President Muhammadu Buhari has provided reasons why Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash continuously in the country.

President Buhari, in an email to Reuters, who sought his reaction to recent clashes in several parts of the country, said Nigeria’s growing population is a major cause of crisis.

There have been several deadly clashes recently between herdsmen of Fulani origin and farmers with the latest leading to the death of 73 people in Benue.

Reuters reports that the Presidency said the limited availability of land prompted both parties to adopt all means to meet their need.

The newspaper quoted the presidency, “President Buhari holds the view, as do many experts, that these conflicts are more often than not, as a result of major demographic changes in Nigeria.

“Nigeria’s population was around 63 million when the West African country gained independence in 1960, compared with a population now ‘estimated at close to 200 million.

“While the land size has not changed and will not change, urban sprawl and development have simply reduced land area both for peasant farming and cattle grazing.”

http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/14/herdsmen-attacks-buhari-gives-reason-killings-crisis/

Somebody tell me where i am....nigeria or afghanistan?

Ecstasy154:
President Muhammadu Buhari has provided reasons why Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash continuously in the country.

President Buhari, in an email to Reuters, who sought his reaction to recent clashes in several parts of the country, said Nigeria’s growing population is a major cause of crisis.

There have been several deadly clashes recently between herdsmen of Fulani origin and farmers with the latest leading to the death of 73 people in Benue.

Reuters reports that the Presidency said the limited availability of land prompted both parties to adopt all means to meet their need.

The newspaper quoted the presidency, “President Buhari holds the view, as do many experts, that these conflicts are more often than not, as a result of major demographic changes in Nigeria.

“Nigeria’s population was around 63 million when the West African country gained independence in 1960, compared with a population now ‘estimated at close to 200 million.

“While the land size has not changed and will not change, urban sprawl and development have simply reduced land area both for peasant farming and cattle grazing.”

http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/14/herdsmen-attacks-buhari-gives-reason-killings-crisis/

Did he blame GEJ?

MichaelBukamzy:
Somebody tell me where i am....nigeria or afghanistan?

You are in a shithole country

Open grazing in 2018 is as good as wearing leaves in 2018 .

Why accept colonialism, Islam, Independence, democracy and refuse modern agricultural practices ?

All cattle routes are now federal government and private individuals properties so no trespassing.

Nigerian land mass will still contain all of us if every one respect his or her self, and the Fulani headsmen accept modern grazing methods not forcing themselves to people at all cost.

It is time to give room to sanity but with the utterance miyetti alllah latlty, I am just tired of the whole issue.

May God save Nigeria!

hisgrace090:
Nigerian land mass will still contain all of us if every one respect his or her self, and the Fulani headsmen accept modern grazing methods not forcing themselves to people at all cost.

It is time to give room to sanity but with the utterance miyetti alllah latlty, I am just tired of the whole issue.

May God save Nigeria!

Na God vote Buhari ?

OneCorner:
Nice one Mr President
We need to deal with those benue pipul.
They are two weak for the current state of the nation

stray-bullet fall on you

fork buhari

To all gods, I am very sorry but this need a wide reading:

More than before, we now know what we require from a presidential aspirant


To every presidential aspirant, here is our requirement checklist if you actually want us to cast our votes for you in the coming 2019 election.

We don't care about what political party you belong to anymore -whether old party or new party, popular or unpopular; we don't care about what religion anymore; we don't care about what tribe or region anymore but
You

1. Must attend not less than 3 presidential debates: how do we know you're mentally stable and not a slowpoke if you cannot give reasonable responses to simple debate questioning?

2. Must undergo medical qualification tests: both the psychiatricals and others. The result must be verified by a notable medical panel and must be made availale to the general public.
People do medical tests even for secondary school admission, so why not for presidency aspiration.

3. Must have of governing plan (just like a business plan or a master plan) and make it available to the general public through the all the social media channels.
Bank cannot commit their cash to people without a good business plan with clearly written goals and objectives, figures, strategies and a guarantor, so how much more should we commit the life, future and properties of more than 150millions Nigerians to you without a plan.
In the plan must also be indicated your personer track records of successes.

4. Must have more than secondary school education. (There's nothing new about this)

5. Must have at least one of your children educated in a public university in Nigeria (not private): by this we will surely know that you believe in the future of Nigeria and that you will work towards her betterment.
This is a price not too much to pay if you realy love us.
We are tired of insensitivity of government towards the development of standards of educational setup in Nigeria, the strikes and industrial actions.

