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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