The Living Perfect Master and Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has tackled the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) for urging President Bola Tinubu to arrest and prosecute Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemi, alias Sunday Igboho, for treason.

Satguru Maharaj Ji, in a statement made available to Sunday Independent on Saturday, recalled that the Yoruba nation agitator had said he returned to Nigeria to help eradicate armed herders harbouring in the deep forests of South West and carrying out attacks against farmers and traditional rulers.

The Living Perfect Master said that such a call was in the character of MACBAN, stressing that throughout the eight years of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, the same cattle breeders association was known for backing terrorism of armed herders.

Maharaj Ji, who described MACBAN as “terrorist sympathisers”, recalled that on June 26, 2018, the association backed terrorists who massacred hundreds of Plateau State natives when it described the attacks on some communities in Plateau State as an act of retaliation over the killing of 300 cows belonging to its members.

The Living Perfect Master also recalled that the suspected herdsmen had around June 26, 2018, attacked Riyom, Barakin Ladi and Jos South local government areas of the state, killing over 100 persons.

“But, Miyetti Allah’s statement came even as fresh attacks on Kwi village in Riyom local government area claimed one more life in the early hours of the same period in 2018 despite the dusk-to-dawn curfew declared in the three local government areas,” he added.

Maharaj Ji, therefore, said it did not come as a surprise when MACBAN called for the arrest and prosecution of Sunday Igboho for threatening to wipe out terrorists masquerading as herders killing residents of South West.

He lamented that rather than commending the Yoruba nation for volunteering to eliminate terrorists, MACBAN was displaying its support for terrorists by calling for the arrest and prosecution of Sunday Igboho.

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He said It was unambiguous that only those who sponsor terrorists would not be happy when someone decides to eradicate terrorists.

Maharaj Ji recalled that MACBAN’s National President, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, made the call in response to Igboho’s remarks that Fulani herders should be expunged from the Southwest or the whole of Nigeria if they are above the law.

He also recalled that Igboho, who recently returned to Nigeria after about two years of detention in the Benin Republic, had accused Fulani herders of killing farmers in the Southwest.

“However, Ngelzarma described Igboho’s remark as an unlawful comment that amounts to treason. In a statement he signed, Ngelzarma said: ‘We call on the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and relevant security agencies to arrest and prosecute Sunday Igboho for making this unlawful statement that amounts to treason because he is asking for the actualisation of Oduduwa nation.

“His statements are unlawful. If Nnamdi Kanu will be held behind bars for a similar offence, we see no reason why Sunday Igboho will be allowed to go scot-free without being arrested and prosecuted.”

Maharaj Ji, however, described the position of MACBAN as preposterous, puerile, irrational, and irresponsible, just as he said he fully backed Sunday Igboho and any patriotic groups willing to wipe out terrorists of any dimension, “even if they are herders, because of the massive damage and mass killings that these armed terrorist herders committed between 2015 to 2023 when then President Muhammadu Buhari looked the other way and allowed armed Fulani terrorists to unleash a regime of mayhem and mass killings, which the likes of MACBAN actively supported.”

Maharaj Ji lashed MACBAN “for being clever-by-half by bringing in the name of Nnamdi Kanu in its unwise call for the arrest and prosecution of Sunday Igboho.” (Saturday Independent)

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