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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Revd. Matthew Kukah, has warned against blanket demonisation of herdsmen, especially of the Fulani stock.

He warned that such actions could be preamble to a breakout of violent confrontation against the Fulani.

According to Bishop Kukah, hate speech often preceded any genocide experienced in history.

He spoke on Tuesday at a colloquium on fake news and hate speech organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Centre for African Studies, an arm of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Abuja.

He said Nigerians “have to be very careful” before the situation degenerates beyond control.

He likened the uproar and profiling of the Fulani to what happened to the Igbo leading up to the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970.

“If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos,” he said.

Reacting to the recent controversy on the use of picture of a herdsman on the Nigerian passport booklet, Kukah said he was almost swayed by the fake news, before he got a copy of the passport himself.

The cleric displayed his passport to illustrate the content and debunk the insinuations that it carried only a picture of a herdsman.

“When I look at my passport, it has the coat of arm and map of Nigeria. Then right in front of the data page where all my information is, I have the Bini. I am not a Bini man, but I am eminently proud of this. I didn’t even know it was here, because I had to go through the passport page by page.

“When I opened the passport the first thing I saw was Zuma Rock, then I see Tiv dancers. Who gave them permission to put Tiv dancers? Then I got to next page, before I came to this poor Fulani man who is standing with his cows.

“Why is it exciting? It is exciting because this is the time for us to ‘hate’, literally tag every Fulani as a herdsman. We are on a very dangerous precipice,” he said.

Kukah said it was time for those in the position of leadership to tame the situation.

“Those who lead us should better stand up and tell us where we are going,” he said.

The Catholic cleric also urged Nigerians to be each other’s keeper and avoid ethno-religious profiling in dealing with each other.

To further tame the spread of hate, Mr Kukah called on media to sieve through in choosing who to give audience to avoid persons who propagate hate and mischief.

In his opening remarks, NOUN’s vice chancellor, Abdalla Adamu, said liberalisation of the media space by technology provided opportunity for easy spread of fake news and hate speech.

He lamented increase in hate speech in the polity which, he said, will not augur well for the society.

“What we see are labels over crimes. The moment you start talking about labels, you are breeding hate speech,” Adamu said.

In her contribution, former journalist and politician, Chris Anyanwu, also bemoaned “too much of this hate and bile stuff” warning that it could consume the country if not properly tackled.

“We have to be careful not to use our own hands to set our own house on fire and someone will sit there in Russia laughing,” she said.

Ms Anyanwu, a former senator, said the media has a big role to play in reversing the trend, but lamented poor quality of journalism currently in the country.

She said the rise of “brown envelope” in journalism has bred poor attitude to work thus some reporters rely on press releases churned out by newsmakers.




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the pastor dey fear

ProfessorBerlin:
the pastor dey fear

Maybe he is fulani. Fulani will surely receive the dose of what they have been serving others. The scriptures cannot be broken. They will reap what they have sown. It is a law of natural Justice. Whether you gag the press and free speech or not, their cup is full

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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Revd. Matthew Kukah, has warned against blanket demonisation of herdsmen, especially of the Fulani stock.

He warned that such actions could be preamble to a breakout of violent confrontation against the Fulani.

According to Bishop Kukah, hate speech often preceded any genocide experienced in history.

He spoke on Tuesday at a colloquium on fake news and hate speech organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Centre for African Studies, an arm of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Abuja.

He said Nigerians “have to be very careful” before the situation degenerates beyond control.

He likened the uproar and profiling of the Fulani to what happened to the Igbo leading up to the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970.

“If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos,” he said.

Reacting to the recent controversy on the use of picture of a herdsman on the Nigerian passport booklet, Kukah said he was almost swayed by the fake news, before he got a copy of the passport himself.

The cleric displayed his passport to illustrate the content and debunk the insinuations that it carried only a picture of a herdsman.

