The attention of the Berom Educational and Cultural Organization (BECO), is drawn to a story in the West African Pilot, newspaper dated 11th of February, 2026, and widely circulated in the social media. The story titled, ‘farmers-herders in Plateau state sign peace pact’, is anything but true, reliable, credible and honest, lacking in both moral and professional integrity. In any case we in Berom land have no farmer-herder divide in anyway or guise. Therefore the concocted story of 25 peace pacts at best, serves the purpose of manipulation by its authors and sponsors.
BECO wish to categorically state that it is completely unaware of any such peace pacts, either endorsed by or on behalf of our people, betwee us and herdsmen terrorists. We cannot, in the circumstance either confirm or allude to the existence of any. For any such a pact to be signed there are laid down procedures, that must be followed. No one has the authority to casually enter into an agreement on behalf of any portion of Berom land without the due authorization of the traditional institution of the land.
No organization, individual or groups of individuals have approached us in the BECO or any other organizations in the land, to that effect. Peace pacts are not entered into with frightened, traumatized and devastated villagers, who in most occasions, lack the capacity to adequately discuss/analyse with understanding, the intent and letter of what they are being misled into appending their thumb prints to.
All genuine and well – intentioned CSOs are very much conversant with this position. Besides, if these 25 pacts were aimed at guaranteeing peace, how come that in less than one month between December 16 to mid January, we lost over 30 lives, from Fan, Vwang, Kuru, Foron? Were these areas not covered by the pacts?
We are disillusioned to read in the social media of 25 pacts, with our people, without our knowledge. This is more of fiction than reality and smells of crafted mischief. BECO is convinced that there must have been a genuine error somewhere in the whole arrangement of the report in question.
We appeal to our people to remain calm and ignore any claims, irrespective of the possibility of their reliability, of any peace pacts. None exists for now and in view of our subsisting ban on all forms of dialogues, roundtable conferences, joint activities, with the terrorists for the purpose of brockering peace. This is because past attempts in this direction never produced any meaningful results. The terrorists have instead, manipulated such occasions to launder their false narratives of farmers – herders clashes, to deliberately generate confusion in the polity.
Universally, terrorism has never been defeated through peace sessions between the terrorists and their victims.
Da Chollom Gyang Logwong
Secretary General
February 11, 2026