{"id":140834,"date":"2019-08-04T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140834"},"modified":"2019-08-04T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:03:35","slug":"blaming-insecurity-on-fulani-herdsmen-wont-help-nigeria-bishop-kukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140834","title":{"rendered":"Blaming insecurity on Fulani, herdsmen won’t help Nigeria – Bishop Kukah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah has said blaming Nigeria\u2019s insecurity problems on herdsmen, banditry and Fulani won\u2019t help the country.<\/p>\n

Kukah lamented that criminal elements are perpetuating evil and Nigerians are blaming herdsmen.<\/p>\n

He spoke during the burial ceremony of Air Peace airline chairman\u2019s father, Chief Micheal Onyema in Mbosi, Anambra state, over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Bishop stated that the issue of banditry, armed robbery cases and killings currently going on in some parts of the country should be tackled \u201cholistically, instead of taking the easy path of blaming every crime on herdsmen.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Kukah: \u201cWe are all herdsmen. We are all nomads. I have a couple of goats I got as gift that I am currently rearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo. I am also a herdsman. We should always look beyond the surface and tackle every problem head-on. The country\u2019s problem is much more complex\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kukah\u2019s remark is coming at a time herdsmen were accused of killing the Catholic Parish Priest of St. James, the Greater Parish, Ugbawka, in Enugu State, Rev FR Paul Offu.<\/p>\n

Offu was reportedly shot dead by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Thursday evening.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah has said blaming Nigeria\u2019s insecurity problems on herdsmen, banditry and Fulani won\u2019t help the country. Kukah lamented that criminal elements are perpetuating evil and Nigerians are blaming herdsmen. He spoke during the burial ceremony of Air Peace airline chairman\u2019s father, Chief Micheal Onyema in Mbosi, Anambra state, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3,2677],"tags":[11480,8757,41,4866,435],"class_list":["post-140834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-religious","tag-nigeria-2","tag-bishop-kukah","tag-buhari","tag-crime","tag-herdsman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}