Sultan Abubakar urges Miyetti Allah to support efforts to ensure peace in Nigeria
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ advert Abubakar III, has expressed concern that some Fulani individuals are concerned in banditry and kidnapping, inflicting insecurity in elements of the nation.
He noticed that banditry and kidnapping had introduced a severe setback to the financial actions and the overall well-being of Nigerians, main to the current hardship in the nation.
The Sultan, who can be President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), spoke weekend on the inauguration and swearing-in of recent Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria executives on the National Mosque Abuja, enjoined the management of the group to support efforts of presidency and stakeholders in guaranteeing peace in the nation.
According to the Sultan, the risk to divide the nation resulted from sure issues Nigerians weren’t doing proper; therefore some Nigerians don’t really feel a way of belonging in the nation’s affairs.
According to him, “People do not want to know the history of this great country. If we had known the history of the Fulani movement in various parts of the world definitely, we would not have gotten to the situation we are in now.”
He additional defined that Fulani strikes from one level to the opposite, they transfer in every single place, they usually inter-marry and are peace-loving, lamenting how some Fulani kids are concerned in banditry and kidnapping.
He assured that when the executives of the Fulanis meet, they’ll focus on how to sort out the problem, saying Nigerians can not sit down and take a look at this nation and go into fractions simply due to sure issues “we are not doing right.”
According to the monarch, in over 48 years of the existence of MACBAN, there may be the necessity to have some new inputs and new concepts into the structure; they want funds to maintain their actions.
The NSCIA President-General known as on MACBAN government members to reposition the affiliation towards rising up to date challenges confronting the Fulbe inside and out of doors Nigeria.
He stated that MACBAN, by its existence throughout the complete nation and the Sahel, ought to aspire to stability the instability in Nigeria and throughout the Sahel for the event of humanity.
He believed MACBAN might try this in articulating a Fulbe perspective in response to the current stage of violence as a pure response to deprivation, marginalization and balkanization of the Fulbe into completely different nation-states in West Africa.
Sultan Abubakar urges Miyetti Allah to support efforts to ensure peace in Nigeria