National President of Miyetti
Allah Kautel Hore socio-cultural organization, Alhaji Abdullahi Bodejo, has
said that the Fulani herders can relocate to Sambisa forest.
Bodejo, however, added that the
facilities for carrying out their cattle business must be provided.
He also said that they never
requested for Ruga settlement in the first place, adding that the Fulani
already have their Ruga.
“Whether Sambisa or anywhere, the
Fulani can stay. The Fulani people do not fear Sambisa or any forest,” he told
Sun.
“The Fulani are ready to stay
anywhere there is bush but number one is that there must be water which their
cows can drink and there must be grasses for their cows to eat. If Sambisa has
all those facilities, you do not need to introduce it to the Fulani; they would
go there and herd their cows.
“If you see any place where the
Fulani do not go to, it is because such a place does not have water and grasses
for the grazing of their cows. All the places like Enugu, Benue and Taraba, if
Fulani don’t go there to fertilize their land, nobody will go there to farm.
“The Fulani have settled in many
places including the Federal Capital Territory before the farmers came there.
So, if the Federal Government could introduce the Fulani to the Sambisa forest,
we are ready to go there. I will be the number one person who will go there.
“Nobody requested for Ruga
settlement in the first place. The Fulani already have their Ruga. What is the
meaning of Ruga?
“Is it not a place where you have
the Fulani houses? So, we already have Ruga but I do not know why all the
confusion about all the issues concerning the Fulani in this country.
“This is because we have grazing
reserve areas and people are not talking about it. They initially talked about
the cattle colony and from there, they now started talking about Ruga.
“They said they wanted to settle
the Fulani in one place but did anybody tell them what they wanted to do?
Nobody had any meeting with them on the issue of Ruga but I noticed that there
are now desperate people who claim to be Fulani leaders by all means.
“You can imagine, for instance, a
Fulani man who has about 300 cows and nobody told him that they want to settle
him in one place and suddenly, you started hearing about Ruga on the TV, radio
and social media.
“See how innocent Fulani people
are being chased away in the South East, South South and other places as if
they are not Nigerians. What caused these things is the issue of Ruga but the
Fulani being chased away do not even know about the Ruga policy. Even we the
Fulani leaders did not know about the Ruga policy.
“We did not know any plan for
that by the Federal Government or the Ministry of Agriculture. I have cows for
instance and they are staying in Ruga but we have a problem with the cattle
routes.
“If they are serious, let them
come and discuss with the real Fulani leaders and not those who claim to be
Fulani leaders and they go behind to collect bribe and speak for our people.
How do you think you can settle the Fulani in one place?
“How many factories from the cow
value chain do we have in this country now? If you say you want to put the
Fulani in one Ruga settlement, how can you put for instance about 10,000 cows
in one place? Do you want to kill the cows?”
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