The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a factional umbrella body for herdsmen in the country, has said it is opposed to the ban imposed on open grazing of cattle by South-West governors. It said the enforcement of the ban was tantamount to an eviction notice.

This is however against the position of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, which at a meeting with some governors in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on January 25, said it agreed with the position of the governors.

The meeting in Akure was attended by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Governors Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. MACBAN was led to the meeting by its chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Kiruwa, among other attendees.

Apart from South-West governors, governors in the South-East had previously banned open grazing and movement of cows on foot into the South-East.

But in an interview with Saturday PUNCH, the Secretary General of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Saleh Alhassan, said on Friday, “They can’t put an end to open grazing by fiat because grazing is not motorcycle business; there must be an alternative. Secondly, if they say they are going to end open grazing, what is the timeline for it?

“They want to displace herders from where they earn their livelihood. It is not different from an eviction notice – it is just putting the eviction notice into effect. This is very unfortunate because they cannot come out to say they are embracing peaceful herders and then say they are ending open grazing. What do they mean by that? Is there closed grazing?

“From history, right from the time of Moses, grazing is open. By now, they should realise that they will not get the result they are looking for. We are in total support of the National Livestock Transformation Plan. I was part of the committee that reviewed the final document. The programme has a lot of components, and if implemented, it will address a lot of challenges.

“Look at Benue State and how the approach has created a militia. You can’t end open grazing by fiat as if someone is looking for a crisis, and these crises have a way of reverberating.”

Alhassan argued that asking herdsmen to stop open grazing and begin ranching was tantamount to asking farmers to begin mechanisation, without which they wouldn’t be able to do their farming activities.

He added, “If they say herders must begin ranching today, where is the ranch? For someone to develop a ranch, they need at least three to five years for it to mature. The facts are there. Ranches cannot be created overnight but they are just playing politics.”

On the issue of insecurity, he said herders had been victims of rustling and kidnapping and that if insecurity was to be addressed, it was not by making it an ethnic issue, because according to him, there are criminals in every ethnic group.

“It’s sad, because at the end of the day, we end up radicalising the herders,” he said. “When they are radicalised, who will benefit? The country will suffer worse insecurity. That’s why we are against this issue of eviction or ultimatum because it doesn’t work like that. There have not been proper laws at the national level to address these challenges and the National Assembly is just playing to the gallery. Let there be proper laws.”

He said if there had been an increase in the herders moving from the North to the South, it could be due to climate change, insecurity in the North-East, drought caused by environmental factors or Boko Haram.

“All these need to be properly addressed via articulated policies. Politicians should address their differences; they should leave the herders alone, they are in the bush dealing with all kinds of challenges,” he added.

When reminded that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, who is also a northerner, had canvassed the restriction of the movement of herders from the North to the South, Alhassan said, “That is where I disagree totally with the Kano State governor. Are they going to stay inside his house in Kano? You must create space for them and not to just talk.”

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Okoo

Good of miyeti allah. No gree for dem

Good one. They're no rules and nobody owns any land if they can't defend. And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on. Usman dan fodio on my mind

IPOBTERRORISTS:
Good one. They're no rules and nobody owns any land if they can't defend

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See o. All dis pipu from minor ethnic groups are the problem we av.

una get mind o

we done suffer for this country!!! nah Yoruba people sha, let them come and try it in the South East or South South.

You can imagine the guts this one has oo, talking like president of the country and yet they didn't arrest him, but if anyone comes out now and talk against them that person will be tag as enemy of the country and also be tag a terrorist. Let's now see what comes out of the threats cos no state will spend their money on one yeye ranching. Awon eyan yeye

Juliusmalema:
What an effrontery..

Because they are ready for war and we are not ready

Spending123:
we done suffer for this country!!! nah Yoruba people sha, let them come and try it in the South East or South South.

You have to drag two political zones into your rubbbish.

SE and SS are two different political zones.Maintain your boundary first before joining others together.

then your members will land in prison and their cows confistigated....

stay stubborn....who cares....

If I was a governor I and this people try this rubbish ..I would other people to kill any cow seem on sight in my state

We they know who they try this rubbish with sha

Very simple solution here..!

Pack your diseased cows and face Futa Jalo and Toro..!

Fulanis are not indigenous people of Nigeria.

