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Sen. Shehu Sani Formally Declares Herdsmen As Terrorists
Shehu Sani
Herdsmen Are Terrorists – Shehu Sani
Senator Shehu Sani has formally declared herdsmen who are responsible for the killings and slaughtering in Benue and Taraba as nothing but terrorists except if we want to call a spade a spoon.
The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly said this in a tweet today.
Herdsmen who commit massacre in Benue and Taraba and ‘Bandits’ who commit massacre in Zamfara and Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state ,are nothing but terrorists;except if we want to call a spade a pestle or a spoon
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) May 7, 2018
The indifference of the ruling political establishment to end the ceaseless violence & killings in the country is based on the fact that the victims are the poor and the peasants in rural areas.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) May 7, 2018
It would be recalled, that President Buhari had exonerated Fulani herdsmen from the incessant killings going on in the country during his visit to the White House in the United States.
“The problem of herders in Nigeria is a very long historical thing. The Nigerian herders don’t carry anything more than a stick and occasionally a matchet to cut down foliage and give it to their animals” Buhari told President Donald Trump of the United States.
Buhari had said, “So, people should not underrate what happened in Libya. 43 years of Ghaddaffi, people were recruited from Sahel and trained to shoot and kill. With the demise of Ghaddaffi, they moved to other countries and region and carried the experience with them.”
But Senator Sani urged the president to stop trying to give another name to the marauding herdsmen other than calling them terrorists as he pledges to help Buhari push for the release of more funds to security agencies with a view of finding a lasting solution to the herdsmen killings.
I will support the President on the floor of the senate to fund and equip the DSS,Police and Civil Defence, as he did to the Military so that we can bring an end to all the excuses now ‘produced daily in an industrial-scale.’
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) May 7, 2018
The indifference of the ruling political establishment to end the ceaseless violence & killings in the country is based on the fact that the victims are the poor and the peasants in rural areas.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) May 7, 2018
Again and again, I will continue to raise the tragic situation of Birnin Gwari on the floor of the senate until it touches the conscience of those responsible for its security to prioritize human lives over 2019… https://t.co/NFLnKluEe8
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) May 6, 2018
