His Royal Highness Alhaji Shehu Usman Chindo Yamusa III, Emir of Keffi Emirate, Nasarawa State, North Central Nigeria, is a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D Energy Laws) with specialization in “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development” from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) and research topic: “The Establishment of legal framework for the Sustainable Development of Renewal Energy in Nigeria”, having first graduated from the prestigious Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto obtaining his Bachelor of Laws LL.B, Combined Honours with research topic: “Doctrine of Judicial Review of the Constitutionality of the Legislative Act in Nigeria”, attended the Nigeria Law School obtaining his Barrister at Laws (BL) and then had gone to obtain his Master of Laws LL.M, legume Magister, Environmental Law and Policy, from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, “Nigeria Legislative Approach to Oil Pollution from Ship: What Lesson can Nigeria Learn from Exxon Waldez and Erika Accident?”. He got his First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) and school certificate from Baptist Primary School Keffi and Plato College Sharam, respectively, in Nasarawa State.
Son of immediate past Emir – late Alhaji Muhammadu Chindo Yamusa II, Dr. Shehu Chindo Yamusa III, born in Keffi on November 4, 1966, was elected Emir of Keffi on 14th December 2015 to be the first Emir to directly succeed his father in the history of Nasarawa State if not in entire nation of Nigeria. Alhaji Shehu Usman Chindo Yamusa III is well travelled having toured 23 countries of the world including the United States of America, where he was presenting paper on renewed energy when the news of death of his father, the immediate past Emir, got to him, United Kingdom: (England, Ireland and Scotland), Malaysia, Thailand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia, South Africa, Republic of Benin, Brunel, Canada, Spain, Egypt, Germany, France, United Arab Emirate, Ethiopia, Singapore, Poland, Italy, etc, all in his 52 years sojourn so far in life.
As ROYAL HOST of The DEFENDER Newspaper, visited recently in his Emirate headquarters of Keffi, the don of Nasarawa State University turned monarch obliged the media organisation with a 30 minutes interview, held in his Farm House and anchored by BASHIR ADEFAKA, its Editor, during which he told the story of his Emirate, how he emerged the Emir and how Keffi has been able to achieve peace, unity and stability despite its cosmopolitan nature.
Lawyer Chindo Yamusa III, who is also the Chancellor of Nasarawa State University, cleared the air on why Fulani is nobody’s problem in Nigeria, citing that all arrests made so far regarding killings do not show complications by Fulani tribe as most of them are either non-Fulani or non-Muslims. He bemoaned the cheating of Fulani “because they have no means of speaking out” on atrocities being perpetrated against them as, according to the President Keffi Emirate Council, Deputy Chairman, Nasarawa State Council of Chiefs and Member, Northern States Council of Traditional Rulers, those who cheat the tribe are the ones who have control of the medium of being heard (media).
He is however optimistic that truth about crisis in the country will soon be open “and the truth is even being known now”, adding that herdsmen/farmers crisis, which he acknowledged has been the only issue recognized by recent history and which is not as criminally as the make-belief being witnessed and mischievously misrepresented by the media, occurs more in the North Central because of the nature of soil texture in the geo-political zone, which he noted is the best in nutrient content in the country.
He also acknowledged that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been able to tackle the problem headlong, either the herdsmen/farmers problem, which is economical, or the killings so mischievously tagged, but expressed dismay that there is no government in the world which can achieve much success without the nation’s communities cooperating with its efforts.
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