Renowned Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dr Abubakar
Ahmad Gumi, has opined that with the provision of education opportunities to
Fulani herdsmen at the grassroots, the raging insecurity in the country could
be checked.
Sheikh Gumi, who on an inspection visit of the Sheikh Uthman
Bin Fodio Centre at Kagarko Grazing Reserve Kohoto Village, Kagarko Local
Government Area of Kaduna State donated by Sultan Bello Mosque Foundation,
stated that education is the best approach to help widen the knowledge of the
Fulani herdsmen against involving themselves to insecurity in the country.
He explained, “The construction of the school is an example
to the three tiers of government, corporate organizations and individuals.
Instead of spending billions on hardware, spend it on schools. I have spoken to
lots of them, they have agreed to lay down their weapons and embrace
education.”
Gumi further explained that the centre contains six
classrooms, which would be operational for 24 hours every day, stressing that
the herdsmen rear cattle in the morning, come back and study in the evening.
He assured that the school would run primary and secondary
schools at intervals, saying that the Fulani herdsmen would be encouraged to
take education seriously.
Sheikh Gumi stated that the Centre has a hospital as well as
an economic booster on showing them how to use foliage to feed their animals,
pointing out that if such Centres are replicated in every part of the country,
Nigeria would be in peace.
He explained that the majority of the Fulani herdsmen are
not involved in banditry, saying that if herdsmen are terrorists, there would
be problems in the country.
Gumi stated that though the construction project of the
centre is still ongoing, the three tiers of government should come in and
partner on training the herdsmen on how they can be economically viable.
He said, “The moment most of the Fulani herdsmen are
educated, you find among them doctors, engineers, nurses and other
professionals who will not go into acts that are contrary to the laws of the
land but the country will be better for it.”
He stated that teachers would be taken from Kaduna to the
centre, stressing that some of the students would be taught entrepreneurship in
order to be self-reliant when they finish their studies.
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