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The leader of the Fulani community in Anambra State and Deputy Director-General of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, has raised alarm over what he saw as the constant and incessant intimidations and molestations of their members by vigilante operatives in Umueri community, Anambra-East council area of the state.
Alhaji Siddiki who spoke in an interview with news from daily Independent alleged that vigilante operatives used to arrest their members without any justifiable reasons, further alleging that anytime the security operatives saw a Fulani herdsman on motorcycle, they would stop him, pick him, maltreat him and blindfold him until they extorted huge sums of money from him before they released him.
He lamented some of their members reported to him that they were blindfolded from 5.pm to 8.pm until huge sums of money were extorted from them by the vigilante operatives in Umueri before they eventually released them without handing them over to the police.
He therefore stressed that so many of their members are reporting to him that they are being maltreated by vigilant men while carrying out their legitimate cattle rearing activities in Umueri community, even as he appealed to the state government to intervene to save their members from unnecessary intimidations and maltreatments from vigilante men in Umueri and other parts of Anambra-East Local Government Area.
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