“When I look at my passport, it has the coat of arm and map of Nigeria. Then right in front of the data page where all my information is, I have the Bini. I am not a Bini man, but I am eminently proud of this. I didn’t even know it was here, because I had to go through the passport page by page.

“When I opened the passport the first thing I saw was Zuma Rock, then I see Tiv dancers. Who gave them permission to put Tiv dancers? Then I got to next page, before I came to this poor Fulani man who is standing with his cows.

“Why is it exciting? It is exciting because this is the time for us to ‘hate’, literally tag every Fulani as a herdsman. We are on a very dangerous precipice,” he said.

Kukah said it was time for those in the position of leadership to tame the situation.

“Those who lead us should better stand up and tell us where we are going,” he said.

The Catholic cleric also urged Nigerians to be each other’s keeper and avoid ethno-religious profiling in dealing with each other.

To further tame the spread of hate, Mr Kukah called on media to sieve through in choosing who to give audience to avoid persons who propagate hate and mischief.

In his opening remarks, NOUN’s vice chancellor, Abdalla Adamu, said liberalisation of the media space by technology provided opportunity for easy spread of fake news and hate speech.

He lamented increase in hate speech in the polity which, he said, will not augur well for the society.

“What we see are labels over crimes. The moment you start talking about labels, you are breeding hate speech,” Adamu said.

In her contribution, former journalist and politician, Chris Anyanwu, also bemoaned “too much of this hate and bile stuff” warning that it could consume the country if not properly tackled.

“We have to be careful not to use our own hands to set our own house on fire and someone will sit there in Russia laughing,” she said.

Ms Anyanwu, a former senator, said the media has a big role to play in reversing the trend, but lamented poor quality of journalism currently in the country.

She said the rise of “brown envelope” in journalism has bred poor attitude to work thus some reporters rely on press releases churned out by newsmakers.




Read more here https://thickmatch.com/bishop-kukah-blows-hot-demonization-fulani-herdsmen/

You high on Fulani kunu...

I thought this man have sense before.

bangbangall:
You high on Fulani kunu...

I thought this man have sense before.

Humm His words doesn't make sense to you simply because he did not go your hate ways .I pray whoever instigating war in Nigeria will all witness it in their own personal and families' lives .

Fulanis in cahoots killing others and you want us to keep quiet and praise them ? Are you ok sir? SIR if you open your eyes you will see the only people demonizing them selves here are the Fulanis

adekolaelect:
Humm His words doesn't make sense to you rsimply because he did not go your hate ways .I pray whoever instigating war in Nigeria will all witness it in their own personal and families' lives .

are talking about the 4th most deadliest terrorist group here?

This man is making absolutely no sense whatsoever. Are we really DEMONIZING them when they actually commit these crimes ? For goodness sake we have seen countless videos of “Fulani’s” being arrested after killing farmers and land owners. Why can’t people be brave enough to actually say the truth ? Nobody or group of people have monopoly to violence, if the killing continues with no abate, we will see a repeat of what happened to the Fulani’s in central Africa Republic.

Kukah advise Buhari to take Ruga-Settlements to The Caliphate, The Catholic Bishop's Court in Sokoto and to The Emirate of Daura.

Kukah is a Journalist as well. What meaning does he have for this:

Fulani Herdsmen are Terrorists And Buhari is behind them-by Christiane Amanpour-CNN.

The Herdsmen are killing and people are demonizing the actions but some are calling it hate speech. So, the killing is love? Probably, people need to stop talking and pick up their arms and return that type of herdsmen love? Then, we will see what Nigeria will become. What type of country is Nigeria? No prosecution of killers and yet people are killed on daily basis but their problem is just the speech. Shame!

adekolaelect:
Humm His words doesn't make sense to you simply because he did not go your hate ways .I pray whoever instigating war in Nigeria will all witness it in their own personal and families' lives .

idiot listen to yourself. try and wake from your sleep, in marriage when one of the couple is tired the next is to file for divorce..abi?

We call them Herdsmen. Christiane Amanpour calls them Terrorists. Are you now calling them Demons?