Attacking Herdsmen Are Terrorists – Shinkafi

As a Northerner, I can authoritatively say that they are terrorist, as ‘herdsmen’ that we know are usually not more than 2 or 3.

They only tend to their cows with a long stick as their weapon. **today, the so-called Fulani herdsmen numbering from five to 30 at a time, armed with sophisticated weapons.

The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, yesterday said the so-called Fulani herdsmen that are wreaking havoc in Benue, Nasarawa and other states in the North are terrorists.

He was speaking in Abuja at the formal inauguration of state chairmen for the 36 and Federal Capital Territoty (FCT) and zonal executive councils of the National Coalition for Jonathan and Sambo Presidency.
Shinkafi, who is the current chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the group, said intelligence and security reports had confirmed that those so-called herdsmen were actually terrorists in disguise.

“As a former executive governor, as a Northerner, I can tell Nigerians, and authoritatively so, that the ‘herdsmen’ that we know are usually not more than two or three, tending to their cows with a long stick as their weapon. Today, we are faced with the so-called Fulani herdsmen numbering from five to 30 at a time, armed with sophisticated weapons.

“The coalition hereby recommends anytime the so-called herdsmen are more than two or three in number, the Joint Military Task Force should arrest them, search them and if guns or machetes are found on them, they should be treated as terrorists and dealt with decisively on the spot. We have enough bloodshed and we want an end to it now"

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