Emir Sanusi leads in resolving issues affecting Fulani indigenes
By Babajide Adekunle
Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 16th Emir of Kano, has offered himself to lead the effort in resolving issues affecting the Fulani ethnic stock.
Speaking in his palace during a visit by a Fulani group, the Tapital Pulaku Njode Jam Nigeria, Emir Sanusi urged the “full support” of the Federal Government “to achieve my mission” of achieving “a permanent solution to the Fulani crises in the country.”
He said, “They (the government) have the might and what it takes to make my strategy work, while I will provide the ideas and the methodologies of how to go about it.
“No doubt, Fulanis in Nigeria have suffered heavy attacks, isolation, killing and destruction and the rustling of their cows, these rejections indeed were carried all across the country, and something needs to be done to arrest the situation.
“However, it is not untrue that there are some bad eggs amongst the Fulanis who have thrown the good names of the people into the trash and subjected them to what they are suffering today.
“This is the time that the government, together with us, will have a permanent solution to the crises, more specifically between them and the farmers and also where they are suspected to be carrying out other crimes.”
The leader of the group, Madibo Jada, said his members believe that the emir has “what it takes to correct their battered names and set the records straight of who (the Fulanis) they are and their contributions to the socio-economic development of the country.”
