Fulani Produced Nigeria, They Must Rule Forever - Miyetti Allah

National President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has said that Fulani herdsmen do not need anybody’s approval or permission to occupy any land in any part of the country, adding that MAKH’s own security outfit is set to roll out between 5,000 to 100,000 vigilantes to be deployed across all the states of the country.

The Leader of the socio-cultural association also claimed that the Fulani race founded Nigeria, therefore, they will forever produce the country's leaders. He pointed out that the Fulani are in the majority in Nigeria and "are everywhere if they want they will be producing elected officials".

"Who owns the land? I don’t see any place where people will try and drive away the Fulani; they have right in this country. They produced Nigeria. They produced the first prime minister.  If they produced the first president, another president, another president and so on, are they not the owner of the country? Fulani are ruling Nigeria and they must continue to rule the country forever. That is the truth," Bodejo told Saturday Sun.

He disclosed that Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore is trying to set up its own security outfit to deal with cattle rustlers, banditry around Fulani settlements, stressing that it is the Coronavirus restrictions that is delaying the outfit's take-off. He was however quick to state that "for the Fulani man, nothing concerns him with coronavirus".

According to him, "The Nigeria Police is trying to secure everybody in the country, but we have observed that those involved in cattle rustling are people who have learnt from Fulani on how to rear cows or others who don’t have cows anymore because of Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Katsina, etc crises. 

"For thousands of Fulani, their cattle have finished completely, and they don’t know how to do Achaba (commercial motorcyclist); they don’t know how to operate commercial transport service, so they don’t have anything to engage, as they no more have cattle, so we want to engage them to form our own vigilance group. They know the bushes and so can work with the Nigeria Police and stop the rustlers."

On whether members of the planned security outfit will be bearing arms, the MAKH Leader said, "Sometimes nothing concerns Fulani with guns; if they say they want to do something they will do it, and I don’t think that gun will make them fear. One is a person who is trying to steal and the other is trying to stop the thief, and this is why we are going to increase their number maybe from the initial 5000 to 100,000 or more, so that at any place you have between seven and nine of them".