Plateau MACBAN petitions Gov. Mutfwang, DSS, OPEP, over alleged attacks on herders, poisoning of cattle

Plateau State section of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has petitioned Governor Caleb Mutfwang, the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Operation Enduring Peace, OPEP, implicit what it described arsenic repeated incidents of attacks connected herders and alleged poisoning successful section communities particularly successful Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas.

The petition, dated April 23, 2026, and signed by the authorities president of MACBAN, Alhaji Ibrahim Yusuf Babayo, stated that the relation was compelled to constitute the petition owed to a increasing menace to the information and livelihoods of Fulani herders successful the communities.

The petition made disposable to DAILY POST connected Monday titled “Urgent Complaint connected Repeated Killing of Herders and Cattle,” MACBAN pointed to incidents which it said occurred betwixt April 18, 20, 22, and 23, 2026, crossed antithetic communities successful Barkin Ladi, which it said suggested a troubling signifier of deliberate attacks connected herders and their livestock.

The relation said connected April 18th, 10 cows were allegedly poisoned successful Rakung Village portion different cattle was reportedly killed successful the aforesaid colony connected April 20. It besides claimed that 9 cattle were poisoned astatine the Lokojora country connected April 22, portion an unspecified fig was besides poisoned on the Nding axis connected April 22 and 23.

“These deliberate poisoning and sidesplitting of Fulan...