The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has
called for the arrest of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over comments he
made in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.
In the letter dated July 15,
Obasanjo asked the president to take decisive action on insecurity, saying the
situation could degenerate into a full-blown crisis if not tackled
appropriately.
Obasanjo said rather than
“hammer” the farmer-herder crisis, the impression is that the government of
Buhari is treating it with kid gloves.
But in an interview with PUNCH,
Alhassan Saleh, national secretary of Miyetti Alla Hore,asked Obasanjo to offer
any information he has in order to solve the security crisis.
“The fact that there is
insecurity, I don’t think the Fulani are responsible for it. The narrative that
we are responsible for the insecurity is even the problem we have with the
Nigerian state,” he said.
“When any crime happens, even
before there is an investigation, people rush to the press and start accusing
Fulani herdsmen. Herdsmen are supposed to be carrying herds of cows but if
somebody is a criminal or an armed robber, he should be treated as such.
“But if Obasanjo, in particular,
having ruled this country for so many years and with his network of security
contacts, both locally and internationally, has information, I think he can
volunteer it.”
Asked about a proposed national
platform for dialogue, Saleh said, “Which national dialogue? We have a National
Assembly. Whatever they have, they should send it to the National Assembly.
What is the function of the National Assembly? People lost power and don’t want
to agree that in a democracy, you may be in power and another time, you won’t
be in power.
“If we have confidence in those
we elected, I think whatever issue they have, they can channel it to the
National Assembly. They want another talk shop probably to come and reposition
themselves and their cronies into another jamboree.
“Where is the Goodluck Jonathan
conference report? Where are the other conferences’ reports? They are just
pushing an agenda; in fact, they are desperate and very diabolical in their
attempt to cause a crisis in this country. My worry is that the government is
not decisive in dealing with characters of that nature.
“The earlier they get him
(Obasanjo) arrested and dealt with, according to the laws of the land, the
better. He doesn’t mean well for the country. We just elected a new government;
we have a National Assembly that was just inaugurated. Nobody needs any
conference, except they are pushing for something else.”
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MIYEtti whatever, you are beating the drums of death and it will consume you people. Obasanjo is greater than those you revere put together. do you honestly think you can arrest him? I dare you to try.
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