Miyetti Allah Raises Alarm Over Insecurity In Zamfara State

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, has expressed worries over the increasing level of insecurity in Zamfara state,urging the  government to encourage Fulani children to go to school.

Chairman , Zamfara   State Chapter of the association, Malam Ibrahim Suleman, while reacting to the rising case of  insecurity in the state,stressed the need for parents and government to collaborate by ensuring that nomadic children acquire sound education that can make them to compete favourably with other children in the state.

Suleman, who made the call at a stakeholder’s meeting held in Gusau on Wednesday, said most of the Fulani children indulging in criminal activities such as banditry were doing so due to ignorance and poor parenting.

He said: “it is only when nomadic children are educated lasting peace can be achieved in the state.”

Ardo Babuga, a Fulani Leader in Tsafe Local Government Area of the state, pointed out that mediating or dialoguing with the bandits was a very difficult task.

Babuga said the Fulani community had suffered most from the activities of bandits, saying thousands of their cattle had been rustled, many of them displaced and their women and children kidnapped.

“We are not safe from these bandits, I am personally living as a refugee in Tsafe as a result of incessant bandits’ attacks, ” he said.