Labelling killer herdsmen ‘Fulani’ is wrong — Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has frowned against the tribal profiling of violent criminals on rampage across central Nigeria.

In an interview with ThisDay, Atiku said it is a misnomer to use the term ‘killer herdsmen of Fulani extraction’ or ‘killer Fulani herdsmen.’

When asked that as a Fulani himself, how does he feel about the ongoing security crisis largely caused by killer herdsmen of Fulani extraction, he listed a litany of issues, which included blaming leadership crisis, rising population and climate change.

He then added that: “The vast majority of Fulani people are peaceful and live in harmony with other ethnicities. When kidnappers kidnap, we do not identify them by their ethnicity. 

We identify them as kidnappers, pure and simple. There may be fringe elements with criminal tendencies. Some may be Fulani. Some may not even be. Let us identify them by their activities and not by their ethnicity.”