Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State says the Fulani
tribe will always take revenge whenever they suffer injustice.
He, however, said they accept their fate whenever they are
convicted of a crime.
El-Rufai said this on Thursday during a webinar organised by
the Africa Leadership Group.
The governor was asked to clarify his tweet in 2012 wherein he said, “Anyone, soldier or not, that kills the Fulani, takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.”
El-Rufai had been asked why he made the comment and if the
Igbo would be justified to take revenge on other Nigerians that killed them
during the Biafran war.
In his response, the governor said, “If a Fulani man dies in
war, it is different. If a Fulani man is arrested by the authorities and
convicted, it is not an issue. What the Fulani never forgets is when he is
innocently targeted and killed and the authorities do nothing. He will never forget
and he will come back for revenge. This is it.
“So, it is better to understand the context given the
context of what I tweeted which had to do with an issue in Plateau State in
2012. I hope you get the context. So, it is not that Fulani will never forget.
Anyone that goes through pain and sorrow either forgets or doesn’t forget but
when it is extrajudicial, when it is extra-official, the attitude is completely
different.
“This is the context in which Fulani never forgets. It is
not in every context. As I said, I lost relations during the war. It doesn’t
mean I still hold a grudge. We’ve moved past that.”
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