Permit Arms For Nigerians If Herders Are Licensed With AK-47 – Fani-Kayode

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has told the Federal Government to allow all Nigerians to carry firearms since Fulani herdsmen could be licensed to carry AK-47 rifles to protect themselves and their cows.

He said the best way to go about resolving the security challenges in the country would be for the government at all levels to do the needful, by providing security for the people as constitutionally expected so that Nigerians would not be considering bearing arms.

He spoke on Thursday while paying a solidarity visit to Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho at his Soka, Ibadan residence.

Fani-Kayode who had a closed-door meeting with Sunday Igboho for more than three hours noted that if the government had been alive to its responsibility of protecting the lives of the citizens, people like Sunday Igboho won’t have to emerge to show bravery and resist the continuous killings, raping and destruction of farmlands by suspected herders, especially in the Southwest.

The former minister who described Sunday Igboho as a freedom fighter said the whole of the Yoruba nation is solidly behind him and his mission to ensure that the people are safe and free from the killer herdsmen, adding that Sunday Igboho is not against any particular tribe, ethnic or people.

Fani-Kayode said: “A good friend of mine, the Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed, we served together as ministers, he said a few days ago that Fulani herdsmen should be given the right to carry AK47.”

“Now, I disagree with that, but that was his opinion and like I told him, he is entitled to his opinions and he can voice it.”

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“If you go by that principle, then it makes absolute sense that if Fulanis are allowed to carry AK-47 to defend their cows and their lives if they feel threatened, then it is also logical for members of the local communities, farmers and each and every one of us should also have that right to defend ourselves against killer Fulani herdsmen and against those that are coming to kill us and rape our women.”

“So, I am totally and completely behind that and I will like that very much. Why not? We are responsible and decent people, the Americans have that right, it is enshrined in their constitution and if it is also that we could carry arms, perhaps we won’t have the kind of atrocities that are being committed throughout the country and not just throughout the South, even in the North itself, I must tell you, it is unbelievable what is going in terms of these killers killing members of the local population.”

“Perhaps that is one way to solve the problem, but the best way is for the government itself to rise up and do something about it. That is what we are paying them for, that is what they are there to do, let’s hope they do it and so we don’t have to do it ourselves.”