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Soyinka gets pushback for call to declare Fulani herdsmen terrorists

16th March 2018
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Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has disagreed with Nobel Laurette, Professor Wole Soyinka, on his call for the Federal Government to declare Fulani herdsmen terrorists.

Reacting to Soyinka urging the Federal Government to declare as terrorists herdsmen responsible for attacks in states across the country, Bolaji argued that it would be an error to tag a people like the Fulani terrorists because of the actions of a few atrocious elements.

“I understand the sentiment behind his suggestions,” he told Daily Sun by telephone Thursday, adding: “but we need to be very careful not to criminalize an entire people just because of the criminal activities of a few.”

“Fulani herdsmen refers to a full tribe of men, a people – not a organization like Boko Haram. So to say that Fulani herdsmen should be proscribed just the way we proscribed Boko Haram is to fall into an error of conceptualization. It will be a conceptual error to categorise the Fulani herdsmen as an organisation,” he objected.

“It does not belong to that organisational category because they are a full tribe of people. It would be wrong to tag a whole tribe as terrorists; he (Soyinka) will not be happy if, for example, the Yoruba race [are labelled] as terrorists because of some people who are committing some atrocities, or to tag Igbo people terrorists because of few Igbo persons committing atrocities,” he insisted.

However, the national chairman of Young Progressives Party (YPP), Bishop Emmanuel Amakri, argued that considering the mayhem the herdsmen have unleashed in most communities, declaring them terrorists is long overdue.

“We need to put in actual perspective what ‘terrorist’ means and, in this case, I would say that for people, a group of people who have been unleashing attacks on people in every part of this country and whose trademark is bloodshed, killing everyday and slaughtering human beings in the manner of the ISIS terrorist group, declaring herdsmen as terrorists group is not something people should be debating,” he said.

“Having killed in one community or the other and unleashed mayhem on people mindlessly, the herdsmen have done enough damage to be declared terrorists. In fact, it is long overdue,” he said.

Proffering solution, the party boss added: “I want to however suggest that the security agencies need to increase intelligence gathering, even if it is going to cost them recruiting more young men and women that will gather information to unravel the menace of herdsmen.

“I want to also say that security should be everybody’s business. Whatever we can do to end the activities [of these] herdsmen, including declaring them terrorists, is a welcome development,” Bishop Emmanuel said.

David

David

Sun News Online team

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  1. Avatar Tony says:
    3 years ago

    Mallam bolaji abdulahi may thunder strike you dead for glorifying the fulani herdsmen. If a harmless organisation like IPOB could be tagged a terrorist group which was globally condemned what tittle suits a murderous and heartless fulani ethnic group?

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  2. Avatar Arrow says:
    3 years ago

    Bolaji Abdulahi aguement is baseless and laughable, he is trying to twist the situation. Since all the fulanies are not herdsmen, the Fulani herdsman should be proscribed as a terrorist group, the Fulani herdsmen are terrorist and most dangerous people on earth. There is nothing good ever come out from North, Nigeria most be divided, even into two, so that we will have peace on this part of earth.

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  3. Avatar femidapo says:
    3 years ago

    Since when have they being killing innocent Nigerians!! APC a bock of fools!!!

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  4. Avatar Eze Austin Stephen says:
    3 years ago

    Maybe, declaring Mayati Allah a terrorist group is a better option.

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  5. Avatar charles says:
    3 years ago

    The Fulani tribe is different from the rampaging Fulani killer herdsmen. Some Fulani are not herdsmen. Actions of killer-herdsmen is beyond terrorism.
    FG to disarm all herdsmen.

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  6. Avatar Onyema says:
    3 years ago

    Miyeti Allah is an organization whose members are predominantly Fulanis engaged in the business of cattle breeding/rearing. therefore, Fulani herdsmen is limited to a body/group/organization of cattle breeders who engage in terrorist activities and should be seen as such. there is conceptual error at all.

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  7. Avatar DON says:
    3 years ago

    Actually you will know the fools according to their words.
    Fulani Hersmen means Fulani cattle rearing group so when you declare them terrorist you mean those murderers;criminals who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) who go about with cow carrying ASULT Rifles killing the innocent people.
    Now their spokes man Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi is of the devilsh herdsmen and boko haram terrorist linage of Muslem that was why he went on to defend the Hersmen…if it is not Nigeria government that secretly gave the AK47 Arms , it will never be difficult for the government to declaire them terrorist and disarm them but we all knew it is an indirect Jhad war against non Islam in Nigeria and Africa.

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