The National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has said that the Fulani herdsmen don’t need anybody’s approval or permission to occupy any land in any part of the country.
Bodejo stated this during an interview with TheSun. He said the herdsmen first settled at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. According to him, after they settled in one place and leave, then farmers come and start farming, and town start springing up there.
“It is only Fulani that can go and stay inside any bush they like”, Bodejo told TheSun.
“They have the right to go and settle in any bush in this country without asking anybody for permission. It is not against the law in this country. Who would they go to take permission from, is it the animals in the bush? You see from the village to the bush they are claiming is theirs maybe over 100 kilometers.
“How can herdsmen go and settle in a bush that is over 100 kilometers away from where the people live and you expect them to go and take permission from anybody. Who owns the land?
“I don’t see any place where people will try and drive away the Fulani; they have right in this country. They produced Nigeria. They produced the first prime minister.
“If they produced the first president, another president, another president and so on, are they not the owner of the country? Fulani are ruling Nigeria and they must continue to rule the country forever. That is the truth.
Speaking on the allegation that Fulani herdsmen are killers, Bodejo said, the herdsmen are not killers, rather the communities who wishes to sack them, will first of all create problems with them and use it as an excuse.
“Fulani herdsmen are not killers; they don’t kill. This is a strategy to push them out from that community. Any community that wants to sack the herdsmen, they create problem and use it to send them away from the community.
“There are three categories of Fulani in the country. Some Fulani are highly educated, some professors, some are technocrats, etc. This category doesn’t care about the Fulani in the bush.
“Another category are those who are not so educated, and are just around and parading themselves as the so-called leaders of the Fulani.
“The third category are Fulani people, don’t know about electricity, borehole and the infrastructures that give life a meaning; they drink water from the same source with their cattle in the bush. They are living their normal lives in the bush. That is the typical Fulani”, Bodejo told TheSun.
