‘Local militias poisoning our cows, we refuse to be intimidated’ – GAFDAN

Plateau State section of the Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria, GAFDAN, has erstwhile again accused groups it described arsenic section militias of attacking herdsmen and poisoning their cows successful agrarian communities successful the state.

The radical said this was successful a bid to provoke them into carrying retired reprisal attacks truthful they could beryllium tagged arsenic aggressors.

The Fulani group, which made the allegations successful a connection connected Friday, said the caller strategy of poisoning their cows is aimed astatine intimidating herdsmen and chasing them retired of the state.

However, the radical insisted that the Fulani assemblage successful Plateau State volition not beryllium intimidated arsenic they are besides stakeholders and indigenes of the state.

In the connection titled “ALERT: Rising Cattle Poisoning successful Plateau State”, and made disposable to DAILY POST, GAFDAN lamented that successful the past month, herdsmen successful antithetic parts of the authorities particularly successful Riyom, Bassa, and Barkin Ladi person mislaid implicit 50 livestock arsenic a effect of poison.

“There is simply a superior and expanding inclination of cattle poisoning successful parts of Plateau State, peculiarly successful Bassa Local Government Area, wherever specified incidents are being reported repeatedly,” the radical said.

“On Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 3 herders mislaid 9 (9) cattle aft grazing connected onshore that had been deliberately poisoned successful the Jebbu...