Gunmen abduct 10 Miyetti Allah members in Anambra

Gunmen on Saturday abducted 10 members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Anambra State.

The gunmen also went away with more than 200 cows from the herdsmen’s settlement at Obene community, Ogbaru local government area of the state.

It would be recalled that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had in January banned the consumption of “Fulani beef” in the South-East.

In a statement issued by its media aide, Emma Powerful, the group set April as the deadline for the sale and consumption of beef from the northern part of the country in the South-East.

IPOB also threatened to eject from the region, anyone trading in beef at the expiration of the deadline.

The spokesman for the state police command, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the of the herdsmen to to journalists in Awka.

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He said the operatives are on the kidnappers’ trail.

Ikenga said: “The Anambra State Police Command, under the leadership of the commissioner of police, Echeng, will not rest on its oars until the victims are rescued unhurt and return to their families.”

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