Valencia forward and Super Eagles striker, Sadiq Umar, has condemned the mob killing of 16 Hausa travellers in Edo State, Soccernet.ng reports.

The Real Sociedad loanee lashed out at people’s ignorance following the tragic death of over a dozen northern travellers who were mistaken for kidnappers and lynched in Edo State.

Reports confirmed that 16 Hausa hunters, travelling from Port Harcourt to Kano for the Sallah festivities, were brutally attacked and burned alive by a mob after being falsely labelled Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers while passing through a community in Edo.

Why did Umar react to Fulani/Hausa mix-up?

According to witnesses and emerging reports, the victims were part of a Dangote cement truck heading back to the North when locals in a Udune Efandion community within Edo State allegedly blocked their route, searched their truck, accused them of being part of criminal herder gangs, and delivered mob justice on the spot.

The brutal and unjust killing of 16 innocent Hausa travelers in Edo State is a horrifying tragedy that demands an immediate and resolute response.

The fact that such a heinous act could unfold so viciously, based solely on false accusations, exposes the deep-rooted dangers of mob.

Eyewitnesses claim the men were burned in tyres, which left no chance for explanation or due process. Another, per Punch, claimed that on searching their truck, Dane guns were reportedly discovered, and the mobs were triggered.

Sadiq Umar Speaks Out

Reacting to the horrifying news, Sadiq Umar took to his social media platforms to school Nigerians on the difference between the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups.

The Super Eagles attacker, born in Kaduna, believes there has been a distinction often overlooked or misrepresented in southern narratives.

“Only the ignorant don’t know the difference between Hausa and Fulani,” Sadiq posted. “Hausa is a tribe from the North on its own, with both Muslims and Christians in it, and with good and bad people like any other tribe.

[It is the] same as the Fulani, who have their own language (Fulatanchi) and are also made up of both Muslims and Christians. Ignorance is killing people. We have good and bad people in every tribe.”

Sheuns:


Your brothers said Hausa-Fulani are one and the same family.

helinues:
Why is he speaking out now? Only hypocrites cherry pick on issue

Has he not been reading about the activities of some northerners be it Hausa or Fulani?

zero8zero:




This is the issue Umar Sadiq has with you guys, he said you should learnt to differentiate between them. Hausa dey follow cow?, why una come dey take revenge ontop people wey no dey follow cow?

zero8zero:




This is the issue Umar Sadiq has with you guys, he said you should learnt to differentiate between them. Hausa dey follow cow?, why una come dey take revenge ontop people wey no dey follow cow?

helinues:


Are you saying no single Hausa are into cow herding?

Why is he speaking out now? Since the Northerners have been shouting Hausa and Fulani are one, as he ever condemned the activities of some Fulani herdsmen in Southern part of the country?

Sheuns:


I only made reference to northerners calling themselves one. They’ve said in the past that Hausa/Fulani are all one. That’s why they refer to northerners as Arewa. It’s not like south that we have Igbo, Yoruba etc distinctively separated.

zero8zero:

No, Hausa no dey follow cow waka, they only do suya. The fact that they have intertribal and religious affinity does not mean they should be mistaking for each other.

Penguin2:
Sadiq Umar seems to be more talented in controversy than in football.

If you look at this Google map below, anybody traveling from Port Harcourt to Kano should ordinarily not have any business with Edo State at all not to talk of Uromi of all places.

A trip from Port Harcourt to Kano should ordinarily take the traveler through Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway and pass through Enugu City to Nsukka and then Benue and connect to the Markurdi-Akwanga Expressway and then the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway.

Once in Abuja, the traveler begins to head up north to whichever part of the north he’s going.

So, wetin ‘Hausa hunters’ go find for Uromi?

helinues:


Bro stop talking something you don't know. Even within the southerners, we have herders amongst them even though they might not be many

Sodiq is an hypocrite

Penguin2:
Sadiq Umar seems to be more talented in controversy than in football.

If you look at this Google map below, anybody traveling from Port Harcourt to Kano should ordinarily not have any business with Edo State at all not to talk of Uromi of all places.

A trip from Port Harcourt to Kano should ordinarily take the traveler through Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway and pass through Enugu City to Nsukka and then Benue and connect to the Markurdi-Akwanga Expressway and then the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway.

Once in Abuja, the traveler begins to head up north to whichever part of the north he’s going.

So, wetin ‘Hausa hunters’ go find for Uromi?

helinues:
Why is he speaking out now? Only hypocrites cherry pick on issue

Has he not been reading about the activities of some northerners be it Hausa or Fulani?

presido11:
in the other thread you supported the killing by calling it reprisal attack.

zero8zero:


https://soccernet.ng/2025/03/valencia-sadiq-umar-16-northerners-edo.html

ImpartialGuy:
These foolish northerners aren't even addressing the point that they were seen beating arms. The last time I checked, bearing arms is illegal in Nigeria, whether you are Fulani or Hausa.

VaginaAcademic:
Al of them na aboki. Tomato or TomAto rip to them and no to jungle justice

lovethtalks247:
The are same to me