The Fulani community in Southern Kaduna has said that the Fulani men said to be attacking the people are from Niger Republic and should be treated as criminals.
Former executive secretary of the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr Abdulmalik Mohammed Durunguwa, who spoke on behalf of his community at a town hall peace initiative in Ikulu Chiefdom, Kaduna State, said his fellow fulani’s were peace loving and would always remain peaceful.
“Without peace we can’t be here. We, the Fulani, in the southern part of Kaduna, have never dreamt that there would be crisis. Something that has nothing to do with the Fulani man just affected him.
“Most of these crises that happen in the towns, both in Kaduna and Zaria, have nothing to do with the fulani man.
I’ve never seen a fulani man’s poster here vying for a political office because he has no business with the PDP or CPC.? It happens and we know that most of the people who carry out these attacks are not fulani from this area.
“Some of them are from Niger, Chad and other places and as far as we are concerned, they are also our enemies because they have been stealing our cows. We’re making effort to see how we can keep our self peaceful. As far as Fulani in southern Kaduna are concerned, none of them can attack another ethnic group,” Durunguwa said.
He added that “every day we have the same problem. We’ve been reporting the issue to the security agencies that the same Fulani people from Niger, Chad and other places come and steal our cows. Go to the police stations they know it. We the Fulani in southern Kaduna have no power to arrest them, so if we see, we report to the police.
My cows that were stolen from Southern Kaduna, I recognised them in Bauchi and they came from Niger, Chad and other places, used the opportunity of the crises and went away with our cows and even killed our own people.”