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By Abdulwaheed Olayinka Adubi, Kaduna
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has strongly condemned the alleged extra judicial Killings and what it described as outright stealing in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna state by suspected men of Nigerian Army.
The Association equally accused the men of the Nigerian Army of unlawful intrusion, looting, extortion and harassment of law abiding Fulbe youths of Tilde Fulbe community and other areas of Ladduga Grazing Reserve within Kachia LGA.
According to the Association in a statement on Thursday some of its members who were on a fact finding mission to the affected areas were dispatched.
In the statement signed by the state Chairman of the Association, Haruna Usman Tugga, explained that to substantiate the information, it promptly called an emergency executive meeting of the association with a view to getting into the root of the matter and to find out the triggers, remote causes, perpetrators and names of the victims.
“We received with serious concern information via calls and other means of communication from individuals, groups, media and government functionaries over allegations of extra judicial killings and incursion by Nigerian Military personnel from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy Armament Technology School of Artillery (NASA)all located at Kachia, headquarters of Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
“That about two (2) weeks ago, the operatives of the Nigerian Army seized one young man by name SAFIYANU ADAMU, 22 years old, who was sick and being conveyed to the hospital by his biological father and other relatives. After six (6) days in the custody of the officials of the Nigerian Army, the dead body of the young Safiyanu was found in the bush.
“Mallam Adamu ldris, the father of late Safiyanu, made a complaint at the Police station in Kachia. Having keenly listened to the complainant, the authorities of the police, after taking pictures of the lifeless body of the deceased Safiyanu and other information, ordered that the deceased be buried the same day according to the Islamic rite.”
“The said operatives of the Nigerian Army came back again to the village (Tilde Fulbe) on the 30h day of December, 2023 at about 10am and perpetrated another atrocity.
“They shot and killed one NURA YUSUF at close range in Crossing Katul Market in full glare of thousands of people in the market and dumped his lifeless body along with his motorcycle in their military van and went away with it.
“Thereafter, his dead body was also found around Oduma Village of Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State about two (2) days after they demanded for the sum of Four Hundred Thousand naira (N400, 000.00) only from the deceased brother which sum was allegedly meant for his treatment, but they failed to call again after the brother insisted to hear the voice of the victim before he could give them the money.
“The trigger hungry military personnel also arrested four (4) young men from the same village and later shot and killed all of them in cold blood and dumped their lifeless bodies in the bush around Antai village in Kachia LGA along the road leading from Crossing to Maro of Kajuru LGA.
“The already decomposed bodies of these innocent youth were recovered and buried by our members with the help of the Nigerian Police on Monday, January, 2024 alongside one other person who was also arrested and killed in the same circumstance, therefore making the victims of the gruesome killing to five in number.
“These innocent youths were killed in spite of the fact that one of the Soldiers used the arrested young man’s phone to call the family and demanded for the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira (N300,000.00) only, for his release which never materialized.”
While calling on the Federal Government and the Kaduna state Government for immediate intervention and ensuring that all the erring military personnel involved in the perpetration of these heinous crimes against humanity are brought to book and victims’ families compensated.
MACBAN also alleged that one of the Soldiers sent his account details to the relations of their victims demanding money. The account details read: ACCOUNT NAME: Halidu Altine, NAME OF BANK: First Bank, ACCOUNT NUMBER: 3124149608.
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