By Abiola Olawale
Francis Fadahunsi, a member of the Nigerian Senate and the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, has alleged that some Southwest traditional rulers are colluding with herdsmen to kidnap people and perpetrate crime in the region.
Amid the recent security threats, allegedly poised by the Fulani herders in the South West, Fadahunsi has come out to alleged that some Yoruba Monarchs are cooperating with the herders in the recent killings, banditry, kidnapping, raping, among others, perpetrated in the South West.
The Senator who on Monday spoke with journalists on the quit notice issued to Fulani herdsmen in Ondo and Oyo, said the killer herders can’t successfully carry out their crimes without the aid of some traditional rulers.
In his words, “If a stranger comes to your house, there is a norm, culture. Since the stranger cannot abide by your culture, he becomes an intruder, which is a criminal offence. In the whole Southwest today you cannot do what these animals are doing in the bush. What is ravaging the South West now; they are not the Hausa/Fulani people from Nigeria; not the Fulani who have been living with us for the past 100 years. They have not been killing people.”
Recall that the Southwestern region of Nigeria has been rocked with insecurities challenges, following killings, raping, kidnapping, and other happenings in the region.
This has in turn led to heated ethnic crises in the South West region as an ultimatum was issued to the Fulani herders for their alleged involvement in the recent attacks that have dampened the security in the region.
