President Muhammadu Buhari has asked governors to take action against Fulani herdsmen terrorising their states.
In an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, Buhari said he told some governors from the South West who recently visited him to complain about encroachment of farmlands in their states by herders to take action and protect their states.
The President described the encroachment as a threat to food security and said since the governors knew the attackers more and were democratically elected to protect their people they ought to take action against invaders rather than wait for him to do everything.
” You know this people more than I do, and you are democratically elected to protect your people. Dont sit idly expecting me to do everything, take action” he said
The President’s interview obliterates dementia rumours as he appears mentally fit and not unaware of the country’s current situation.
For some years now especially under the Buhari government, herders have been giving farmers sleepless nights as invasion and killing occur almost every day.
In some communites, the herders forcefully occupy villages from owners after killing many leaving the rest to flee to safer communites.
In all, the president was allegedly fingered to have a hand in the fulani annexation acts as he is Fulani and failed to call his kinsmen to order.
Recently, a governor of the South South was quoted as saying that no herder arrested had faced prosecution as there was always an order from higher corridors of power to get them released.
But as easy as the presidential order given to the governors to act decisively is, the objective of the governors to stop the herdsmen seem futile and dead on arrival as regional security outfits are yet to have an act enabling them to carry arms and fight the herdsmen who reportedly parade sophisticated weapons.
