The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Kaduna State, has condemned what they called the ‘extra judicial killings, “maiming, outright stealing, looting, extortion, unlawful intrusion and harassment’ of law-abiding Fulbe youths of Tilde Fulbe community and other areas of Ladduga Grazing Reserve in Kachia Local Government Area of the state.
MACBAN in a statement by its Kaduna chairman, Haruna Usman Tugga, alleged that the organisation as an umbrella body of Fulbe in Nigeria has received with serious concern information via calls and other means of communication from individuals, groups, media and government functionaries over allegations of extra-judicial killings and incursion by Nigerian military personnel from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy Armament Technology School of Artillery (NASA) all located at Kachia, headquarters of Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State into Tilde-Fulbe community and other communities within the Ladduga District, Kachia LGA of Kaduna State spanning three to four weeks ago and particularly on Saturday, 30th December, 2023.
MACBAN said to substantiate the information, the group called an emergency executive meeting of the association to get to the root of the matter and to find out the triggers, remote causes, perpetrators and names of the victims.
Tugga said, “Arising from the emergency Executive Council meeting of MACBAN Kaduna State Chapter held on Wednesday 9th January, 2024 over the premeditated and systematic extrajudicial killings of Fulbe youth currently being undertaken by some badly trained elements in the Nigerian Army with bad motive not only for the Ladduga Grazing Reserve but the entire peace in many other parts of the state like Giwa, Jema’a, Makarfi and other LGAs of the state, the MACBAN dispatched some of its members on a fact-finding mission to the affected areas and came up with findings.”
He therefore called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani to intervene and bring the erring military personnel to book and compensate the victims’ families.
