Pastor David Ibiyeomie of the Salvation Ministries, has supported claims by Miyetti Allah's President, Abdullahi Bodejo, who earlier in the year, said a single cow is equivalent in value to 100 people.
"Fulani are settling in every community, but we are not claiming land, we are only interested on how our cows will have food to eat," Bodejo said in an interview with Daily Sun.
"Fulani can’t value 100 people’s lives like he can value his one cow because since he was born, he doesn’t have any business except that cow. The cow is like his own brothers and sisters. If anything happens to his cow, do you think he can leave you?
"You have two or three storey buildings and you park your cars , do you fold your hands and watch somebody come to that house carry your cars, your clothes, your wife, destroy the buildings? You must fight. The Fulani man values his cow just as you value your brother and sister and you go all out to protect them.
"They love their cows beyond description, you can’t separate them from their cows to go and stay inside town or city. The cows have names. The way you give your children names when they were born is the same way they name their cows.
"Even a person who has one thousand cows, those cows have individual names and he knows them by name; the cows have fathers, grandfathers and grandchildren. What you have in human beings – the ways names are given to people, the same way Fulani give names to their cows.
"We are cow lovers , that is why sometimes if you kiII their cows somewhere they go there to look for justice, because they see like somebody has kiIIed their brothers; they must go to see who did that and they won’t leave that person," he added.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while addressing his members on the topic “Divine Protection”, Ibiyeomie said current realities in the country, attests to Buhari's love for cows over the lives of Nigerians who voted him to power, and whom he swore on oath to protect.
“Some people will just sit down and scheme to attack somebody. The love of money has increased, so people want to do anything to have it, so human life is of no value. That is why you need protection, especially this part of the world like Nigeria where people value cows more than humans," the cleric said in a message.
“In Nigeria, a cow is more important than a human being, that is how funny the Government of Nigeria is, where cows are of more valuable than human beings,” he added.
Ibiyeomie also lamented that no Boko Haram member has ever been convicted.
“I have not seen one Boko Haram man convicted, not one. Have you heard anyone convicted? So, who is behind it? You better answer it? That is the level of wickedness everywhere. Are you saying that they don’t know them? Why is it that one person has not been caught and convicted?
“We are privileged to hear things from the military men which I might not be able to say on the altar, but by the position of my calling, I hear from the military. If you say you want to attack the Boko Haram, you may be the victim they want to attack. You know in the military you don’t talk, else they will court martial you. It is a very funny country,” he said.