By Ahmed Abubakar, Dutse
The National President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Muhammadu Kirowa has blamed the various states leaders of the group for the present rise in insecurity in most parts of the country.
Kirowa, who is also the Ardon Zuru spoke on Sunday at the inauguration ceremony of North Western States executives of MACBAN held in Dutse.
The visibly angry president blamed the states Fulani leaders for allowing youths under their dormains to go out of control on criminal rampage against other citizens.
Kirowa said, “It is common knowledge that even though we (Fulani) are the worst victims of various forms of persecutions and criminality, but because we don’t own media which is why our voices were never heard”, he declared.
He said, “before any other person gets kidnapped about twenty or more Fulani people must have suffered the same fate with payment of ransoms which no media had bothered to report or investigate in the past.
“We have to tell ourselves the truth that we have failed in our responsibility of giving our children the right training and good upbringing that ought to have shaped them for a better people.
“We cannot continue to wallow in denial when it is a fact that majority of criminals arrested across the country are from within us, our kith and kin have gone into this circle because of our sheer negligence”, he stated.
He said it is up to the leaders and the rest of the Fulani societies to unite and give their children a better home training with education or continue to drag the name of the tribe to embarrassment.
Earlier, the National Secretary General in charge of north west of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Usman Ngelzarma urged the newly inaugurated leaders to collaborate with heads of security operatives in their various states to enable them have a smooth working relationship.
Ngelzarma said the association is a non political one which is why the Sultan of Sokoto is it’s BoT chairman with other members that includes the emir of Kano, Lamido of Adamawa and the rest.
He urged Fulani cattle breeders to embrace the modern trend of cattle ranching to avoid conflicts with farmers and continued exposure to criminal tendencies.
