By Correspondent in Ilorin
Sheikh Ahmed Dan Fulani Modibbo.
Gan Allah Fulani Society of Nigeria,an umbrella association for fulani community in Kwara state, has urged the Federal government to track terrorists and other criminals with modern technology, equip Police and other security agencies as well as ensure tight borders.
The president of the association, Sheikh Ahmed Dan Fulani Modibbo,who gave the advice while speaking with journalists in Ilorin at the weekend,said that doing would reduce insecurity to the bearest minimum in the country.
“Federal government should also equip the Police with modern information technology to reduce crime and criminality in the country, apart from buying them weapons, aircrafts or cars.
“We need tracking system. Of recent, we learnt kidnappers and terrorists demanded and collected about 200 motorcycles from relations of kidnapped victims.
“The police should have put trackers on the bikes. The money paid as ransom can be tracked. Is the phones they used to communicate during communication with victim’s families, to collect ransom not from a network? Why can’t it be tracked?
All hands must be on deck to help matters,” he said.
On borders, the president of the association said:”Our borders are open and too porous to allow foreign and wicked Fulani people into the country to wreak havoc.
“Fulani people from Chad, Niger and Cameroon see Nigeria as fertile land to foment trouble. They are the ones committing crimes here, not the Fulani you’ve been living with for more than 100 years.”
Modibbo, described Nigerian native Fulani as “peace-loving people.”
On how to arrest the herdsmen-farmers clashes in Nigeria,he called on the federal government to conceive a programme, where indigenous Fulani youths could be trained on other vocations other than rearing cattle.
“These Fulani youths have for a long period been trained to be in the bush to rear cattle. That’s their trade. So, they can be trained in mechanized farming, so that they don’t go about rearing their cattle,” he said.
On ethnic profiling, the Fulani leader said that crimes should not be tagged to a particular tribe in Nigeria, adding that all hands must be on deck to put an end to security problems in the country.
” We should not tag a particular crime to a tribe or religion when the case has not been investigated or verified by the appropriate authorities. Tagging people with crimes can escalate insecurity in the country,” he added.
