Alarming Rate Of Fulani Herdsmen Killings...

In the last few days ( Monday especially) News of the Fulani herdsmen killing around the Country has left me scared and in a cold sweat...... What is going on and how do we stop this from going further? I am just wondering how these Killings began all of a sudden!!!... Are these politically motivated or what? Shouldn't a state of Emergency be declared in the states where these Killings via IFTTT