The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has warned Fulani herdsmen and local farmers in the state to maintain the peace or face the wrath of the law.The governor said the state would neither ban grazing nor farming.

This was contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Peter Okhiria, on Monday.He quoted Oshiomhole as saying this at a stakeholders’ meeting, which was convened to find lasting solutions to the clashes between the herdsmen and farmers in the state.The governor said if not properly managed, the crisis “can escalate beyond what we can manage quietly.”

He added, “Edo State Government will prosecute any rapist, any kidnapper, any rustler, who takes people’s cows. I think listening to all the stakeholders, whether royal fathers, farmers, Fulani herdsmen, everybody agreed that neither rape nor robbery, nor destruction of farms, nor rustling of cattle is acceptable.

“I think we are all committed to ensuring that we put an end to any of these practices so that all of us can continue to live together in peace, harmony and in security.“In every conflict, you will find someone you can describe as the oppressor. Somebody might be blamed, but every conflict can be resolved if all the parties approach the solution with honest intentions and whatever agreement reached, we faithfully try to implement. That way, there will be peace.

“Like the migrant Fulani representative said, ‘you cannot decree a solution, but we can work towards a solution.’ And we have to use both carrot and stick approach.”Oshiomhole said the state would set up about 19 committees, one committee in each of the 18 Local Government Areas of the state to resolve the recurring clashes.

He explained that the membership of the panel would include traditional rulers, farmers, community leaders, youth leaders and the representatives of the Fulani herdsmen.


[b]Meanwhile, the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has declared that the incessant attacks on farmers by Fulani herdsmen in the South-West and some other parts of the country must be checked.Mimiko feared that if the attacks of the herdsmen were not curtailed urgently, the development might lead the country to the precipice.

The governor called on President Muhammadu Buhari and other stakeholders to be more proactive about the attacks in order to stop them from degenerating to a serious crisis in the country.

Mimiko stated this on Monday after a meeting with the members of the Oodua Peoples Congress in his office in Akure, the state capital.The Fulani herdsmen allegedly invaded the farm of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, last week and killed a guard, identified as Ayodele Ige, who was one of the leaders of the OPC in the state.

The herdsmen had earlier in September, 2015 invaded the farm, where they kidnapped Falae, a former finance minister, and only released him after three days after collecting a ransom.The governor said he had met with the security agencies in the state over the issue, assuring the OPC members that the killers of the deceased would soon be fished out.

Mimiko added, “We are moving towards the precipice and the earlier we pull back… and it requires all the stakeholders from the President and all major stakeholders to come together on how to resolve this issue.

“These herdsmen must be cautioned, these wanton destruction, audacious incursions into other people’s territory cannot continue for too long.

“We have put in place a lot of fire-fighting efforts in the last 48 hours to ensure that there are no retaliatory attacks from the OPC. “The Ondo State Coordinator of the OPC, Mr. Pius Ogunsanya, appealed to the government and the security agents to arrest and prosecute the killers of Ige. He vowed that the group would avenge the killing of the OPC leader if the government failed to arrest the perpetrators of the heinous act.

“We are appealing to the governor to beg the Federal Government to find solution to the activities of these herdsmen. They must find the killers of our man; if they do not find him, we too may go after the herdsmen,” he stated.[/b]

http://www.punchng.com/herdsmen-farmers-clashes-may-cause-national-crisis-oshiomhole-mimiko/


Note the differences in Mimiko and Oshiomole's approach...

Ipob wont split this country.....
The fulani's will.

Those useless herdsmen should be checkmate/it is fire for fire.Let there b3 action not setting up one miserable committee. May God kip us safe from those bororo

Ebubeslym:
Ipob wont split this country.....

The fulani's will.

you should have said that Nnamdi Kanu won't split this country but Buhari d Fulani herdsmen

Oshiomhole is wailing. Zombies

Oshiomole is a fool
Imagine the statement from a governor
Oshiomole is so dim-witted,the light of his wit cant get beyond his eyes
Any governor that signs any useless pact is supposed to be stoned to death

Ask them how many billions of litres of milk they are producing annually for the Nigerian economy from their nomadic lifestyle that makes these herdsmen feel it is their right to destroy other people's means of sustenance all in the name of cattle rearing!

Why telling us to do what ? They are the so called government should fine lasting solution and order those that prefer cows to human life to stop encroaching into peoples farm.

Government should handle this issue with care, if not, it may get out of hand.

Let the herdsmen who perpetuate violence and lead their animals to destroy people's farms be destroyed completely with their cattle. the president's annoying silence over this matter casts a shadow on his integrity.

If grazing is not supposed to be done on the farm and the herdsmen insist on continuing this dangerous inhumane economic sabotage then Grazing should be banned.

Do crops eat cows? The farmers are not the problem rather the herdsmen are hence Osho Baba should stop this mumu diplomacy and be straight forward, stop being afraid of Buhari and stand-up for your people.

according to oshiomole "the state will not ban grazing..."

when fulani herdsmen are killing your people,

I pray PDP take over Edo state, these fulani herdsmen will head to where they belong.

Ioannes:
Let the herdsmen who perpetuate violence and lead their animals to destroy people's farms be destroyed completely with their cattle. the president's annoying silence over this matter casts a shadow on his integrity.

Did you say integrity? Poppycock!

God help us

It look as if Fulani Herdsmen crisis and Lagos-Calabar railway brouhaha is a uniting
force for the Southerners irrespective of the party affiliation

O ga o!

Herdsmen and farmers clash, is just a term used to down play this atrocity. There is no clash, its a fulani invasion

No it won't cause anything. It will Foster mutual peace and harmony. It will even strengthen the unity of Nigeria. Very soon Also rock will have a cattle ranch located in the State House adjacent the door of the President!

#proudly5%

Ki oluwa sanu fun awa omo ree.

Nobody can divide this country

Fulanis are presently gathering reputation

and that breeds hate , and anger

If something is not done , It will be a massacre on herdsmen , not the peace loving fulanis' no one will go to thier state or cities , but those of them in other regions stand a lot of risks

Sunnycliff:
No it won't cause anything. It will Foster mutual peace and harmony. It will even strengthen the unity of Nigeria. Very soon Also rock will have a cattle ranch located in the State House adjacent the door of the President!

#proudly5%

Chai you don kill me with laff

They forgot their quiet father is the president

Our internal security is at stake...



DSS release statement biko.

I saw only one man talking sense (Mimiko), the other man (Oshiomole) is talking rubbish, blaming his own people for the sins of the fulanis.

Ioannes:
Let the herdsmen who perpetuate violence and lead their animals to destroy people's farms be destroyed completely with their cattle. the president's annoying silence over this matter casts a shadow on his integrity.

it's only in This con3 everything is The president, the president...wetin we get IG of police for, state commissioner of police, let The ig spring into action without order from The president.. if You no shit na president cos am Why?

Is not Buhari concern, who is still learning how to fly.

didn't expect that Yeye so called governor of mine to say anything meaningful,short idiot,I wish it had been that his mother that was raped and killed in her farm in Auchi

Ok.

awake oooo yeee slaves to the north

They are begging them to stop the killings, fulani no de hear abeg na force be their language so only force can check mate them

Nigeria is a joke. A country where unarmed protesters are killed, while the Fulani herdsfools carries arms everywhere they go. And the hypocrite of a presidiot who swore to protect his subjects is yet to say a word concerning their barbaric acts.

Oshiomole is just idiot and very stupid in his approach to this issue of Herdsmen