The Pan socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called on the Federal Government to abolish nomadic system of cattle rearing in order to stop the criminality allegedly being perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen in the rural communities of Yorubaland.
This was contained in a communique on Tuesday at the end of the monthly meeting of the organisation held at the residence of its leader, Pa Rueben Fasonranti, in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
In the communique read by the Publicity Secretary of the group, Mr Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere decried the state of insecurity in the country, particularly, the recent kidnapping of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Chief Olu Falae, last week.
Describing the kidnap of Falae as shameful, insensitive and disrespect to the Yoruba race, the group warned that if the Federal Government failed to stop the herdsmen from attacking the Yoruba people, the people of the South-West might have to defend themselves.
It added, “Our people are everywhere in the country and they don’t destroy the business of their hosts. Why should the Fulani people be destroying our own business?. Our demand is that the Federal Government should arrest the perpetrators and prosecute them. Youruba people will not tolerate this any longer.
“So, while we await the arrest of the criminals, cattle rearing should be stopped in Yorubaland. I read Chief Olu Falae told the Commissioner of Police that government should do something urgently to stop this thing because if such a thing is not done, it will be encouraging self-help; people will defend themselves. And we agree totally with him.”
While reminding the President to implement the recommendations of the report of the 2014 National Conference, Afenifere said the report contained the abolition of nomadic system of cattle rearing, which it described as primitive, and asked the government should rather adopt ranching cattle rearing system.
“The meeting noted that in 2014 National Conference, to which Chief Olu Falae led the Yoruba delegation, extensively discussed this matter of nomadic cattle rearing and the Conference resolved that it should be stopped and instead have ranches for cattle business.”
Buhari, saraki, danjuma and the rest fulani are only interested in siphoning our oil money while using the herdsmen to carry out their hidden agenda of fulani conquest and expansion. No need of warning just start any action because buhari is the head of the herdsmen.
ReplyDeleteIs Danjuma Fulani?
DeleteDanjuma is an hausa name. Hausa and fulani are synonyms as far as Nigeria is concerned. The same is also applicable to GEJ who is not an igbo man but taken generally as an igboman
DeleteI think is a welcome development, let them go back to their north and be destroying their fellow fulani hausas' farm instead of wasting innocent lives, it will be better to do away with cow meat than wasting innocent peoples' lives, go back to your north we don't want you guys in our land anymore, you can go back to your northern States and be killing your people because of cow meat of your useless cattles
ReplyDeleteI do not think Mr. President will do anything about this. They will only act if the fulani herd men kill someone very close to Tinubu, Osinbanjo, Fashiola, etc. Remember the revolution in the aviation industry came up when the children of the rich died in a plane crash
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