Herdsmen: Southwest doesn’t want to accommodate other tribes — Gov Muhammed
Governor Bala
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said some states in the Southwest region of Nigeria don’t want to accommodate other tribes.
Reacting to the quit notice to herders in some states, Mohammed said Nigerians have to learn to live together.
Oyo and Ondo state government have been in the news over their activities to stop herdsmen from using forest reverses in the states.
A controversial Yoruba “activist”, Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho, had issued a quit notice to herdsmen accused of sundry crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo and enforced same.
But speaking during the launch of the inaugural edition of the Bauchi Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ’s magazine titled “Correspondents’ Watch”, Mohammed said, “The west doesn’t want to accommodate other tribes but we are accommodating your tribe in Bauchi.
“We have Yorubas who have stayed in Bauchi for over 150 years. Some of them are permanent secretaries in Gombe, Bauchi and Borno.
“If cybercrime is being practised mostly by one tribe, you don’t criminalise the whole tribe because of this.
“That is why you journalist needs to be sensitive and exercise restraint. Avoid writing reports that will threaten the unity of this country.” (Daily Trust)
Governor Mohammed goofed by this incredulous claim of his that we in the southwest don’t accommodate members of other tribes. He’s just being economical with the fact. I’m sure the governor himself lived in Lagos for sometime and has properties in the southwest. If we don’t accommodate people from other tribes, would it had been possible for him to live in Lagos talkless of acquiring and owning land properties in Lagos? Those in positions of authority needs to be careful with their words. They should just be opening their mouths and say rubbish only for the sake of talking. Every word men like Gov. Mohammed says have dire consequences.
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