Bauchi Miyetti Allah Association Slams Northern Govs, Emirs

Says you are insensitive towards the Fulani

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

The Association of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bauchi State branch, has condemned the recent meeting of the Northern Governors Forum for being ‘insensitive’ towards the plights of the Fulani tribe in the country.The state Chairman of the association, Alhaji Muhammad Hussaini, who spoke to journalists shortly after a meeting in Bauchi yesterday, said it was disheartening that the northern governors and emirs could sit to discuss issues affecting the region without recourse to the plights of Fulani people.

He said members of the association are concerned that the forum’s recent meeting in Kaduna refused to take into cognizance the humiliation herders are being subjected to, particularly as it regards to grazing reserves in the southern parts of the country, by powers that are infringing on their rights of movements and association.According to him, “The Fulani tribe, especially the herders, who roamed about in search of greener pastures for their animals in the southern parts of the country are being humiliated, maimed and killed.

They are further restricted movement on their fatherland soil, contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution.“We just finished a meeting of herdsmen in Bauchi to review the treatment being meted out on our kinsmen in the southern part of the country.” We wonder how the northern governors and emirs bother themselves only about political issues such as power shift between the country’s regions to the detriment of lives of their people or subjects.

“Instead of the Northern governors to show concern to the inhumane treatment on herders by the Southern governors, they simply sit and discussed issues of personal vendetta without recourse to the people they govern.“For this, we condemn in totality the Northern Governors Forum meeting with emirs in attendance for discussing their self-aggrandised motives, leveraging on ways and means to enrich themselves to the detriment the people.” Muhammad lamented that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government have declined in addressing matters affecting the Fulani, specifically the nomadic herders whose preoccupation is to look for greener pastures for their animals.