The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has asked that the FG pay compensation to herdsmen affected by all forms of crisis in the country.
The National Secretary of MACBAN, 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.
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He said that 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.
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 IDPs programme because they are not sedentary.
He appealed to the FG to set up a Ministry of Livestock Development to attend to the multidimensional needs of the industry. Ngelzarma said the association welcomed the current resolve by the FG to address the lingering crises, adding that dialogue was the solution to the tackling the menace.
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