GOVERNMENT ministers have held meetings with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) in Kebbi State where they were offered N100bn ($276m) over two years to call off the ongoing murderous rampage of Fulani cattle herdsmen.



Over recent years, Fulani herdsmen have mounted a murderous campaign against rural farming villages, allowing the livestock to run riot and destroy farmlands. When villagers complain about it, they are attacked by heavily-armed gangs of herdsmen who ransack their villages with AK47s, sometimes leaving hundreds dead after such raids.



President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense criticism for failing to address the issue and being an ethnic Fulani himself who owns cattle, he is seen as sympathetic to Macban. However, with the insecurity growing by the day, the government has decided to meet with Macban officials where it offered them a cash payment to call their members off.



Interior minister Lt General Abdulrahman Dambazau led the federal government delegation to the talks in Birnin-Kebbi, which lasted for over five hours. Apparently, Macban asked for N160bn but after intense negotiations, both sides settled for N100bn.



General Dambazau said: “The gathering is part of steps we have taken to tackle insecurity and clashes between herdsmen and farmers. You should not forget the fact that we have extended the meeting as a regional one when the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) hosted a conference on this.



“These issues were discussed and part of the dialogue was to provide a national action plan on security challenges and solutions by all members of the Ecowas commission and to present it to the commission for consideration. That is the main reason we have come to Kebbi State, to dialogue with leaders of herdsmen as part of the process.”



Over recent weeks, the orgy of kidnapping by Fulani herdsmen has made major national roads especially in the northwest impassable, especially, the Abuja to Kaduna Highway. Over the last month alone, herdsmen have attacked and killed many people in villages and farms in Benue, Zamfara, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Enugu, Imo, Cross River, Edo, Delta, Abia, Kwara, Taraba, Osun, Ondo and Sokoto states.



These killings associated with the Fulani herdsmen led to them being designated as the fourth most dangerous and deadly terrorist group on earth by the World Terrorist Index. At the meeting, the inspector-general of general Muhammad Adamu, gave a grim picture of the havoc being wrecked on Nigerians by the herdsmen.



He added: “The criminals have infiltrated the crisis and we should cooperate and deal decisively with the culprits, hence we called for this interaction. Those criminals that are beyond redemption, will be dealt with and brought to book.”



Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, said hosting the meeting in his state shows the seriousness of President Buhari’s administration in tackling the security challenges in the country. Macban president Alhaji Muhammad Kiruwa, said the meeting was productive and should bring about peace.

Alhaji Kiruwa added: “This is the first of its kind in the history of this country, for the president to direct his security aides to interact with an aggrieved party to air its views. This meeting will serve as a foundation for peace between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers and among the Fulanis themselves.”
http://www.nigerianwatch.com/government-and-macban-reach-agreement-to-pay-fulani-herdsmen-n100bn-to-stop-killings/?fbclid=IwAR2guXKYeATp4dPuXMpOHFoYqEjogFJfxxo-ol7q0Jvp47FlUHBv1pGNLP4

My biggest surprise, is that they paid them a paltry 100 billion naira?

For Pete's sake these marauding herdsmen should be paid about 15 trillion naira and begged with 1000 SW virgins to stop killing Nigerians

You know their leader cannot be arrested and python dancers cannot touch them, they are untouchable.

Propaganda

Mr. Integrity I haile thee O

Iwo olorun so to kill people is lucrative now in Nigeria and we're spending years to go to school..

Nevertheless Nigeria is Doom

Topmaike007:
Iwo olorun so to kill people is lucrative now in Nigeria and we're spending years to go to school..

Nevertheless Nigeria is Doom

popsy2:
Propaganda

Gerrout

One day is one day, freedom drum will beat for Nigeria . Bad news everywhere.

Now u understand y Jonathan hired foreign mercenary....

Naija army lacks stratehies.....

pay serial Murderers who have killed over 30 thousand in 3 year? this is clearly a strategy to pass on tax payers money to the herdsmen so the can arm more

Wait U mean d govt is agreeing to pay D same herdsmen dey claim are aliens hundreds of billions to stop attacking it's citizens? It is finished

I hope this is not true..... I pray its propaganda.

dubiouspmb:
GOVERNMENT ministers have held meetings with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) in Kebbi State where they were offered N100bn ($276m) over two years to call off the ongoing murderous rampage of Fulani cattle herdsmen.

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Amazing

Terrorism pays

dubiouspmb:
GOVERNMENT ministers have held meetings with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) in Kebbi State where they were offered N100bn ($276m) over two years to call off the ongoing murderous rampage of Fulani cattle herdsmen.



Over recent years, Fulani herdsmen have mounted a murderous campaign against rural farming villages, allowing the livestock to run riot and destroy farmlands. When villagers complain about it, they are attacked by heavily-armed gangs of herdsmen who ransack their villages with AK47s, sometimes leaving hundreds dead after such raids.



President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense criticism for failing to address the issue and being an ethnic Fulani himself who owns cattle, he is seen as sympathetic to Macban. However, with the insecurity growing by the day, the government has decided to meet with Macban officials where it offered them a cash payment to call their members off.



