Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has called on security operatives to mete out the same treatment given to members of the Eastern Security Network to Fulani herdsmen wielding weapons.
Ortom made the call in an interview with BBC Pidgin and said that President Muhammadu Buhari should make efforts to quell the menace of the herdsmen.
“Why should they allow Fulani from foreign land to come to Nigeria to disturb us?
“No country will allow that kind of a thing. But here in Nigeria, it is allowed. And those Fulani people believe they can go anywhere and take possession of the place.
“The free movement by the Fulani people into Nigeria can’t be done in Ghana, South Africa and Kenya except they have travel documents.
“What we see unfolding and the failure to make arrests only proved what is allegedly being said by the Fulani people that they want to take over the land and be leaders.
“That’s why we are complaining that the leader at the top should not fold his arms but also talk about this issue. He should also make efforts to show that he’s our leader.
“It is not balanced that way, and that is what we are saying. Didn’t they arrest Kanu who leads IPOB? They arrested him and I think he ran away, if not he would have been jailed.
“So why are they not arresting these people in the forests? Don’t we have Air Force, soldiers, police, and the DSS?
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“Not too long ago, they went after the Eastern Security Network. It is an illegal thing, and I support the government to clamp down on them.
“But why should they clamp down on them alone? Why should they leave the Fulani people to carry AK-47, AK-49 and even big guns that soldiers, police, and the DSS don’t carry in this country?
“Why should they do that only in the South? That is injustice.
“Let everybody be treated the same way.
“The same way they are treating Kanu, IPOB and the Eastern Security Network, let them treat gun-carrying Fulani too that way. Why are they leaving them alone?, the governor said.
