Alleged attack on members: MACBAN makes national threat to all Nigerians

Suppose the Government at all levels needs to address the challenges facing its members. In that case, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, or MACBAN, has vowed to suspend selling livestock nationwide.

After Saturday’s Fulbe National Security Summit in Abuja, it issued the warning in a communique.

Baba Othman Ngelzarma, National President, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, His Excellency, Mallam Isa Yuguda, President Tabital Pulaaku International, and Dr. Salim Musa Umar, President General, Fulbe Global Development and Right Initiative, signed the communique read to journalists following the summit.

Anger over “resentment and wrong profiling of the Fulbe across the nation” was aired at the summit.

“The summit calls on the Government to partner Fulbe socio-cultural associations/opinion leaders and Security Agencies to curtail the current trajectories.”

“The Fulbe pastoralists do not enjoy Government patronage and are often made scapegoats for most atrocities,” it lamented, adding that the Government had not made much progress in addressing the root causes of the current conflict.

“The Fulbe often suffers intimidation, segregation, molestation, and all forms of deprivation in the hands of Security Agents and Vigilantes groups, thus forcing them out of their occupational livelihood and ancestral homes.

“The summit opined that the Fulbe pastoralists will be compelled to stop selling livestock across the nation if immediate action to curtail the current challenges by all tiers of Government are not addressed,” they warned.

The summit urged the need to protect grazing reserves in all states where they are found and denounced these areas’ severe encroachment and dilapidation across the nation.

The summit emphasized that “the registered Fulbe socio-cultural groups and associations do not support any crime or criminality, such as banditry, kidnapping, and cattle rustling, as the Fulbe have also been the major victims,” even though it acknowledged the complexity of the nation’s security challenges.

“That the current security challenges confronting the country and especially the Fulbe communities ranging from banditry, kidnapping, socio-economic marginalization, youth restiveness, drug abuse, cattle rustling, and proliferation of arms should be addressed as a matter of urgency and the necessary need to integrate the Fulbe to the larger society through education and social interaction.

“The trend in social media is further fueling the conflict and current challenges of the Fulanis, unfortunately, social media is not regulated.

“The hate speeches in the social media targeted at the Fulanis should be addressed by the Government.

“The Federal Government should revise and adopt a non-kinetic approach to ending banditry, kidnapping, and cattle rustling, as the kinetic ways used over the years have only achieved very little result.”

The summit urged the Government to take into consideration as a necessity the National Commission for Nomadic Education’s continued existence as an agency of the Federal Ministry of Education, with a specific mandate to guarantee the provision of functional basic education to nomadic communities by the recommendations of the Oronsaye Report.

“This is in consideration of a research report on out-of-school children in Nigeria, that 8 million out of over 10 million out-of-school children in the country are pastoralist children.

“Therefore, not retaining the commission with sufficient funding to educate the children is an imminent danger to our dear nation,” it stated.

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