The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has urged security agencies to investigate the killing of its Kwara State Chapter Chairman, Idrissu Abubakar.

The National President of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, made the call in a statement issued by Malam Bello Gotomo, National Secretary.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Kwara State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Abubakar, Chairman of MACBAN in the state.

The confirmation was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson and a Superintendent of Police, SP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, on Sunday in Ilorin.

Abubakar was reportedly shot dead by unidentified gunmen at about 10pm on Saturday in front of his house at Oke Ose, Ilorin East Local Government Area.

According to Ejire-Adeyemi, police detectives swiftly responded and recovered five expended 7.62mm shells from the scene.

She added that his remains had been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary.

Reacting to the incident, the President of MACBAN condemned the killing of the association’s youngest state chairman, who was committed to peace and advancement of pastoralists in the country.

He said: “The Miyetti Allah cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) mourns the killing of the Chairman of the Kwara State Chapter, Idrissu Abubakar by unknown gunmen on Saturday night at his house in Ilorin.

“Idrissu, aged 33, is the second MACBAN Chairman to be killed this year, barely two months after the killing of the newly elected Chairman of Katsina State chapter, Alhaji Sirajo Mairana.

“The deceased left two wives, six young children and his aged mother.”

Ngelzarma described the deceased as a committed member of MACBAN, who was looking forward to the transformation of the livestock production system in the country.

He said that based on the information gathered by the association, the assailants shot Idrissu in front of his house around 10pm after driving home from Tarawee prayers (fasting congregation prayer).

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The president condoled with the family of the deceased, Kwara State Government and entire members of the association across the nation.

He added: “We call on the security agencies to thoroughly investigate this incessant killing of leaders of the association by criminals.

“In the last two years, MACBAN lost over seven State and Local Government Chairmen to unknown gunmen.

“The National Vice President of MACBAN, Alhaji Manir Lamido, had been missing without trace since 2023, while traveling between Katsina and Kaduna States.”

Ngelzarma assured that the association would do all it takes to unravel those involved “in this dastardly act of cowardice”.

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