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Fulanis in South-West want to join Amotekun

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The Sarkin Fulani of Oyo State, Alhaji Salihu Kadiri, has said the Fulani community in the South-West are against the decision to enlist only the indigent residents of the South-West into the Amotekun joint security outfit.

Kadiri spoke during an interview with journalists at the inauguration of the Oyo State executive of the Nigeria Union of Journalists at the Jogor Centre, in Ibadan.

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With the present composition of Amotekun, he said Amotekun appears sectional and anti-Fulani.

He urged the South-West governors to ensure the inclusion of Fulanis and other ethnic militia in the region into the Amotekun Corp.

He said,

“For now, the Fulanis in the South-West are not in support of Operation Amotekun. With its present composition, Amotekun looks more sectional. It looks as if it is meant to fight the Fulani herders who the farmers are accusing of using their cows to destroy their farms. That is the truth.”

“We have Fulani vigilante groups across all the South-West states; let them be included and be part of the Amotekun security outfit. Not only the OPC and Agbekoya that should be in Amotekun. Some of us were born here in Yorubaland, nothing stops the governors from recruiting the Fulanis and other tribes into Amotekun if it is not for sectional purpose.”

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