Earn Respect, be Respected Through Education--MACBAN National President

By Adamu IMAM Bauchi

Earn Respect, be Respected Through Education--MACBAN National President

By Adamu IMAM Bauchi 

Pastoralists have been urged to be more educated through the enrollment into both western and Islamic schools to become people with dignity in the eyes of immidiate community, and be respeced in the entire world as well

The National President of Miyyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Baba-Othman Ngelzarma stated this while addressing members of the Association during the elections and inauguration of new executives that would helm the affairs of the Bauchi state chapter, held on Monday

Ngelzarma was in Bauchi with other National Officers to supervise the conduct of the State chapter Election of new leadership of the Association while charging them to be united and focused on issues that would promote unity and harmony among them

According to him, "It is time for us to embrace education, enrol our children in schools so that they will get education and become our leaders in the future. Education is the key to development."

He lamented that Fulani especially cattle breeders have been given bad names in the country saying that the only way out for them is to be well educated in order to defend the race. 

The MACBAN National President stressed that due to modernization and development, the cattle routes and grazing forests have been taken over leaving the Fulani with little or no forest to graze his cattle. 

The president emphasized on the need for government to intervene in the crisis and ensure that Fulani cattle breeders had access to grazing forests across the country in order to minimise the herders/farmers clashes. 

Mohammed Kabir who was unanimously elected as the new state chapter chairman together with twenty-one others to support him in the discharge of his responsibilities across the 20 LGAs of the state. 

In his post-election speech, the new Chairman, Mohammed Kabir thanked the members for the confidence reposted in him and others elected assuring that they will offer a purposeful leadership. 

He stressed the need for unity among the MACBAN members in the state so that the set objectives of the Association will be achieved just as he called for constructive criticisms and positive advices. 

Kabir promised to run all inclusive leadership that would engage relevant stakeholders in the state, and to see that ethnic profiling against the Fulani was stopped saying that education of the children will be the main priority of his tenure in office.