The monarch expressed regrets that Fulani herdsmen were being generally painted as criminals, which he maintained they were not.
He urged Nigerians to avoid ethnic profiling whenever a crime was committed, noting that “criminals have no tribal marks.”
A statement on Sunday quoted the
ex-Central Bank governor as saying this on Sunday in Minna, during a
national executive council meeting of MACBAN.
The meeting, according to the statement,
was also attended by the Lamido of Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkindo Musdafa,
Prof. Ango Abdullahi, Dr. Aliyu Tilde and other stakeholders.
He urged MACBAN to also liaise with the
governors of Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa and Kano states who have indicated
interest to allocate grazing reserves, with a view to developing them.
In his remarks, the Zonal Chairman of
the National Executive Committee, MACBAN, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, noted
that, “conflict between herdsmen and farmers has a long history; the
solution has been to engage all stakeholders to find an amicable
solution to the conflict.”
He commended the approaches of governors
Willie Obiano and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Anambra and Enugu states
respectively, “who have been able to effectively stem the recurring
clashes between farmers and herders at a time their other peers and the
Federal Government are at a loss on how to handle the clashes.”
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