Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto, says it has become highly imperative to proffer a lasting and workable solutions to security and socioeconomic challenges that bedevil Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN).
The monarch said this on Friday when he met with the hierarchy of association over the problems confronting the pastoralists in the country.
The religious leader, who is the chairman board of trustees of the association, bemoaned the criminal profiling of the herders.
The Sultan averred that it is not every crimes committed in the country that is done by the Fulanis, while he admonished herders to respect constituted authorities and eshew all forms of acts capable of smearing their reputations and casting them in bad light
Also, Usman Bugaje, a senior advisor to the Sultan, stated that the goal of the meeting was to ensure a genuine search for solutions to the entire problem affecting the Fulanis in the country.
“We are helping at the secretariat level to bring out the issues and see how we can look at other economic, social and even ethnic dimensions to the problems,” Bugaje said.
“And, there are timelines put to it, we have agreed that there will be timeline, we are not going to leave it open.
“Because we need to get it done within one year maximum from now if all the stakeholders are ready to cooperate.”
For his part, Baba Ngelzarma, national secretariat of MACBAN, appealed to the government to introduce programmes that would dissuade idle herders from crime and engage them in learning other skills in addition to cattle rearing.
He also said not much by way of financial reward accrue to the herders because their cattles don’t measure up to the ones in other parts of the world in terms of sizes and milk outputs.
“Even the cattle rearing are they getting money? Their cattle are not competing with the ones you have in other parts of the world that weigh 700 to 800 kilograms per cow,” Ngelzarma said.
“The milk output is also not competing with the other ones in the world where one single cow is given an output 50 litres per day.
“We still hold the outdated species of the cow that are weighing not more than 100 to 120 kilograms and given out an output of milk that is not more than three to five litres per day.
“So, a lots need to be done by government, religious leaders, traditional rulers and pastoralist associations.”
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