The Fulani herders association, known as Miyetti Allah, has called on the federal government to provide palliatives for Fulani herders to mitigate the impact of the removal of fuel subsidies in the country.
Chairman of Miyetti Allah in Kwara State, Malam Bello Abubakar, appealed yesterday while interacting with journalists in Ilorin, the state capital, saying that the herders were the most affected people during this period.
Abubakar equally urged the federal government to release food items from the nation’s reserve and sell them at a subsidized rate to poor Nigerians.
According to him, most of the herders have no bank accounts where they can easily access funds when in need.
He said whenever herdsmen take their livestock to the market for sale, transportation fares take a larger part of the money.
The chairman of Miyetti Allah also sought the government’s assistance for his members on the provision of vaccines to prevent the death of their livestock from strange diseases.
