Lawyer Aloy Ejimakor has asked Fulani leaders how they would tolerate it if Yoruba and Igbo people infiltrated their region and launched constant kidnapping raids on their men, women and children.

He also asked for their opinion concerning such raids and their destruction of farms, maiming and killing of their people, all in the name of herding cattle or other avocations.

“Well, I don’t think you would tolerate it, going by your antecedents. You may even go further to heap a collective blame on the entire Igbo or Yoruba race and accuse them of some sinister ethnic agenda/plot reminiscent of the false flags of 1966,” Ejimakor said in a statement sent to our correspondent.

The lawyer pointed out to Fulani leaders that organised acts of kidnapping and other forms of violence cascading across Southern Nigeria and traceable to Fulanis have reached a point where the entire South is feeling that “your studied silence when these things happen is no longer golden.”

“Does it mean that you’re lacking in basic compatriot spirit or worse? Are you silently in agreement with Sheikh Gumi (a Fulani leader) who openly makes excuses for these vile acts and makes no secret of condoning them?” he asked.

Ejimakor wondered why Fulani leaders can’t speak up now to condemn what Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is saying and dissociate the mainstream Fulani race from the mayhem being committed by these fringe criminal elements amongst them.

“Think about this and speak out now. There is power in words,” he said. (The Guardian)