Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has been lambasted for
daring to defend the controversial and inciting tweet in 2012 in which
he said that any person, soldier or not, that kills a Fulani person,
takes a debt that is repayable in 100 years.
El-Rufai who was a guest at the Social Media Week in Lagos
yesterday had maintained that his tweet was never a threat but rather a
call that helped avert a major crisis.
“People are making reference to what I tweeted in 2012. What
did I tweet? I tweeted that any person, soldier or not, that kills a
Fulani, takes a debt that will be repayable in 100 years. It is a
statement of fact. It is not a threat. It is not an incitement to
violence and there is a context to it. In 2012, the General Officer
commanding of 5 divison of the Nigerian Army in Jos, gave an instruction
that it behooves on the governor of Plateau state to wipe out two
Fulani settlements just outside Jos on the suspicion that they have
weapons. This was reported by the governor of Plateau state and the
commander gave the order and I heard about it.
"I called and said please don’t do that. Go and surround the
place and search for weapons. But that was not the objective. The
Objective was to remove them from the settlement because they are
settlers and people that think that that land is their ancestral land,
want to take the land. It is not because they had weapons. Now I know
the nature of the normadic Fulanis.
"My great great grand parents used to be such people. If you
kill any of them unlawfully, they organise to take revenge no matter how
long it takes. Now for me, the danger is that if the Nigerian Army goes
and wipes out a Fulani settlement, any person wearing a Nigerian Army
uniform in 14 West African countries is at risk because these Fulanis
may have relations in Mali, Ghana, Serria Leone, Guinea, and word would
go round that the Nigerian Army has created genocide against the Fulanis
and anywhere you see a person wearing a Nigerian Army Uniform, is a
target for retaliation and I warned the commander that this will happen.
"He did not listen and that is why I put it on the record so
that when it starts happening, nobody would say he was not warned.
Ultimately because of that tweet, the commander retracted his plan and
they went and surrounded the settlement and searched for weapons and
found none. To me, what I did averted a potential disaster but that is
being put as if I tweeted something inciting anyone. If you don’t
believe what I tweeted, go and do what the army wanted to do and see the
consequences,” el-Rufai said
Following el-Rufai's defence of his earlier tweet, Nigerians on
social media came out calling the governor all types of unprintable
names. They claim that el-Rufai's tweet was capable of inciting violence
and cauing his Fulani people to harbour hatred against other tribes.
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