The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has warned that the crisis in Benue between Fulani herdsmen and farmers may get out of hand if security Agencies don’t put a stop to it.
The Sultan made this known on Thursday in Abuja at the 1st General Assembly of Inter-faith Dialogue forum.
He stated that everything must be done to stop the ongoing loss of lives, warning religious and political leaders to avoid inflammatory utterances that could further worsen the situation.
Abubakar also urged Nigerians to be more concerned about the daily loss of lives instead of the religion or ethnicity of the victims, stressing that God is angry with the killers.
“The killings must be stopped, they have gone too far. This is not the time to apportion blames, but to seek solutions.
“What are the security agencies doing and when will these killings stop? We must challenge the leaders with one voice, the issues must not be looked at with the prisms of religion or ethnicity.”
