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“We’ve Yoruba People Here” – Bauchi Gov Flays Southern Colleagues Over Treatment Of Fulanis
Bala Mohammed, Bauchi state governor, has berated his southern counterparts over the sweeping generalisation of Fulani ethnic group as criminals due to the anomaly and monstrous activities of few.
For weeks on end, public discourse has been fraught with the activities of herdsmen and the nefarious activities they perpetrated in the south.
The development has led to issuance of quit notice to them in Oyo and Ondo, aggravating a situation that has left the nation teetering on the cusp of disunity. In both states, they were accused of be being behind the widespread killing and pervasive abduction in the state.
Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in the state capital, Mohammed said criminal profiling of the herdsmen and Fulani tribe does not argur well for the peace and unity of the country.
Mohammed also chastised Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue, whom he accused of instigating the criminalization of the Fulani tribe.
He said: “The governor that is most wrong is the governor of Benue State, my brother and colleague Governor Samuel Ortom; he started all these”
He said there are people from Ortom’s tribe in Bauchi who are going about their businesses without fear, intimidation or threat of eviction from anyone.
He added that there are Yorubas in the north eastern states who have risen to prominent positions and are occupying plum offices in their respective states.
“If you don’t accommodate other tribes, we are also accommodating your tribes in Bauchi and other places. We have so many Tiv people farming in Alkaleri, in Tafawa Balewa, farming in Bogoro LGAs; has anybody told them to go?
“We have not; because it’s their own inalienable rights to be there. We have Yoruba people in Bauchi, for over 150 years, even before the birth of Nigeria; some of them have risen to become permanent Secretaries in Bauchi, in Gombe and in Borno.
“You can see what our colleagues in the south-west and some from the south-east are doing. If cyber crime is practised by one tribe, you don’t criminalise all the tribe that they are criminals.”
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