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| Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 4:55am On Jul 01, 2019 |
I love raising awareness for the public and would love to bring to you some very good information, to hear it first here in Nairaland. I am reluctant to do that because as always, Onitsha bridge head touts that have nothing to contribute other than noise jump in on my thread and derail it. This piece here is very very important information for keeps. This shares with you the history of and presence of pastoralism in West Africa, partuclarly about Nigeria and why we are where we are now. I put a brief snippets here but follow the link to download the pdf document and read. This is for serious readers, the information is vast but educative, not just about Nigeria but rest of West Africa as well pertaining to Farmer/Herder conflicts. I want to say the following: 1- We have heard President Buhari say on many occassions that grazing routes were gazetted back in the 60s. When you hear this you would think its a route across the nation. No. Grazing routes were only for Northern Nigeria. No land in Southern Nigeria was gazetted to be used for grazing....Never! So now under current situation it would be wrong to start carving land in South for grazing, our land was never in the gazette for cattle routes. 2- Bandits crossing into South are intentional. These bandits have terrorized fulani and killed fulanis in North for many years, particularly in Zamfara. They were contained there. So who let them loose to cross from border states in NorthWest hinterland into Nigeria? Security forces of course! https://unowas.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/rapport_pastoralisme_eng-2.pdf According to available data, Nigeria has the highest number of livestock in West Africa, with the number of cattle estimated at 20.5 million101. It is also likely that Nigeria has the highest number of pastoralists in West Africa, as colonial-era census data indicates. Most Nigerian pastoralists are Fulani by ethnicity, but Fulani pastoralists are not a homogenous group. In Nigeria there are many different Fulani clans, sub-clans, local Fulani cultures and dialects, and variations in herding practices. Blocked transhumance routes and loss of grazing reserves There are many challenges facing pastoralists in Nigeria. Transhumance routes are in practice not well protected and are often cultivated or blocked. This includes the cattle routes used by herders on a day-today basis when they are taking the animals for grazing in the morning and returning to the camp or village in the evening. In the South, the infrastructure to regulate the relationship between pastoralists and farmers does not exist. The 1965 law establishing grazing reserves in the then Northern Region was ‘inherited’ by individual states in northern Nigeria after the regions were divided into states in 1967. The grazing reserves are therefore under the jurisdiction of northern states, not of the Federal Government. Most grazing reserves in northern Nigeria now only exist on paper. An example, which has regional implications for south-west Nigeria, is the loss of much of the Bobi Grazing Reserve in Niger State, which was a major grazing area. While the Bobi Grazing Reserve was equipped by the Federal Government with facilities for pastoralists, part of it has been turned into farmland. The UNCT/Nigeria notes that this happened as pastoralists abandoned the Reserve because of deteriorating infrastructure. The loss of grazing reserves and other pastoral land in northern Nigeria partly explains why more pastoralists have moved to southern parts of the country where grazing reserves never existed. Banditry and cattle rustling Banditry is a serious form of insecurity in parts of central and northern Nigeria that has cost many lives. The modern history of banditry in northern Nigeria allegedly goes back to the early 1990s, as armed bandits from Chad entered the country across the north-eastern border. The Nigerian government played a vital role in controlling the flow of banditry from Chad, as Nigerian security agencies tightened security along the border in the mid- to late 1990s. After the Chadian banditry declined, some locals stepped into this space and took up banditry, cattle rustling and robbery. The local bandits and victims were mainly Fulani, and in response Fulani pastoralists set up vigilante groups. These groups have been combatting rural banditry in Taraba and Adamawa States, often working with local authorities. They reduced the incidents of banditry in much of Taraba and Adamawa, but banditry persists in other parts of northern Nigeria. The North-West is now the worst affected zone, notably Zamfara and Kaduna States. In Katsina State, the government managed to contain the problem. The state government is also reported to have re-opened and secured some of the transhumance routes and grazing areas for pastoralists and to be seeking to increase nomadic education for boys and girls. Consequently, violence is now relatively low in Katsina. In contrast, there has been endemic, large-scale violence in Zamfara State that forced the pastoralist population to