By Boluwaji Obahopo

LOKOJA—Kogi State chapter of Miyette Allahi Cattle Breeders 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.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/fulani-threaten-to-withdraw-cattle-from-market/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Some comments made:

NWA_Africa
If it means wiping them so be it.
It is better they leave to Chad or Niger as we are tired of them. Do not preach
me here about human right because the west and other countries around us all
have cow and you do not hear or see the type of problem these Fulani gives us. To
hell with Fulani, even if there are peace loving ones I do not care. They are
all the same because a snake can never change its habits. You cannot leave you
place and enter another man place and want to take him and his household by
force. Nobody needs cow and the so called @tata tata if the South do not buy
cow you people will suffer because average Muslim man eats lamb which is what
you people will sell next week Monday and Tuesday. If the South decide to stop
the movement of petroleum to you people you all will suffer but if you people decide
to stop your sick cow from entering south which we want you to stop immediate it
is you northerners that will bear the blunt.





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15 minutes ago

1964mad
The threats by these people is becoming one too many. they threatens lives, properties, farmland and now food. There are many alternatives to meats. The sooner we start exploring them the better.

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19 minutes ago

Bumie Tegbe
They can like to keep their cattle. Maybe pple would be forced to eat fish which is healthier.tschewwwwwww!! Y are they threatening?

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38 minutes ago

wilosky
Cows or beef who even needs that? Only if southerners will realize the danger in eating these sick animals from this sick Foolanis n Awushas it will be better for them. It is 100% healthier eating chicken n fish than eating all that rubbish they sell. Instead of moving south west, why don't they move back to that northern desert where they trully belong. nonsense.

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MAHANTA_LOVE
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if they are had gone to south west, meaning BOKO HARAM is heading towards south west. YORUBAS watch out. i am afriad, if they should, come they are going to mix-up because there are alot of muslems in the south west, not only muslem but affluent men and women. i can't comprehend how YORUBAS manage to embrace ISLAM.

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Pastor AIO: By Boluwaji Obahopo

has threatened to withdraw its animals from the state markets

Time to go vegetarian

Omo Alata:

Time to go vegetarian

I think that a spell of vegetarianism would be really good for Nigerians. I think our diets are atrocious. We live very unhealthily.

However a lot of our vegetables and fruits also come from the North. Or the Middle belt.

And a lot of the fish in the delta regions are dead.

I think that this is terrible. Stereotypes are unjust and unfair.