Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has expressed his readiness to intervene in the Fulani-Farmer crises in the country and other issues pertaining the people with a view to providing a permanent solution to such.
By Emma Ogbuehi
The 16th Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has expressed his readiness to intervene in the Fulani-herder crises in the country and other issues pertaining the people with a view to providing a permanent solution to such.
The Punch reports that the Emir who expressed the desire while receiving the leadership of a Fulani group, Tapital Pulaku Njode Jam Nigeria, on Tuesday, in his palace, said it was high time the government found a permanent solution to the Fulani crises in the country.
The agenda, he stated, can be done only if the Federal Government gives him full support to achieve his mission because the government has what it takes to make the exercise work, while he will provide the ideas and the methodologies of how to go about it.
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“No doubt, the Fulani in Nigeria have suffered heavy attacks, isolation, killing and destruction and the rustling of their cows. These rejections indeed were carried all across the country, and something needs to be done to arrest the situation.
“However, it is not untrue that there are some bad eggs amongst the Fulani who have thrown the good names of the people into the trash and subjected them to what they are suffering today.
“This is the time that the government, together with us, will have a permanent solution to the crises, more specifically between them and the farmers and also where they are suspected to be carrying out other crimes.
“I, on my own, am ready to help the government to achieve the desired mission of having peace and prosperity among the Fulani and indeed, other Nigerians. Their suffering should stop. I believe together we will do it,”
Speaking, the leader of the Fulani group, Madibo Jada, said they were at the palace to extend their hands of allegiance to the Emir for his second return as their leader, who was appointed long ago by the Lamido of Adamawa.
“Our members are mainly in the bushes, and if today I asked only the youth wing of our group to come here, this palace will be too small for us. We have members all across the 36 states of Nigeria,” Jada said.
He said they believed that Emir Sanusi had what it takes to correct their battered names and set the records straight of who they are and their contributions to the socio-economic development of the country.
There have been persistent frictions between the Fulani herders and farmers in many parts of the country, especially in the Middle Belt Region. The crises had led to villages sacked, farms raised, animals killed and loss of lives. Efforts to curtail the menace by state governments have not yielded desired results.
A recent four-year study conducted by The Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) has revealed that mass killings, abductions and torture of whole families have occurred in such frictions.
Researchers at ORFA recorded over 55,000 killings and mapped thousands of farm massacres and mass abductions in a four-year period, including in fragile North Central Zone and Southern Kaduna.
“A little-known terror group, the Fulani Ethnic Militia or FEM, commit mass killings hundreds of times a year through this region, a release by the organisation noted.