leave large areas of the state. Gangs of armed bandits have occupied swathes of southern Zamfara. The violence reached a high level in 2012-2013 and has persisted intermittently since then, with frequent large-scale attacks on villages. The number of fatalities in the Zamfara violence is likely to run into the thousands. The violence also spread to Kaduna State, with bandits occupying part of bordering Birnin Gwari LGA. The bandits are organised and heavily armed; their criminal activities include the stealing of cattle, kidnapping for ransom, and armed robbery. Many of the bandits were identified as being Fulani while victims were Fulani and Hausa. Some of the political elites in Zamfara sponsored vigilante groups to confront the bandits but they mobilised these groups against the local Fulani population, creating generalised violence between Fulani pastoralists and Hausa farmers that has claimed many lives111.Fulani pastoralists claim they do not support the bandits, as they are also victims of such banditry, provoking their exodus from southern Zamfara to other parts of Nigeria, especially to central and northern states. The stirring up of inter-ethnic, farmer-herder violence in reaction to the banditry ended up scattering ‘innocent’ and ‘criminal’ elements from within the Fulani population; thus, the problem of banditry expanded beyond Zamfara. Subsequently, pastoralists who were displaced by the conflict and then returned to Zamfara discovered their grazing land being cultivated by farmers and their homes destroyed. This became a source of tension. Some pastoralists were accommodated as internally displaced persons around Gusau. The government of Zamfara State has directed that land belonging to pastoralists who fled be returned to them. 1 Like 1 Share
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| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Nobody: 5:17am On Jul 01, 2019 |
This their ruga madness go break Nigeria no doubt. The northern elites are behind it because they have an agenda. They just didn't know the best way of achieving it and that's why they use fulani herdsmen to deceive us. Boko haram have infiltrated the south, no doubt. We have had herdsmen in our midst for ages and they co-habited with us peacefully and we still have them around.Those killing,raping and maiming never reared any cattle. They're boko haram members called all manners of names to deceive and confuse us...from boko haram to herdsmen to cattle rustlers to armed bandits.Should the Southern leaders embrace the ruga thing, we're doomed. Since when cattle business became the federal government business? Cattle business is like every other business and should be carried out accordingly. Can a cocoa farmer go up north and start killing people because they refused to give him land to plant his cocoa? Can the federal government advocate free land for our poultry farmers down south or the cassava farmers in the east all over the country? Would a hausaman allow an oil palm farmer to plant his seedlings in kano?These just can't be possible. Had the cattle business been a southern thing, the north would have kicked against ruga. They had an agenda and God would judge and punish any politician in the south who embraces this heinous idea of ruga out of greed.They should see safety of our people as paramount,instead of the financial gains. 8 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Racoon(m): 5:19am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Why is the government desperate about this RUGA issue? Is this most disturbing problem of Nigeria @ present? Why is the major threat Nigeria has @ present is the major obessesion of the govt? Nigerians pls wake up. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by pat077: 6:05am On Jul 01, 2019 |
The onus is on the respective southern state government to reject the idea in entirety. If they want ruga settlement, let them do that in their northern region and not come and occupy peoples land. 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Bethel4Life(f): 6:09am On Jul 01, 2019 |
At op.. Are u trying to say that ur god and saviuor buhari is wrong  Let d head of bmc catch u...btw do u mean u don't support ruga in south west? 2 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by hisgrace090: 6:17am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Even though they do must it remain forever? The only constant thing in life is chang, and change now says no to RUGA. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Nobody: 6:18am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Lol.. i thought the op was one of them buhari terrorist  |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by EricBloodAxe: 6:27am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Long epistle. All this history is not important anymore. Let the pastoralists settle and remain in the north. We don't need them in the SE-SS. Whatever their grievances should be settled and fixed and made to work in the north. 2 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by seunmsg(m): 6:28am On Jul 01, 2019 |
