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“For example, when they collected N10m, where and how do you spend this amount in the bush? The money is back in the city. I have told the Inspector General of police to check this”
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The Sultan of Sokoto, HRH Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III said that there was no doubt that about 8 out of every ten suspected kidnappers are Fulani herdsmen. The Sultan disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a meeting of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association (MACBAN).
*HRH Sultan Abubakar Sa’ad of Sokoto
However, the monarch said that it was wrong to label all Fulani criminals or use ‘Fulanis herdsmen criminal’ to explain developments because of the misdeeds of some of them.
He said, “I am a Fulani, and I am not a bad man. I am also not a criminal. Those engaged in one forms of crimes or another are across the country. It is not proper to refer to any tribe to describe individuals’ crime.
“For example, when they collected N10m, where and how do you spend this amount in the bush? The money is back in the city. I have told the Inspector General of police to check this; we are not saying Fulanis are not part of the kidnappings as mentioned by the Secretary of Miyetti Allah, seven to eight kidnappers arrested are Fulanis, but that doesn’t mean ever Fulani is a criminal, no they are not.
“We must put hands together to bring an end to this problem. We are going to approach the President to talk to our West African neighbours where we have Fulanis like Senegal, Niger Republic Guinea and Mali, to help us because most of these bandit cross from neighbouring countries conducted their criminal act and run back.”
The Sultan’s meeting with MACBAN is not unconnected with recent happening across the country especially in the Southwest where a Yoruba activist, Sunday Igbohu issued a quit order to the Seriki of Ibarapa and effected it. Similarly, Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu also tasked killer herdsmen to vacate Ondo forest reserves immediately.
The presidency is yet to make a detail pronouncement on the crisis even as a meeting of the Southwest governors and cattle breeders have agreed that cattle-breeders should embrace the ranching alternative rather than the present practice of free-range breeding that has been a major source of conflict between host communities and herdsmen.
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