Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, to provide lands to serve as grazing routes for herdsmen .

Soyinka described Buhari’s comments as ‘unfortunate’, adding that the manner the Federal Government was handling agitations across Nigeria showed that it was not ready to listen to the people.

He stated this during an interview on Arise TV

Soyinka said, “Also, the language used by Buhari in responding to agitation for secession is very unfortunate. Any sensitive leader must understand and respond to the reasons behind those agitations, not to start to threaten, bully or intimidate people.

“For instance, Southern governors say on behalf of our people, we do not want open grazing anymore.

“Then somebody who sits in Aso Rock says he will instruct his Attorney-General to dig up some kind of colonial law so he can recover on behalf of a certain private business the old route.

“That is an indication that he is not listening to what governors and the people they represent are saying.”

Recall that President Buhari had last week backed the return of cattle grazing paths, allowing herdsmen trail designated routes across the country.

Despite Buhari’s acceptance, the State governors from the Southern part of Nigeria have expressed their displeasure with open grazing.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/15/buharis-comments-on-open-grazing-unfortunate-soyinka/

Same Buhari you preached to us to kick Jonathan for.
Well...Dull Joe & terrorist Buhari na the same thing only that Fulani herdsmen terrorists now assume Nigeria is an almajiri country,killing with reckless abandon upandan all because of Buhari.

In 2023,they will dribble Igbo,dribble Yoruba and install another Fulani cos both Igbo & Yoruba so called "leaders" never get sense AT ALL... just take a good example of Umahi & Tinubu.These two can eat Buhari's cows' shiit neatly all because of 419 2023.

Shut the fvck up

But u supported the terrorist

Nigeria my Cowtry. Government of the cow

Buhari himself is an unfortunate president.

Make him come carry na.

From hindsight, that stubborn stand of President Buhari as advised by AGF Malami on open grazing and his poorly advised order to use 1960 Northern law was Buhari's way of calling the bluff of Gov. Akeredolu on that stinker he wrote to Garba Shehu and by extension AGF Malami. It is a way of telling Gov. Akeredolu, "How dare you?". It is more of di*k measuring stuff than the reality.

Of course, the reality is President Buhari, Northern state governors and indeed the Fulani elite are all aware that cattle Ranching is the way forward. Governors like Ganduje has taken initiatives on this. So Southern Governors' Forum should keep the pressure on.

I assumed you would have shown us the illegality of his position.

PMB must not listen to what your Govs say, like every conversation one group does not try to lord it's opinion on the other. Using vuvuzelas and social media to reecho your opinion in a bid to force it down the throat of other people won't work. That they express their opinion does not make it a law unless and until they pass such as law

PMB is not a herdsman, he ranches and believe ranching is the future of herding. Under him, our able VP lead a team to developed the National Livestock Transformation Plan NLTP to facilitate the process of ranching.

Govs have continued to be a stumbling obstacle to its implementation because they see the farmers herders conflict as good politics.

This is why despite forking out 100b, GEJ failed epically in achieving Ranching.

So the issue remains we need to talk to each other not at each other as you seem to suggest here.

Exactly, Prof has said the truth.
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heniford2:
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"As e dey sweet, e dey kill o!" Satan has really perfected how to destroy human beings by luring them to demonuc slaughter through their selfishness. When she left her husband of many years so that she can fvck many big and dangerous cocaine diks up and down, little did she knew that some carry serpents for dik. I remember that Abuja Alahaji that released 2 magots that later multiply inside that lady vjay. Pm me for the Video if you don't believe what Satan captured humans are doing to other fellow human beings.

Trying to talk sense into these cow people is like pouring water into a basket. A complete waste of time. They only understand one language which is "vawulence".

Those supporting Twitter Ban because allegedly it did not remove Kanu’s tweets will not have the same mindset and logic when it comes to banning open grazing.

I dare say that open grazing has caused more deaths than Kanu’s tweets. So if the logic is potential for damage, let’s apply the same logic to open grazing.

It should be banned. Just use the same logic.. you have used with the Twitter debate.

