{"id":13711,"date":"2019-08-04T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2019-08-04T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:21","slug":"miyetti-allah-reacts-as-gunmen-kill-its-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/miyetti-allah-reacts-as-gunmen-kill-its-leader","title":{"rendered":"Miyetti Allah reacts as gunmen kill its leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has reacted to the killing of Saidu Kolaku, the zonal vice-chairman of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Kolaku was shot dead on Saturday after unknown gunmen stormed the resident of the Fulani leader located at Sabon Pegi in Mayo Belwa Local Government, Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p>His death was confirmed by the police spokesman in the Adamawa State, Sulaiman Nguroje in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cUnknown gunmen stormed the resident of the Fulani leader located at Sabon Pegi in Mayo Belwa local government, shot him and left him in the pool of his blood. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>But reacting, the Public Relations Officer of Miyetti Allah in the State, Muhammad Buba expressed sadness over the death of Kolaku.<\/p>\n<p>Buba in a statement on Sunday described the killing of Kolaku as a possible reprisal attack to avenge the role he played in tackling criminality especially kidnapping and cattle rustling in the State.<\/p>\n<p>Buba added that the deceased\u2019s fight against criminal practices in the state earned him an honorary award from the Nigeria police.<\/p>\n<p>The terse statement reads: \u2018\u2019Efforts of Kolaku in fighting crime had made the police command to honour him on 17th July 2019, for his gallantry and valiant exploits in fighting kidnappers and cattle rustlers rampaging the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that the death of our zonal leader will seriously undermine the fight against crime and criminality in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has reacted to the killing of Saidu Kolaku, the zonal vice-chairman of the body. Kolaku was shot dead on Saturday after unknown gunmen stormed the resident of the Fulani leader located at Sabon Pegi in Mayo Belwa Local Government, Adamawa State. His death was confirmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[461,320,138,603],"class_list":["post-13711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-chairman","tag-crime","tag-kidnap","tag-miyetti-allah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miyetti Allah reacts as gunmen kill its leader - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/miyetti-allah-reacts-as-gunmen-kill-its-leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Miyetti Allah reacts as gunmen kill its leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has reacted to the killing of Saidu Kolaku, the zonal vice-chairman of the body. 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