The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) on Sunday cried out over the spate of killings by terrorists and bandits on its officials and members, lamenting that it has lost two State chairmen and five local government chairmen who are rustling their cattle.
National Secretary of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja in reaction to the “gruesome murder” of its Gwagwalada Area Council Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chairman, Alhaji Aliyu Adamu, his son and three other people by bandits.
Ngelzarma explained that Adamu and four others were gunned down by terrorists at Dako hamlet near Dobi Village in Gwagwalada, FCT.
He called on the security agencies to take action against the ever increasing activities of bandits.
According to him, MACBAN has lost two state chairmen and five local government chairmen following activities of cattle rustlers and bandits.
“Adamu was said to have been trailed by the bandits from Izom Cattle Market in Niger State. Four other people in the same vehicle with him were kidnapped and the bandits are asking for N100 million as ransom.
“MACBAN views the increasing cases of activities of bandits in Niger and now the FCT as a great threat to the thriving livestock industry in the two States.”
MACBAN called on the security agencies to take action against the ever increasing activities of terrorists and bandits.