The recent secession threat by Yoruba leaders over the kidnapping of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae and the perceived lack of true federalism in the nation’s polity may be far from over as a former Governor of Kano State who is presently a Senator, Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, asked the leaders to ‘shut up’ on their secession threat.
Kwankwaso said the call by these elders was misguided and politically motivated stressing that no zone can be an island on its own, just as he remarked that what the Fulani herdsmen that were being asked to leave Yorubaland needed was education on how to go about their cattle rearing business.
He spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital over the weekend as a special guest of honor at the silver jubilee celebration of the set of 1965-71 of Government College, Ibadan, where Vitafoam Nigeria Plc. formally donated two sets of pre-fabricated Staff Quarters buildings to the institution. According to him;
“The issue of conflict between the farmers and Fulani herdsmen is not common to the South-west. It is not even common to Nigeria. It is all over the sub-region. On the issue that we are talking about, education is very important. If all Fulani are given opportunity to go to school, I don’t think they will risk their lives and their animals, going into the bush, where there are reptiles. I think the key thing is education. These Fulanis should be educated.
“I am Fulani. My parents settled down many years ago. My father went to school and I have been to school. My children have gone to school. Now, I don’t think I will take cattle and go into a forest; that is education for you.
War of speech everywhere this country is not going forward
ReplyDeleteAm @shame with our political leaders .........they talk with recklessly,,,with speach that will incite violence
ReplyDeleteNo mind dem
DeleteSee how D's loud mouth is contradicting himself, did anyone from d south west stop d Fulani cattle rearers from going to school?u as a Fulani man how often have u encouraged ds ur Fulani brethrens to go to school,u HV d biggest schools in d north and yet dey refuse to go to school,create dt awareness and see if dey will not follow, that s y they re easily brain washed by terrorist
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DeleteNa who u help, shut up ur score card was zero
ReplyDeleteMezzy has it all figured out. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
ReplyDeleteWhere is d word "shut up" in his speech. Na so we dey cause gbege for each oda. All d same, d man gave a good point.
ReplyDelete"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me." (Psalm 139:1-5)
ReplyDeleteI no sabi ds one
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