Insecurity: Butchers Union denies allegation of breeding Boko Haram in Borno

By Maina Maina on November 25, 2013

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Alhaji Abubakar Gula, Chairman of the Borno State butchers association has denied the allegation by the Gwoza Christian Community Association (GCCA), that they were using the Maiduguri abatoir as a breeding ground for the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
He described the allegation as reckless, false and a misrepresentation, under the guise of religion, advertently to disrupt the relative peace being enjoyed by the citizens of Borno State.
The Christian Community in Gwoza Local Government Council of Borno State had in the recent past suffered numbers of attacks, which they claimed was caused by some politicians, who allegedly use the butchers of Gwoza community in Borno to slaughter Christians.

The butchers’ association in a statement made available to DailyPost in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Monday, also stated that the sum of N25, 000,000 (twenty-five million naira) given to the butchers by Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, was a grant to the National Butchers’ Union of Nigeria, Maiduguri Branch.
“It is a common knowledge that such a gigantic commercial site cannot be said to have consist of only people from Gwoza, but it comprises of people from different states of the federation irrespective of their religion or tribes as well as people from the neigbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroon republic”, the statement signed by Alhaji Gula stressed.
They condemned the allegation that the abattoir was a breeding ground for insurgency in the state, describing it as malicious, baseless and devilish, intended only to instigate hatred and disaffection among the peace loving people of the state.
Also, Alhaji Mala Modu, the Chief Butcher at the Borno Abattoir, said the allegation by GCCA was a deliberate attempt to paint the group black and also tarnish the image of its operators.