IHRC-RFT raises alarm over alleged harassment of Fulani communities

The International Human Rights Commission-Relief Fund Trust (IHRC-RFT), Nigeria Chapter, has raised concerns over the alleged harassment and mistreatment of peaceful Fulani communities by some security personnel, vigilante groups and criminal elements within their own ethnic group.
In a press release, the commission said it had received complaints from Fulani residents who claimed they were being targeted despite being law-abiding citizens.
The group also alleged that some criminal Fulani elements had been stealing their cattle and killing them in their homes and while they were grazing their livestock.
The commission stressed that an entire ethnic group should not be labelled crimi...