Atyap Community Development Association

According to the National President, Dr. Samuel Achie, in 2023, the organisation was registered as a corporate entity in Nigeria on October 4, 1989, as the Kataf Youth Development Association (KYDA) with the license number 5562.

According to the leader of the ACDA, Dr. Samuel Achie, not less than 518 people lost their lives in several attacks by the armed herdsmen within five years in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area.

The leader also pledged resistance against the unnecessary killings of the people of Atyapland, and sought for the removal of Timothy Opurum, the sector commander of Operation Safe Haven, with immediate effect for his false narratives about the ongoing murders.

[18] Two prominent indigenes of the area, Lawrencia Mallam, a former Nigerian Minister of Environment, and Danladi Kwasu, a member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, both believed the current challenge was a result insincerity and the lack of the will by government and security agencies to end it.

[19] Later in month, the Nigerian Army, through the Director, Defence Media Operations, Major-General Musa Danmadami, issued a response to the report on Brigadier-General Opurum, saying it was investigating the matter.

At the secretariat, the Chairman of the Local Government Area, Francis Sani Zimbo, stated that much funds had been spent from the treasury to cushion the effects of the attacks on the people, which seem not to be ending.

In June 2023, a Nigerian journalist and blogger, Steven Kefas, once imprisoned by the ex-Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai,[27] writes: "Apparently, Ex Kaduna Governor El-Rufai proscribed the Atyap Community Development Association an indigenous sociocultural organization BECAUSE the group viewed to resist the attempt by the governor to forcefully take their ancestral land and give it to Hausa and Fulani settlers in Zangon Kataf..."[28]Upon the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General Christopher Gwabin Musa, a native of Atyapland in June 2023, the ACDA through its National President, Dr. Samuel T. Achie, expressed optimism with regards to the security situation in the country.