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Fulani Vs Southwest: Yoruba Elders Differ by olawaleplus(m): 7:25am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Following the threat by
prominent Yoruba leaders of
thought last week Thursday in
Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, that
nomadic herdsmen should
vacate the South-West states as a
result of their alleged
involvement in the kidnap of
Chief Olu Falae and subsequent
destruction of his farm, the
Yoruba Community in the
Northern States and Abuja, have
argued that Fulanis should not
be made to leave the South-West
on mere allegations.
The group suggested that
instead of instigating intertribal
crisis, the Yoruba leaders who
have issued the threat should be
careful in jumping to conclusions
over Chief Falae.
The Yoruba leaders rose from the
meeting held yesterday in
Kaduna to issue a communique
which was jointly signed by its
Ambassador Mohammed
Arigbabuwo, Chairman, Major-
General Lawrence Jokotola (Rtrd)
and Justice Saka Ibiyeye (OFR)
and made available to the media.
Part of the communique said:
“The meeting condemned
the activities of the alleged
kidnappers in its totality
which, if not handled with
maturity, may lead to crisis.
“The meeting dissociates
the entire Yoruba
community in the Northern
states from the threat of
some Yoruba leaders who
were alleged to have
threatened to send the
Fulani away from the
South-West.
“The meeting noted that it
is not only in the South-
West that conflicts have
taken its toll between the
Fulani and other tribes
such as in the case of
Benue, Nasarawa and Edo
states, without any threat
to forcefully eject anybody
from their land, rather they
should sit together and
find lasting solutions to
the crisis.
“Nigeria belongs to all
Nigerians and all tribes
have the right to reside in
any part of the country.”
The group, however, suggested
that the way forward is for the
Federal Government to
immediately set up an inquiry to
look into the remote and
immediate causes of the crisis
with a view to finding a
permanent solution.
Yoruba leaders have said they
would not allow activities of
nomadic herdsmen on their
farmlands and brutal attacks on
their people, adding that “all
nomadic herdsmen are to wind
up their criminal nomadic
activities in Yorubaland. Failing to
do so may attract several
consequences.”
(Ojo Sola, DAILY SUN) |
Re: Fulani Vs Southwest: Yoruba Elders Differ by olawaleplus(m): 7:27am On Oct 13, 2015 |
ecollective decisions are needed to tackle the menace ftc |
Re: Fulani Vs Southwest: Yoruba Elders Differ by olawaleplus(m): 7:29am On Oct 13, 2015 |
collective decisions are needed to tackle the menace ftc ...on my thread |
Re: Fulani Vs Southwest: Yoruba Elders Differ by whirlwind7(m): 7:38am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Blowing hot and cold at the same time The most important factor to consider is this: The federal government has never deemed it fit to step into this matter of the menace of Fulani herdsmen. From 1999, when OBJ was there, through to Yar-Adua, GEJ, and now, PMB. Doesn't it prick all our so-called leaders' conscience, the death of thousands of people, from Plateau to Benue to Nasarawa, down to Enugu, Delta, Edo, Ogun, Oyo...the list goes on. It had to take the kidnap of a prominent politician for people to begin to make half hearted noise! I guess the lives of all the poor rural farmers and even travellers waylaid and killed on the highways by these blood thirsty nomads are less important. Now I'm wishing that more politicians and prominent people will get kidnapped or even killed if that's what it will take for government to wake up to it's responsibilities. Perhaps we should all allow them to overun and rape all of us non northerners, and put us into perpetual servitude. This has been their ambition since 1960. This country sucks big time! 1 Like |
Re: Fulani Vs Southwest: Yoruba Elders Differ by Nobody: 8:20am On Oct 13, 2015 |
Fulani ... Awate jam. |
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