Your failure to stop pastoralist impunities can lead to ethnic conflict – Moghalu tells Buhari

Professor Kingsley Moghalu, 2019 presidential candidate and former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, made it clear to President Muhammadu Buhari that his government’s failure to prevent heinous crimes committed by shepherds and Killer bandits across the country had serious consequences.

The former United Nations diplomat gave the warning in a statement he signed and made available to the press.

Moghalu warned that the situation, if left unchecked, could lead to widespread ethnic conflict.

The political leader of the new generation
recalled his experience in such situations, including the genocide in Rwanda and in other countries as a senior United Nations official in the 1990s.

“The failure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to end the threat from herdsmen and criminal bandits across Nigeria has led to the stigmatization of the Fulani and other ethnic groups for the crimes of a few”, Moghalu said.

According to him, the failure of the Nigerian authorities to deploy effective security and law enforcement measures against these criminals has created a dangerous vacuum which is increasingly being filled, unsurprisingly, by self-defense measures by many. communities across the country.

“This could lead to retaliation based on ethnic profiling. In this context, I deplore the recent killings of innocent Nigerians of Nordic origin in Oyo State,” said the former presidential candidate.

Moghalu, who stressed that he had played an international role in rebuilding several failed states after destructive internal conflicts, called on Buhari to act decisively before it is too late.

He noted that at this point the country has lost its monopoly on the use of force as murderous herdsmen, bandits and other terrorists can freely attack defenseless Nigerians without being held to account.

The former diplomat warned that no one should be above the laws of the land, questioning why authorities would appear powerless in cases involving herder-killers and bandits, but act decisively to crush peaceful citizens’ protests .