The National President, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Bitrus Pogu, has urged President Bola Tinubu, to be more proactive over renewed hostilities in the Middle Belt region and never give in or buy the argument that the development is merely armed herdsmen and farmers insurgency.

According to MBF, now is the time for Nigeria to make constitutional provisions for state police, if the country really wants to stop insurgencies.

In a chat with The Guardian, yesterday, Pogu alleged that the ugly development looked more like a political agenda of some interests to frustrate the President, like they did to former President Goodluck Jonathan, probably because of the region from which they came.

He said: “Findings already conducted on the development did not indicate that the renewed insurgencies in states such as, Adamawa, Plateau and Benue are about herdsmen and farmers’ crises or conflicts alone; it appears to be an agenda by some ethnic groups, who are uncomfortable with the incumbent administration.

“The renewed killings in the Middle Belt region are not only about armed herdsmen and farmers’ conflicts. When a herder gets his cattle into any farmland, a common ward head will go there and resolve the situation; but this is a deliberate plot by some major tribes, those who started the Boko Haram insurgency, to achieve an agenda. The intention behind the hostilities was for subjugation and domination of Nigeria and Nigerians.”

He alleged that the plotters were trying to re-introduce the insurgency under the cover of religion to achieve their aims.

“The Federal Government should be smart about it. What has gradually started is a political war, which the same people are trying to introduce, taking up gradually from that region. If you notice the rate at which armed herders are spreading across the country in recent times, then you will understand the game plan. Many foreign armed herdsmen are currently imported from outside Nigeria to be part of the agenda,” he said.