His Excellency, Justice Bola Ajibola, was constituted. In its report the Committee carpeted the Hausa-Fulani for not only causing the violence, but culpability in the death of the casualties.
6. FACTS FROM FARCE
It should be clear that by the year 2001 and beyond the Fulani terrorists were not only substantial in number, but well established, entrenched and on ground in Jos, to the extent that carrying the Hausa along was becoming unnecessary. They could easily link up with their kith and kins in the military, police and other arms of the security enterprise of the country, for easy backup. Hence, as useful idiots and expendable canons, the Hausa community were abandoned, as the Fulani launched their terror invasion on the Plateau. The Justice Niki Tobi judicial Commission of Inquiry, in its recommendations, among others, held the then Police Commissioner in the state Alh. M D Abubakar,(Fulani), guilty of not only negligence, selective provision of security to religious premises, favoring a particular religion, as well as directly participating in the killings that took place, hence recommended for his immediate retirement and prosecution. Surprisingly, this police officer retired from service as an Inspector General of Police.
Even if the 2008 violence is used as the reference point of ethnic confrontations in Jos, there is just nowhere the Fulani will emerge as the victims. In Nigeria, it is almost accepted that lossers demonstrate after losing in an election. Such demonstration usually turns sour. In this case however, the indigenes of Jos were the winners and couldn’t have ignited a crisis that could damage its victory.
Conclusion
1. The above summary is intended to superficially throw some light on the development of underdevelopment of the Jos Plateau by the direct and insidious activities of the Fulani terrorists. In the beginning when they were numerically weak and few, they used the Hausa as a back-up shield, speaking their language, pretending to share their culture under one religion of Islam. They went further to create a hybrid nomenclature of Hausa-Fulani, purportedly as a single tribe. While this was going on the Fulani, being monsters of easy virtues and brutal valor, were bidding their time till 2010, after the massacres of Demburuk (Dogo na Hauwa), when they emerged as an entity, firmly backed by the federal state. Unfortunately, some Hausa youths in Jos are yet to wake up to this reality of who the Fulani man really is.
2. In their mangled, haphazard, cut-and-paste joining of a press release, the JCDA, paid glowing tribute to the role the Civil Society Organizations played in backing them (Hausa-Fulani (aggressors) in the 2008 violence. They singled out the Human Right Watch (HRW), which to them did an excellent job of reportage of the 2008 killings. Yes, the HRW was in Jos during the 2008 riots, represented by its researcher, Eric Acher, who came into Jos, 5 days after the riots broke out. In fact by the time he came into the town, soldiers had successfully quelled the riots. Yet, and by all means surprisingly, he wrote a damning report titled, ‘Arbitrary killings by security forces’. Eric Acher, the hatchet jobber was unrelenting in fabricating a document for his Hausa-Fulani sponsors, intended for the prosecution of Da Jonah David Jang, the sitting governor, at the International Criminal Court of Justice, for genocide against Muslims in Jos.
3. At the Commission’s sittings, Eric Acher disgraced and made a total caricature of himself, as all his witnesses gave testimonies that roundly contradicted his position. He accused the military of the killing that took place on the 28 and 29 of November, when actually, he hadn’t arrived Jos then. When asked by the defence team on how he came by the figure, since he was not on ground on those two days, he reluctantly owned up that the figures were supplied him by the Chief Imam of the Jos Central Mosque,the only place he visited in the city before writing his report. In summary Chief Bola Ajibola, chairman of the Commission, told Acher to his face, ‘you were procured to do the job’. Thus the attempt to procure the HRW to doctor a blanket report to frame Da Jonah Jang in 2008 failed. Today, the international community is unsettled at the grisly and despicable display of blood thirstiness, by a horrendous army of the same Fulani terrorists in Nigeria. The reaction of the American government in particular, has sent the terrorists and their backers into utter confusion. This explains the hastiness in manipulation of facts and figures.
4. First, the world is being fed with the half-truths of Muslims too are being killed. To this some Fulani analysts have since gone on air, with bar charts and other diagrammatic presentations to put up a case of more Muslims are being killed. This has not rubbished the fact that they have failed to demystify the fact that both Muslims and Christian victims, died in the hands of Fulani terrorists. For the Jos-based terrorists, resorting to the usual clandestine ploy of playing the victim, being their most-applied technique, amounts to a counterproductive venture in this circumstance. Besides, not minding the disastrous outing in 2008 before the Bola Ajibola Judicial Commission, the leaders of the JCDA, lacking in native intelligence, simple intuition and being of porous brains, could not imagine any other date or event else.
5. We in the BECO are compelled to just make the above very few observations, not necessarily to educate a docile and mentally recalcitrant people who glory in self-deception and delusion. It makes no sense engaging a deaf and dumb in a discussion. Worst, a self-entitled deaf and dumb. We believe in the superior concept of truth and equity of the facts being rubbished by the terrorist ideologues. When people are assumed to be and relish in their wickedness, thus making their weaknesses the basis for judging others, they become very limited in their conceptual evaluation of human assessment.
6. When people begin to envy the death they had wantonly murdered in their state of inglorious insanity, then certainly, those murderers must be in a worse state than the murdered. That certainly, is the state of the heroic murderers of innocent villagers of Demburuk, Jol, Wereng, Bachi, Gashish, Kwi, Rim, Jebu Bindi, Kugot, Heipang, Lohala, Wereh, Nding Sesut, etc of yesterday. Reeling out figures of casualties is not our way of life, nor is it in our culture. We will continue to mourn our fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, children, etc, killed in the way of the Fulani terrorism. We will never use their figure for any form of comparative analysis. In the words of a famous writer, one person killed in an unjustified manner is as bad, gruesome and condemnable as thousands killed in the act of terrorism. Bandying imaginary figures of death to fit into a victim-mentality syndrome may be a pleasure to the Fulani. It is not the same to the wise. Lastly, we are convinced that any act of deliberate wickedness or evil done to man by man will be avenged either by man or God, here or hereafter, now or very much later.
Da Chollom Gyang
Secretary General
