Proscribe Fulani Herdsmen, Miyetti Allah As "Terrorists"__ Nigerians Entreat US President Biden, UN, Others

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Nigerians have on Friday raised and started signing a petition to label Fulani herdsmen, whose activities have generated tension in the South-West and South-East of late, as terrorists.

The petition was addressed to the United States President, Joe Biden, the United Nations Organisation, the Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and the European Union.

In the petition with tittle, “To proscribe Fulani herdsmen, militants, and Miyetti Allah as terrorists,” which needs only 200 signatories and has ganered 107 as at Monday morning, the petitioners noted that the Nigerian government had been expressing undue sympathy for the killer herdsmen.

It added that the Mohammed Buhari-government had refused to come up with tangible and sustainable solutions in the face of increasing herdsmen’s violence across the country.

“The only way to expose these terrorists is for  relevant authorities all over the world to act and act fast. This petition is for the Fulani herdsmen and militants and their association called Miyeti Allah to be proscribed as terrorists. Swift response will save lives and property and stop their menace from escalating into other nations of the world,” the petition partly reads.

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Just last Monday, the governors of the South-West had met in Ondo State capital, Akure, on Monday following the insecurity in the region and had banned all forms of open grazing in the region. The decision was taken also in consultation with the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and the outgone security chiefs.

The Ondo State Government and MACBAN had agreed two weeks ago that children being used as herdsmen would henceforth be arrested by Amotekun operatives and their families made to pay a fine to the government.

It is reported that the meeting agreed that herdsmen should go back to the various local government areas and meet with the authorities to fish out the bad eggs and criminals among the herders.

The herdsmen’s crisis had also ravaged the Ibarapa LGA in Oyo State, with the Seriki Fulani of Igangan forcefully evicted by Igangan residents after a popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday Igboho, had visited the town and issued a seven-day ultimatum to the killer herdsmen.

There have been growing calls and condemnation of the herdsmen’s violence across the country, but the Presidency had maintained that herdsmen should not be asked to leave any state, although it had not proffered any tangible solution to the widespread insecurity.

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