6. Must be a patronage of Nigerian made products and services and you must believe in capacity building of Nigerian indigenous businesses to provide exportable products and services to neighbouring countries, Africa and the world at large.

7. Must be wide reader and self development enthusiast: If you don't constantly feed your mind with transformative, educative and informative ideas through books, you don't have a business doing with presidency in Nigeria.
We are tired of archaic approaches to human governing. We need mordern, liberated and future oriented leaders to lead us in Nigeria, not power mongers, who just want to be in government for power, fame and monetary gain.

8. Must be within the working age range (younger than 60 years): "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
Towards old age, people become less and less physically, socially, mentally and psychologically fit to cope with occupational demands, not to talk of rulling a nation of more than150million citizens, so retirement is compulsory.
The retirement age in Nigeria civil service guided by decree No. 102 of 1979 that dealt with pension and gratuity pegged the statutory age of retirement for public officers at 60 years, while it is 65 years for judiciary officers and 70 for academic staff of universities. However with reform of civil service decree No. 43 of 1988, retirement age has been put at 60 years or 35 years in service.

9. Must have no public record of hate speech, tribalism, nepotism, crime against humanity, pending corruption charges or history, and or affiliation with any millitant group or religion fundamentalist group or terrorist group :
We will never ever think again that people will change. Ascenssion to power only gives people the chance to express their true self.

10. Must have done something contributary to the development of your immediate environment: this is simple, is'nt it?

11. Must be well educated about the constitution of Nigeria. We are tired of reminding the government what to do and what's not to do. We are tired of reminding the government about what's in the costitution they swear to uphold. This is 21st century.
The INEC in collaoration with the National Assembly and the Judiciary Counsel of Nigeria should create an online platform where common citizen can get proper education about the Nigerian constitution. They should maku use of shot animated videos and other training material. Certificates should also be awarded.

Reuters reports that the Presidency said the limited availability of land prompted both parties to adopt all means to meet their need.

This is a very lame excuse coming from the President. Many of us travel all over this country and we see bushes/lands endlessly. If that's true, why will the herdsmen result to intruding peoples' lands to feed their cows? The land is green, wide enough to accommodate everybody. They should also purchase hectares of lands at all their routes to enhance mobility, look for the right specie of grass that would be nutritious, plant it and end this madness. This is how business is done. Besides, the farmers they destroy their crops also goes to the market to buy meat and not for free.

The farmers obtain land and plant crops to make money and they do so without causing harm to anybody. The Fulanis rear cows to sell and make money, so in doing so, why would they continue to cause harm to people?

The President is a herdsman too. I suggest he calls other rich polithiefcians who are like him to a round table and fashion a way to end this madness. Nigerians won't sit and watch defenseless people being slaughtered everyday because cows wants to graze.

Enough is enough.

If he actually said that then he is really stupid. Does he expect Nigeria's population to remain the same as it was at independence. The fact is herding cows around from one place to another has no place in modern society. He should have said that.

Reuters reports that the Presidency said the limited availability of land prompted both parties to adopt all means to meet their need.

So, this justifies the demons killing people in their own lands?

Even threatening others to rescind their own laws else they will continue to kill them?

Was that why the government refused to arrest the miyetti demons threatening others?

Shitty people.

imhotep:
Did he blame GEJ?

No, the report is inconclusive.

The worst and wicked government or administration ever since the country existed.

The man is so so totally insane.

Aveg Sarrki and Hugerbad where you go for your brain to be cleansed because APC,Bubu,BMC,Zombies, Antichrist etc need it.

If they are killing themselves because of they dont have enough land then by now we igbos should have finish killing ourselves.i taught only niger state is bigger than the whole east.




Igbo hate themselves.

MichaelBukamzy:
Somebody tell me where i am....nigeria or afghanistan?

you are in Buharis shthole

buhari has really gone mad

what sort of lame excuse is this?

rafhell:


You are in a shithole country

No sir Biafrans are the shithole trump spoke about, since they wholeheartedly accept they were conceived in a shithole, born in a shithole and live in a shithole.

He knows the reason for the killings but knows nothing about how to arrest them even when they are not hidden. They are still making threats and carrying them out while the President watches in happiness.