SAN FRANCISCO, October 10, (THEWILL) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has called for the arrest and prosecution of killer herdsmen, insisting they were not acting for the Fulani community.
The Sultan, himself a Fulani, made the declaration at the opening ceremony of the 2-Day Annual Pan-Northern Groups Summit on Security, Socio-economic and political development in Kaduna.
“There are very terrible herdsmen who kill. But they are acting on their own, they are criminals and they must be treated as criminals,” he said.
“Therefore the Federal Government should prosecute them.
“It is disheartening to hear when people say Fulani herdsmen want to Islamise Nigeria and that is why they are killing.
“Any Fulani herdsman who kills is not acting the script of Fulani community in Nigeria, neither is he working for the Muslim community.
The Sultan called for unity in Northern Nigeria if the region must develop as he lamented that the region of today was not the North that Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello left behind.
Story by David Oputah
