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Like El-Rufai, Miyetti Allah blames S’Kaduna killings on 2011 attacks
Just like Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Kaduna State chapter, has attributed the killings in southern Kaduna on reprisal attacks for 2011 post-presidential elections killings.
The group however called on both southern Kaduna natives and its members to sheathe their swords and embrace peace arguing that reprisals would not solve the problem.
MACBAN Assistant National Secretary, Dr. Ibrahim Abdullahi stated this while addressing newsmen in Kaduna.
According to him, some foreign Fulanis were killed in Southern Kaduna in 2011 alongside local Fulanis.
“When the reprisal attacks from the Fulani started then, late Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State intervened by reaching out to aggrieved Fulani, using some members of MACABAN, which ultimately led to resolving the crisis in 2012.”
While Governor El-Rufai in making similar claims some time ago promised that the foreign Fulanis from different African countries would no longer continue the reprisal attacks because he had paid some of them money and pleaded with others to cease, killings by these acclaimed foreign herdsmen have continued in southern Kaduna.
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Meanwhile, leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has called on the Federal Government to condemn the killings in Southern Kaduna, faulting government’s seeming indifference on the issue.
He said, “It grieves us that the Federal Government has been quiet on these killings, relying on the Governor of the state, who has openly confessed that he looked out for the killers to compensate them because they are of the same ethnic stock with him.
“A state of emergency ought to have been declared in Kaduna as the governor, by that claim, can no longer be trusted to perform his constitutional duty of protecting the lives and property of all citizens.
“We are further embarrassed by the statement credited to Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, that our Leader has been quiet on these killings because he cannot speak on every issue. “How can the killings of citizens in hundreds be ‘every issue’? Has our President not sent messages to other countries, where tragedies of lesser proportion occurred?”
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chichi emerue
January 2, 2017 at 3:36 pm
This Fulani people sha ,they are so wicked, so they are taking revenge of 2011, na wa
Margret Dickson
January 2, 2017 at 7:47 pm
It’s their nature, they don’t forgive. If it’d take them 500 years to revenge, they will make sure they have it. I don’t consider the fulanis humans.
Emmanuel Alayegbami
January 2, 2017 at 3:45 pm
Buhari has showed us that he dreads his Fulani people than anyone else. He has never condemned them for once even during the time of grazing feud that made so many governors enacted laws to ban fulanis from grazing illegally.
Buhari is also taking revenge on Nigeria for not voting him as the president since 2003.
Joy Madu
January 2, 2017 at 4:10 pm
Hahahaha. It could be true buhari might be taken revenge on Nigeria for all this economic hardship because he is doing virtually nothing to save us from this recession.
seyi jelili
January 2, 2017 at 3:55 pm
Truly buhari can’t speak on every issue but he can speak when the Niger delta militants strike because he knows that will make Nigeria lose money but in kaduna, it is just lost of lives to him.
JOHNSON PETER
January 2, 2017 at 3:59 pm
So foreign fulanis are the ones wrecking havoc and yet the governor paid them so they can stop, this is barely funny. ElRufai is somehow suspicious as well.
Johnson Amadi
January 2, 2017 at 5:39 pm
This was the same rubbish Jonathan did for the Niger delta militants. The federal government has been encouraging killings and mass destruction since they started paying criminals to drop their swords
Roland Uchendu Pele
January 2, 2017 at 6:23 pm
The worst part of this matter is actually that the Federal government has refused to say anything. What kind of a central government goes dumb about an issue as serious as this?