'URGENTLY NEEDED, RESOLUTION OF THE DEADLY NUMAN FARMER /HERDER CLASHES BY TIMAWUS MATHIAS DAILY TRUST DEC 6, 2017 "I am writing today in shame. All my hopes and entreaties for patience, tolerance and reconciliation in my hometown Numan failed. Numan is where Bachama farmers and Fulani herders have clashed, leaving a deadly trail. The expected Fulani reprisal on the Bachama indeed came and it has been even more bloody and deadly. Lawaru, Dong, Kikon, and Shaforon have been sacked and the body count could rise above 50, and include two Village Chiefs. The armed herdsmen attacked in broad daylight and literally mauled the common folk in their path. This is in reprisal for the earlier raiding of a Fulani camp in Kikon that saw to the shocking killing of women and children, itself a reaction to the previous shooting dead of a farmer and his son in an altercation with a herder. For Numan itself, the cows had all left the grazing fields, hundreds of thousands of them. The ...