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Bandit Kingpin Bello Turji, Writes Buhari, Seeks Dialogue
The letter which was shared by the bandit reads, “We’re grateful to God who has given us this chance to convey this message to the Emir of Shinkafi, by way of the Governor of Zamfara state, Alh Mohammed Bello Matawalle (Braden Maradun) and to the President Mohammed Buhari.
“This can be a letter (initially written in Hausa as seen beneath) from Mohammed Bello Turji Kachalla, the one everyone knows about.
“Having mentioned that, I need the Emir of Shinkafi, the governor of Zamfara and the president, to look as much as Allah and his Prophet.
“The aim of this letter is as follows: 1. The killings of individuals occurring which isn’t being publicised, the killings by bandits, herdsmen, kidnapping for ransom and even by safety brokers are our making. All these will come to an finish by the grace of Allah. The federal government must play its half to make sure that that is achieved. So long as ethnicity and tribalism are eradicated, we have to all stay as one huge household and forgive each other as Allah instructions.
“2. Your highness, we wish to have a sit down with the normal rulers on this nation and in addition the spiritual leaders. If that is finished, I Mohammed Bello Turji Kachalla, will be certain that to disarm all my males and hand over all our arms to the federal government of Nigeria. So long as the federal government guarantees to deal with us the way in which it’s taking good care of the remainder of the nation and cease the stigmatisation of my folks.
“3. Your highness, I wish to guarantee you that we aren’t in competition with the federal government of Nigeria and we are not looking for some other nation aside from this, we aren’t in search of the facility of any type, fairly the ugly issues we Fulanis are going through on this nation have pushed us to react the way in which we do and made us wish to defend ourselves to the detriment of the peace of the nation.
“4. Your highness, we aren’t thieves and we don’t imply to hurt anybody. This letter isn’t borne out of deception and we’d not wish to be deceived.
“Every part must be finished in transparency for Allah’s sake and the sake of the peace of our nation. So we will return to the way in which we have been up to now. We must always all be law-abiding and permit the safety brokers to do their job and punish anybody discovered wanting. No type of arms could be seen with anybody besides within the arms of the safety brokers because it’s speculated to be.
“5. Your highness, that is our final request. Simply as we mentioned earlier, we’ll wish to make it possible for all conventional rulers and all our Muslim leaders, most particularly Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, to be current at this assembly. It’s because he’s the one one who understands us and he has been paying us visits to sympathize with us. He has been preaching to us and now we have seen the effectiveness of his messages in our lives. We solely need the peaceable existence of everybody on this nation.
“Might Allah give us all of the energy to maintain these guarantees with out fail.
“This letter is from Mohammed Bello Turji Kachalla.”
Bandit Kingpin Bello Turji, Writes Buhari, Seeks Dialogue
