Nigeria, April 26 -- Just from the blues while the people were managing their peace, some ruffians emerged abruptly on the Plateau and enthroned the rule of native terrorism under the 'Republic of Violence'.

Labeled as bandits, tribal militia or herders, they are devoted to brutish and indiscriminate killings of human beings, perpetrating looting, raping and arson with passion under the cover of land grabbing, ethnicity, cattle rustling and religion. But if the desire is to proffer lasting solution to the lingering problem, we should most sincerely ask ourselves why and what remotely caused the deadly acts from the onset in 2001? Was it an ethno-religious cleansing, forceful ejection from legally possessed lands or what? Who first shatte...