ItsMeAboki:

Restoration of some of these lost grazing routes by the FG would no doubt go along way towards easing tensions and therefore minimising conflicts between farmers and the herdsmen.

MetaPhysical:
The first step in this is to have States and LGs conduct referendum votes so indigenes and citizens can vote to indicate willingness to admit foreigners to graze cattle on their land.

adimsmt:



Nigerian government and there backward thinking, why are this government bent on destroying the country with easy to solve problem. Its not done anywhere in the world where government will take individual properties and hand them over to private individual businesses for what,? Ranching is the solution this is a private businesses let them go and acquire land with their own money and ranch their cows that what sane people do. The government of federal republic of Nigeria are proving Nnamdi Kanu right.

igbodefender:
Those routes you are talking about, Sir, are people's ancestral land, given to them by their ancestors to pass unto the next generation. This will not work. Fearless activists like Fayose (Omoluabi), Fani Kayode (Jagun), Apostle Suleiman (A Man Of God), Wike (Dike Ndi Igbo) and other fearless Southerners will oppose this. Nigerians who wish to see the herdsmen become international businessmen as they should be will oppose this.
Commercial cattle ranching remains the only answer. Cattle business is not politics and should not be politicized.

greatgod2012:
Nigeria= Animal farm!


ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE EQUAL THAN OTHERS!

Who else read that book?

Noblesoul123:
I suspect that this is a strategy to carve out land in states for the exclusive use of their cattle.

This may be d plan B after the cattle grazing bill was rejected.

Communities should shine their eyes lest their land or even villages are reserved for Libyan Herdsmen.

By the way, why are they rejecting the option of building ranches?

We are in the 21st century abeg.

SalamRushdie:
now that final phase of the Fulani Jihad commences ..Incase you are a zombie that doesn't understand what this means I will put it for you in simple grammar, all the mam is saying that this year the Federal Govt will force every state to give part of its land to Fulani herdsmen

babablogger:
Good move if it's going to stop cattles from causing accidents

decomaniaboss:
see as u mumu

babablogger:
you are referring to your dad right?

Marotzke:
Informed commentary is dead. Welcome to a country where demagogues polute the cyberspace and inflict every one with their bombastic ignorance.
There have been grazing routes,demarcated and gazetted since 1961, but by northern Nigerian government.
It is this grazing route that is being reactivated and re energised. There have never been any grazing route in Nnsukka, Aguleri, Auchi or Ogbomosho so none to be re activated.
Even the examples given ; Bauchi and plateau have always had grazing routes which are currently being encroached upon.
If you don't want grazing routes in Benue,Kogi, Taraba, Plateau or Gombe?
Go to your state house of assembly and repeal the existing law.
If you have no prior existing grazing route in your state, be on the watch out for your state Governor to avoid your ancestral land gifted for cattle marching.
Buhari/ FG have no such sweeping powers.

Paentera:
Its high time that the government cracks down on the nomadic lifestyle of the cattle people and put a permanent solution to it.

Basically nomadic grazing means cost-free living & feeding. Where it might have been possible in the pre-independence and in the pre-development period, it is no longer feasible in today's Nigeria.

The mayhem, maiming, murders and crimes caused by these cattle and their herdsmen is so heart breaking considering that the government has done little or nothing to bring these perpetrators to book and get them convicted.

Going forward, a crack team should be despatched across all states of the country to mount extensive surveillance on the movement of these cows while using Geotag locators, GIS & GPRS to ensure their livestock remain in a ranch. Failure to comply results in seizing the livestock and jailing the herdsmen.

Lastly, going forward, any businessman intending to go into the business of cattle rearing should be issued a licence and MUST register ALL staff. Getting a license means you must have a ranch, otherwise your cattle is seized permanently.

These guys need to be heavily regulated the same way banks, telcos and discos are regulated before the madness and mayhem will come to a conclusive end

VULCAN:
Perhaps if you had bothered to READ the damn post you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself like this.

The man in charge says they have grazing routes across the entire country and you say its only the north.

You need to tell us whether you are his boss cos if not you should keep quiet.

ycat:
(Southern) Nigerians, you better register your anger by boycotting beef and goats, before you eat your lives and peace of mind away. If you are still eating any meat from the north, you are eating your children's flesh and the future generations cos you will look back in few years from now and curse yourselves for your inaction when you had the opportunity but did nothing. If Nigerians don't stop this from happening, you might as well greet everything you've ever known goodbye. This is the work of the Hausa & Fulani to move deaths close to your doors, people wake up! It's all a strategy to plant killers in every nook and cranny to make it easy to kill Nigerians.

Cattle don't need routes, they need to be in ranch up north and transported throughout Nigeria. And why is the Fg in the business of cattle? Is there a ministry for that? Let there be protest everywhere now before it's too late.