Gumi forms rights group for Fulani herdsmen

 

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has floated an advocacy group known as Nomadic Rights Concern to fight for the rights of Fulani herdsmen.

Gumi said the formation of the Nomadic Rights Concern would bring attention to the abuses and violations of rights of Fulani herders across the country.

“We found it worthwhile to establish Nomadic Rights Concern to be headed by Prof. Umar Labbo. NORIC is supposed to be a channel whereby nomads will have their complaints and agitation addressed to the right authorities.

“The organisation was established to address these fallouts, hopefully, nomads will follow the civil ways in addressing their grievances away from violence, it’s said that violence is the language of the unheard,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gumi, who led other Muslim faithful on a visit to two major state-owned hospitals in Kaduna, shortly after the annual Ramadan preaching session which held at Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna on Saturday, called on the All Progressives Congress-led administration of the President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on the nation’s health sector.

He said the health sector across the country has collapsed as the general hospitals are now mere consulting centres.

According to Malam Tukur Mamu (Dan-Iyan Fika), Median Consultant to the cleric, the hospitals visited are Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital in the metropolis and the Gwamna Awwan General Hospital in the southern part of the state.