Shettima imposes civil-military management
in cattle markets; Ban sale of dry meat; and introduces stringent conditions in slaughter
houses
in Maiduguri.

Boko Haram insurgents have devised a new
means of using “unscrupulous middlemen” to
crudely sell stolen cattle at the Gamboru cattle
market in Maiduguri with proceeds used to fund terror activities, Borno Governor, Kashim
Shettima announced Friday.

He spoke while inaugurating a new
management made up of representatives of
the Nigerian military, police, the Department of
State Security, civilian JTF and Government
officials who have been assigned to take full
charge of the market and henceforth scrutinize
sources of all cattle, delay slaughter of certified
cattle for claims while the Government placed
a ban on imports of cattle through various
routes as well as sale of dry meat across the
State.

Shettima, whose written message was read by
Secretary to the Borno State Government,
Usman Jidda Shuwa at the inauguration of the
new management committee, said the
insurgents resorted to the new order because
they now lack capacity to attack and loot
banks, towns and other traditional methods of
sourcing funds for their murderous activities.

“Our security agencies have reasonably
established that most of the cattle being
traded at the markets were the direct proceeds
of cattle rustling perpetrated by Boko Haram
insurgents which were sold at prohibitive costs
to unsuspecting customers through some
unscrupulous middlemen who use underhand
ploy to deliberately disguise the transactions as
legitimate."

The money realised from such transactions
would then be channeled to fund the deadly
activities of the insurgents.
“Consequently, the insurgents, through these
nefarious transactions, felt they had discovered
new sources of resuscitating their already
battered and degraded infrastructure, with a
view to recommencing their atrocities, which
have since been irredeemably halted by the
Military.

“We are indeed very grateful to the gallant and
professional resourcefulness of our security
agencies who, through their relentless pursuit
of the insurgents and incredible intelligence
gathering techniques, have identified the
nature and type of serious security threats
posed by the trading activities at these cattle
markets and appreciably staved off such
threats by foreclosing all commercial transactions at these places” the Governor said
explaining that the discovery led to the
temporary closure of the market by security
agencies in the State.

As a result of the situation, Shettima said, he
was putting in place a committee made up of
representatives of the military, the Nigerian
Police Force, the Department of State Security,
youth volunteers involved in counter
insurgency operations popularly known as the
Civilian JTF, Government officials and credible
representatives of unions of traders and
Butchers to takeover the markets so that
activities in the market would resume due to
public demands for meat but under a sanitized
system.

“In addition to the overall management of the
cattle markets, the Committee is to devise
strategies to ascertain the source of all cattle
being traded and slaughtered at the Cattle
markets; ensure that a mandatory period of
three to four days are observed on all cattle
sold before they are sent to the slaughter
house in order to enable interested parties to
inspect them. This is to give opportunity to
those whose cattle have been rustled to make
claims and counter claims; certify all cattle
traded at the markets to ensure that all pre-set
conditions have been met before they are
slaughtered” the Governor said.
Shettima announced a ban on importation of
cattle into the State for the time being.

"In order to facilitate the work of the
Committee and achieve the desired outcome,
importation of cattle to the State Capital
through all routes by all sources, other than
the Cattle traders Association is hereby
suspended for two weeks from the date of this
inauguration.
“In the same vein, the sale of dried meat has
been banned as it has been observed that
criminal elements resort to this method to
legitimize their dubious activities which
ultimately end up in funding the activities of
the insurgents. Furthermore, all trading
activities at the Gamboru cattle markets,
Dusuman, Shuwari and Ngom are suspended
until further notice in line with the
Government’s determined commitment to
ensuring that no public place is turned into an
avenue for funding of nefarious activities of the
insurgents,” he noted.
The Governor said he would hold members of
the committee responsible if trading of stolen
cattle continues in any market.
“Let me reiterate that considering the caliber
of the members of this Committee, I have no
doubt in my mind that you will discharge this
responsibility within your utmost ability. I will
therefore hold you personally and severally
responsible for any omission or commission in
the effective discharge of this onerous
assignment. I enjoin you to live up to the
expectation of the Government and people of
the State”.
The Governor presented cheques of N100m to
leadership of the cattle traders and Butchers to
serve as bailout to thousands of law abiding
traders who have been thrown out of business
following steps taken by Government to close
cattle markets. The members are to use the
funds to purchase legitimate cattle that are to
be subjected to investigations by the new
management committee of cattle markets.

Good one Gov Shettima. BHT is looking for every available means to raise funds. God will punish them one by one.

summarize pls to lengthy

They will surely run out of food, strategies and ideas. Surrender and die or Starve to death!

Any one leads to the same destination anyway.

hausa muslimd in the north are using style to support boko haram, infact that is why they are still strong

AgbenuAnna:
summarize pls to lengthy

Boko Haram insurgents have devised a new means of using “unscrupulous middlemen” to crudely sell stolen cattle at the Gamboru cattle market in Maiduguri with proceeds used to fund terror activities.

okosodo:
hausa muslimd in the north are using style to support boko haram, infact that is why they are still strong

IPOD bigot.

Macclane:


Boko Haram insurgents have devised a new
means of using “unscrupulous middlemen” to
crudely sell stolen cattle at the Gamboru cattle
market in Maiduguri with proceeds used to fund terror activities.

thanks for the summary