The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has appealed to the Nigerian government to compensate herdsmen affected by all forms of crisis in the country. National Secretary of the association Baba Ngelzarma made the appeal while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Sunday on the position of the association to the crisis between farmers and herdsmen across the country.
Ngelzarma said the decision was the position of members reached at the end of its National Council meeting. He said no fewer than 1,000 of its members, including women and children, have been killed and 20,000 cattle rustled between June 2017 and January 2018 during crises in various states.
The National Secretary called for the setting up of a Federal Judicial Commission of Inquiry to access the killings in order to unravel the truth and offenders.“We call on the government to pay compensation to victims of all crises to reduce their level of suffering,” he said.“If the government accepts that, it is left for them to establish a committee that will go and access the level of damage.
"We have a document of members that were affected by the pastoralists in the North-East but what we discovered is that none of them were captured in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) programme because they are not sedentary.“Let the government compensate. That will help calm the situation very well".
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