The recent secession threat by some Yoruba and Igbo noisemakers, for the
Yorubas particularly after the kidnap of Chief Olu Falae, has been
rubbished by former Governor of Kano State who is presently a Senator,
Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
He has asked all such ethnic champions to ‘shut up’ on their secession threat.
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.
“If you go to developed countries, you don’t see animals running about. It has to do with underdevelopment. If you go to Niger, Chad, Cameroun and all these places, they have Fulanis roaming about, endangering their lives, endangering their own animals and it is not good for anybody, the economy and the security.
“But for today, I think it is important for government to provide facilities because we require their services. Facilities like grazing areas for the cattle and other facilities to make sure that we manage the situation.
“So, it is not only peculiar to the South-west. We just need to have a lot of understanding of the situation. Some of the issues being raised by the people, especially politicians, do not help anybody."
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