Fulani people are also Plateau indigenes’ – Gov Mutfwang’s SA on Security insists

The Special Adviser on Security to Plateau State Governor, Barr Caleb Mutfwang, Brig. Gen. G. Shipi (rtd), has raised a fresh controversy by insisting that the Fulani people are also indigenes of the state.

Gen. Shipi, who made the assertion during a one-day sensitization programme on peace and peaceful coexistence held at the Sharna Palace in Jos, condemned long-held claims by natives that the Fulanis are visitors and strangers who have no right to lay claim to being indigenous people of the state.

At the gathering, which had in attendance men and women of Fulani extraction from all 17 local government areas of the state, the Security Adviser said those who claim that members of the Fulani group are not indigenes of the state should be disregarded, urging them to recognize that the Fulani are an integral part of the state.