Miyetti Allah responds to U.S sanctions threat, denies involvement in attacks

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has denied allegations linking it to attacks connected Christians successful Nigeria, describing its ngo arsenic protecting the interests of herders.

In an interrogation with the BBC Hausa, MACBAN National President, Baba Othman Ngenzarma said the radical is inclusive of each ethnicities and religions. “In our organization, determination is nary religion oregon taste radical that is excluded. We person Hausas, Yorubas, Igbos, and followers of some Islam and Christianity,” helium said.

Last month, the United States listed MACBAN among organizations nether reappraisal for imaginable sanctions owed to alleged engagement successful attacks connected Christians. Baba Othman, however, expressed astonishment astatine the listing. “We bash not transportation weapons, and we person ne'er sponsored immoderate attacks. The authorities has ne'er charged america with immoderate crime,” helium said.

U.S. lawmakers Riley Moore and Chris Smith precocious presented a solution citing a committee study that said Christians successful Nigeria “have agelong been subjected to favoritism and violence.”

The solution urged sanctions connected MACBAN, different groups, and immoderate Nigerians, including question bans and plus freezes.

Baba Othman stressed that the actions of individuals should not specify the full organization. “You whitethorn find wrongdoers among constabulary officers oregon soldiers, but that does not mean the full instauration is corr...