Miyetti Allah to S/East govs: Protect us, our cattle in Igboland

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), South East zone, has appealed to the five states in the zone to facilitate the protection of all law-abiding members of the association and their cattle, insisting that the association’s interest in the region is purely economic.

The Chairman of MACBAN in the South East, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, told journalists after a meeting of the joint executive council of the group in Enugu on Monday that herders in the area would be cautious while engaging in their trade.

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He said the group would not delay in reporting any of its members found to be involved in criminal activities within the zone.

He said it was necessary to correct the wrong impression that herders’ interests in the region were beyond economic pursuits, noting that such an assumption or the impression had made their members quite uncomfortable in the zone. Siddiki stated that the suspicion that the herdsmen had territorial ambitions has generated unhealthy relationships in most parts of the region.