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No need for panic, working with Miyetti Allah in southeast is a security strategy

Published by Fredrick Nwabufo in On the Go

Security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security.  All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in the pursuit of peace. In fact, it imperils security if any stakeholder to the peace is “quarantined” and stereotyped.

On Wednesday, I read a report on a security briefing by Audu Adamu Madaki, commissioner of police in Adamawa state. In that compte rendu, he revealed, essentially, the importance of working with critical stakeholders in retarding criminality.

Madaki said three kidnappers, who surrendered their arms and divulged crucial information on the artifices and operations of their criminal genre, were led to his office by an official of Miyetti Allah ( a show of resolve in helping to curb the menace).

Hear him: “Yesterday, we harvested three repentant kidnappers who voluntarily walked into my office, confessed to have been kidnappers; but have now repented and surrendered two AK-47s to the command.

“The herdsmen explained to me that they normally concealed the firearms in sacks of personal effects and strap them on the back of a cow and then immigrate to a chosen destination.

“They told me that they purchased them from the Republic of Cameroon and moved them into Nigeria through the bush path to beat immigration and other security agents along the border.”

I believe, there will be more gains in the effort to wrestle down banditry and kidnapping if the people, who can prevail on or sway these outlaws, are involved in the “sumo.” It is the reason I am strained by the sectional condemnation of the request by Miyetti Allah to help in fending off the brigands from the southeast.

At the Southeast Security Summit in Enugu on Thursday, Alhaji Bala Usman Ngelzerma, national secretary of Miyetti Allah, said the association was willing to help in strengthening the security architecture of the region through its vigilantes.

He said: “The Fulani Youth Vigilant body will be working with the security, the neighborhood watch or vigilante to ensure security in all communities, as it was done in Enugu state.

“We will solicit for your support and cooperation in adopting dialogue where problems exist as a means of brokering peace and to report cases against our members to either the Fulani Youth Vigilante Group, state or local branch of the association.”

Ordinarily, I see no distress in this imploration. To me, the hue and cry over Miyetti Allah’s entreaty are emotionally charged and sentimentally invoked. It should be considered as a gesture of good faith because it is commonsensical to fight criminality of this ilk with those girded with information and knowledge about the culprits.

On the one hand, there is an outrage over killings by strayed herdsmen in some parts of the southeast, and on the other hand, there is uproar over the entreaty by the monolithic association for herdsmen to help in checking this scourge. So, where do we go from here?

Although, I understand the concerns of those remonstrating, but is it not sagacious to involve some members of Miyetti Allah in the vigilante groups securing the southeast? I think, the pickle is assuming that an entire group is a culprit in the crimes of a few.  This is the corollary of stereotyping and the concomitants of conspiracy theories of “Fulanisation and Islamisation”.

With the frightening level of insecurity across the country, no region should rebuff a gesture of help from any party of interest. The argument that the north is worse hit by insecurity, so, Miyetti Allah should centre its effort there is vacuous and irrational.  These people have been profiled because of the crimes of a few, and now they are taking the pedal in the purge of their own; yet stereotyped and rebuffed?

We must give no room for conspiracy theories – of domination, invasion or conquest. These are the byproduct of distrust and fear. And instead of running wild with emotions, let us give space to rational thinking and disciplined conversations.

@FredrickNwabufo

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The thing now is that if the government or the Police begins to investigate, some people will start shouting 'Freedom of speech'.

It is wrong to attack someone or threaten someone for experessing his opinion....

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I think that pig Journalist Fredrick Nwabufo deserves to die a painful death. How can u say Fulani vigilante is a security strategy? Isi odikwa GI mma?

Is a lie. Idiotic pigs of bia fra that are peaceful terrorist

The writer is a fool that fails to learn from history.

It is well known to everybody that IPOB is a terrorist organisation, that is the reason FG put them on terrorist list. They are kidnappers, armed robbers and scammers. They are the reason why good Igbo People are labelled terrorists and I expect all true Igbo people to condemn them. IPOB is banned and that is final, if they born you well identify with IPOB in the public if Nigerian soldiers won't use you for target practice. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dora Akunyili and other late patriotic Igbos won't be happy with these miscreants.

I would have been more hard, the so called journalist is an attention seeker, many who have been killed by herdsmen are far more better than him

Where did they threaten his life?

Is "you deserve to die" a threat to life?

Anybody that threatens you is an ipob? It's clear that your a wild attention seeker; not just for writing that hogwash, but for also calling IPOB into your stupidity.
Truly, you deserve death by roasting.

That Journalist is absolutely mad
His Opinion is useless
Look at what a Southerner is spewing
There are many useful idiots in the south Here
Ass licking the Hausa-Fulani
Shame on him

Where are the bounty kilers? Over to una

Why didn't the idiotic writer threaten to report or sue Miyetty Allah when the threatened SE of mass killing for refusing to give them land for cattle colony.
We will take him serious when he first sue Fulani's for threatening a whole region.
Ihe ochoro ko ofuru.

I didn't see any threat there........

All I see is a loser that is afraid of his own shadow...

Ipob will not order for hit against him cos he is inconsequential and his little pay per word article can't march the strength of Ipob media....

He should cry more cos the people that will kill him will definitely not be Ipob or other people but his Fulani (Friend) pets

It is a very serious crime under Nigerian law to belong to a terrorist organization such as IPOB. Youth be warned

So North is now more peaceful than the south?

These Fulani vigilante are needed more in zamfara.

I feel sad KANU replied those clowns.

What they suggested should have been ignored.

The afonja impostor who go by the name Fredrick Nwabufo deserve to stone to death for not minding his business.




When ever the evil afonja media call sahara reporter want to write nonesense about the great Igbos,they will use this name Fredrick Nwabufo or churchii.

Jobac:
It is well known to everybody that IPOB is a terrorist organisation, that is the reason FG put them on terrorist list. They are kidnappers, armed robbers and scammers. They are the reason why good Igbo People are labelled terrorists and I expect all true Igbo people to condemn them. IPOB is banned and that is final, if they born you well identify with IPOB in the public if Nigerian soldiers won't use you for target practice. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dora Akunyili and other late patriotic Igbos won't be happy with these miscreants.

You are just ranting, Mr man. Talking absolute trash. You are shameless to the point that the very people you tagged terrorists are freely gathering and even in the open in other countries. Nigeria will soon implode and nothing on earth will forestall it. The worst devilish people on earth are Nigerianists. Very callous set of people.

Nsonso:


You are just ranting, Mr man. Talking absolute trash. You are shameless to the point that[b] the very people you tagged terrorists are freely gathering and even in the open in other countries.[/b] Nigeria will soon implode and nothing on earth will forestall it. The worst devilish people on earth are Nigerianists. Very callous set of people.

Let them go to Abuja to gather now.

zibya:
It is a very serious crime under Nigerian law to belong to a terrorist organization such as IPOB. Youth be warned

You mean like the Boko haram members below being released?

And the funniest part, majority of them are Christians but they harboured pure hatred in their hearts.. Too bad

kingzizzy:


You mean like the Boko haram members below being released?

It's equally a very serious crime to be a Boko Haram member too. Don't say you weren't warned