{"id":309676,"date":"2021-01-30T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=309676"},"modified":"2021-01-30T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T13:05:24","slug":"seven-out-of-every-ten-kidnappers-arrested-are-fulani-sultan-of-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=309676","title":{"rendered":"Seven Out Of Every Ten Kidnappers Arrested Are Fulani\u2014 Sultan of Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Sultan of Sokoto, HRH Muhammadu Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has said seven to eight out of every ten kidnappers arrested in Nigeria are Fulani.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to the Nation, Abubakar disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a meeting of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders\u2019 Association (MACBAN).<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/01\/Seven-Out-Of-Every-Ten-Kidnappers-Arrested-Are-Fulani\u2014-Sultan.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nHowever, the monarch said that it was wrong to label all Fulani criminals or use \u2018Fulanis herdsmen criminal\u2019 to explain developments because of the misdeeds of some of them.<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cI am a Fulani, and I am not a bad man. I am also not a criminal. Those engaged in one forms of crimes or another are across the country. It is not proper to refer to any tribe to describe individuals&#8217; crime.<br \/>\n\u201cFor example, when they collected N10m, where and how do you spend this amount in the bush? The money is back in the city. I have told the Inspector General of police to check this; we are not saying Fulanis are not part of the kidnappings as mentioned by the Secretary of Miyetti Allah, seven to eight kidnappers arrested are Fulanis, but that doesn\u2019t mean ever Fulani is a criminal, no they are not.<br \/>\n\u201cWe must put hands together to bring an end to this problem. We are going to approach the President to talk to our West African neighbours where we have Fulanis like Senegal, Niger Republic Guinea and Mali, to help us because most of these bandit cross from neighbouring countries conducted their criminal act and run back.\u201d<br \/>\nThe meeting comes in the wake of tensions, especially across the South-West states which many have attributed to criminal Fulani herdsmen.<br \/>\nA Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, had given Fulanis in the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State an ultimatum to leave following allegations of criminality.<br \/>\nVideos shared on social media showed Igboho holding a well-attended rally where he swore to drive out Fulani herdsmen from the entire Yorubaland for causing insecurity and banditry.<br \/>\nGovernor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State also issued a quit notice to all herdsmen to vacate government reserve forests in the state.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultan of Sokoto, HRH Muhammadu Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has said seven to eight out of every ten kidnappers arrested in Nigeria are Fulani. According to the Nation, Abubakar disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a meeting of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders\u2019 Association (MACBAN). However, the monarch said that it was wrong to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309713,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[550,16096,3655],"class_list":["post-309676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-kidnapping","tag-miyette-allah","tag-sultan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309676","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=309676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}