The Sultan of Sokoto and the leader if Muslims in Nigeria, Muhammed Sa’ ad Abubakar III, has explained why believes that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), can help resolve the insecurity crisis in the country.
Abubakar pointed out that the leadership of MACBAN has a lot to do to help bring issues around banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria to an end.
He spoke during the swearing-in of MACBAN’s new executives at the National Mosque Abuja.
According to the monarch: “Everybody knows that Fulani move from point A to B. They move everywhere and they intermarry. And we are peace-loving.
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‘But how did we come to the situation we are in now, we find our children who are Fulani, but not all of them Fulani have been involved in banditry and kidnapping. What happened?
‘When we meet with the executives we will discuss how to tackle this. How do we resolve them because it is high time we did.
‘Over 48 years of this MACBAN, we need to have some new inputs and new ideas into the constitution.’
Africa Today News, New York reports that in recent times, Fulani herders have been associated with kidnapping and banditry in the country.
Armed Fulani herders have been accused of attacking farmers, sacking communities, and attacking religious centres across the country.
These armed herders are said to have realized billions as ransom from their banditry activities.
In a related development, the Chairman of Miyetti Allah cattle breeders association of Nigeria (MCBAN), Alhaji Attahiru Abubakar (Tukuran Bargu) in Kebbi State has warned against what it described as ethnic profiling and killing of Fulani pastoralists in several states in southern and middle belt Nigeria.
He gave the warning in Birnin Kebbi at the association’s secretariat on Wednesday, according to him, Fulani tribes are not unaware of the labelling of Fulani as bandits and terrorists, when many tribes are part and parcel of banditry, in some cases indigenes are the ones disguising as Fulani to unleash terror on their people, kill Fulani and steal their cows.
He cited Benue state where it was confirmed that the actual bandits are their people, in southeast too, killings and stealing of cows belonging to Fulani were done by the state indigenes tagged as ‘unknown gunmen’ but unfortunately the federal government always look the other way ‘let me state here, that in the wake of unprovoked killings by armed bandits, the real Fulani are the worst hit, in Kebbi alone Fulani lost over 3000 cows to armed bandits disguising as Fulani’