• Home
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
  • National
    • Government
  • Security
  • Features
  • State
  • Event
    • PR Nigeria Award
  • E-Paper
Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
PRNIGERIA PRNigeria News
PRNIGERIA PRNIGERIA
  • Home
  • Anti-Corruption
    • Chinese nationals jailed in Lagos

      Court Jails Nine Chinese Nationals for Cybercrime in Lagos

      ASUU

      Tackle Corruption, Institutional Decay – ASUU Charges FG

      EFCC Arraigns Bauchi Accountant General Over N8bn Fraud as Court Sentences…

      PRNigeria logo fearured image

      EFCC Arraigns Ex-Convict, Other for Naira Abuse in Lagos

      EFCC Arrests 37 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Ilorin

  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
    • Comptroller General Nigerian Customs Bashir Adewale

      Nigeria Customs, ICPC and the Audit of Conscience

      Customs Diplomacy: Nigeria, Saudi Arabia Ink Mutual Assistance Deal

      Comptroller General Nigerian Customs Bashir Adewale

      Nigeria, Belarus Forge Alliance to Combat Smuggling, Facilitate Trade

      President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and CG Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi

      Tinubu Hails Customs Boss Wale Adeniyi on Historic Election as WCO…

      WTO Lauds Nigeria Customs for Embracing Global Trade Standards

  • National
    • MUSWEN Muslim Ummah of South West

      MUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of Muslims

      Ribadu Proposes Reintegration of Military Veterans to Bolster National Security

      DICON signs MoU with Saudi firm

      DICON, Saudi firm sign MoU to produce security drones, satellites in…

      Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya

      Ex-COAS Urges Reforms in Recruitment, Training of Army, Harps on Prioritisation…

      Prioritise Troops’ Welfare, Mission Over Personal Gain – COAS Charges Army…

    • Government
      • MUSWEN Muslim Ummah of South West

        MUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of Muslims

        Corporate Affairs Commission

        CAC Unveils AI-Powered Registration Portal to Revolutionize Business Registration in Nigeria

        Employment: ICPC Secures Conviction of FAAN Staff

        Staff of PRNigeria with federal lawmakers

        Federal Lawmakers Endorse PRNigeria Fellowship, Pledge Support for Youth Empowerment

        G7 Countries

        Iran Must Never Possess Nuclear Weapons – G7 Declare

  • Security
    • Police Officer

      Police Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader…

      Ribadu Proposes Reintegration of Military Veterans to Bolster National Security

      DICON signs MoU with Saudi firm

      DICON, Saudi firm sign MoU to produce security drones, satellites in…

      Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya

      Ex-COAS Urges Reforms in Recruitment, Training of Army, Harps on Prioritisation…

      Prioritise Troops’ Welfare, Mission Over Personal Gain – COAS Charges Army…

  • Features
    • Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR

      Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs Authority

      Nigeria’s Growth Numbers Tell Only Half the Story By Umar Farouk…

      NYSC Corps Members in Camp

      The Burden Too Many Nigerian Youths Bear Alone

      Combating Deepfake Videos: A Fight for Nigeria’s Soul By Mukhtar Ya’u…

      Domestic Violence

      Marriage and the Silent Wounds Within Homes By Hafsat Ibrahim

  • State
    • MUSWEN Muslim Ummah of South West

      MUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of Muslims

      Police Officer

      Police Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader…

      Customs Hands Over N172m Worth of Cannabis to NDLEA in Ogun,…

      Combating Deepfake Videos: A Fight for Nigeria’s Soul By Mukhtar Ya’u…

      IEDs found at the bridge

      Military Foils Terrorists’ Bomb Attack, Discovers 56 IEDs on Marte–Dikwa Bridge…

  • Event
    • President & Chairman of Governing Council, Dr. Ike Neliaku

      NIPR Lauds Nigerian PR Firms for Outstanding Performances at 2025 SABRE…

      SCN NGO signs partnership with PRNIGERIA

      SCN NGO Seals Partnership with PRNigeria to Amplify its Humanitarian Projects

      NELFUND

      NELFUND Warns Students Against Fake Loan Application Portal

      EFCC Witness: Yahaya Bello Had No Property Dealings With EFAB

      Hon. Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu (RMS), with PRNigeria Ladies in PR I'm Abuja

      Rukayat Shittu Set to Publish Inspirational Book “Cracking the Glass Ceiling”,…

    • PR Nigeria Award
  • E-Paper
Home Features Open Letter to Tinubu on Fulani, Banditry and Political Appointees, by Prof...
  • Features
  • Security

