Police, Miyetti Allah meet to prevent farmer-herder clashes in Kano

The Kano State Police Command has held a strategical information gathering with the enactment of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) successful the authorities to fortify measures aimed astatine preventing farmer-herder clashes up of the harvest season.

The meeting, held astatine the Command Headquarters successful Bompai, Kano, was led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, and MACBAN Kano Chairman, Captain Abdullahi Adamu Bakoji (retd).

The Police said the engagement was portion of its proactive, intelligence-led and community-centred policing strategy to code disputes that often originate during the harvest and transhumance periods.

Bakoji identified harvest destruction, cattle rustling, encroachment connected cattle routes and grazing reserves, nighttime grazing, reprisal attacks and misinformation arsenic immoderate of the issues susceptible of escalating tensions betwixt farmers and herders.

He said MACBAN had been sensitising its members, identifying and sanctioning recalcitrant herders, moving with accepted institutions and reporting transgression elements wrong the relation to information agencies.

He besides pledged the association’s continued practice with the Police and different stakeholders to beforehand peaceful coexistence.

“The engagement is apt, timely and captious to sustaining pea...