Strangers they are

Them don tell una finish afonja. If you like play with that warning. The chicken has come home for roost

Sai baba
4+4

Such effrontery.

'Trespass into another's property, destroy his crops and receive instant judgment.'

That should be the Governor's declaration

Fulani

Let all governors of the southwest declare a shoot @ site order on all persons or groups seen herding cows openly.
How can a business group be endangering the peace of a whole region

They want us to get aggressive so that Buhari can declare nationwide state of emergency.

Don’t worry na spiritual we go use.!

Juliusmalema:


You have to drag two political zones into your rubbbish.

SE and SS are two different political zones.Maintain your boundary first before joining others together.

shut up mofo we are they Same we and South East share the culture we not almajiri , I remember how we butcher their cattle and eat it

Put bluntly; they're there to possess their possessions!
It's ok naaàh

Dont worry, a Southern President is coming you will be the first to be sent back from whatever God forsaken BUSH you came out from

Miyetti Allah is a terrorist organization

Spending123:
we done suffer for this country!!! nah Yoruba people sha, let them come and try it in the South East or South South.

Stop fooling yourself. They would do same in East or anywhere else if the determination was there to remain in that place as they are desperate to remain in the SW.

The fact is that it is the SW that most Nigerians, including loud mouth Igbos always trying to mock Yorubas, will refuse to leave to go back to where they came from.

This is because the SW is better than where most Nigerians are coming from. Most Nigerians in the SW can not even contemplate ever going back home because they are going back to starvation, definite poverty, joblessness, insecurity, lack of peace and higher chances of being killed.

It is up to Yorubas to begin making SW 'less welcoming' to the Fulanis and Northerners.

ggood:
shut up mofo we are they Same , I remember how we butcher their cattle and eat it

Same in ?

Yawns... talking trash.

Optional09:
They want us to get aggressive so that Buhari can declare nationwide state of emergency.

Don’t worry na spiritual we go use.!

This is their ploy. Let no one be under any illusion this is anything but a planned expansionist agenda crafted by Fulani leaders, at all levels, and now being implemented by foot soldiers to include Miyetti Allah.

Would Miyetti Allah dare talk defiantly against obeying SW Governors if a Fulani is not President?

Unless Yorubas learn the needed lessons from all these development then we will be the people in the biggest problem the way Nigeria is unraveling.

Oshigun:


Stop fooling yourself. They would do same in East or anywhere else if the determination was there to remain in that place as they are desperate to remain in the SW.

The fact is that it is the SW that most Nigerians, including loud mouth Igbos always trying to mock Yorubas, will refuse to leave to go back to where they came from.

This is because the SW is better than where most Nigerians are coming from. Most Nigerians in the SW can not even contemplate ever going back home because they are going back to starvation, definite poverty, joblessness, insecurity, lack of peace and higher chances of being killed.

It is up to Yorubas to begin making SW 'less welcoming' to the Fulanis and Northerners.

Smh

Juliusmalema:
What an effrontery..

Are they implying that all the drums of war been beaten by SW are just noise making? Empty vessels?


IBB and his quote comes to mind again

These guys seems to know Yorubas more than we do.
This proves they really spent more than 200 years together before the establishment of Nigeria like they always remind us

Oshigun:


Stop fooling yourself. They would do same in East or anywhere else if the determination was there to remain in that place as they are desperate to remain in the SW.

The fact is that it is the SW that most Nigerians, including loud mouth Igbos always trying to mock Yorubas, will refuse to leave to go back to where they came from.

This is because the SW is better than where most Nigerians are coming from. Most Nigerians in the SW can not even contemplate ever going back home because they are going back to starvation, definite poverty, joblessness, insecurity, lack of peace and higher chances of being killed.

It is up to Yorubas to begin making SW 'less welcoming' to the Fulanis and Northerners.

Let work collectively to end this estate and for Nigeria to cease to exist.

By then, Lagos will have her special status in oodua land.

nsiba:
Dont worry, a Southern President is coming you will be the first to be sent back from whatever God forsaken BUSH you came out from

We don't even have to wait for any Southern President if the average Yoruba is politically aware enough.

The solutions would be obvious to all Yorubas if they know what is at stake and appreciate the sacrifice and discipline needed to rescue the SW from the deep hole our lax and 'accomodating' ways has sunk us into.