The fact that all lands belong to state is a settled matter. That law was tested in the case of Lagos State vs FG over Banana Island and Lagos won. FG cannot force and state to surrender her land for any policy or scheme whatsoever and from what I have read so far about RUGA, there is no intention to force any state. The scheme will kick off in the 12 states that have voluntarily made lands available for the construction of the settlement and all these states are in the north. So, I don’t really get why we are making so much noise about nothing. If we are all interested in finding a solution to the constant farmers and herders crisis, then we should support this policy in as much as it is limited to consenting states. The level of misinformation about the policy by political propagandist is just amazing. Someone even posted falsely somewhere yesterday that over 200 new Fulani LGAs will be created nationwide. We must be able to read in between the lines when we come across some of these misleading information. 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by helinues: 6:31am On Jul 01, 2019 |
I am not understanding all this epistle. Is op saying FG do not have lands in all states? Are they forcing states to accept Ruga? If Ruga are rejected mostly by southern states, will that stop the killer herdsmen from killing ? ( As long as their cows graze openly, conflicts with farmers are inevitable) Have Southern states ready to start Cow rearing business? If no Ruga, what better alternatives is on ground? Condemning is easy but proferring solutions have always been the problem in Nigeria |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 6:56am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Racoon, Ok, so it's all about the cattle wealth. Cows are priced by size and range from 60,000 naira to half a million naira. Those who can afford service of fulani herders usually have cows numbering a thousand or more. It's a good source of wealth, sustainable and relatively cheap to operate. You dont need to build a shelter for them, they graze in field and drink from stream. Their size and value improve when they have good sustenance. Therefore they have to get to where to find resource to improve their worth. This is where the fulani herdsman come in. It is his duty in exchange for compensation in cash and animal to manage their grazing and well being between home and market. Home could be in Gusau and market is in Iseyin, the herder makes it happen. Did you see the video of Nneme people chasing fulani and cows out of town? Were you able to count the number of heads zooming past the camera? Certain problems in the North threaten herd sustenance and puts the life of their herders at risk. 1 - dwindled resources 2- inter-ethnic wars in Northwest and Northeast Therefore it has become imperative to avoid massive loss of stock and also preserve the fulani cultural lifestyle, that they find new zones for the cattle to graze in. This is why there is pressure in Northcentral....and now spilling into South. Who are the people enforcing herd relocation? MiyettiAllah had played it smart long ago. They offered retiring military officers heads of cow to supplement their post retirement interest in agriculture and farming. The officers in turn used their influence in security force to bully the way and gift to miyetti access rights to places it traditionally did not have rights of access. This is why when a herder is in distress after committing crime and he is overpowered he presses a button on his phone and gets word across for rescue from military barracks nearby. In other words, miyetti bought itself protection. In Nassarawa a military officer got in trouble a while back for failing to respond to distress call from fulani under attack. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 7:11am On Jul 01, 2019 |
To Fairfora, Have you ever seen Decree no6 of 29th March, 1978? YarAdua sought to change it in 2009. Let me show you. I want you to compare with what is going on now.  My images are two separate...one for the State Governor, the other for the Local Government. They are all documents in the same decree. During Military rule Governors were posted like Youth Corpers are...Northerners in South, Southerners in Middlebelt. Southerners did not rule North. I guess it was like that in 1978 as well. If it was, imagine what Northern Military Governors did with lands and minerals in the South. I share these information to say one thing....our mumu in South did not start with APC/PDP for those who blame it on voting pattern. Yaradua reversed this land use decree no 6 but Buhari appears to be using back door to return to the Local Govts and get grazing access. NFIU was setup to use intelligence to locate stolen wealth hidden in foreign lands. Now NFIU is threatening penalty and prosecution for any financial institution that releases LG subventure any other way than direct exchange to the LG. In other words, LG have financial autonomy now. Their income is issued direct from FG, no longer from State.....and so they are free to enter into direct exchange and contracts with FG. Read what it says in that image about LG giving land for grazing. This was in 1978! We are doomed, but we continue to believe our degrees and lawsuits will save us against ak47s. 
