Retired Deputy Inspector General
of Police (DIG), Udom Ekpoudom, has lamented the audacity of Fulani herdsmen
and how they conduct themselves in other people’s territory.
He said their activities across
the country totally violate the constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
“Maliciously damaging the properties of their fellow Nigerians is a criminal offense. They should be arrested and charged for malicious damage which is punishable under the law.
“To worsen their case, they operate with prohibited fire arms. The police have the right to apprehend them and charge them for unlawful possession of fire arms but they are allowed to move about freely.
“They commit malicious damage and assault, occasioning harm and even killing hundreds of law-abiding citizens, yet they are allowed to walk the streets of this country as if they are operating under a different constitution from the Nigerian constitution.
“The herdsmen are rearing cows as their business in the north while those of us in the south have cassava, yams and other crops as our business.
“For the herdsmen to direct their cows to feed on other people’s food crops amounts to man’s inhumanity to man”, the former security chief told Vanguard.
Recall that Ekpoudom warned
Biafra agitators and Northern youths issuing threats and provocative speeches
against Nigeria to slow down.
He noted that while it is easy to
speak of violence, such persons will run away if they witness
bloodletting on a large scale.
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Yet the ruling party keeps a blind eye to this criminal act!!!
ReplyDeleteFulanis are the owners of Nigeria now. That is why nobody can do anything about it or the highest office will be angry.
ReplyDeleteI blame their boldness on the governor of the state. Fayose stands out among all the governor's by making a law banning the unauthorised access to farm lands by cattle rearers and directed ekiti people to stand up against herds men. Since then no report from ekiti state regards here's men grazing their cow onbfarm lands. The governor's of south south and south east are playing politics and romancing with aboki. They will also suffer the consequences when the time comes.
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