Sunday 24 April 2016

IGP ARASE VOWS TO NIP HERDSMEN MENACE IN THE BUD



The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase has said that Nigeria's Police Force will not allow the menace of Fulani herdsmen snowball into another Boko Haram insurgency.

Speaking with journalists on Saturday in Abuja, Solomon Arase said that the police would continue to monitor the Fulani herdsmen and ‘amputate them whenever they come up.’

The Police boss attributed the killings being carried out by the Fulani herdsmen to the influx of arms and ammunition from Mali, Chad and Libya.

“I have repeatedly said that what is happening has to be placed against the background of what is happening in African sub-region.”

“When you look at the period when these things started happening and the crisis with migrants and then the flow of arms across our borders, then you will understand what is happening.”

“We have been living with our own indigenous herdsmen for many years, so why is it now that there are crisis in Mali, Libya, Chad and the proliferation of firearms that the herdsmen are becoming more prevalent in the system.”

“We have to look at it against that background and maybe they have indigenous collaborators but we will not allow them and it will not degenerate into Boko Haram. We will continue to monitor them, degrade them and continue to amputate them whenever they come up.”

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