The emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says he personally
gave the FG pictures of 800 Fulani herdsmen and their families
that were killed in Taraba State last year but the government had
yet to take action. .
In an interview with Punchng, he added that the killings in the
Middle Belt were being perpetrated by both the herdsmen and
the locals, stressing that the murder of the herdsmen was not
being accurately reported thereby presenting a false narrative of
‘one-sided killings’.
The emir said, “Some months ago in Mambilla, in one weekend,
over 800 Fulani were murdered by Mambilla militias. The papers
did not even go there to cover the story.
In one case, a pregnant woman was killed, her stomach was
ripped open and the baby was brought out and slaughtered. I
personally handed over to the FG a dossier with the names and
pictures of the 800 or so people slaughtered as well as the
names and addresses of persons known to have participated in
these acts of ethnic cleansing. .
Nothing has happened. I also ensured that authorities received
video and audio evidence of senior politicians in Taraba State,
who were involved in this act of genocide. No one has been
arrested. .
Fulanis were also murdered in Kajuru and Numan. In many of
these cases it was not about conflict but militias raiding
settlements to kill women and children, and then later, attacking
herdsmen and slaughtering them and their cattle.
The point I am making is that we are living in a country that has
failed to protect the lives of people on all sides and bring
culprits to book.
Also in the case of the Fulani, there is a deliberate attempt to
‘ethnicise’ criminality, and politicians, who are total failures, have
found the anti-Fulani rhetoric to be the way to get popularity,” he
said.
The monarch said as far as perpetrators continued to get away
with the dastardly acts, they would remain emboldened to
continue to kill. Sanusi alleged that in Taraba State for instance,
one of the officials that took part in the killing of Fulani had been
given an appointment by the state government.
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