Miyetti Allah says ‘We are not enemies to farmers’

* discards amnesty report.

National Secretary of the Meyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Social-Cultural Association, Engr. Salah Alhassan addressing members

 Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani Socio-Cultural Association has said that its group was never an enemy to local farmers in the face of ensuring food security, thereby condemned the report on amnesty submitted to the Federal Government (FG) as being hasty without full consultation to all the parties involved.

At a press conference held yesterday in Abuja, the group through its National Secretary, Engr. Salah Alhassan said that the association would do everything to ensure the conflict between farmers and herdsmen become a thing of the past adding that the effort towards was obvious with its partnership with security agencies.

Alhassan explained that the Association had collaborated with security agencies to find solutions to the farmers and herdsmen conflict thereby called on government for close monitoring of the group through its activities and funding sources.

The group who expressed its support to the President Mohammudu Buhari also frowned at the amnesty report for being biased in its finding saying the Fulani pastoralists were never contacted for fare hearing before submission to the FG.

According to the group ‘’ the 2018 report of the Amnesty International Nigeria on the clash between farmers and herders is "false and unsubstantiated" as the association is not an enemy of the farmers, and will do everything to ensure that the issues of farmers and herdsmen clashes across the country is resolved’’ 

The National Secretary noted that the "hired Amnesty International researchers did not deem it fit to interview the leadership of the herders and families of herders affected by the conflicts in the areas they claimed to have visited".

Alhassan who described the report as being doctored stated that ‘’the fact that it was quick to dismiss the efforts of the security agencies in ending the conflicts suggested clearly that Amnesty International activities in Nigeria has been hijacked by mercenaries"