AN All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has asked the government to immediately convert unused land to grazing routes as this will curb incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen.

Tinubu said this in Abuja on Monday at a national summit on conflict resolution.

The event, which was organised by The Nation and TV Continental, was themed: ‘Towards an Enduring Peace.’


He said, “The government must help herders gradually shift from their traditional nomadic existence to a more static lifestyle. We have to face the reality that modernity is making the nomadic way counterproductive and inefficient.

“Unoccupied, isolated land can quickly be turned into grazing areas in the affected states. In the long run, this will enable herders to better maintain their livestock and thus their own livelihood.”


Tinubu, who was represented by an Executive Commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Sunday Dare, said contrary to speculations, the crisis was not caused by religious or political differences but by water scarcity.

The former governor of Lagos State said the desertification in most parts of the North had caused herders to move southward with their cattle in search of greener pastures.


He added, “An acutely thirsty man remembers neither Bible nor Quran very well until his thirst is quenched. Dire need often pushes a man to behave as if bereft of compassion for a person in equally dire circumstance.

“NThey are saying that he gave billions of naira to others as victims but has not given them anything. But the Buhari I know is just an honest man. He is not taking sides in this struggle, but he cannot change himself because he is a Fulani man or claim that he is no more a Fulani man because it has become an issue.”


Ribadu said many of the herders were migrating southwards not only because of desertification but also because of the high rate of insecurity in the North.

He said sadly, the nomadic Fulani are never given a sense of belonging wherever they go because they are not landowners.

The former EFCC boss added, “You can hardly see any nomadic Fulani man that is part of a state assembly or the National Assembly and they form about 15 to 20 million of the population and they are marginalised. They are not in any way benefiting from what is happening in the country today.


“There has been only one attempt to address the problem and that was the nomadic education programme. Many of those who participated in the nomadic education programme are PhD holders today and those that are working are helping their communities. Other than that, I have not seen any effort geared towards solving their problem.”

In his remarks, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bodejo, said some of the solutions to the current crisis included the immediate suspension of the anti-grazing law as well as the release of herders arrested in Benue in the course of enforcing the law.


Bodejo also urged the military to stop aerial bombardment of pastoralist communities but should rather employ an intelligence-based approach to the crisis.

He added, “The recent anti-grazing laws enacted by some states should be suspended as the laws have become a recipe for conflicts.

“The immediate release from detention of hundreds of pastoralists languishing in jails without trial particularly those arrested in Benue on the pretext of violating anti-grazing laws.”

o doubt the problem has exacerbated during the past decade. We must assume climate change plays a role.”











https://punchng.com/nigeriansll-choose-between-lifeless-candidate-and-job-provider-in-2019-atiku/

Atiku you missed it

That’s the kind of politics ipobians like

Why are Yoruba people so worried that Igbos are rooting for Atiku with an Igbo VP.?

I believe that Yoruba people know that Atiku will win once he picks an Igbo VP.

Atiku now has majority votes of NE, NC, SE and SS.

Atiku will split NW votes due to the desire they have to stay 12years in power & also because Buhari's government has made them poorer.


As for Tinubu telling Buhari to steal peoples land for grazing reserves, SW should not complain when it comes to them.

Ipobians betrays Fayose

Betrayed Ade The dancer (Senator Ademola Adeleke

Betrayed Kwankwaso

Betrayed Kanu

Betrayed saraki there lord Nd savior

It cost them nothing to betray you

They re serial betrayer

It shall never be well with Igbos

We don't want any SW vote

EternalTruths:
Why are Yoruba people so worried that Igbos are rooting for Atiku with an Igbo VP.?

I believe that Yoruba people know that Atiku will win once he picks an Igbo VP.

Atiku now has majority votes of NE, NC, SE and SS.

Atiku will split NW votes due to the desire they have to stay 12years in power & also because Buhari's government has made them poorer.


As for Tinubu telling Buhari to steal peoples land for grazing reserves, SW should not complain when it comes to them.

