YORUBA GROUP AFENIFERE AND ISLAMIC ORGANISATION, MUSLIMS AGAINST TERROR DROPS WARNING MESSAGE TO BUHARI

Afenifere condemned the report of the DSS that claimed that the bodies of five corpses buried in a mass grave were Fulani herdsmen.

Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to seek an end to the recurrent killings by Fulani herdsmen across the country.

In recent times, Fulani herdsmen now attack communities across Nigeria, killing people and destroying properties. Reacting to the recent attack by the herdsmen in Enugu where 40 persons were killed, the group frowned at the silence by the Federal Government.
 

This was contained in a communiqué issued by the group yesterday, April 26. “The meeting is worried about the recent spate of killings by Fulani herdsmen across the country as evident in Agatu killings, the murder of Olu Falae’s guard in his farm, the killings in Ibadan and the latest being the heinous murder of over 40 Nigerians in cold blood in Enugu.

“We are worried that Federal Government seems to have maintained indifference to the wanton killings going on across the country against the provisions of the constitution.

“That the Federal Government has a duty to protect the lives and properties of every citizen of Nigeria and we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak up on this matter and to take urgent action to restore the sense of people of Nigeria, especially in the South and Middle Belt.”

Also, Afenifere condemned the report of the Department of State Service (DSS) that claimed that the bodies of five corpses buried in a mass grave were Fulani herdsmen, saying the report was to create tension in the land.

“We are also worried that the DSS, which highly went to the press to say that they discovered a grave in the South-East where they said they found bodies of the Fulani men without any DNA has continued to maintain silence also over these killings across the country.

“The DSS had failed to establish that the bodies are from any ethnic group. It’s an organisation for all Nigerians and, therefore, should be concerned and should make the report on the killing on across the country not just what they called the killing of people from certain ethnic group among the over 250 groups in Nigeria.”

The group, however, called for an urgent meeting of all the governors in the South-West states to deliberate on how to put an end to the Fulani herdsmen activities in Yorubaland.

Afenifere also called on lawmakers at the National Assembly to wake up to defend the people who voted for them to represent them, saying “now is the time to defend them.

” “In view of the fact that Yoruba nation has had more than fair share of this siege in the country by these Fulani herdsmen, we demand immediate meeting of all South West governors irrespective of their party affiliation and ensure that they meet to device means and ways to protect the lives of their citizens and properties against these invaders who are rampaging everywhere.

” Meanwhile, an Islamic organisation, Muslims Against Terror, has called on the federal government to declare Fulani herdsmen involved in the killing of farmers terrorists.

“We urge the government of Nigeria to condemn these wanton acts firmly and declare the perpetrators terrorists and an insurgency according to the law and deal with them with the full power of the military,” it said.