Murderous Fulani herdmen Nigerian, not foreigners, CAN insists
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has reacted to the statement credited to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, in his Eid-el-Kabir message, where he said armed herdsmen perpetrating violence in the country are foreign terrorists.
Startled by the statement, CAN sought to know who permitted foreign herdsmen to graze on Nigeria land, talk more of taking the lives of harmless Nigerians and going scot-free.
Reacting through the National President of its Youth wing, Engr David Kadzai, on Tuesday, CAN frowned at the services of the Nigeria Immigration for allowing the so-called foreign herdsmen turned terrorists to infiltrate Nigeria, if going by the assertion of the Sultan.
His words: “Our worries are the porous nature of our borders and ill-equipped Immigration, security personnel and incessant corrupt practices of these personnel.
“In as much as we do not agree with the Sultan’s assertions, we call on the Federal Government to beef up our borders and equip our security operatives for a prompt and efficient policing.
“While calling for a complete overhaul of the Nigeria Immigration and declaration of an emergency stringent measures at our borders, a special infiltrators Law must be enacted to check foreign mercenaries or terrorist”, he said.
Kadzai has also express worries over a gradual growth of a new group in the northeast, under the guise of the Islamic Hunters Association, which has taken it roots in Madagali, Michika and Gwoza of Adamawa and Borno States, calling on the Federal Government to check-mate their activities before it turn into another sect of Boko Haram.
CAN assures the Sultan and the entire Muslim community in Nigeria that it will continue to build bridges that will unite the entire country, where the rule of law and social justice shall be guaranteed to each Nigerian irrespective of Religion, Tribe or Region.
