Nigeria, Sept. 21 -- The Concerned Plateau Fulani Forum (CPFF) has warned that it will no longer tolerate what it described as the continuous profiling of Fulani people in the Plateau crisis, vowing to take legal action against anyone-including government officials and security agencies-who blames the community for recurring violence in the state.

In a strongly worded statement made available on Sunday, the group argued that tagging Fulani, particularly herders, as the masterminds of killings and destruction amounted to ethnic profiling designed to paint them as aggressors and justify their displacement from the state.

Coordinator of the CPFF, Saleh Haruna, who signed the statement, expressed displeasure over what he called a pattern of...