The Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development, Heineken Lokpobiri, yesterday described the Fulanis who engage in cattle-rearing across the country as very peaceful people who move around with the families in search of water and grasses for their cattle. According to Lokpobiri, the persons who have so far been arrested cannot speak any Fulani or Nigeria language. Speaking yesterday during the Public Hearing on perennial clashes between herdsmen and farmers organized by the Senate Joint Committees on Agriculture and Rural Development and National Security and Intelligence, Minister of State, Lokpobiri said, “Available statistics to us in government show that contrary to media report that these violent herdsmen are the conventional Nigerian Fulanis, they are not, as none of those apprehended was able to speak any of the Nigerian languages. This gives strong credence to the possibility of the violent herdsmen to be another form of terrorists in the mode of Boko Haram. “The problem is not Nigeria, but regional, more so, when the Nigerian Fulani man has always been known to be a peace loving person.”
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