Senator Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP Bayelsa East) has called on the Federal Government to disarm cattle rearers in the country.
He said while speaking on the floor of the Senate in the wake of Monday's killings at Nimbo community in Enugu State that if the activities of Fulani herdsmen were the checked, the situation could lead to reprisals and ultimately plunge the country into war.
"That day is here and that day is now when retaliation begins. The civil war was fought in a conventional fashion with one army facing another army.
"You are going to have a guerrilla warfare; it is not a war anybody can win; it will cause a destruction of Nigeria.
"We must urge the Nigerian government to take action to disarm cattle rearers.
"As far as I am concerned you need a license to own a gun; nobody has a right to own a gun without a license.
"This is a very serious issue. Motion after motion has been presented here. From the North, from the South, from the East to the West, everybody is affected.
"What is going to happen now people are going to read religion and ethnicity into this fight.
"Once that happens illiterates who do not have the knowledge that we have will start retaliating and that day is now,” he warned.
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