Arrest Miyetti Allah officials now – Benue Socio-Cultural groups calls.

The three main socio-cultural organisations of the people of  Benue State, Mdzough U  Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Ominy’Igede, have Sunday, in Makurdi, faulted a media statement credited to the Myetti Allah Kautal Hore, alleging that they would again rise against the state’s anti-grazing law.

 

In a communique signed by the leaders of the three bodies made and made available to newsmen, the group reiterated its call for the arrest of the Myetti Allah’s officials over the said publication contained in one of the national dailies.

The communique read in part, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the leaders of Miyetti Allah and published in The Nation newspaper of Saturday, May 19, 2018 under the caption:

 

 “Again Miyetti Allah leaders rise against Benue anti-grazing law,” in which they vowed to do everything possible to resist any law that is against their culture, movement and economic interest.

 

“We maintain that it is sheer mischief for the leaders of Miyetti Allah to ask President Muhammadu Buhari to call Governor Samuel Ortom to order, because the anti-open grazing law was not made by Ortom.

 

“It is a law of the people of Benue state through their democratically elected representatives as a last resort in their futile efforts to find peace and ensure security of lives and property in the state”.

 

The communique also added the desperation on the part of the leaders of Miyetti Allah, who have deliberately chosen to use Governor Ortom as a scapegoat in their allegedly ethnic cleansing agenda of Benue state.

 

It read, “We state emphatically that the anti-open grazing law does not stultify the culture, movement or economic interests of any person or group of persons, including members of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Association. That is why till this moment, a good number of herders, including Fulanis, Hausas and other groups with good intentions, still reside peacefully in Benue state”.