It is wrong to equate cattle to human beings —Asemota

It is wrong to equate cattle to human beings —Asemota


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SOLOMON ADUN ASEMOTA, (SAN), Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, retired as a Superintendent of Police in 1970 to practise law and become a SAN in 1986. In this interview by SUYI AYODELE, the 83-year-old says it is the responsibility of the Fulani leadership to rein their brother cattle rearers over their excesses. Excerpts:
 
Let us trace the history of the migration of herdsmen from the North to the South and the reasons for the current tension over the activities of the herders. 
We thought that when General Yakubu Gowon, in 1967, created the 12-state structure that the North and South and the East invincible boundaries would have been erased. In fact, we thought that Gowon had succeeded with his stroke of pen to provide 12 states. But, it is clear and now very clear that the invincible boundary of the North and the South remains. And the reason for it: we must go back to why the annexation took place or what they call it, the unification or why the amalgamation took place in the first place. It took place because the North had no coast:  no coastline; no seaport, nothing. And Lugard wanted the South to cater for the North. This is responsible for the statement of Lord Harcourt in 1913, when he described the North as a ‘well-conducted youth’ and the South, as a ‘Lady of means.’ So, the Lady of means provided all the money for the housekeeping. But as usual with these matters, the well-conducted youth acquired a polygamous state. Instead of one wife, he now has, I don’t know, whether 26 or 27 wives. But one time when it was the North, South and East, they were three. When they want to defeat the Yoruba, they call the Igbo. When they want to defeat the Yoruba,  they call the Igbo. Now what they do is that they are co-opting Christians. You got the whole background? So, oil is drying up and minerals that have not been exploited are going to be the thing for the future. Therefore, the whole thing has to be recalibrated so that they have the dominant role. That is it.

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