Abuja – After seven hours of brainstorming, the Council of State meeting summoned by President Muhammadu Buhari came to a resolution to officially gazette all grazing routes in the country.

The decision was arrived at as a means of quelling some of the security challenges in parts of the country, especially incidents that trailed the farmers-herdsmen clashes in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states recently.

Besides gazetting the routes, government would also provide resources for special grazing reserves where states would voluntarily make lands available.

The Council of State meeting also unbundled the security challenges facing the country and resolved that it was three pronged. Their first observation was that besides the farmers/herders clashes, armed bandits were also hiding under the guise of the crisis to create havoc.

“On the security situation in the country, we received a very long brief from the National Security Adviser, ranging from farmers/herdsmen clashes, Boko Haram, militancy in the Niger Delta, kidnapping and cattle rustling”.

He said after deliberations, a lot of suggestions came forward. According to him, “farmers/herdsmen clashes were discussed thoroughly and they learnt that it takes three dimensions. First is the real farmers/herdsmen clashes, where the normal herdsman moves around with his cattle and gets into a farmers land and eats up his crops.

“In some situations it’s pure banditry. Some of the pastoralists that are not herders, attack, steal and kidnap and that has to be defined as such.

“Some of them rustle cattle and move into the deep forests. And because of the thickness of the forests response are usually very difficult. That was also discussed today and solutions were proffered on how to get deep into the forests, to check those bandits that hide and continue to commit havoc.

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What they could not get by intimidating some governors, they now want to get by official fiat (ala federal might).

Does FG own any land in any state of the federation? This is just to force the hand of governors and embolden the herdsmen by giving them sense of entitlement in states that are not theirs.

Some silly youths brought this upon the nation by voting in a known religious and ethnic bigot, a mistake they are set to repeat.

This would go a long in solving the problem between farmers and the cattle rearers. It is not about Fulani herdsmen herdsmen but the food security of the country.

The zoo Nigeria FG has no land of its own and Nigeria is a State sponsor of Terrorism

The ancestral land belongs to the people whos forefathers owned the land before the zoo Nigeria was created

You cannot gazette what you dont own

This is another ploy to take over peoples land

Divide the zoo Nigeria now

Buhari will practically divide and cause mayhem all over Nigeria with this ill informed decision

How do you create a grazing route on people's land for castles that belong to private business owners?

How do you create a grazing reserve on people's ancestral lands?

How do you displace a farmer in his land and give to a herdsman for grazing?

Why can't the owners adopt ranching as practiced in saner climes?

IT'S OFFICIAL, THIS IS FEDERAL FULANI REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

..With the anarchy buhari and his goons are hell-bent on causing fulani herdsmen,i just might vote for buhari next year

guterMann:
How do you create a grazing route on people's land for castles that belong to private business owners?

How do you create a grazing reserve on people's ancestral lands?

How do you displace a farmer in his land and give to a herdsman for grazing?

Why can't the owners adopt ranching as practiced in saner climes?

IT'S OFFICIAL, THIS IS FEDERAL FULANI REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

But obj and state governors were at the meeting.
So all the southerners there kept sealed lips including the so called Fayose.

Ngokafor:



..With the anarchy buhari and his goons are hell-bent on causing fulani herdsmen,i just might vote for buhari next year

Nnenne, you are in the Spirit.

Buhari and not IPOB will disintegrate Nigeria.