Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeder
Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has said that it is against any plan to grant
amnesty to those who have been tormenting the country over the years and
“rustling our members’ cattle.”
Bauchi State Secretary of Miyetti
Allah, Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmad said granting amnesty would only attract more
criminals to the crime world, “Government should allow the law to have its full
cause. Let them serve their jail term – even if it is life sentence. They are
bad eggs. ”
Sadiq spoke with newsmen after a
stakeholder meeting with the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police on Sunday to
tame the influx of rustlers and bandits in the State.
He said: “It is very
disheartening to see those who had been previously arrested by Police on
streets without proper trial. These are people who are robbing people,
kidnapping for ransom and killing –and at the end of it, you are granting them
amnesty, for what?” he queried.
He also faulted the mistaken
identity of his members for killer herdsmen by some police officers whom he
said have held some of their members wrongfully.
Meanwhile, CP Habu Sani, however,
urged the members of Miyetti Allah and other stakeholders to be wary of who
they accommodate as visitors and report those who are suspected of crime to
Police.
He said their input would assist
the police in its action plan and improve the corps’ community policing
strategy, noting that the insurgency in the northeast and armed banditry in the
northwest could only be curtailed by involving community stakeholders.
Sani urged traditional leaders to
sensitise their community on security consciousness.
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