FCT police boss meets with Miyetti Allah, moves to end cattle roaming

By: Kingsley Omonobi

In a bid to bring an extremity to the troubling incidents of herdsmen taking their cattle astir the national superior metropolis centre and sometimes disrupting traffic, the FCT Police Commissioner of Police, CP Saka Adewale, has held a gathering with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association.

Spokesman of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, made this known connected Thursday, saying the CP utilized the accidental to caution against the trend.

She said, “On 17th September 2025, the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, CP Ajao Adewale held a gathering with leaders of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association astatine the Command Headquarters, successful Garki II, Abuja.

“The league brought unneurotic representatives of the 3 large groups nether the association: Miyetti Allah MACBAN, Miyetti Allah Kautahuri, and Miyetti Allah Falako Yesu-Yesu, to deliberate connected ending communal clashes and addressing the situation of cattle roaming wrong the metropolis centre.”

Speaking during the meeting, the Commissioner of Police expressed interest implicit the predominant engagement of their members successful communal conflicts.

He emphasised the request for peaceful coexistence and communal respect for the rights of each citizens, portion firmly informing against the signifier of cattle roaming wrong the FCT metropolis centre.

Responding, the leaders of Miyetti Allah commended the initiative, describing it arsenic the archetypal interactive league with an FCT Commissioner of Police.

They assured the commissioner of constabulary that the agreements arrived astatine during the gathering volition beryllium implemented and feedback provided to him wrong the adjacent week.

“The FCT Police Command reassures residents that it volition show compliance with the agreements, prosecute applicable stakeholders connected grazing onshore issues, and fortify assemblage policing strategies to forestall aboriginal conflicts,” the connection said.

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