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By Dapo Akinrefon
Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization Afenifere criticized calls from elders in the north for herders to return to the north.
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, had asked the Fulani shepherds to move to the north if communities in parts of the country are no longer hospitable.
However, reacting, Afenifere said no one would lose sleep if the shepherds decided to return to the North.
Afenifere National Publicity Secretary Yinka Odumakin said: “Buhari has no problem protecting southerners who are being persecuted on their land.
“He should spread all his wings to protect the Fulani persecutors. No one will lose sleep if the killers decide to return to Futa Jalon.
The position of the NEF is shameful, disappointing – Agbekoya
For its part, the South West Farmers’ Guild, Agbekoya Farmers Society of Nigeria, lambasted the leaders of the North for “their unguarded remarks”, calling the NEF’s call for herders to return to the North as shameful and disappointing. .
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Speaking after the emergency meeting of the National Executive Council and the Iwarefa-in-Council of Agbekoya, its general chairman, Chief Kamorudeen Okikiola, lamented the statements of the leaders of the north, saying that the whole country belongs to the Fulani race.
Chief Okikiola also said that the call by some northern leaders for Fulani herdsmen to return home, if they are forcibly evicted from the South and Southwest, is shameful and disappointing.
He said that instead of tackling the threat of armed shepherds, bandits and kidnappers who commit all kinds of crimes, they are making hate speech without surveillance.
Okikiola said, “The Southerners and Yoruba of the Southwest have lived with Fulani herders for many years without any problems.
“But the sudden change in events and circumstances, in particular the problems of destruction of agricultural products by livestock, kidnappings and killings of farmers and innocent citizens by shepherds and armed Fulani bandits have caused a turnaround in the relations between Southerners and Peuls.
“Northern leaders should address the problems of shepherds carrying guns and other weapons, kidnappings and ransom collecting, rapes and killings of innocent people in villages.
“The Yoruba are always ready to live with other tribes, but not with criminals.
“Agbekoya calls on the leaders of the North to find positive and lasting solutions to the problems of the armed Fulani shepherds, bandits and kidnappers who are killing innocent people across the south and southwest rather than asking them to return home.
Vanguard News Nigeria
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