By Muhammed Ogwu, Lafia
The Fulani socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has unveiled a Cattle International Market in the Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, targeted at tackling farmers/herders clashes across the country.
Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, the National President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, who spoke during the event, said the established of the international market would foster integration with other ethnic nationalities in the country and also to sustain the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello legacy.
Bodejo, who was represented by the North Central chairman of the group, Ibrahim Adamu explained that the new market would add the economic value of not only the northerners but all the Nigerian citizens.
While commending President Bola Tinubu for creating the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, he, however, reiterated the association’s commitment to continue to give massive support to him in order to ensure the success of his administration.
His words, “Creating this ministry is an advantage for us, to educate our nomads concerning the issues of crisis. Because crisis is something that is unlawful. So, apart from the numerous advantages, the ministry will also make the nomads come close to the farmers.
“Also, with the establishment of this maliya international market, it will make the sellers and buyers come together and be interacting. This will make them have an understanding and through that, they will have a cordial relationship.”
Also speaking at the unveiling of the cattle international market, one of the youth leaders of the group, Abdullahi Aliyu explained that opening the cattle market was an initiative of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, who had desired to have a market at the border town between the Northern Nigeria and the other parts of the country for the purpose of enhancing our economic values.
According to him, as an international market, it is expected that people from Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger Republic, Central African Republic and other African countries will constantly buy cattles from the market which would in-turn help to boost the economy of Nigeria.
Aliyu said apart from the economic development of the country, the market will help to solve the farmers-headers clashes as well as tackle security challenges because there will be a lot of work for the teaming youths who are currently jobless.
“This market will provide job opportunities for young Nigerians. Inside the market, there is going to be milk section. Also we will have a meat section.
“It is not just a cow market itself where you will slaughter and store the meat for exportation within and outside Nigeria. There is a clinic for the cows. There is a clinic for humans that are going to interact in the market. There is equally a police station, a security outpost.
“There is equally where the head of the cow itself will be treated, where the bones will be treated, and all things that you know, including the feces of the cow that we know is very useful, will be transformed into a proper and natural fertilizer that would be used in our local farms within Nigeria and of course, the African continent,” he stated.
He, therefore, employed his tribesmen and other Nigerians to do away all forms of violence and embrace peace at all times, while stating that there cannot be any meaningful development in an atmosphere of rancour.
“It is very important that we should accept ourselves as brothers and sisters. We should love ourselves. We should try to have peace within ourselves. We should be talking to ourselves. We should understand each other, so that together, we will be able to take our dear country to greater heights,” he concluded.
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