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Make Herdsmen Pay For Their Crimes – Soyinka Tells Buhari
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on President Buhari to make the Fulani herdsmen pay for their crimes.
Soyinka said that the herdsmen have continued to cause mayhem because they have observed that the President is complacent about bringing any of them to book.
This is coming after the cattle rearers allegedly killed many people in Plateau state.
Following the killings, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) issued a statement saying its members retaliated because their cattle were stolen.
The chairman of the association’s north-central zone, Danladi Ciroma said security agencies can only stop the incessant clashes between herdsmen and the local communities when they stop cattle rustling.
According to Soyinka, famine looms in many parts of Nigeria following the act of the herdsmen who have taken over people’s farms in different parts of the country.
He also urged the President to send a firm message to the group so as to let them know that their actions are not acceptable.
“The agitating question then is this: since this rampage began, has even one herdsman been brought up before those same courts on a charge of murder, much less sentenced to death at such lightning speed? Shall we wake up and find that they have been hanged? Yet Zamfara has lost hundreds to the homicidal orgy of these same herdsmen. There is a skewed application of justicial proceedings here that baffles many, this writer among them.
“Accounting for crimes is also part of that responsibility, and such criminality must not be seen to be rewarded through idealistic solutions that paper over crimes against humanity. For that is the present actuality. Crimes against our humanity have been committed, and restitution must be made. Nothing less will restore confidence in a government, and reassure the people of its integrity, its commitment to equity in internal relationships and the rightful custodianship of ancient resources,” he added.
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has however dismissed Ciroma’s statement saying it does not promote violence.
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Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 7:37 pm
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Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 7:18 pm
Nigeria is two big for them
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 7:04 pm
talk talk, no action, if na Gej time you for enter street dey protest! weakling
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 6:59 pm
Chameleons. Continue to deceive the small brain. Nigeria has expired.
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 6:54 pm
Shut up old fool!!!
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 6:54 pm
Have they even admitted they committed any crime ?
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 6:40 pm
Noise maker should stop this mouth watering comments. Plsssssssss
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 5:43 pm
Old fool now you can talk
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 5:31 pm
Yes
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 4:56 pm
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Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 11:30 am
Pay HOW? NDI IRU ABUO.
You are all playing politics with human lives and co ws are now valued more than human beings. As they say no evil act shall go unpublished, if not now, then later and if not my man , then certainly by God. This company Nigeria is bigger than one individual, tribe or entity. The day of reckoning is coming. Evil has never triumphed over good and darkness can never overcome light.Just a matter of time. God has not changed and will never change. Those boasting with weapons and ammunition will soon know that there’s a stronger force. It will be like , the case of David and Golaith in the Bible.
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 11:12 am
Taaaaaaaa ….for what let them kill kill kill kill more virgins for you my beloved Fulani herdsmen tribal warlords….. More virgins for you
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 10:52 am
Wailer
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 10:30 am
This is hate speech. Did brutai pay for the python dance massacre in Afra ukwu Umuahia!! Did say any thing that time?
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 10:21 am
The fulans does not have sense,how could they think they can islamaise Nigeria
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 9:16 am
This man to me has become intellectually lazy .. I could remember how these people stage protest upon protest in Ojota Now they are all sleeping and afraid to speak .. God of the death Nigerians will judge you all mostly these Yoruba intellectuals or elites..because the Soyinka’s of Nigeria brought us this failure all because of their hatred for one Man GEJ ..
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 9:14 am
Wole Soyinka u be careful about what u say,Pmb will come after u. This is not the first,second nor third herdsmen had been killing innocent people meat called cattle. PMB will rather prefer to die than to declar herdsmen terrorist or bring them to book. But if to say it is IPOB protest he will not sleep to make sure boko haram soldier are being sent to slaughter them in their various home.the only to end this crisis in this is by baning herdsmen from entering another state with their cattles.let them build ranches and also moves around in their own states,before peace will reign. All over the country there are many farmers who have cattles and looking after them without any problem in the community they belong.somebody will trek all the way from northern part of the country look for where to graze their cattle.their missions in the name of graze for animal will oneday surface.#Sock_Quran_into_the_ocean_is_Coming_to_it_fulfilment
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 8:58 am
What pay are you talking about? This is a political statement ;can they be paying for what the presidency has not sanctioned as a crime? I thought that by now people like you would have boldly called for the resignation of the president or his impeachment? Why are you all, elder statesmen handling all this with a Kings glove while innocent citizens and responsible leaders of tomorrow dying from the carnage of the illiterate unproductive set of people?
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 8:54 am
You cannot tell a herdsman to attack his fellow herdsman. He’s the chief murderer
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 8:43 am
A president that is reliesing boko haram terrorists and recruiting some in the milatry and police. You want him to bring fulani terrorists to justice? ??you must be dreaming. Because it can never happen not in apc lead by buhari the chief terrorists
Anonymous
June 28, 2018 at 8:42 am
Fulani terrorist is more powerful than anyone now killing people on daily basis and there master Buhari dictatorship government will blame someone else