Who is Soyinka? Is it a town in Lagos?

Mr intellect

Fellow Nigerians, following President Buhari's decision to reclaim all officially gazetted grazing reserves/routes, I decided to conduct my own findings as to where exactly these gazzeted cattle routes are located. What I found was rather interesting and I will present it here for the purpose of enlightening the public.

My research focused only on the gazzeted cattle routes as that was what PMB said he would reclaim.

Do you know that in the entire south, it is only Oyo state that has 2 gazzeted cattle routes/reserves? The rest don't have. See below the breakdown of the officially gazzeted cattle routes in Nigeria;

There are 140 gazetted grazing reserves (Adamawa—31; Bauchi—27; Borno—15; Gombe—4; Jigawa—2; Kaduna—2; Kebbi—1; Kogi—1; Kwara—1; Nasarawa— 7; Niger— 2; Plateau— 1; Sokoto— 8; Taraba—9; Yobe— 17; Zamafara— 6, FCT— 4 and Oyo— 2.

I am not very sure PMB is aware of this distribution. He may be aware that there are gazzeted grazing reserves, but if he now discovers that what is officially gazzeted does not even include almost the entire south, I am not sure he will still pursue the agenda of reclaiming these reserves.

I also found out that as far back as the time these reserves were created, the committee recommended the adoption of a more sedentary method of cattle rearing or ranching. In a paper written by S.A. Ingawa, C. Tarawali and R. von Kaufmann, ILCA Subhumid

Research Site(1989) available at: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/4349/x5516e.pdf%3FisAllowed%3Dy%26sequence%3D1&ved=2ahUKEwjM99OqvZbxAhXKEWMBHRnaCEEQFjAAegQIAxAC&usg=AOvVaw1y8BFWlPYpvbgFx53pnwIZ,


the authors listed some of the problems with open grazing of cattle and the need to implement a solution that is both beneficial to the pastoralists and the farmers.

The research is an eye opener and also a deep revelation as to how government can indeed resolve any problem if they intend to, with honesty and fairness.

As for the gazzeted grazing reserves in question, there are only 140 which I have listed. Although some were never officially gazetted, I have excluded them from this post because the focus is on the officially gazetted ones.

Whole Soyinka is a senseless professor. No wonder he lacks common sense and all he could bequeath to Nigeria youths is cultism

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The Open grazing ban is confirmed in the south. please let us talk about other modern development will need to start practicing

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Don't mind the desperate old cow loving fool. All he knows is Cows and Grazing routes for cows. When visionary leaders are thinking of better ways to rear animals, this dullard is think of demolishing Southern Houses to create grazing routes for cows to move pass. How else will a cow brain think?
Shebi na 2yrs remain for his tenure. Babangida, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Jonathan all retired to their various villages after vacating Aso Villa, He will also retire to his village in Daura. The Fulani Bandits and brothers he imported to fraudulent help vote him to power are waiting for him in Daura. He will know how far.
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Only unfortunate ones would agree with the presidio!

Na dat Grazing routes and reserve go keel Buhari and him fellow fulanis across biafraland

Make I no talk wetin dey my mind first

No more room for wailers, we are too congested. Prof. should wait after 2023, to see if he can be accommodated into the camp of wailers.

But you campaigned for him sir.

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Well you aided The “Unfortunate” Agenda, so you don’t get to complain. Leave it to those who didn’t

colorsofrainbow:
Same Buhari you preached to us to kick Jonathan for.
Well...two of them na the same thing only that Fulani herdsmen terrorists now assume Nigeria is now an almajiri country,killing with reckless abandon upandan all because of Buhari.

In 2023,they will dribble Igbo,dribble Yoruba and install another Fulani cos both Igbo & Yoruba so called "leaders" never get sense AT ALL... just take a good example of Umahi & Tinubu.These two can eat Buhari's cows' shiit neatly all because if 419 2023.

Jonathan was bad, Buhari was worst.
Now in 2023, there are two bad decisions to make again. Atiku (Fulani) vs Tinubu. A case of choose your poison. The masses can't win in Nigeria.