The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to support Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s initiative by granting amnesty to bandits terrorising the Northern region.
Spokesperson of the coalition, AbdulAzeez Suleiman, in a statement yesterday, also called on Fulani herders living in the southern part of the country to relocate if their safety could no more guaranteed in their host communities.
The group said: “We emphatically repudiate the stance of the Northern State Governors Forum (NSGF) against open grazing without first identifying suitable lands and creating grazing reserves and cattle routes after four years of lying about resettling the pastoralists through vague initiatives that never materialised.
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“We call on the Nigerian public to note that rather than working to ensure a united, secure Nigeria, the Federal Government appears to be creating and fanning the present chaotic situation to cover its serial misgovernance and pervasive institutional and structural corruption.
“In this regard, we support and encourage the efforts of the Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi and other reasonable state governments that prefer dialogue to the hardcore counter-productive use of force for further bloodshed preferred by El-Rufai and his ilk.”
