Fulani herdsmen have surrendered 30 different guns illegally acquired, to the Police Command in Niger.
The Director-General of the state’s Department of Nomadic Affairs, Alhaji Abdullahi Babayo, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Tuesday.
Babayo said that the arms were surrendered following peace and reconciliation initiated by the department to enhance peaceful coexistence in the state.
He said the department had already embarked on aggressive sensitisation campaign on the dangers of cattle rustling.
“We have reached out to Islamic clerics, specifically to teach us what our religion said about stealing and killing innocent souls and the punishment there after,” he said.
The director-general explained that the approach from religious point of view had greatly assisted in mobilising those who were doing…
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