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| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 7:14am On Jul 01, 2019 |
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| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by QueenSekxy(f): 7:17am On Jul 01, 2019 |
You people in SW benefited in rail way, government positions and all, why are you people running from ruga benefits? Fg should implement this ruga in the region/state that voted them. Let them complete there benefits in all ramifications. 2 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by QueenSekxy(f): 7:19am On Jul 01, 2019 |
You people gave up your land for 2023 presidency. Please, enjoy and reap the fruit of your Labour, let's hear word. 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by KidsNEXTdoor: 7:22am On Jul 01, 2019 |
After voting and supporting Buhari Same people will be opening threads to counter the policies of the dullard they put in office Ruga has come to stay in the south west and there is nothing any one of you can do about it Metaphysical... Seunsmg etc take note 3 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by mightyhaze: 7:22am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Bethel4Life:u mind the confused clown? |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by mightyhaze: 7:24am On Jul 01, 2019 |
KidsNEXTdoor:they running around now with phlegm all over their snout,looking for whom to rally against a government they put in place and ready to kill or be killed for. What a Confused clan 3 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by mightyhaze: 7:26am On Jul 01, 2019 |
MetaPhysical:why not confront ur fake pastor and bullion chiefs instead of running amok here like a beheaded bush fowl 2 Likes |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 7:27am On Jul 01, 2019 |
helinues: The bottomline is cow. Forget about herder and focus on the cow. Cattle is not native to South. The culture of cattle rearing is Northern. So why is cattle not reared and groomed in North, why are they bringing them South to rear? The reason is twofold, (1) the Northern government have refused to invest in revamping grasslands; (2) conflicts in Northwest and Northeast. If there is a conflict in South they will be forced to look elsewhere for the herds, but Northcentral and South is peaceful and viewed as a relief. They are aware they will not easily be accommodated so they are using state resource to settle the foreign culture amongst Southerners. 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by goodnessme1(f): 7:28am On Jul 01, 2019 |
QueenSekxy:Gbam |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 7:30am On Jul 01, 2019 |
QueenSekxy: Queensexy, Na you i see so? Ive been looking for you. Wetin happen, where have you been? Were you banned again?  |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by lastmessenger: 7:51am On Jul 01, 2019 |
MetaPhysical:let's be sincere for once instead of writing all these epistle. As the population of Nigeria increase in number and the available land becomes limited,how possible can it be to sustain open grazing? One thing is is worthy of note and that is the fact that change is constant and sensible human being must embrace change as they come. Cattle rearing by open grazing is no longer sustainable or will become unsustainable in few years.Therefore, it becomes imperative for those who are into cattle business to adopt a new strategy to rear their cows. The world have developed an advanced and scientific method of cattle rearing and its working for them. We must look to those who are doing it in a better way and learn from them. We cannot continue to hold on to crude and archaic method of doing things and expect better result. This the time for a change in the method of rearing cows . The Fulani's must embrace ranching if they mean well for Nigeria. They must know that by provoking other ethnic nationalities, they not only risk their head,they also risk the total collapse of Nigeria. Lastly Nigeria need serious bother control to stem the continuous influx of foreigners into our land. The security agencies must put maximum effort in securing our borders. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 8:09am On Jul 01, 2019 |
seunmsg: Boss, I had to take small break go do something come back. This your post interest me o. Yardua had reversed the law, I think back in 2009....but it is crazy to think we even had such a decree to begin with....even now sef I dont support the idea of land being in the hand of State Governor. A society must be organized around liberties. We copied this administration system from the old English traditions but with few tweaks by the Americans. The only thing missing is we dont have a Monarch, everything else is English. In every society of old civilization it was agreed that Govt is an agent, they serve as buffer between land BARONS and land TENANTS. We have gone backward when we remove the role of Govt as an agent and confer on it the role of land baron and now everyone is a tenant. This is why I continue to use the Lagos Idejo Chiefs as reference point on land discussions in Nigeria. They told Beecroft point blank that Dosunmu is govt, not baron, and his right to cede land not belonging to him is null! The matter went to England and came back with victory for the land owners. These were people without degrees. We have degrees in this age...and look at how we have been turned to yoyo by govt. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 8:31am On Jul 01, 2019 |