Open Letter to Tinubu on Fulani, Banditry and Political Appointees, by Prof Abdussamad U. Jibia

By
Abdussamad Umar Jibia
-
July 24, 2024
President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Open Letter to Tinubu on Fulani, Banditry and Political Appointees, by Prof Abdussamad U Jibia

Your Excellency Sir

For about a decade and half, the Northern part of Nigeria has been enmeshed in two major crises. The first was Boko Haram, born and bred in the North East. From their confrontation with the Police to the execution of their leader, Boko Haram grew to become a terror group unprecedented in Nigeria’s history. The most unfortunate thing is that Boko Haram associated themselves with Islam even though most of their heinous attacks where targeted at Muslims.

The failure of Jonathan Government to end the Boko Haram insurgency led to a consensus by Nigerians to disallow him from getting a second shot at presidency. He lost the 2015 election to your friend and party member General Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari, throughout the process of his campaign for the office of the President, promised to end the scourge of Boko Haram and return normalcy to the North East. What he ignored, but he was not supposed to ignore given his security background, was another crisis rearing its ugly head in the North West.

Non-Fulani Nigerians were setting up cattle farms in city suburbs and gradually establishing themselves in the business of cattle farming for which the Fulani were known. This did not go down well with some Fulani who began to form groups to attack such farms and rustle the cows. Anyone who resisted was killed. Since such non-Fulani cattle farmers were relatively small in number, it was soon over with them and cattle rustling was extended to fellow Fulani most of whom were law abiding.

In no time, cattle rustling turned into banditry and kidnapping. Armed chair analysts with little knowledge of what was on ground began to create conspiracy theories. Some blamed it on Niger Delta militants. Others said it was foreigners from sister west African countries.

As at 2015 when President Buhari assumed office, the crisis could easily be nipped in the bud. There were a handful of cattle rustlers/bandits who could easily be identified, arrested and punished. Unfortunately, Buhari did not do it either because he was not being correctly briefed or out of sympathy for his kinsmen who were the culprits.

In October 2016 some Governors, notably the Governor of Zamfara followed by Katsina Governor invited the bandits’ leaders for a peace agreement. That was after they had killed countless numbers of innocent citizens. The villagers in the two states were told to accept the criminals as their brothers or face the wrath of the state. They had no choice.

The peace accord did not last long before the bandits resumed their crimes. It became worse by the day. Banditry continued to thrive under Buhari administration and in 2019 he directed Governors of the affected states to dialogue with the bandits. The Governor of my state of Katsina, looking vividly frustrated told the bandits before press cameras that he was meeting them on the directive of Mr. President.

Read Also:

  • Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs Authority
  • MUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of Muslims
  • Police Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader Abducted

Few months after the 2019 accord, Masari told the world that the bandits had reneged on the peace pact. According to him, they were not people to be trusted.

A point of note in both the peace accords of 2016 and 2019 was that none of the bandit leaders was a citizen of any foreign country. They were all Nigerians, and all of them were Fulani. This invalidates the false belief that the bandits are foreigners or that they were from another tribe in the south. Most of those hardened criminal lords are still moving about unscathed in villages and forests of Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Sokoto and Niger states. That they have been granting press interviews and meeting people like Sheikh Ahmad Gummi is evidence that Government is very much aware of their locations and identities.

I cannot speak for other Nigerians. But for me as a person I voted for you in the 2023 elections for two reasons. One. You are a Muslim. A Muslim is just as a leader and nice as a companion. If all Muslim leaders are to rule according to the teachings of Islam, even their enemies would beg Muslims to stand for elections so they vote them to power. Two. Neither you nor your running mate are Fulani. With this, the sympathy some of us believe Buhari had for his kinsmen would not be there.

You are now into your second year and banditry is only getting worse. What struck me most about your approach to banditry are the latest revelations by a young Islamic scholar, Sheikh Munir Adam Koza. According to Sheikh Koza, he was among the many young influential Islamic scholars invited for a meeting by some defence officials of your government. With financial reward, they were requested to propagate the following in their preachings.

1. That banditry by Fulani groups is justified because Fulani have been subjected to neglect and injustice over a long period.

2. Call on Government to dialogue with bandits and give them political appointments.

3. That the current Governors of Zamfara and Katsina are wrong to have set up security outfits to confront bandits.

Sheikh Koza who expressed his disagreement at the first meeting was not invited to subsequent meetings.

