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FULANI HERDSMEN CRISIS AND THE SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract– Every government’s responsibility remains that of pursuing and sustaining the security and wellbeing of its citizens and its territory against internal and external aggressions. However, Nigeria experiences several political and socio-economic challenges and violent conflicts which threaten her socio-economic development, peace, and security. Youth restiveness and resource control struggles in the Niger Delta region, the neo-Biafran secessionist movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the southeastern region, and the Boko Haram’s mayhem in the northeast are quintessential cases of violent conflicts in Nigeria. Still, another internal security challenge is brewing in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region; epitomized in the Fulani Herdsmen communal clashes in the region. This study examined the political violence in Benue, Nigeria, to ascertain its impact on the sustenance of socioeconomic development and national security in Nigeria. It argued that several factors account for the crisis from climate change to desertification and ethnoreligious issues and that on the government seems less dedicated to solving the menace.
Keywords– Fulani herdsmen, development, national security, conflicts, Benue State.