an AK and a bag of clips in every Fulani home would have made things interesting ....
The Fulani are usually the muslim raiders who prey on other tribes. They are migratory herdsmen, who typically strike and move.
This sounds like a counter-strike, or maybe just pro-active civil defense when some suspicious vagabonds move into the area.
Fulani Muslims have been slaughtering Christians in Nigeria in massacres that receive little mention in the Western press.
What goes around comes around.