The Chairman of the Lagos State House of
Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy
and Security has told President Muhammadu
Buhari to put measures in place to check
criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen.
The lawmaker, Mr Tunde Braimoh, made the call
on Wednesday in Lagos in an interview with a
political correspondent of the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN).
Braimoh (APC-Kosofe II), said that taking such a
step would boost the integrity of the president
and re-affirm the people's confidence in his
administration.
"The President needs to be courageous; we
know him as a man of integrity, he will not be
swayed away by myopic, parochial, religious and
inglorious tendencies.
"We want him to protect his integrity. Fulani
herdsmen have done a lot of havoc in Nigeria.
"Fulani herdsmen are aggressive and excessive,
they wreck havoc on innocent citizens in various
parts of Nigeria.
"The president needs to deal with the issue of
Fulani herdsmen decisively. They have
constituted nuisance across the country,"
Braimoh said.
According to him, the Federal Government's
investment on the herdsmen through nomadic
education has not yielded the desired results.
The lawmaker advised government to change the
system of education for the herdsmen and build
ranches for them.
He said that the government should be able to
educate the herdsmen to know their rights from
the wrong.
Braimoh recalled that some herdsmen had once
brought their cattle to graze on the highway in
some parts of Lagos.
He urged the Department of State Security to be
diligent and proactive in handling security issues
affecting herdsmen.
NAN reports that there had been protests in
some parts of the country over the activities of
herdsmen.
Social and economic activities were on Tuesday
disrupted at Asaba in Delta as thousands of
people took to the street to protest the growing
involvement of Fulani herdsmen in criminal
activities in the state.
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