‘Buhari, Miyetti Allah’s Response To Plateau Killings May Have Emanated From Same Laptop’

The apex Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has expressed anxiety that President Muhammadu Buhari and Miyetti Allah’s response to the recent Plateau killings may “have been authored from the same laptop”.

Afenifere said the lack of “sympathy or regret” as sensed in the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and Presidency’s response to the mass killings raises concern as to if both sides are an entity.

Speaking in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Yinka Odumakin, the Yoruba group equally said the South West would reject the Federal Government’s bid to establish cattle ranches in the country for “bestial elements”.

The statement reads in part: “No plot of land in Yoruba land will be available for such cattle ranch and no governor should cede any land for such.

“We are devastated by the genocide that took place in Plateau State on Sunday in which over 200 deaths occurred, by eyewitnesses accounts, but the police admitted 100.

“These wanton killings and official irresponsibility portray Nigeria as a barbaric entity. We, the Yoruba, are pained living in the same space with the bestial elements who kill innocent people in cruel manner.

“The images of children killed mercilessly with open skulls make anyone with human blood flowing in his or her veins to shrink. We are further distressed that the response of President Muhammadu Buhari to the murder of hundreds of our citizens did not attract a word of sympathy or regret.

“It is very infuriating that the President’s response and that of Miyetti Allah appeared to have been authored from the same laptop. The Chairman of the North Central zone of Miyetti Allah, Danladi Ciroma, said the attacks were a retaliation for the loss of 300 cows.”