That there are Islamic scholars actively preaching the above items is a testimony of the veracity of Sheikh Koza’s statements.

The first question I raised when I saw the video clip was whether you are aware of this action taken by your appointees. It would be a monumental mistake to say since the insecurity is taking place in the North, you have now appointed Northerners to solve “their” own problem. Nigerians voted for you and not for Ribadu, Badaru, Matawalle or any of those. You are thus accountable to Nigerians and before God for any action taken by your government.

With all the due respect of a loyal citizen, I would like to call on your Excellency to come clean on this action allegedly taken by officials of your government. Taking appropriate action against the said Government officials would go a long way to consolidate the confidence ordinary citizens like me have in your government.

Most importantly, we want an end to banditry. It can be ended, Mr. President.

Professor Abdussamad Umar Jibia
23/07/2024

VISIT OUR OTHER WEBSITES
PRNigeria.com EconomicConfidential.com PRNigeria.com/Hausa/
EmergencyDigest.com PoliticsDigest.ng TechDigest.ng
HealthDigest.ng SpokesPersonsdigest.com TeensDigest.ng
ArewaAgenda.com Hausa.ArewaAgenda.com YAShuaib.com
  • TAGS
  • Banditry
  • Fulani
  • Insecurity
  • Nigeria
  • Political Appointees
  • Tinubu
Previous articleFinally, NDLEA Nabs Lagos ‘Most Wanted’ Drug Baron
Next articleIn Ambush Operation, Troops Kill Two Terrorists in Kaduna
Abdussamad Umar Jibia
Abdussamad Umar Jibia

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR

Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs Authority

Police Officer

Police Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader Abducted

Ribadu Proposes Reintegration of Military Veterans to Bolster National Security

DICON signs MoU with Saudi firm

DICON, Saudi firm sign MoU to produce security drones, satellites in Nigeria

Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya

Ex-COAS Urges Reforms in Recruitment, Training of Army, Harps on Prioritisation of Troops’ Welfare

Prioritise Troops’ Welfare, Mission Over Personal Gain – COAS Charges Army Commanders

Nigeria’s Growth Numbers Tell Only Half the Story By Umar Farouk Bala

NYSC Corps Members in Camp

The Burden Too Many Nigerian Youths Bear Alone

Customs Hands Over N172m Worth of Cannabis to NDLEA in Ogun, Commissions 13 New Patrol Vehicles

Combating Deepfake Videos: A Fight for Nigeria’s Soul By Mukhtar Ya’u Madobi

IEDs found at the bridge

Military Foils Terrorists’ Bomb Attack, Discovers 56 IEDs on Marte–Dikwa Bridge in Borno

The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major-General Markus Kangye,

DHQ: How Troops Nabbed Mastermind of NDLEA Commander’s Kidnap in Anambra

Recent Posts

  • Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs Authority
  • MUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of Muslims
  • Police Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader Abducted
  • Ribadu Proposes Reintegration of Military Veterans to Bolster National Security
  • DICON, Saudi firm sign MoU to produce security drones, satellites in Nigeria
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
© 2020 PRNigeria. All Rights Reserved.
Latest News
Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs AuthorityMUSWEN Renews Call for Shariah Courts to Regulate Affairs of MuslimsPolice Foil Bandit Attacks in Katsina, Rescue Victims as Traditional Leader AbductedRibadu Proposes Reintegration of Military Veterans to Bolster National SecurityDICON, Saudi firm sign MoU to produce security drones, satellites in NigeriaEx-COAS Urges Reforms in Recruitment, Training of Army, Harps on Prioritisation of Troops’ WelfarePrioritise Troops’ Welfare, Mission Over Personal Gain - COAS Charges Army CommandersNigeria's Growth Numbers Tell Only Half the Story By Umar Farouk BalaThe Burden Too Many Nigerian Youths Bear AloneCAC Unveils AI-Powered Registration Portal to Revolutionize Business Registration in NigeriaEmployment: ICPC Secures Conviction of FAAN StaffCustoms Hands Over N172m Worth of Cannabis to NDLEA in Ogun, Commissions 13 New Patrol VehiclesCombating Deepfake Videos: A Fight for Nigeria's Soul By Mukhtar Ya'u MadobiMilitary Foils Terrorists' Bomb Attack, Discovers 56 IEDs on Marte–Dikwa Bridge in BornoNIPR Lauds Nigerian PR Firms for Outstanding Performances at 2025 SABRE Africa Awards
X whatsapp