A Senator from Osun State, Ajibola Bashiru, has lambasted the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for equating herdsmen and spare parts sellers, especially violent herders.
Malami had said that banning open grazing in the South was tantamount to banning spare parts business in the North.
Bashiru, who is the Senate Spokesman, however found this nauseating.
Commenting on it, he said:
“Anyone who cannot rise above primordial sentiments and pursue a parochial ethnic agenda need not occupy a position of trust especially at this time of sectional agitations.
“It was not dignifying of the status of the nation’s attorney-general and minister of justice to make such remarks.
“Those who have no meaningful contributions to national discourse operating on the basis of equity and justice to keep quiet and stop rubbishing the Buhari-led APC government.
“These kind of statements have made Nigeria a laughing stock in the comity of Nations and they ridicule the administration of President Buhari. These statements are not giving hope to those at the receiving end of the activities of the herdsmen.”
