Fulani Herdsmen Offer To Protect Niger-Delta Pipelines

Zonal youth leader of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, North West zone, Comrade Yusuf Usman, who led members of the group to pay management of the Kaduna Refining

and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, a courtesy visit, disclosed that the group, have decided to assist the Federal Government in the protection of refineries and pipelines.According to him, vandalized oil installations in time past had led to the death of some of its cattle.“A couple of years ago, some of our cattle drank poisonous water, contaminated by pollution due to emission from vandalized or burst pipelines containing petroleum products and we are living witnesses to the negative consequences of sabotaging or vandalizing KRPC facilities.“The Fulani herdsmen in this part of the country have all these years been one of the neighbours of the KRPC. Our neighbourliness has been very cordial, mutual and peaceful" he said. He went on to disclose that Fulani herdsmen have always lived peacefully with their neighbours.