The National Chairman of the association, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, said yesterday in Abuja that people in military uniform also killed herders and that they believed the killers were not soldiers or policemen but impostors.
“We have reports that the army and police would arrest Fulanis and ask them to pay N200,000, N300,000 and other sums of money, I personally would not believe the Nigerian Army or police would ask Fulanis to pay after being arrested even when they did not commit offence. The authorities should look into this,” he said.
“We have many elder statesmen and the comment of some of them is not fair. Some 1000 Fulanis were killed in Mambilla, nobody said anything till now including T Y Danjuma. We have resolved that if any Fulani is killed in Taraba or anywhere again, we would take Danjuma to court as his comment is taken as an order to kill Fulanis,” he said.
“If I as a Fulani leader or any of the Fulani leaders or one emir made such call, there would have been an outcry. We expect the government to arrest and prosecute all the killers in Mambilla including Danjuma. He commands respect in the country but his comment is shocking. It is not true that the army is colluding with Fulanis, soldiers are doing their best, maybe Danjuma is not happy that the military is doing its best to protect the country,” he said.
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