{"id":11824,"date":"2019-06-22T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:52:29","slug":"tension-over-miyetti-allahs-offer-to-establish-vigilante-outfit-in-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/tension-over-miyetti-allahs-offer-to-establish-vigilante-outfit-in-southeast","title":{"rendered":"Tension over Miyetti Allah\u2019s offer to establish vigilante outfit in SouthEast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dust generated by the request for the establishment of Fulani Youth Vigilante body in communities of the South East by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is yet to settle.<\/p>\n<p>The group made the call during a security summit in Enugu on Thursday, saying that the purpose was to compliment its host communities\u2019 security counterparts and other constituted security apparatus in the zone.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the request by the umbrella body of the herders, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), asked the MACBAN to dump such idea.<\/p>\n<p>The Biafra agitators accused governors in the South East of conniving with the herders towards the establishment of vigilante body in the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB vowed to resist the plans, describing the governors\u2019 seeming silence on the issue as payback for being rigged back into offices.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read in part: \u201cI condemn in totality, both in letter and spirit the underhand agreement between South East governors and the call by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association for the establishment of Fulani Vigilante Groups in Igboland of Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout much ado, I wish to state that it is extremely shocking and shameful that at a time when herders have turned to terrorists and ravaging the North, Middle Belt and Yorubaland, Southeast governors allowed Miyetti Allah to get away with such demand on our soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dust generated by the request for the establishment of Fulani Youth Vigilante body in communities of the South East by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is yet to settle. 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