Group Faults Gumi For Calling Herdsmen Militants

The Pan Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF) has condemned statements credited to Islamic Cleric, Ahmad Gumi, in which he likened armed Fulani herdsmen as militants fighting for ethnic survival and not bandits.

National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, in a statement said it was vexatious and a huge nonsense for Gumi to say that killer herdsmen and murderous bandits should not be referred to as criminals, but militants fighting an ethnic war and for their existence.

“Nigeria has never experienced the kind of nepotism and prejudice being perpetrated under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“Virtually all strategic positions in the nation’s public sector, including the military, paramilitary and intelligence agencies, are under Hausa-Fulani hegemony.

“Oil blocks and marginal fields in the Niger Delta have ever been mostly exploited by northerners. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has become a ‘grazing’ ground for a few,”