The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has inaugurated a cattle market in the Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The market is aimed at fostering integration with other ethnic groups in the country.
Speaking at the opening of the Maliya International Cattle Market on Saturday, the National President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bodejo, expressed confidence that through the establishment of the market, the issues of farmers/herders clashes would also be drastically reduced.
Bodejo, who was represented by the North Central chairman of the group, Ibrahim Adamu, further noted that the new market would enhance the economic value of not only the northerners but all the Nigerian citizens.
While commending President Bola Tinubu for creating the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, he assured all of the association’s commitment to continue to give massive support to him in order to ensure the success of his administration.
“Creating this ministry is an advantage for us, to educate our nomads concerning the issues of crisis. Because crisis is something that is unlawful. So, apart from the numerous advantages, the ministry will also make the nomads come close to the farmers.
“Also, with the establishment of this maliya international market, it will make the sellers and buyers come together and be interacting. This will make them have an understanding and through that, they will have a cordial relationship,” he said.
On his part, one of the youth leaders of the group, Abdullahi Aliyu, said opening the cattle market was an initiative of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, who had desired to have a market at the border town between the Northern Nigeria and the other parts of the country for the purpose of enhancing our economic values.
He noted that as an international market, it is expected that people from Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger Republic, Central African Republic and other African countries will constantly buy cattles from the market which would in-turn help to boost the economy of Nigeria.
Aliyu said apart from the economic development of the country, the market will help to solve the farmers-headers clashes as well as tackle security challenges because there will be a lot of work for the teaming youths who are currently jobless.
He said, “This market will provide job opportunities for young Nigerians. Inside the market, there is going to be milk section. Also we will have a meat section.
“It is not just a cow market itself where you will slaughter and store the meat for exportation within and outside Nigeria. There is a clinic for the cows. There is a clinic for humans that are going to interact in the market. There is equally a police station, a security outpost.
“There is equally where the head of the cow itself will be treated, where the bones will be treated, and all things that you know, including the feces of the cow that we know is very useful, will be transformed into a proper and natural fertilizer that would be used in our local farms within Nigeria and of course, the African continent.”
He further urged his tribesmen and other Nigerians to shun all forms of violence and embrace peace at all times, while noting that there cannot be any meaningful development in an atmosphere of rancour.
He added, “It is very important that we should accept ourselves as brothers and sisters. We should love ourselves. We should try to have peace within ourselves. We should be talking to ourselves. We should understand each other, so that together, we will be able to take our dear country to greater heights.”
