Ethnic profiling of Fulani women by Ondo Amotekun threatens national unity – ACF

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has warned that alleged taste profiling by a information outfit successful Ondo State could undermine nationalist unity and worsen tensions crossed the country.

The forum made its presumption known successful a connection issued by the president of its Board of Trustees, Alhaji Bashir M. Dalhatu, pursuing a viral video allegedly showing operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known arsenic Amotekun, arresting and publically parading immoderate women identified arsenic Hausa/Fulani residents successful the state.

ACF described the reported incidental arsenic unconstitutional and discriminatory, insisting that nary Nigerian should beryllium treated arsenic a alien successful immoderate portion of the country.

“No bureau of government, whether federal, authorities oregon local, has the close to dainty citizens arsenic outsiders successful their ain state due to the fact that of ethnicity,” ACF said.

It besides faulted alleged claims that the women were threatened with deportation, stressing that specified enactment has nary ineligible backing successful Nigeria.

“Every Nigerian has the close to live, determination and enactment freely successful immoderate portion of the country, and nary authorization is empowered to deport citizens from 1 authorities to another,” ACF stated.

The forum expressed interest that the women progressive were reportedly going astir lawful activities earlier the incident, adding that nationalist humiliation based connected ethni...