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| Miyetti Allah |
MACBAN’s spokesman, Ibrahim Bayero Zango, said the renewed kiIIings in Southern Kaduna should be blamed on Zango Kataf youths.
Zango urged the Governor Nasir El-Rufai government to ensure it identified and dealt with those behind the violence.
In a statement he signed, Zango lamented that “bloodthirsty” youths of Zango Kataf allegedly waylaid some Fulani herdsmen on international routes.
He condemned what he called the “viciousness and inhuman kiIIings and destruction of property of innocent nomads that took place in some parts Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, particularly in some villages of Atyap Chiefdom.
“The question that requires to be answered is the relationship between the farmland in dispute and the crisis, which caused the kiIIings of innocent Fulani nomads in the areas mentioned above by the Kataf youth in which two innocent Fulani nomads were kiIIed at Ungwan Gaiya near the palace of the Chief of Kataf in the house of Alhaji Ja’e, who has been living in the area for almost a century.
“The two men that were kiIIed are Abdullahi Ja’e and Pate Ja’e who were in their early thirties. Another two young men with an elderly woman were kiIIed at Ungwan Juju.
“Four others were kiIIed at Gora Sagwaza and one person was kiIIed at Matai.
“We also condemned the barbaric acts of the Kataf youths, who waylayed and kiIIed some Fulani nomads, who were passing by through the International Cattle Routes, which cross the areas on their ways to Bauchi State.
“Their cattle and other belongings were destroyed or stolen by the blood-thirsty Kataf youths. The number of those that were kiIIed and the sheep are yet to be confirmed.”