It’s ironic foreign rice can’t enter northern borders but alien herdsmen, their arms do – Shehu Sani

Immediate past Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has described as ironic, how foreign herdsmen and their arms make their way into Nigerian borders in the North, when it is hard for dealers in foreign rice and vehicles to move their goods into the country through same borders.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government had since his first term in office followed strictly in not allowing importation of rice into Nigeria as well as movement of foreign cars through land borders.

However, reports claim that there has been influx of foreign herdsmen and weapons through land borders, especially those in the northern part of the country.

Both President Buhari and some of his former ministers had at one point or the other claimed that herdsmen killing, destroying homes and farm lands as well as kidnapping and raping women across the country, chiefly in the North central, are foreigners.

Apparently worried by the development, Sani in a post on his official Twitter handle on Monday wrote:

“It’s ironic that through our Northern borders, its difficult for the foreign rice dealers and foreign vehicles dealers to penetrate but its easier for the ‘foreign Herdsmen’ and their arms to penetrate.”

In another tweet, the senator asked Nigerian Government to learn to give travel advisory warning to its citizens in foreign lands whenever there is crisis in countries of their abode and stop being angry when other countries warn their citizens against coming to Nigeria.

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“When leaders present themselves as servants, the nation rallies around them for all problems to be solved; when leaders present themselves as infallible messiahs with the magic wand, the nation watches and expects them to solve all of its problems.

“We should equally learn to give travel advisory warning to our own citizens whenever there is crisis in other countries, rather than get angry whenever other countries warn their citizens against coming to our country in times of crisis or seeming danger,” he said.

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