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President Muhammadu Buhari Dumped Us After 2019 Elections – Miyetti Allah

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December 19, 2022

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President Muhammadu Buhari Dumped Us After 2019 Elections – Miyetti Allah

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s kinsmen, united under the banner of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), have accused the Nigerian leader of abandoning them following the 2019 presidential election, which he won for a second term.

They made the allegation through MACBAN’s national president, Baba-Othman Ngelzarma.

He described how, despite their open endorsement and support for Buhari’s reelection bid in 2019, the pastoralists were disappointed.

Ngelzarma claimed that after winning the election, the president abandoned them.

MACBAN accused the federal government of ignoring livestock production in the N500 billion spent on agronomy by the government over the last seven years while briefing journalists in Abuja over the weekend.

He said, “On the eve of the last election that brought in Buhari for the second term, we endorsed him. We showed the world that we are with him but thereafter, up till now as I speak to you, nothing has been done.

“Buhari has abandoned the pastoralists. This is very clear, whether Buhari or his lieutenants, the pastoralists have been abandoned by the government. In the last eight years, nothing tangible was done for pastoralists. While over N500 billion was spent on agronomy, nothing was spent on livestock, almost nothing.

“Go and check all the state government’s budgetary provisions including the federal government’s budgetary provisions. If you see what is budgeted for livestock, you will be surprised. Livestock is being neglected completely.

“How can a multi-trillion naira business be left in the hands of the literate without any form of organisation? The government is getting nothing instead of benefiting a lot. This is next to oil. Livestock is next to oil. It can sustain the economy of this country with very good harnessing and organization. There’s nothing wasteful on the cow. Imagine the value chain – everything on the cow is money.”

Ngelzarma, a former MACBAN secretary who was recently elected president, expressed regret that, while the rest of the country saw MACBAN members as criminals who received special support and protection from the government, they were victims of extortion, kidnapping, farmer-herder conflict, cattle rustling, and banditry.

He also stated that there has been a general loss of belonging among pastoralists in recent times, and that many of them are attempting to flee the country for more peaceful and saner climes.

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