Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has said the Fulani extractions in the country are of good character and integrity, but immigrant herdsmen are damaging its reputation.He said that armed Fulani herdsmen rampaging around and terrorizing people in the country are not Nigerians.

The chairman of MACBAN, Giwa Council, Ibrahim Abubakar, made the remarks while fielding questions from journalists at a retreat organized yesterday for the leaderships of the group from 23 councils of the state on security challenges encountered by cattle rearers in the state.

According to him, “Not all Fulanis are bad, there are many good people among us, but those pastoralists coming from neighbouring countries are the ones spoiling our name. We are people of integrity and good character but this people have come and damage our reputation.”

Abubakar explained that cattle rearers in Giwa council and other parts of Kaduna state are facing a lot of security challenges, ranging from cattle rustling, destruction of properties and killing of people that are of Fulani extraction by bandits.

He called on government and security agents to come to their rescue adding that, “the bandits are always coming to kill us and rustle away our cows. They have been coming to destroy our properties as well. This issue has become a critical one that requires state of emergency.”

While speaking, state chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Haruna Usman, called on it members to vigilant and more security conscious.He advised them to fish out evil perpetrators living within their surroundings.

“We from Miyetti Allah are distancing ourselves from the insecurity issues, and we have been calling on our people to ensure that if they are living with someone whom his/her ways are not pure, they should notify the security agents and if they are afraid of informing security agents, he should come and tell us so that we can do that on his behalf in order to get them caught,” he maintained.

He said the gathering was premised on issues of insecurity happening in Kaduna, especially as the general election is around the corner.

“We do not want any problem in Kaduna; that is why we call on our group from the 23 local government areas in Kaduna to discuss on way forward to prevent chaos,” he said.

According to him, “Not all Fulanis are bad, there are many good people among us, but those pastoralists coming from neighbouring countries are the ones spoiling our name. We are people of integrity and good character but this people have come and damage our reputation.”

"The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has warned security agencies and civilians against attacking Malian herders grazing their cattle in Gudu and Tangaza Local Government Areas of Sokoto State...."
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Yusufu Idegu, a correspondent of The Nation Newspaper, has dismissed reports that he circulated a false story about Danladi Ciroma, north-central chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN).

Idegu’s report on Ciroma describing the killings in Plateau as retaliation for 300 rustled cows and loss of some herders’ lives had generated controversy.

Although Ciroma admitted that he spoke with the reporter, he alleged that he was quoted out of context.

“We talked on phone. Sincerely speaking, what that boy wrote was not what I told him. We did not speak on reprisal attacks,” Leadership quoted Ciroma as saying.

The Nigerian media was subjected to severe criticism, with the presidency accusing it of fuelling tension.But in a statement on Tuesday, Idegu maintained that Ciroma made the utterances widely circulated in the media.

Below is the statement:

PREMIUM TIMES in their apology to Miyetti Allah last week which went viral, I did commented that they were unnecessarily in a hurry to conclude their investigation on the denial of Danladi Ciroma who granted me interview. I still insist that that so-called investigation by is so shallow and strange.

If you read that apology again, it was alleged that I YUSUFU AMINU IDEGU circulated my story on a WattsApp page for colleagues to copy. All of us here in Jos can bear me witness that I don’t have the habit of sharing my published story in WattsApp page.

By the way, it is against our rule here that no journalist should paste his story on any of our three platforms eg, Correspondents platform, NUJ platform and that of Ministry for information. So, on which reporters platform did I share that story? Can any of us remind me of any other platform I circulated that controversial story. I never did.

Again, the fact that Danladi Ciroma denied his comments and PREMIUM TIMES hurriedly apologized to Miyetti Allah does not mean Miyetti Allah is right and the media is wrong.

Up till now, I still remain positive and confident that Danladi Ciroma is lying, the fact that I have no record of the interview does not also make Ciroma right in his claim. Let us not narrow investigation into media publications to availability of recording alone, providing the voice recording could be a short-cut to the investigation, but in the absence of the short-cut, the long-cut alternative can be explored for thorough investigation.

I’m happy my employer, THE NATION newspaper is doing that at the moment, based on the confidence they have in me, they are exploring all necessary alternatives to get to the root of it.[/b]

As colleagues or as a body of media practitioners, let us also not be too hasty in condemning any colleague that find himself in this saga for the fact that in all discipline, professionals can make mistake at a point in his work no matter your years of experience. I’m 19 years in journalism, in spite that, I’m not immune to professional mistake.

Above all, I still insist I’m not wrong in this matter, I have no apology for Miyetti Allah or Danladi Ciroma.
Thank you colleagues for taking your time, remain BLESSED.

buhariguy:
This is one area thief atiku has totally lost,Thief atiku is backing the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist to be accusing the Fulani, his own tribe of the killings done by arm bandits from any tribe and from outside the country.

magoo10:
The same miyetti that have been protecting Malian herdsmen. These are the real terrorist

buhariguy:
This is one area thief atiku has totally lost,
Thief atiku is backing the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist to be accusing the Fulani, his own tribe of the killings done by arm bandits from any tribe and from outside the country.