From Kayemo news
The Fulani socio-cultural organisation under the auspices of the Miyetti Allah has said it would engage the services of 55 lawyers to fight perceived injustice experienced by its members across the country, saying that it must stop.
In order to accomplish this, the organisation has constituted a 55-member legal committee to assess all claims made against its members nationwide in order to pursue legal remedies.
To address the issues of education and social cohesion, two other committees, including enlightenment and nomadic education, were also established.
The group made the disclosure at their annual general meeting, which took place in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The Miyetti Allah alleged that the ongoing imprisonment of Fulani livestock herders in the nation has forced the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani to establish a 55-member legal team to free herdsmen who are currently serving unfair prison sentences.
Alhaji Abdullahi Bodejo, the association’s national president, said the idea that all Fulani herders harbour criminal intent is false, unjust, and unfair while speaking at the group’s annual general meeting.
The group has instructed the legal team, to offer legal support to those herders who have been treated unfairly, degraded, or imprisoned in their native country.
Bodejo warned that anyone stirring up trouble among other citizens of the country and getting arrested by the security agencies would not be rescued by the association, while urging the herders to live in peace and harmony with other Nigerians in order to reduce the rate of accusations and being arrested by the security agencies.
“For unfair reasons, many of our kin are incarcerated in prisons across the nation. Simply because they are pastoring close to grazing areas, they are consistently detained and imprisoned.
Others were detained solely on the grounds that they were Fulani.
