Former Nigerian Aviation
Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said Fulani herdsmen from border nations
won’t have their way into Nigeria had the Federal Government developed
stringent immigration policy like that of US President Donald Trump.
Some killings in the northern
part of the country have been attributed to Fulani herdsmen who were said to
have infiltrated the country from neighbouring Niger Republic, Cameroon,
Burkina Faso and Chad.
The Trump administration has so
far imposed certain visa restrictions on some countries including Nigeria, the
latest being barring Nigerians from the 2022 US visa lottery.
However, the former minister, who
is a staunch supporter of Trump in the 2020 US presidential election, said the
Republican candidate has been able to protect America from infiltration by
terrorists with his strict immigration laws.
According to him, Trump is a
“hardliner with the issue of terror” and Nigeria needs him to defeat the war
against Boko Haram and other terror elements.
He said Trump was the only US
president in world history to challenge the Nigerian President, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to “stop killing Christians in Northern Nigeria”.
Fani-Kayode, who spoke on Tuesday
in a PUNCH Facebook Live Interview, said he has been passionate about the US
election because “whatever happens in
this election impacts heavily on my country and the rest of the world”.
He said, “Whatever happens there
will affect Africa and Nigeria generally. In a country like ours where we have
Boko Haram, the world-leading terrorist organisation, according to
international terror index; Fulani herdsmen, the fourth world-leading terrorist
organisation, according to the same organisation; where you have the Islamic
State West Africa Province; where you have SARS protests or anti-SARS protests,
it is very important that we know that the most powerful man in the world has a
vested interest in what is going on in our country.
“For us in Nigeria, who will help
us with Boko Haram? Who will help us with ISWAP? Who will help us mount
pressure on our government to do something about Fulani herdsmen? You need to
have the most powerful man in the world showing interest in Nigeria.”
Continuing, the minister said
though Trump has been criticised for some of his policies, the Federal
Government needs his immigration policy to keep Fulani herdsmen from entering
Nigeria.
“He may be introducing policies
that affect some people more than others, in terms of wanting to keep his
country for his people and make his country great again. I don’t see anything
wrong with that. I would do the same if I was the president of Nigeria. I would
build walls, keep people out from coming in.
“These are immigration policies
and he (Trump) said it that he didn’t want people coming in. The broader policy
for me makes a lot of sense which is that we don’t want people coming in
illegally.
“If we have a policy like that in
Nigeria, we wouldn’t have Fulanis coming into our borders throughout the north
to come and kill our people in Katsina, Zamfara and kill our people in Sokoto.
If we have a good immigration policy, we won’t have that,” he stated.
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