Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has declared that
most kidnappers in the State’s forest reserves speak Fulfulde.
Akeredolu, who spoke during an interview on Channels
Television’s Politics Today on Monday, said the kidnappers were using Ondo
forest reserves to perpetrate crimes.
According to the governor, “What we had to address in Ondo
State is essentially our discovery that some criminal elements were using our
forest reserves to perpetrate crimes and we said, look, we’re not going to stay
by and just watch this happen.
“People are kidnapped, they are not kidnapped and taken into
a house; most of those who were kidnapped have come back, and we have debriefed
them, we’ve been briefed by all of them, and we know essentially the group of
people involved and that they were taken into our forest reserves.
“How am I to know where they have come from? How did you
allow them in, in the first instance. My duty is not to profile those who come
into the country, but all I know very clearly is that those who are
perpetrating this crime speak the same language, they have a common language
like some people here in this country. That is where our problem lies.”
He added, “Most of them [kidnappers] were speaking Fulfulde,
and there is no need for us to run away from it. This’s a common language that
is spoken across the length and breadth, particularly in West Africa and North
Africa. So, if they come in, how did they come in?
“Miyetti Allah doesn’t have to defend these people if they
aren’t their members. There is no need to defend them; let us treat them as
what they are –criminals and they (Miyetti Allah) themselves should support us
in getting them out.”
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