lastmessenger: In every political issue to do with our democracy North is quick to make us aware that they have the largest land mass, the largest population. Whether ranching or grazing, North is best fitted for it considering their large land mass. Fulanis dont need South for grazing. Their purpose for coming South is to improve weight on the stock and up the value. In one feed a cow gets nutrition from eating just grass but it gets nutrition and minerals from eating farm crops and the gain in calories can raise its value by 200,00naira by time it enters into market. The food raised 200,000naira for the fulani pocket but loss to the farmer....if he is not butchered in the process. So their purpose in South is to feed crops to cows free and gain a profit margin in the market. Their encroachment into farms is not accidental at all. So we can agree there is cruelty. Imagine that farmers carry ak47, fulani only carry stick. Everytime farmers see herds of cows they rush in and grab one or two to take home for their family to feed and if the fulani mince a word of protest they point ak47 and blow him down. Two days later they see another fulani with cows and they repeat their action. His little daughter going with him the farmer put her to the side of road and raped. Her father is killed she is raped, four cows are missing. No farmer is ever arrested or convicted. How would that look? So the problem we have is not a farmer/herder clash. The problem is that of law. Some people are above law and they need to carry weapon to bully farmers and feed cow fat for more value. Take away ak47 from fulani or arm farmers to balance the equation. That's the solution, not ruga. 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Zikora1000(f): 9:05am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Op, face the south west and stop roping all southern states together please. Buhari hates the south east and we hate him more in return. We saw this Ruga of a thing when he contested for the 2015 election but the Yorubas thought we are mad then. Now south west should face their problems alone and stop roping the whole south all together. The Yorubas started this division and even went ahead to insult people like Fayose and Fani kayode who saw behind Buhari's charade and now that the division have come to stay , they want the southern states back again. Tell me something else biko 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by lastmessenger: 9:08am On Jul 01, 2019 |
MetaPhysical:Nigeria must maintain equity to all. This is the only way to sustain peace and progress in this county. Whatever done to A must be done to B. That way we all will live in peace. Peace is achievable in Nigeria. It only require a sincere leader who can have the political will to do so. Secondly Nigeria should be purely run as a secular state. In fact I suggest that all form of religious colouration be expunged from our constitution and rule of law. The constitution should be our only guide to the daily activities of the country. We must give a sense of belonging to all. This is the only way to sustain peace. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by mildteddy(m): 9:22am On Jul 01, 2019 |
Every sane and indigenous Nigerian must REJECT the RUGA settlement plan. Especially Igbos, Yorubas, Ijaws, the entire people of Southern Nigeria and the North Central, otherwise what happened and is still happening to Palestine will happen to us. If you don't know this, "you dunno waris going on" 1 Like
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| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 9:28am On Jul 01, 2019 |
lastmessenger: No one is denying what you say...I believe what regional leaders want now is true federalism. If we had true federalism Yoruba will enforce its anti-gun laws equitably so one side is not armed with assault rifle while the other only has a stick. Do you know how long they have had this banditry in zamfara? It has been going to almost 12yrs or longer now. It will blow up, it will die, then flare up and calm....on and off. At the root of it is Farmer/Herder clash. Why do they want to solve a problem nationwide that they have failed to solve in just one state for over a decade? At least they should use their pilot ruga to solve zamfara first. Show us that it can work, that it is a good solution and not a window dressing to resettle West African fulanis in Nigeria. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Ejanla07: 9:55pm On Jul 01, 2019 |
MetaPhysical: But you personally insulted Nnamdi Kanu and Igbo people for telling you this. Na ogun go kee u 1 Like |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by MetaPhysical: 4:44am On Jul 02, 2019 |
Ejanla07: Nnamdi Kanu may be your fortune teller in SE...to us in SW we dont need any fortune teller to divine what is in the news everyday and is common knowledge to everybody except perharps Onitsha bridge head touts in biafran tshirts, their half yellow sun bleached pink. |
| Re: Gazette Or Not, Southern States Never Had Grazing Routes. Routes Were In North. by Nobody: 4:49am On Jul 02, 2019 |
brudiga:The fear of refugee camp is driving sense into Mr guestlander Sai baba, meanwhile. 1 Like |
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