Kogi State chapter of Miyette Allahi Cattle Breeders Association of
Nigeria, MACBAN, has threatened to withdraw its animals from the state
markets over harassment and arrest of its members by the police.
Chairman
of the association, Alhaji Shuabu Idrisa, weekend, after a stakeholders
meeting between Fulani Ardos and Miyette Allah cattle breeders on
problems affecting them, said the threat to withdraw cattle had become
necessary following the way security agents were arresting their youths,
women and cows in the event of robbery on the highway.
He added that
they were made to pay huge sums of money to secure their release, a
development, he said, had made some of its members to move to
South-West, where they are not harassed or taunted as Boko Haram.
He
said: “If there is any robbery on the highway, security agents will
swoop on all Fulani settlements in that area and arrest their people,
including cows. But when a bank is robbed in town, people of the town
are not arrested.
“Also once they see any Fulani man ridding Okada, they will arrest him, calling him Boko Haram and, in the process, extort him.”
He alleged that people always kill any cattle that mistakenly enters their farmland in the area.
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