MiyettI Allah threatens war with southern Nigeria, vows to acquire land forcefully  

Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has threatened to wage war against southern Nigeria over the signing of anti-grazing bills into laws by governors of the states in southern Nigeria. The group further threatened to acquire land in the south through force.

Leaders of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, an association of Fulani herdsmen, declared that they are prepared for confrontation with any state governor in southern Nigeria implementing anti grazing law.

Miyetti Allah Kautal National Secretary, Saleh Alhassan, had at   a media conference in Abuja, argued that the anti-grazing laws signed by some State Governors in southern Nigeria were merely a political agenda to destroy the means of livelihood of Fulani pastoralists in Nigeria.

Alhassan had said that “the insistence of some state governments on the anti-grazing laws shows how careless they are about the pastoralists.” He, therefore, appealed to the federal government to rehabilitate cattle routes across Nigeria.

Several governors have signed the anti-grazing bill into law after the State House of Assembly had passed the bill. The action followed the 12 resolutions at the meeting of southern governors in Asaba, Delta State, in May 2021. The governors of the 17 states in the South resolved to ban open grazing of cattle as a measure to tackle insecurity in their states.