Nigerian Politician Says West Turns ‘Blind Eye’ to Fulani Terrorists

Former Nigerian minister charges that Fulani have killed 500,000 Nigerians in past 5 years

A woman carries wares recovered from burned shops as she walks past a three-story building burned during deadly clashes with the northern Fulani at Shasha Market in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, on Feb. 15, 2021. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

An accord signed last month by G-20 foreign ministers to stamp out the remnants of the ISIS terrorist group and to halt the expanding terror of ISIS-related groups in the Sahel of Africa has been greeted with dismay by prominent Nigerians.

The Western powers missed an opportunity to identify one of the world’s deadliest terror groups—Fulani militias—the Hon. Femi Fani-Kayode told The Epoch Times. Fani-Kayode is the former Nigerian minister of aviation and a leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.