Miyetti Allah Wants Palliatives For Herdsmen

• Kazeem Badmus

The Kwara State Chairman of Miyetti Allah Association, Alhaji Bello Abubakar, has appealed to the Federal and State governments to consider herdsmen – members of the association in the distribution of palliatives to cushion the hardship in the country.

Abubakar, made the call on Monday while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, noting that herders were the most affected people during this period.

Explaining that the majority of herders have no bank account where they can easily access funds, Abubakar maintained that transportation fares take the larger part of their money whenever they take their livestock to the market for sale.

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He said, “expressed worry over the high cost of food items in the market, appealing to the government to release food items from the nation’s reserve and sell at a subsidised rate to ordinary Nigerians.”

Abubakar also urged government to assist his members with vaccines to prevent the death of their livestock from strange diseases.

He warned criminal elements among the Fulanis to discard crime and other social vices in their interest.