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Emergence Of Sovereign State Might Be Made Possible If..... by Cyojunior(m): 10:33am On Apr 14, 2016 |
The National Assembly is about to pass a Bill that is set to
kill whatever is left of our so-called over-centralised federal
system. The Bill if passed will be the greatest rape on our
democracy and the biggest insult on our collective
sensitivity as a people and as a country. “The Fulani National
Grazing Reserve,” is currently before the National Assembly.
The bill has successfully scaled through second reading in
both the Senate and the House of Representatives. For it to
become law, it is to pass through the third reading.
“The bill seeks to provide for the establishment of national
grazing reserves and stock routes. It is sponsored by
Senator Zainab Kure. “The Bill proposes to establish a
National Grazing Reserve Commission (NGRC) for the
country. The NGRC will be charged with the responsibility of
using funds received from the Federal Government to
forcefully acquire farmlands from Nigerians in all the 36
states of the country, develop same at government expense
through the provision of bore holes, water reservoirs, etc;
for the exclusive use of nomadic cattle rearers.”
The issue here is very clear. Fulani herdsmen are cattle
farmers. They could as well keep their cattle in ranches.
They could devise whatever means like their counterparts in
Argentina, Australia and the rest of the civilised world to do
their animal husbandry. The men and boys roaming the
streets, roads and bushes driving cattle are not the owners
of these animals. They are just employees, labourers,
attendants or whatever name they are called.
The owners of these cows like Generals Obasanjo, Nyako,
Abdulsalami Abubakar and our President Buhari are big
time farmers. They are businessmen. It is immoral to ask
taxpayers to finance the operations of these businesses.
Cattle owners must provide capital through bank loans or
whatever means to create their grazing lands in their
localities. The cows are not owned by the Federal
Government.
Just as the Federal Government is not creating farm lands
for cocoa and kolanut farmers in Sokoto or Katsina, or
creating farm lands for Agatu yam farmers in Enugu or
Maiduguri, or creating special areas for fish farming in
Zungeru, it cannot for any reason ever consider creating
special lands for herdsmen for grazing. Let the herdsmen
run their business without encroaching on the lands of
other people. Let the cattle owners buy into the Fodder
technology and other modern methods of providing feeds
for their animals without roaming the streets and
plundering other people’s farms.
To ever dream of this perverted Bill is to step on the toes of
other Nigerians and step on sore foot, and by so doing
create a dangerous precedent. Nobody should play ethnic
game here. This is not an issue directed against any ethnic
nationality in Nigeria. The simple matter is to let those who
trade in cattle fund their business like all other businesses,
including farming, in Nigeria. The Bill must not see the light
of the day. The sponsors want to create serious problem in
the polity and their design must be nipped in the bud.
The Nigerian Bar Association, the Coalition of Civil Societies,
and all those who care about the continued existence of
this troubled country must rise up to strongly oppose and
kill this obnoxious and self serving Bill. It beats my
imagination that members of the National Assembly did not
see the serious danger posed by this corrosive Bill.
In a reaction to the threats posed by this obnoxious Bill, the
National Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress,
Otunba Gani Adams says: “Without any doubt, this is a very
dangerous proposal for Nigeria. We all have seen how the
Fulani herdsmen kill and maim members of the community
where they graze their cattle without the backing of any
law. I am sure that we can only imagine what their attitudes
would be if the supposed grazing reserves are forcefully
taken over by government and handed over to the
herdsmen.
Nigeria has enough problems on her hand right now; we
should not provoke new and potentially more dangerous
ones.”
• Otunba Tola Adeniyi Jagun, Oodua Adimula ll, wrote via
adetolaadeniyi@hotmail.com 1 Like |
Re: Emergence Of Sovereign State Might Be Made Possible If..... by vikacydevato(m): 11:07am On Apr 14, 2016 |
Op: your point is clear! 1 Like |
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