President Muhammadu Buhari believes the re-establishment of grazing routes to enable herdsmen to move their cattle unhindered across the country is the solution in ending the conflict between herders and farmers.

The President who spoke during a town hall meeting with the Nigerian community in Dubai on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, said Nigerian herdsmen are known to be peaceful and don’t fit the image of the AK-47-wielding marauders who have been accused of attacking communities.

President Buhari said the erasure of grazing routes that existed in the past has contributed greatly to the problem and can be solved by bringing them back.

He said, “But those of you who are neighbours to cattle rearers, Nigerian cattle herders use to carry only sticks and their machetes to cut foliage for the cattle. But these are cattle herders with weapons like AK-47.

“But the problem is that you can hardly identify the difference between cattle herders from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and other cattle herders. They look the same but I was accused of not doing anything about those operating locally but I took the governor on this and this is one of the reasons he left our party for another party.

“Because I told him the cattle herders and settlers problem in Nigeria is older than myself not to talk of him and at first republic, there were cattle routes, they put infrastructures and even veterinary.

“But the so-called politicians because they are so much in a hurry to make money they acquire some of these lands and turned them into their private farms.

“So, if you are a cattle herder or you know about cattle, like myself, the herders now pass through anybody’s land to find water for their cattle to drink.

“I told Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture, to look at the gazette of the first republic to get the cattle routes and get the grazing routes and re-establish them so that we can reduce this incidence. Some of you here know the efforts we are making.”


https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/latest-nigeria-news-today/2019/06/03/president-buhari-insist-grazing-route-restoration-is-the-solution-to-end-herdsmen-crisis/



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His Right to an extent

Usman Dan Fodio's agenda on course. Yoruba una weldon o.....Is this not visible to the blind that these folks have a devilish agaenda but because una want shop beans like Esau una must sell the Southern Nigeria to the devil.
Now them don dey rape una people with the Fg doing nothing.
Obasanjo and Nnamdi were right.
It is all good, if this will facilitate the collapse of this British estate.

for nigeria to mordernize to ranching system will cost alot....

nigerians seem to dont understand how much things cost....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ri9nM8NeE

Can you imagine?

Is this man deranged? How can you try and implement something from the first republic when we are now operating a Federal system of govt with autonomy for states?

4yrs will soon meet up with you and you will leave that place and your herdsmen land grabbing agenda.

That grazing route should not pass through my land because if i catch any herdsman there...

this man is an idiot

What is wrong with this man? Buhari first function after inauguration is the OIC conference in Saudi Arabia. Thereafter his focus is now on this useless "grazing route" issue.

For God's sake the modern trend in animal husbandry is cattle ranching & it's private and not government business.

So why should this be the priority of Buhari govt of all the hydra-headed problems bedevilling Nigeria @ present? Yet Nigerians said the fulanization agenda is not on course?

Silly Talk.

So, if your dungarees wearing Dongaris have been using Dunghills to excrete, they must never use modern Toilet system till they perish? Bokoharam, haters of modern system!

We are talking of modern Ranches, but our Feudal Champion keeps insisting on AK47 gun trotting migrating Herdsmen all over other climes and people's habitations.

Fulani Herdsmen are Terrorists And Buhari is behind them-by Christiana Amanpour-CNN.

I hope Kumuyi is reading this?

Part of the Saudi deal

The only demented president in the world.

The man BuharI is talking about Benue state and Ortom.t
did anybody notice that? this people have special interest against Benue o! they are even the son of the land.