A group under the auspices of the Plateau Patriotic Front, PPF, has challenged the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, to prove that the Fulani people have suffered injustice in the state.
The challenge is coming on the heels of a recent statement by the National Secretary of MACBAN, Bello Gotomo, who claimed that the waves of attacks and killings the state attributed to Fulani militias are a result of the injustice the Fulani people have suffered.
But in a statement by the National Coordinator of PFF, Mani Imman, the socio-political group tasked MACBAN to present incontrovertible evidence that the Fulani people have been denied justice or have been marginalized.
In the statement, Imman described Gotomo’s allegations as far-fetched and a figment of his imagination as well as an open admission of complicity in the violence that had claimed thousands of lives across Plateau’s rural communities.
Imman also called on security agencies to arrest and prosecute the MACBAN Secretary over the attacks and killings in the state since he seems to know the perpetrators.
Imman noted that Gotomo’s comments are not only reckless and inflammatory but also amount to an open confession as far as the assailants are concerned.
He added that Gotomo’s remarks not only indict the Fulani militia as the attackers and killers of innocent people in the state, but also a clear admission that MACBAN knows and endorses their actions.
