Extrajudicial Killing: See What Miyetti Allah Wants from Government And Security Agencies

  • MACBAN wants lasting solutions to extra-judicial killings in Bauchi.
  • Laments that no action has been taken despite recording some deaths.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) Bauchi state chapter has urged Security Agencies and Government to find lasting solutions to the activities of an outlawed group that randomly kills its members across the State.

Sadiq Ahmed, MACBAN’s secretary in the state made the call at the funeral of two of the latest victims of the extra-judicial killing in Bauchi on Sunday.

While urging the security agencies and the government to act fast and protect the people in the state, Ahmed warned that, if the activities of the group are not tackled, it will get out of hand and will pose a great security threat in the state.

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“If they are attacking people in the rural areas and they are not stopped, they may start attacking people in urban areas,”he warned.

Speaking on the continued killing of Fulanis allegedly by a group carrying out extra-judicial killings in the state, he said the group are popularly known as Yan Ba Beli which are being accused of allegedly apprehending and killing of persons across the state.

According to him, about 10 members of their association gave been killed at various locations within the last two weeks‎.

The MACBAN secretary, who listed the victims who were the former chairman, Miyetti Allah Bauchi local government, Jafaru Shanka‎ and Musa Mokawu both residents of Yolan Bayara, a community few kilometres from Bauchi metropolis stated that, the two people were allegedly abducted at the Palace of Yakubu Yola, the village Head after they were invited for a meeting.

He however said that, their corpses were later recovered in the bush with gunshot ‎and Machete wounds.

Noting that the killings had been going on unabated in the state as two people were recently killed in Toro, two others in Ganjuwa‎ while another was also abducted at Durum Market and later killed elsewhere and two other persons were also allegedly killed in Ningi local government area of the state, he lamented that, despite the reports of atrocities being perpetrated by members of the group, no concrete action is being taken to bring their activities to an end.

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According to him, members of the group operate without hindrance as if there is no law as they came on Motorcycles to Markets and apprehend their victims which they later kill.

He also said that they ride in twos or threes on about 100 or 200 Motorcycles invade communities, abduct and kill people in broad daylight without any hindrance.

He, therefore, expressed the desire of the Miyyeti Allah to cooperate with government and security agencies to maintain peace.

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