MIYETTI Allah Kautal Hore, the apex Fulani social-cultural organisation, has opined why President Muhammadu Buhari should not heed to calls urging him to relieve service chiefs of their duties for allegedly failing to protect lives and properties.



Some Nigerians, including the National Assembly and governors, are calling on the president to sack the service chiefs for failing in their duties.

However, Miyetti Allah is of the opinion that those calling for the sack of the service chiefs are corrupt politicians.

The Secretary-General of the group, Saleh Al-Hassan, said this during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday.

“We have documented 411 innocent pastoralists killed just in southern Kaduna for nothing. We have documented all the crises but because we want peace and want to promote the culture of peace and forgiveness hoping that our neighbours will continue to allow us to do our business,” Al-Hassan said.



“But the issue of arms and light weapons is a security one. I believe they (security agencies) are on top of it. With the arrests they are making, we must acknowledge the efforts security agencies have put in trying to contain criminality in this country.

“That is why people calling for the removal of service chiefs are either the corrupt politicians or the ones working for them. We should not fall for that gambit,” he said.

Mr Alhassan restated his position at an event in Abuja saying the security agencies must identify the perpetrators and sponsors of the killings in Plateau State.

The colloquium organised by the Citizens Communication and Advocacy Centre was titled “Understanding democracy as instrument of development, integration and national cohesion.”

The Secretary-General of the Miyetti Allah like Mr Buhari noted that corrupt politicians were behind the massacre.

“The spate of insecurity in this country is worrisome to anybody that loves this country and I think our security agencies should be up and doing. They should be able to identify the perpetrators and their sponsors and then ensure that justice is meted out to them. We must watch closely our politicians, their utterances and their body language because some of them are the ones promoting violence we are having in this country.

“Most of these politicians own armed thugs and militias across the state. The government should also find those behind the importation of large arms into the country. Who are the people importing these arms?

“We need to overhaul the security architecture of the country but the service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police are doing their best. We should not listen to what desperate politicians are saying. It is the corrupt political elite who are creating crises in this country.

“There are attempts by our group to assist the security agencies. We have been partnering the security agencies in terms of giving them critical intelligence where we suspect there are cattle rustlers and criminals.

“The calls for the removal of the service chiefs are empty calls. Desperate politicians and politicians facing criminal charges are the ones making that call.”

Source: https://www.headlineng.com/buhari-not-sack-service-chiefs-miyetti-allah/

“We need to overhaul the security architecture of the country''

Gradually, all of us we agree that we need to de-centralize policing and a whole lot of other things in Nigeria

Just tell us they have not finished executing your plans.

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