A member of the House of Representatives from Kano, Alhassan Kabiru Rirum, has cautioned hunters from his constituency against hunting voyage in the southern part of the country. 

He insisted that conveying dangerous local weapons from the North for the purposes of hunting in the South was capable of provoking violence.
 
The representative of Rano/Bunkure/Kibiya Federal Constituency gave the warning yesterday when he paid a condolence visit to families of the 16 hunters killed in Uromi, Edo State. 
 
Rirum, a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, who led party loyalists to Torankawa village, Bunkure council area of Kano on sympathy visit, emphasised that movement of hunters within region was no longer fashionable.

“The present-day Nigeria requires people doing businesses or traditions that would not create any suspicion that might result to uncertainties,” he stressed.
 
The lawmaker, who later donated N5 million to the bereaved families, pledged to sponsor a bill on the floor of the Green Chamber to address the predicament of local hunters and host community to prevent future occurrence. 

“Carrying dangerous weapons and moving around with them from one end to another in this sensitive period of insecurity in the land will surely send a bad signal and result in causing chaos. Therefore, our hunters should henceforth stop it. 
 
“Just recently, over 30 of my Rano hometown hunters were apprehended in Ondo State, I had to personally go and see the governor and show every evidence that they are not criminals before he worked for their released,” he added.