The Labour Party has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently revive nomadic education in order to stop the incessant killings by Fulani herdsmen across the country.
The LP said that unless Buhari restored education among the Fulani herdsmen, the Federal Government might find it difficult to find a lasting solution to the herdsmen’s attacks in the northern part of the country.
LP National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Adbdulsalam, told our correspondent in an exclusive interview while reacting to the recent killings in Plateau, where over 150 people were attacked and killed by the herdsmen, that the President needed to address the matter urgently by reviewing and reviving the nomadic education among the herdsmen, saying that when they were educated they won’t have the courage to take human lives because of their cows.
The LP national chairman, who condemned the spate of killings by the herdsmen in Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau, maintained that only education could erase the mindset of the herdsmen.
Abdulsalam, however, faulted the Buhari government for failing to facilitate serious educational projects in the country, insisting that it was high time his administration took up the task to restore nomadic education in order to put at rest the incessant killings by the herdsmen.
He said, “If nomadic education had continued, what is happening today (killings) wouldn’t have happened in this country. If nomadic education had continued, these people (fulani herdsmen) would have been sufficiently enlightened because they have neither Islamic education nor Western education; that is the problem we are having.
“Lack of nomadic education has made Fulani herdsmen to be killing. This Federal Government is not serious about education, the government should facilitate educational projects in the country. I advise President Buhari to urgently return nomadic education, because I am personally a victim of those people.”
The LP national chairman described the utterances of the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association claiming responsibility for the Plateau killings over missing 300 cows as “unfortunate.”
“Whatever Myetti Allah says, nobody has the right to take another person’s life. No religion allows that. Whether Miyetti Allah says so or not, is most unfortunate,” he noted.
