“Stigmatisation of Fulani herdsmen dangerous” – Sultan of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed concerns over the high-level corruption and security situation in the country.

Sultan said killer herdsmen need to be fished out to put an end to dangerous stigmatisation of the Fulani ethnic group.

Sultan, at the public presentation of a book, Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences in Abuja, noted that there are millions of easy going Fulani herdsmen in the country.

He said, “We have so many issues coming up in our polity today and I will just pick one. Nigeria is a country where we don’t celebrate innocent and honest people until after their death. After they are gone, you will now name universities, airports and other things after them.

“The issue of N36m being swallowed by a snake is a sad reality for our country. Where is our moral value; where is our ethics? The reality is that we must wake up from our sleep. Let us not fail further. Things are bad. Corruption is at a very high level and it is left for us to fight it to a terminal end.

“We cannot just sit down and think that things are okay. Things are not okay. We have to find ways of getting things right in this country. We cannot continue with these negative things. Nowadays and like I said recently in Rivers State, we don’t have statesmen; we have men of state.”

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The Sultan added that it was unfair to label all Fulani as killers, noting that criminality must not be mixed with ethnicity.

He said, “We don’t accept criminals in our midst. We must fish them (the killer herdsmen) out and deal with them. The worst word you can hear nowadays is the Fulani issue. There are millions of Fulani who don’t even know what a cow is.

“I am a Fulani and I am not a herder. I am a proud Fulani. But everyone believes that when you see a Fulani, he is a killer. It is not true. So, for anyone to label any particular ethnicity is wrong. Let’s give criminals their ideal name; not Christian criminals, not Fulani criminals, not Muslim criminals. If the government has failed, let them call us to come and help out.”