Due to the incessant killings of
innocent and helpless citizens by Fulani herdsmen,Mr Friday Osanebithe Deputy Speaker for Delta State house of Assembly, has finally send a word to the
Federal Government to take practical steps
towards curbing and gradually eliminating the security challenge
posed by Fulani herdsmen in parts of the
country.
This came as former Minister of Police
Affairs, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, urged
President Muhammadu Buhari not to
squander the second chance given to him
by Nigerians by applying all wisdom in
curbing the menace of Fulani herdsmen.
Bozimo gave the advice, yesterday in Warri,
in a chat with Vanguard.
Condemning the menace of the suspected
Fulani herdsmen, Osanebi called on security
agencies and community heads to be more
vigilant and collaborate towards bringing the
unwholesome activities of herdsmen under
check.
Osanebi, while responding to issues raised
at an interactive session with journalists in
his office in Asaba, said that the problem
should be addressed before it escalates,
lamenting that the activities of Fulani
herdsmen were causing crisis and bringing
untold hardship to many Nigerians.
Saying that the matter had not received the
desired attention, the Deputy Speaker
appealed to security agencies and all
concerned to take steps towards finding a
lasting solution to the problem.
On his part, the former Minister of Police
Affairs, Bozimo, speaking in Warri, said:
“First of all, let me say that as an elder of
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I have been
standing back to watch how things are
unfolding. I don’t want to start by saying
that we told you so. That will be
unstatesmanly.
“My appeal to the government, particularly
the President, is that he should monitor the
activities of the herdsmen. It is not easy
because he is a Fulani and he is from the
North, it is very easy to say that he knows
about it and is responsible for it.
“But I will not go that far. I will advice that
because he is a Fulani and he is a man who
loves Nigeria, and he is a man who wants to
sanitize this country, it will be a tragedy if
under his watch things get out of hand and
we begin to have the Southern and the
Northerner people taking arms against each
other because of grazing."
Though the Northern States Governors Forum has debunk all claims that Fulani herdsmen are responsible for the terrors being unleashed on innocent and defenceless citizens.
No comments:
Write Discussion(s)