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

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.