THE Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said that it is a dangerous development to criminalise all Fulanis living in any part of the country on the account of few criminal ones among them.

The forum noted that it was the responsibility of government through security agencies to fish out criminals amongst Fulani herdsmen and not the duty of ethnic champions to usurp the function of the government.

“There are decent hardworking Fulani who are not criminals in this country and those people must be protected. This idea that all Fulani are criminal is a very dangerous development. It criminalises an entire ethnic group, puts millions of Nigerians under threat,” said Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, NEF spokesperson on Tuesday night while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.

“It creates an image of reality which is not true and it also puts other ethnic groups in danger because all you need to do is to identify a particular crime with an ethnic group. If we begin to demonise people and profile an ethnic group and we link them up with a crime, this is dangerous.

“Yes, there is some infiltration among the Fulani, we accept that. We also believe that it is the responsibility of the state to identify that infiltration; it is not up to any ethnic champion or anybody. People cannot assume responsibilities for the state. It is the Nigerian state that should fish out and determine criminals whether Fulani or whatever.”

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He added that “if people start usurping the responsibilities of the Nigerian state, chasing people and burning down their homes, their cattle, killing them, harassing them, that is not acceptable.”

The statement is coming after weeks of tension in the South-West region of the country, over a one-week quit notice by Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to Fulani herdsmen in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State.

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I agree with this one

The ' good'Fulani need to start speaking up!!!.. Their silence contributed to the problem.. People are losing lives, and been raped !! Stop hiding criminals.. Bring them out!!!.... Stop protecting your evil brothers.. If you don't bring them out, expect......

It's easier for the "good" fulanis to point out the bad eggs among them, the Host communities can't separate the wheat from the shaft when they are so interwoven

Dear Hausa, Dear North: ���
Terrorist FULANI elements both domestic & foreign are bringing your name to disrepute. This evil they do in Nigeria, they’re doing it in your name. Stop them before they set you up for the kill.
Fish those terrorists and bandits out before
they set you up
Your silence/inaction makes you complicit.
If you are happy with
Rapist herdsmen
Kidnapper herdsmen
Terrorists hersdmen
We in the the south won’t tolerate
Raping and killing of our people

THANK YOU!

When you keep silent when they are committing crime, you are aiding them.
If they had succeeded and took over south, the same people would be hailing them as heroes

Meanwhile, the reigning most dangerous terrorist group in Nigeria @ present are the Fulanis.

Waoo
We need to arrest these problem b4 it gets out of hand.
-most of the bandits are Fulani(true)
-most of the kidnapping are done by fulani(true)
-the farmers-herders clash also involve them(true
But what we should know is that not all fulani are criminals. Yes we have the wright to voice out our frustration but please we should do the right thing and not allow a problem grow into serious disaster. The eviction of all fulanis will grow to all northerners which will sparkle a retaliation targeting yorubas. At the end we all loss while the evil onces among the fulanis that start all of these madness will have nothing to loss. They live in these kind of chaotic environment normally.but you and I have alot to loss. Let's use our senses not first. Last time I checked, the fulanis dominated areas are the worst hit by these crisis.

You mean like el-rufai and buhari?
This Taqiya has been bursted