Kano Lawmaker Urges Northern Hunters to Stop Southern Hunting Trips

A Kano lawmaker has called on hunters from the North to stop travelling to the South in the name of hunting, describing the practice as outdated and potentially dangerous.

Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, who represents Rano, Bunkure, and Kibiya Federal Constituency, made the appeal during a condolence visit to families of victims killed in Uromi, Edo State.

He said the current security situation in the country no longer supports such movements, especially involving weapons like guns and cutlasses.

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“In this age, you cannot carry weapons like guns and cutlasses and go to the south in the name of hunting. Things have changed.

“Our people need to stop these practices and reason with the current situation at hand. Things have really degenerated.

“Is like you living in this community, to see some southern tribe wielding dangerous weapons coming around, they don’t speak your language, and you don’t speak theirs; what would be your reaction?

“In like manner, you can’t be wielding dangerous weapons in southern communities where you don’t speak their language, and they don’t speak yours in the name of hunting.

“Things have changed in this country; it is not like it used to be. So, we are hereby calling on them to stop this practice. “We should learn to adapt to changes as they come. This hunting practice must not continue. You go out in the name of hunting and come back without even a rat”, he said, urging hunters to reconsider the practice.

Rurum promised to engage with hunters’ associations in Kano to put an end to the trend and called for alternative, peaceful livelihoods.

He also pledged, alongside Senator Kawu Sumaila, to raise a motion in the National Assembly over the Uromi killings.

Rurum donated ₦5 million to the victims’ families and promised to build a school in their honour.