“Fulani herdsmen have political motives n people who want trouble for government” – Chief Oni

It would be recalled that recently, communities in some states, including Benue, Plateau, Enugu, Na­sarawa, Kaduna and Taraba had been attacked by the suspected herdsmen, who carried arms.

Chief Segun Oni made an assertion on Tuesday August 30, accused politicians of complicity in the constant attacks on communities across the country by suspected herdsmen.

Breaking Times reports that the APC chieftain made the allegation while speaking to journalists at the party’s Nation­al Secretariat in Abuja, he said that the intent of the politicians was to destabilise the Federal Government.

Chief Oni said: “This, personally worries me because these gunmen who have suddenly become so notorious, invading villages and so on, are people that have always been around. 

“My guess is that many of these are sponsored by people who have so much money and want to create instability.

“I believe that many of these have political motives and people who just want to trouble the government of the day. 

“People who don’t want peace because they believe peace will also not be what they will want to see. It is very, very difficult. 

“You will just hear one version here today, another striking us there tomorrow and so on.

“It is also a way of saying that what we are battling with is not ordinary,” he said.

The APC chieftain said that the APC-led Feder­al Government had scored pass mark in fighting inse­curity.

He said: “one thing we can say for sure is that Boko Ha­ram has been mutilated. 

I believe the average Ni­gerian can see that, can feel that and understand that; whatever is left of it, let us encourage the security agen­cies to move ahead and move fast and take further control.

I don’t think the securi­ty situation is as terrible as it used to; no, it is not. 

Therefore, as far as secu­rity is concerned, I would say that we have earned the pass mark, but we can do better.”

Speaking on President Muhamma­du Buhari’s resolve to treat the Niger Delta militants like the Boko Haram if they did not stop their acts, Oni said: “I think it is a warning. 

You know at times a fa­ther would also warn his child, `don’t cross this line so that I will not be hard on you’. I think it is a warning.”

Meanwhile, indignant at the connivance of the government in dealing with Fulani herdsmen crisis in Ekiti state, the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) suggested that President Muhammad Buhari’s inaction could be a sign of his involvement in attacks and even sponsoring.

The organisation stressed that had anything similar happen in another country in Africa, Europe or any other part of the world, Buhari would have been among the first to condemn the killings but keep pretending that nothing is going on in his own country.

The CLO also insisted on monitoring the arrest and prosecution of Ibrahim Adamumale, 20, a suspected Fulani herdsmen, arrested in Affa, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu state for possessing of an AK-47 rifle with 24 rounds of live ammunition.

Besides, the group condemned the the backdrop of the arrest of the alleged masterminds of massacre in Nimbo on April 25, where 13 natives were killed despite credible technical intelligence. 

The suspects arrested in the Nimbo attack were: Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman Laute, and Haruna Laute.