Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has commended the call for herdsmen to leave southern part of Nigeria.
The
area comprising of the South-West, South-East and South-South region
are often under attacks by suspected armed herdsmen who kill, maim, rape
and destroy landed properties and farmlands.
The plan by the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to create Rural Grazing
Areas (RUGA) nationwide for the herders was met with stiff resistance by
southerners who accused the government of embarking on a land grabbing
mission for herdsmen from the Fulani extraction.
Calling
on the herders to leave the protectorate is the Coalition of Northern
Groups (CNG) backed by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
This is
after the CNG threatened the security of southerners living in their
domain with the presidency asking the residents to discountenance the
threat.
Hailing the decision, Mr Fani-Kayode said the call when heeded to will return peace in the troubled areas.
ALSO READ: What Buhari should do to Obasanjo's latest letter - Shehu Sani The former minister asked the groups to also withdraw their kinsmen from the North Central also known as Middle Belt region.
“I
welcome the call by the NEF and the NCG for the Fulani herdsmen to
leave the south,” the former minister said in a tweet on Wednesday.
“This
will help restore peace, unity and national cohesion. They should leave
the Middle Belt as well, renounce violence, stop the killings, stop the
terror and turn in their deadly weapons,” he added.
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