The National Executive Council of Miyetti-Allah Kautal Hore has protested the confiscation and auction of cattle confiscated from the pastoralists in Benue State.
The group also accused Governor Samuel Ortom of continued criminal profiling of its members in the state.
Speaking at the end of its expanded NEC meeting on Monday, the national secretary of the association, Saleh Alhassan, exonerated members of the group from the insecurity that has bedeviled the state and the country as a whole.
The pastoralist association also demanded the immediate designation, gazetting and development of all the 415 grazing reserves across the Federation.
“The meeting condemned the continuous profiling of Fulani pastoralists by the Governor of Benue, Samuel Ortom through the satanic anti-grazing law that he has been using to confiscate and auction millions of cattle belonging to Fulani’s in Benue-Nasarawa and Benue-Taraba boarder communities.
“The gathering called for the immediate redesignation, gazette and development of all the 415 grazing reserves across the states of the federation as the only first strategic step in addressing the challenges confronting Fulani herders in Nigeria,” Mr Alhassan added.