Sharap

holllandis:
We don't want any SW vote

We saw what the southeast own does in 2015

From Awka to obolafor down to nnewi back to abkaliki enroutes Onitsha back to Owerri stops at aba

Your brothers and sisters in go slows and holdups in Lagos selling galas and pure water knows what southwest votes can do

INEC will finally rig DEATH.
Lifeless now, on LONDON TREATMENT life support!

Anything ipobians touches becomes doomed

Am sure Atiku will go that way

Truly the election coming is between the southeast and the southwest

Voting strength will determine

I don’t see any reasonable omoluabis voting against his own (Osinbajo)

How do some people even reason baffles me

sarrki:
Anything ipobians touches becomes doomed

Am sure Atiku will go that way

Truly the election coming is between the southeast and the southwest

Voting strength will determine

I don’t see any reasonable omoluabis voting against his own (Osinbajo)

How do some people even reason baffles me

Sarrki, don't you get it that there is so much hunger in the land ...

CROWNWEALTH019:

Sarrki, don't you get it that there is so much hunger in the land ...

Pdp caused it

It shall never be well with enemies of the state

both are trash abeg..Nigeria deserves better..not ancestors

sarrki:



Pdp caused it

It shall never be well with enemies of the state

We tired of blame games, was it PDP that made the 15m job loss?

babyfaceafrica:
both are trash abeg..Nigeria deserves better..not ancestors

Member Of Wike pdp faction spotted

CROWNWEALTH019:

We tired of blame games, was it PDP that made the 15m job loss?

The truth is what pdp did to our economy
It will take 80 years to bring it back to normal

sarrki:


Member Of Wike pdp faction spotted

thunder fire wike ,apc and pdp

babyfaceafrica:
thunder fire wike ,apc and pdp

Sharap
I remember you very well

Your candidate kwankwaso lost

I understand your frustration

They will articulate to survive the coming months

sarrki:


The truth is what pdp did to our economy
It will take 80 years to bring it back to normal

By killing all of us, to hell with that idiat in Aso rock. We want corruption back biko. Integrity my foot

CROWNWEALTH019:

By killing all of us, to hell with that idiat in Aso rock. We want corruption back biko. Integrity my foot

We the progressives will never allow that to happen

sarrki:


We the progressives will never allow that to happen

Fight against the will of the people, fight against God. He has heard the cries of the people

CROWNWEALTH019:

Fight against the will of the people, fight against God. He has heard the cries of the people

God and Humanity rejects pdp

sarrki:

God and Humanity rejects pdp

Not anymore cause as it stands, a goat will win buhari without stress. For 3 years the idiat took us for a ride, now its our turn to take him on a ride too.

CROWNWEALTH019:

Not anymore cause as it stands, a goat will win buhari without stress. For 3 years the idiat took us for a ride, now its our turn to take him on a ride too.

He never did

You didn’t vote him

Alot complaining did not

So we that voted are still willing to do again and again

4+4

Buhari and Osinbajo

Land grabbing agenda supported by Tinubu. Let's say no to this Fulani expansionist mentality using Fulani terrorists as foot soldiers to wreak havoc and kill innocent people referring to it as herders and Farmers crises as a cover to snatch people land and penetrate into every state to consolidate their claim that they own Nigeria.

Topic is about Atiku, article is about herdmen conflict.

Meanwhile...

He said sadly, the nomadic Fulani are never given a sense of belonging wherever they go because they are not landowners.

What kind of useless remark is this?... was free land ever shared in Nigeria?

Nigerians are already following the job provider, lifelessness profits no one ...

sarrki:
Anything ipobians touches becomes doomed

Am sure Atiku will go that way

Truly the election coming is between the southeast and the southwest

Voting strength will determine

I don’t see any reasonable omoluabis voting against his own (Osinbajo)

How do some people even reason baffles me

Sadly true. I was in a mall this morning and I heard some hausa men talking about how "they" like him because he supports their biafra agitations.

Atiku is the kind of president that would see that Nigeria still doesn't have constant power supply and establish a personal generator manufacturing plant, ban importation of generators and make money for himself.

BafanaBafana:
Atiku is the kind of president that would see that Nigeria still doesn't have constant power supply and establish a personal generator manufacturing plant, ban importation of generators and make money for himself.

You have said it all