Ganduje Flays Calls For Herders’ Exit From South

By Rufus Ike 
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state has portrayed the call from Fulani herders to Northerners to vacate the South as unpatriotic and retrogressive.

Earlier on, Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and Coalition of Northern Forum (CNF) had called on Northerner, especially the Fulanis to return home. 

Ganduje strongly pushed against such idea and insisted that Nigerians, regardless of ethnic and religious differences, have the constitutional right to reside in any part of the country without fear for loss of life or property. 

Speaking at a special dinner in honour of Eze Ndigbo Kano, Igwe Boniface, on his 10th Ofala at the Government House, Kano, he expressed his worries about the roaming of herdsmen with their livestock and esplained that that was the major reason for the Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative. 

“We don’t share the same feeling with those who are calling on the Fulani to leave the South because people have a choice, as far as the Nigerian constitution is concerned, to live wherever they choose,” he said.

On his side, the Eze Ndigbo Kano, also disapproved of the idea that Fulani herders vacate the South, saying such might put lives of Southerners in the North in danger.

In similar news, the Gan- Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria (GAFDAN) has come out to say over 3,500 Fulanis are locked in cells spread across the nation .

GAFDAN also decried the killer stereotype that’s becoming increasingly popular across the country. The group isn’t happy with how the Fulani are seen as killers as well as how they are arrested unconstitutionally by security agencies. 

The group’s chairman, Alhaji, yesterday in Kaduna while speaking with journalists insisted that the federal government must do the needful to curb the trend and also that the Fulanis in detention be attended to constitutionally. 
 According to them “there are over 3,500 Fulani herdsmen in detention in various security posts. Our opponents, despite ongoing killings between herdsmen and farmers, are alleging that herdsmen are killing the farmers and security agents because of government’s influence; that because the government is headed by a Fulani, no prosecution or arrest had been made.”

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