"Where Do You Expect Us To Keep Our 20 Million Cows?"- Cattle Breeders Ask Nigerians
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| President Muhammadu Buhari pictured with the MACBAN officials on January 3, 2016 |
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has sided with Fulani herdsmen over the
lingering violent clashes between them and landowners across the
country, wondering where Nigerians expect cattle breeders to keep the
over 20 million cows in the country.
They spoke in Abuja on Wednesday, May 4,
2016 during a meeting MACBAN had with the chief of defence staff, CDS,
General Gabriel Olonisakin represented by the director of administration
at the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, Major General Fatai Ali.
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Senator Alkali Jajere, who spoke on
behalf of the group, regretted that Nigerians have refused to pay
attention to what motivated Fulani herdsmen to migrate to other
territories in the country, explaining that herdsmen moved into new
territories because members of the Boko Haram sect attacked them in the
North-East and other parts of the country and stole millions of cows
from them.
Accompanied to the meeting by the
Miyetti Allah chairman, Mohammadu Kiruwa and the national secretary
Usman Ingelzarma, Jajere maintained that Fulani herdsmen have also
suffered from cattle rustlers in Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna,
Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue and parts of Kogi states where millions of cows
were taken away from them, wondered.
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“Our appeal is that you tackle this
issue with professionalism, so that no innocent person, no herdsman who
has not gone anywhere, would be apprehended or suffer injuries,” he
said, adding that the Miyetti Allah had visited all security agencies to
warn about the recent upsurge in clashes.
According to him, “When the reserves and
forest were gazetted and reserved for cattle breeders, this incident
was not there; but the increase in population has now wiped out the
entire grazing reserves in this country; 400 and something of them all
wiped out. And you have a population of about 20 million cows. Where do
you keep them? And every one of us likes to eat meat.
“This is a venture that over 20 million
people are engaged in. And nobody cares to know what the causes of this
problem are. Presently, you know the case of Boko Haram. They attacked
and decapitated the population of Fulani in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe and
some parts of Taraba.
Stressing that government and the
Miyetti Allah must ensure that the sanctity of life of a farmer, any
other citizen or herdsman is protected, Jajere said: “Fulani are killed
like rats in the bush, and nobody announces it, but that is not an
excuse also to say that anybody in the name of herdsman can go and kill
anybody in this country and we allow it to go, that cannot happen.”
Source: The Willing
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