HERDSMEN TASK GOVT ON CATTLE ROUTES

Herdsmen in Taraba State have called on the government to open up cattle routes to avert clashes between them and farmers.

Chief of Fulanis in Mutump-Biyu, Gassol council of the state Ardo Gidado Ardo who spoke on behalf of the herdsmen, said some of the cattle routes mapped out by government in the past have been taken over by farmers. He stressed the need for mutual understanding and tolerance between herdsmen and farmers in the state. Gidado stressed that dialogue and tolerance remain the best way to addressing crisis.

eGuerrilla: PAGAN 9JA,

Why do you derive so much pleasure from dishing out solutions you know to be unworkable and impractical?
You surely can do better than this...

HNosegbe: I disagree.

National grazing routes won't solve the problem. What those guys need to do is evolve into a ranch system.

Ozonna: Biko why can't the fulanis buy land and construct a ranch Why do they want free land

Have a question, do fulani herdsmen even pay taxes?

Bossforeva: Boko haram has devised many means to steal, to kill and to destroy.
One day my 04 rav4 was speeding down to onitsha when suddenly this group of cows starts crossing the road! I shouted at the herdsman who was at one side of the road, in response he gave me 5. I felt like turning my steering to hit him with that his hand that was giving me the WAKA sign

Metallurgist: Do you?

PAGAN 9JA:



shut up. The FUlani cattle are not ranch cattle.

That is the Fuulbe Lifestyle. You cannot do away with that.


The Farmers Association and the Fuulbe need to work out on New routes together with the Government.

3ace: Why this comment?

Pk001: It won't work!

Who will give his land?
The herdsmen is doing business with his cattle, the farmer is doing business with his land. Let the herdsman lease or buy the land from the farmer. But they want it for free, whereas they are making big profit from their cattle. Nonsense

Allowing them to have a route is not the problem, but the danger they create by their passage is what everyone is sacred of.

Let them start thinking of having Ranches.The Masai of Kenya are already on that path.

HNosegbe: I disagree.

National grazing routes won't solve the problem. What those herdsmen need to do is stop their outdated nomadic rearing lifestyle completely, and migrate to a settled ranch system.

HNosegbe:

1. Stop using abusive words. It reeks of childishness and doesn't portray a matured mind.

2. Cultures change. Cultures evolve. That they've had this lifestyle for centuries doesn't mean it is right or that they should continue. The practice of nomadic rearing of cattle is incompatible with modern Nigeria.

3. Can you name ONE country where grazing routes have been so successfully laid out that conflicts between herdsmen and farmers had been completely eliminated?

4. As Nigeria's population continues to increase, there will be more competition for land and other resources. Nigerians of the future will not take kindly to constant invasion of their space by wandering cattle. Whether they like it or not, the Fulani herdsmen will have to evolve.

Like I said, nomadic cattle-rearing is INCOMPATIBLE with the realities of modern Nigeria.

eGuerrilla:

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