Alhaji Isa Adamu, the Lamido of Zugobia in
Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa has
appealed to the state and federal government
to collaborate in disarming armed nomadic
herdsmen allegedly unleashing terror in the
area .


Adamu made the plea in Guri at a
stakeholders’ meeting organised by the
Jigawa Mediation Committee on Herdsmen
and Farmers on Tuesday .


According to him , the herdsmen , who hail
from northern Bauchi, have been coming into
the community, destroying farmlands and
attacking innocent people .

He dismissed the claim that encroachment on
cattle routes and grazing reserves by farmers
was responsible for the frequent clashes
between farmers and herdsmen in the area ,
insisting that the herdsmen had a hidden
agenda.


“ The crisis between farmers and herdsmen in
Guri has nothing to do with encroachment on
cattle routes and grazing reserves .
“ The truth is that herdsmen wielding guns ,
machetes, bows and arrows are coming to our
area from northern Bauchi , attacking our
people and destroying their farmlands at will.
“ We are also Fulanis; but these criminals are
strangers to us and that is why I am calling on
the state and Federal Government to wade
into this matter and disarm them
immediately before it is too late.


However, the Secretary of the committee, Dr
Rabiu Miko , noted that the state government
had received complaints detailing
encroachment on cattle routes and grazing
reserves by farmers in the area .


He said it was imperative for the council’ s
authorities to ensure that cattle routes , ponds
and grazing reserves were not used for
farming in order to de -escalate the conflict.
Also speaking, the committee Chairman ,
Alhaji Aminu Babura, said the committee was
constituted by Governor Badaru Mohammed ,
whom he said , was deeply worried by the
spate of violent conflicts between farmers
and herdsmen .



He said the state had recently provided
motorcycles to the leadership of farmers and
herdsmen across its 27 local government
areas to facilitate dialogue between them in
the hinterland .


In his remark, the local government
chairman, Alhaji Barkwano Adiyani , urged
both farmers and herdsmen in the area to
live in peace, saying that there can be no
development without peace.



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2019 had come they now get brain

Believe Fulani at your own peril, dunno how tinubu they sleep for night after he sold his people out