Interior minister Lt General Abdulrahman Dambazau led the federal government delegation to the talks in Birnin-Kebbi, which lasted for over five hours. Apparently, Macban asked for N160bn but after intense negotiations, both sides settled for N100bn.



General Dambazau said: “The gathering is part of steps we have taken to tackle insecurity and clashes between herdsmen and farmers. You should not forget the fact that we have extended the meeting as a regional one when the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) hosted a conference on this.



“These issues were discussed and part of the dialogue was to provide a national action plan on security challenges and solutions by all members of the Ecowas commission and to present it to the commission for consideration. That is the main reason we have come to Kebbi State, to dialogue with leaders of herdsmen as part of the process.”



Over recent weeks, the orgy of kidnapping by Fulani herdsmen has made major national roads especially in the northwest impassable, especially, the Abuja to Kaduna Highway. Over the last month alone, herdsmen have attacked and killed many people in villages and farms in Benue, Zamfara, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Enugu, Imo, Cross River, Edo, Delta, Abia, Kwara, Taraba, Osun, Ondo and Sokoto states.



These killings associated with the Fulani herdsmen led to them being designated as the fourth most dangerous and deadly terrorist group on earth by the World Terrorist Index. At the meeting, the inspector-general of general Muhammad Adamu, gave a grim picture of the havoc being wrecked on Nigerians by the herdsmen.



He added: “The criminals have infiltrated the crisis and we should cooperate and deal decisively with the culprits, hence we called for this interaction. Those criminals that are beyond redemption, will be dealt with and brought to book.”



Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, said hosting the meeting in his state shows the seriousness of President Buhari’s administration in tackling the security challenges in the country. Macban president Alhaji Muhammad Kiruwa, said the meeting was productive and should bring about peace.

Alhaji Kiruwa added: “This is the first of its kind in the history of this country, for the president to direct his security aides to interact with an aggrieved party to air its views. This meeting will serve as a foundation for peace between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers and among the Fulanis themselves.”
http://www.nigerianwatch.com/government-and-macban-reach-agreement-to-pay-fulani-herdsmen-n100bn-to-stop-killings/?fbclid=IwAR2guXKYeATp4dPuXMpOHFoYqEjogFJfxxo-ol7q0Jvp47FlUHBv1pGNLP4

Let us just hope, this information is not true because, if it's true that the government actually agreed to pay such money to MACBAN or whatever it name called, then the citizens should better braced up for more deadly attacks & killing by the herders, as such huge amount will definitely be used to procure more arms & ammunitions for it members. And who says the Country can't be Islamized after all? Nigeria is in for a bigger shit.

Anybody who believes this needs caning

SLAP44:
My biggest surprise, is that they paid them a paltry 100 billion naira?

For Pete's sake these marauding herdsmen should be paid about 15 trillion naira and begged with 1000 SW virgins to stop killing Nigerians

You know their leader cannot be arrested and python dancers cannot touch them, they are untouchable.

Choi, We Have Different And Unequal Sets Of Citizens In Nigeria. Finally Buhari Pays Libyian And Gadaffi's Terorrists. But Nigeria Why? Buhari Should Give Farmers #100b Too. Then Pay Artisans Also. Imagine #100b To Ground Arm For Two Years? Imagine The Conspiracy? What Next At The Expiration Of Two Years? This Shows That Buhari Sponsored These Guys. After All I Dont Know Their Patron. This Is Why He Left The Country, So That It Will Look As If He Is Not Part Of The Discission.

if this is true then we should bear it cos we caused it.

I just wonder why they're not making such demands nor killing in other West African countries where they reside and do business. Is it right to bribe anyone to stop any illegal activity for which they should be tried with available evidence? El Rufai once did something similar. It hasn't stopped killings in Kaduna.

I don't see how this will solve the problem permanently. It's like ransome payment. There's no end to it.

I saw the meeting going but this money mata o hope is not true because forming a group no hard oooo then na 500bn o anyway NEXT LEVEL JOR

I’m coming

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If government closes down the rumour and hate carrying newspaper now, some fools will still cry. Spreading falsehood, hate and lies is a punishable offense

Add them to annual budget spendings alread


Fools

Welcome to Nigeria where terrorism pays.
Where propaganda is the order of the government.
And now they have given those terrorists more funds to acquire more arms and ammunitions.
I pity the victims.
#SpitsOnBuhari

When jesus said its finish he was refering to nigeria

Is very good, some people will say it's a good development, some regions who understood Nigeria are fighting for freedom, while others keeps on shouting 1 Nigeria, this is just the beginning.

Ethnic bigot, I know you will drag the Yorubas/SW into this matter.

SLAP44:
My biggest surprise, is that they paid them a paltry 100 billion naira?

For Pete's sake these marauding herdsmen should be paid about 15 trillion naira and begged with 1000 SW virgins to stop killing Nigerians

You know their leader cannot be arrested and python dancers cannot touch them, they are untouchable.

I am beginning to see similarities between this Apc government and the Taliban