On July 12, 2012, Gov. El-rufai, tweeted the following, ‘We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.
In a recent chat with newsmen in Kaduna, the governor made different remarks. First, he said when he became governor, he traced the alleged attackers to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger and sent a message to them that one of their own, a Fulani like them, was now governor. This comment displays a dramatically bigoted mindset.
A governor of a state in Nigeria was making appeals based on ethnic kinship and brotherhood to a group of foreign killers of people in his state! In other words, he was appeasing his murderous foreigners at the expense of indigenes of his state who are not his ethnic kinsmen but whose safety and interests he swore to defend.
The governor’s shocking statement indicates that ethnic solidarity trumped his constitutional obligations to protect Southern Kaduna citizens from the external threats of foreign Fulani herdsmen.
Finally, he confessed that he paid money to some Fulani herdsmen as compensation to stop the killings in Southern Kaduna. That means he knows those who have been committing these atrocities against the people of southern Kaduna, so rather than crying foul, we should as a matter of urgency appeal to Gov Elrufa to stop the killing please.