IMMEDIATE past Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso has asked Yoruba leaders threatning
to secede over the kidnap of former Secretary to
the Government of Federation Chief Olu Falae to
“shut up”.
Kwankwaso, who is a senator, said at the weekend
that the call was misguided and politically motivated.
He stressed that no zone could be an island, adding
that what the Fulani herdsmen that were being asked
to leave Yoruba land needed was education on how
to go about their cattle-rearing business.
He spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital at the
weekend as a special guest at the Silver Jubilee
Celebration of the set of 1965-1971 of Government
College, Ibadan. The event witnessed the
inauguration of two sets of pre-fabricated staff
buildings donated by Vitafoam Nigeria Plc to the
institution.
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The former governor said: “The issue of conflict
between the farmers and Fulani herdsmen is not
common to the Southwest alone. It is not even
common to Nigeria. It is all over the sub-region.
“On the issue that we are talking about, education is
very important. If all Fulani are given opportunity to
go to school, I don’t think they will risk their lives and
their animals going into the bush, where there are
reptiles. I think the key thing is education. The Fulani
should be educated.
“I am a Fulani. My parents settled down many years
ago. My father went to school and I have been to
school. My children have gone to school. Now, I don’t
think I will get cattle and go into a forest; that is
education for you.
“The key thing is, whether in the North or Africa,
Fulani are all over. They call themselves Fulani in this
part of the world. But in other places, they call them
different names. So, education is key. They should be
educated. They should be settled. Of course, by that,
they will develop the modern way of keeping
livestock.”
He added: “If you go to developed countries, you
don’t see animals running about. It has to do with
underdevelopment. If you go to Niger, Chad,
Cameroon and all these places, they get Fulani
roaming about, endangering their lives, endangering
their own animals and it is not good for anybody, the
economy and the security. But that is for the future.
“But for today, I think it is important for government
to provide facilities because we require their
services. Facilities like grazing areas for the cattle and
other facilities to make sure that we manage the
situation.
“In the North, we used to have all these grazing
areas. We used to have cattle ranch, where they go
from place to place without going into the farm.
Probably because of the population now and other
issues, all these places are being taking by farmers.
Therefore, it becomes very difficult for any cattle to
roam or go to places without going into farms.
“So, it is not only peculiar to the Southwest. We just
have to have a lot of understanding of the situation.
Some of the issues being raised by the people,
especially politicians, do not help anybody. If you
sack the Fulani from here or you fight them, maybe it
is because you are here. If you are a Yoruba man
based in Kano, I don’t think you can contemplate
sacking the Fulani.
“I am from Kano, but right now I am in Ibadan.
Where you are is your home. Today, Ibadan is my
home. God forbids; if something bad happens here, it
will affect me. If it happens in my village, I am not
there. They won’t see me. But for today, I think it is
important for government to provide ranching
facilities such as grazing sites, because we require
their services.
“It now calls for understanding among Nigerians. To
that extent, therefore, politicians should stop over-
blowing the issue.
“All Fulani should be given opportunity to go to
school. These Fulani should be educated. I am one of
them. I am Fulani. Had I not been educated, imagine
what I would have been today; I probably would have
been in the forest.”
He canvassed a quick return of boarding facilities to
all public schools in the country as well as
compulsory education for the Fulani.
“This will go a long way in reawakening confidence in
the national polity,” he said.
Dignitaries at the event included Oyo state Governor
Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi, represented by Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Education Mrs. O. A.
Makanjuola; Group Managing Director of Vitafoam
Nigeria Plc. Mr. Taiwo Adeniyi; National President of
GCI Old Boys Association Chief Abiodun Jolaoso;
Principal of GCI, Rev. Oladele Olusola; Chairman,
Sunshine Oil and Chemical Industries Limited
Basorun Rotimi Obeisun; Chief Executive of Jogor
Centre Femi Babalola, among others.



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Everybody wants seccession.... The question is , where are they going to??

Lol!
This retąrded Biafra boy is a goat
(stanleychimezie)
Slaves
Where is shut up in the bullshıts you copied and pasted

You people will remain slaves to Hausa/Fulani and yorubas till eternity.
Biafra my left ball

Kwakwaso should be the one to SHOT UP and not Yorubas leaders. Why is kwakwaso so agitated about other tribes wanting to pull out of what is called Nigeria? Is it by force to be in a union you don't like? It's only his people ( the north) that is not speaking secession. This is because the fake union of Hausa Ibos and Yorubas is skewed in favour of his Hausa tribes. Thank God the Biafra will soon materialise, thus paving the way for the Yorubas to equally pull out It a mismatch being with the Hausa Fulani north We are not the same category

I have never seen any Hausa speak in support of secession. Is it that they're more patriotic than the Yoruba and Igbo or they are scared of something?

I'm curious.