GAFDAN, an umbrella body for Fulani ethnic group in Nigeria
and the Diaspora, asked the Federal Government to ‘dump’ the 2014 national
conference report.
The Association, in a letter to the Chairman of the Northern
Delegates Forum, Senator Jeremiah Useni and signed by its National Secretary,
Sale Bayari, stated that crises between farmers and herders which had claimed
so many lives over the years could have been averted had Fulani herders been
allowed to present their problems and offer solutions and advice at the
conference.
Bayari said the content of the conference report with
regards to farmers/herders crisis in the country had zero impute from Fulani
herders.
“We the entire Fulani herdsmen group in the country were
completely and brazenly excluded from the so-called National Conference despite
our population of over 20 million and our national nomadic husbandry mortal
crisis with farmers,” the association stated.
By Lami Sadiq
