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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has threatened to suspend selling of livestock across the country if the government at all levels does not tackle the challenges facing its members.
It gave the warning on Saturday in a communique issued after a Fulbe National Security Summit held in Abuja.
The communique read to journalists after the summit was signed by 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.
The summit expressed anger over what it called “resentment and wrong profiling of the Fulbe across the nation.
“The summit calls on the Government to partner Fulbe socio-cultural associations/opinion leaders and Security Agencies to curtail the current trajectories.”
It lamented that that the Government had not made much inroads towards addressing the genesis of the current conflict, stressing that “the Fulbe pastoralists do not enjoy Government patronage and are often made scapegoats for most atrocities.”
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 condemned the serious encroachment and dilapidation of grazing reserves throughout the country, calling for a need to preserve them in all states where they exist.