MACBAN kicks over killing of Fulani arrested by soldiers, seeks urgent probe

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Kaduna state has condemned the extra judicial killings, maiming, outright stealing, looting, extortion, unlawful intrusion and harassment’ of law-abiding Fulbe Youths of Tilde Fulbe community and other area of Ladduga Grazing Reserve in Kachia Local Government areas of Kaduna. MACBAN, in a press statement signed […]

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Kaduna state has condemned the extra judicial killings, maiming, outright stealing, looting, extortion, unlawful intrusion and harassment’ of law-abiding Fulbe Youths of Tilde Fulbe community and other area of Ladduga Grazing Reserve in Kachia Local Government areas of Kaduna.

MACBAN, in a press statement signed and issued by Chairman of the association in the state, Haruna Usman Tugga, alleged that the MACBAN as an umbrella body of Fulbe in Nigeria, had received with serious concern information on 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, spanning three to four weeks ago and particularly on Saturday, 30th December, 2023.

According to MACBAN, “In order to substantiate the information, it promptly called an emergency executive meeting of the association with a view to getting into 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 the following findings.”

He 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.