Isa Yuguda, Bauchi State’s former governor is the latest Northern political elite to condemn the rise in ethnic profiling in the land. Following the footsteps of other prominent Northern leaders, the two-term governor decried the persecution of his ethnic group over the past few weeks as insecurity rips the country apart.
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar in his strongly worded statement also warned of the danger that may accompany ethnic profiling if the media continues to play it up. Kadaria Ahmed wrote her own jaundiced story of how the country treads on the cusp of destruction. She speaks the mind of Northern hegemons but couldn’t escape the knocks that followed her plea. For Atiku Abubakar, Bello Mutawalle, Bala Mohammad and Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi, the message is the same: stop profiling Fulani as the country’s trouble makers and rabble rousers. Ethnic profiling, they seem to chorus, is dangerously deadly if allowed to fester.
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Toluwalope Kareem
Nigeria is increasingly becoming a fragile state. The intricately, delicate security challenges we face have obviously overstretched and overwhelmed the country’s security architecture.
That is why the current wave of existential threats to the peaceful and harmonious coexistence among disparate ethnic extractions of the country should not be treated with kid gloves. As it stands, the country cannot afford to take issues of security with levity, no matter how infinitesimal they might initially seem. The high level and interwoven scourge of insecurity among others, was said to be what informed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to ban the trading and transaction in the popular digital currency cryptocurrency, which has heavily been invested in by young Nigerians.