A former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan (retd.), has alleged that the Nigeria Police knows the sponsors of the dreaded Fulani herdsmen committing atrocities across the country but cannot arrest them.

He said he was pointedly told by the police that the sponsors of the herdsmen though known, could not be arrested when he reported the numerous attacks on his farm to the Kwara State Police command.

He noted that the police said their sponsors were highly placed individuals.

Afolayan stated this in an interview with PUNCH Newspaper.

He said he was told this when he reported the destruction of his farmland to the police.

The ex-naval chief said there has been numerous attacks on his farm by herdsmen but he has been silent on the attacks to avoid escalating the tension in the country but decided to speak out for the first time in January.

He explained that he has had to seize some of the herders’ cows to stall the attacks but they forcefully reclaimed them.

He said the owners of the cows were highly placed persons residing outside the state. According to Afolayan, he told the police to bring one of them in for questioning but was told that it would be difficult.

“I said that is injustice. How do you remand a boy that is of no consequence when the boy had already told you that the owner of the cows is in Zamfara State?

“He gave the number of his employer and I said the police should invite the man who owns the cows and they were telling me that it would be difficult. What is difficult in that? The police can arrest anybody wherever he or she lives in Nigeria.”

Afolayan maintained that the federal government was not doing enough to address the attacks while calling on it to take drastic actions.

sharpden:
https://www.headlineng.com/police-sponsors-herdsmen-former-naval-chief/amp/

laudate:

Can you imagine this gargantuan, irritating nonsense??! :oSo because the owner of the cows is based in Zamfara, does that mean he is above the law, and cannot be summoned to answer questions in a police station or summoned by govt security agencies?

Wubbish! The case got to court, only for the judge to turn round and fine the naval officer 9 million, for insisting that the cows that ate his crops should be detained, until the owner coughed up the money to cover the damaged crops. Tomorrow, paid apologists of the Fulani herdsmen like PStacks will start defending their atrocious behaviour. _mtcheew!

Sprumbabafather:
Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan and Olu Falae were also throwing sticks, stones, cudgels, petrol bottles and missiles at the innocent herdsmen? They deserved what they got!

He said the owners of the cows were highly placed persons residing outside the state. According to Afolayan, he told the police to bring one of them in for questioning but was told that it would be difficult.

laudate:

enemybulldozer:
Who told you that?? Oh! I forgot your junk media which lie Mohammed is heading told you that and you sheepishly believed without using your brain, enemybulldozer. Though am not sure if you have any, enemybulldozer

careytommy7:
Fulani vs Gambari
Every other person should mind their business

Sprumbabafather:
See painment

zendy:
And the Herdsmen shooting people with AK47's, what did they get? They got cattle colonies?

laudate:

No town, village or community in the middle belt is willing to give them a square inch of land. So how many cattle colonies have been set up for them till date? Go through the press reports. So far, the Fulani herdsmen with AK47s, have gotten hate, hostility, anger and derision from different communities. In some cases, they even got reprisal attacks like in Numan....

laudate:

Thank God everyone here can read. Even if the truth came and hit you in the face, you would still not believe simply because it does not align with your IPOB propaganda. Tell us, have you found Kanu yet? He ran away leaving his followers behind, and putting poor Abaribe his surety, in a pot of soup. Only callous, lily livered toads behave like that....

Sprumbabafather:
Governor Bello is giving them all of Okun, Kabba and all other Yoruba speaking part of Kogi state as cattle grazing fields

Better relocate your brothers to Ogbomosho before it's too late