A Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
Femi Falana has said it will be difficult and inequitable to arrest the popular
Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho for asking Fulani herdsmen to vacate Igangan,
Ibarapa area of Oyo State.
Falana, while featuring on a
Channels television programme on Friday morning said the failure of the Federal
Government to take actions when some Northern Governors repatriated Almajiris
back to their home states shows that the issue of security in Nigeria is being
politicized.
According to him, nobody has the
right to issue quit notice to any Nigerian living in any part of the country.
However, the human rights lawyer
recalled that the government at the centre did not deem it necessary to arrest
a Northerner who once asked Igbos living in the North to quit, saying, “it is
going to be difficult and inequitable to go for Sunday Igboho.”
He advised that the Oyo State
Government should be allowed to handle the security situation in the state
within the ambit of the law.
He spoke further that President
Muhammadu Buhari has just said he’s not going to politicize the issue of
security. But the security situation in this country is already politicized. We
do not have the same standard. That’s why we run into problems. When governors,
recently in some states in the North, forcefully removed Almajiris and deported
them back to their States of Origin, nobody protested on their behalf.
“If you do not protect the
interest of Almajiris, why will you protect the interest of herders in any part
of the country? This is why we have to maintain the same standard at all times
and operate under the rule of law,” Falana submitted.
Recall that, at the
onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some governors in the North evacuated the
street children known as Almajiris back to their home states.
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