EXCLUSIVE: Foreign Criminal Elements Enter Our Country Under The Guise Of Fulani Cattle Rearers – Ex-PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Baraje Says
Ex-National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has said that the armed Fulani killer herders unleashing mayhem on Nigerians across the nation are not Nigerians but foreign criminal elements disguising as cattle rearers.
While speaking in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State, the elder statesman claimedd Fulani herders have been living in communities around the country without issues for such a long time.
He noted that Nigerian Fulani herders have assimilated into their different resident communities and hence couldn’t be liable for this degree of criminality.
Baraje said that his previous statement regarding the personality of the criminal herders was repudiated, adding, “All these false claims would not change my original position that the government and our security agencies must investigate the infiltration of our country by foreign criminal elements who masquerade as Fulani herders.
“The Fulanis involved in criminal activities are not Nigerians. The Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria do not carry guns. They only have matchete used to clear the bush as they progress with their cows and a stick to direct the animals.
“Those who carry arms are mere criminals who exploited the porosity of our borders and came in without cattle.
“This is all I told the journalists and this remains my analysis of the situation,” he insisted.
Reviewed by Okenwa Chinedu
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March 10, 2021
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