₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
I feel your pains

I don't! GEJ no matter how weak, was never insensitive to the plight of the people irrespective of where he got the most votes from.

There were more herdsmen crisis under Jonathan mr. So stop this media campaign.

[b]Unfortunately, the 'Fulani herdsmen' issue has been around since OBJs government as I remember. That was when the grading reserve bill reared its head.

The issue is that the Fulani's have been migrating further south due to the encroachment of the Sahara desert over the years. Their gradual southward migration has led to more interaction with farming tribes of the middle belt and southern Nigeria and with this comes violence as they struggle to grab more land for their cattle. Some don't even return to the north anymore.

The issue like many of Nigeria's issue is a complex one and needs both short and long term solutions. Just like corruption, Boko Haram, Niger Delta militancy, fuel scarcity, lack of electricity, unemployment, herdsmen attacks are all symptoms of a non functional country.

I await to see how the current government will address the issue on the long run because unleashing soldiers on the hersdsmen is a short term solution (same for Niger Delta militancy and Boko Haram). That won't be enough.

As for OP, he is just reacting emotionally to an issue that requires a lot of level headed thinking. Any political analyst worth his weight knows that supporting PDP or APC is not even the issue here. Buhari's reaction if you're following the developments now is even swifter than GEJ against Boko Haram calling them his brothers. More people were dying daily that period

Two wrongs cannot be mutually justified and no death from violence can ever be proven worthy so partisanship is not what we should be taking about.

We should be focused on how to get to a more feasible solution. In my head, I don't see how the grazing reserve will work unless the 19 northern states come together and agree on how to manage the reserves with states having the final right to opt-in or out of the reserves.

Such optional reserves will force the Fulani to become less nomadic and more domesticated thereby increasing the likelihood that he will look into alternative means of growing feed for his cattle. That should should lead to better interactions with farmers who can sell him hay or feedstock and to modernisation of cattle rearing practises.

Just like the oil spills in the ND, soil erosion in the SE, the desertification of the North is a disaster that needs to be tackled.

Others may have better ideas. Please bring them on. APC vs PDP is not the solution.

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Abagworo:
There were more herdsmen crisis under Jonathan mr. So stop this media campaign.

What is wrong with you? You are talking of GEJ's entire tenure of about 5yrs while in just about one year almost a thousand Nigerians have been killed not to talk of the injured and displaced and all at the hands of these herdsmen. Is there any given year from 2010-2015 that we recorded these many attacks and deaths by the Fulani marauders?

Why are you such an agent of confusion and deceit? Do you even reason before u type? If you are a Christian, I ask you as the Bible asks, 'Shall we continue to sin that grace may abound?' A child has been beaten, will u still instruct the child on how to cry? So what if there were more during the previous government, we should all keep quiet until the statistics from this period match up with the previous five years before you realise there's a problem?

In your previous thread u struggled very hard to unearth a report showing that these idiots also attacked Zamfara state so it is not ethnic or religious. Can you show me one single attack by the same herdsmen on any muslim dominated area in the North from May 2015 till date?

LRNZH:
[b]Unfortunately, the 'Fulani herdsmen' issue has been around since OBJs government as I remember. That was when the grading reserve bill reared its head.

The issue is that the Fulani's have been migrating further south due to the encroachment of the Sahara desert over the years. Their gradual southward migration has led to more interaction with farming tribes of the middle belt and southern Nigeria and with this comes violence as they struggle to grab more land for their cattle. Some don't even return to the north anymore.

The issue like many of Nigeria's issue is a complex one and needs both short and long term solutions. Just like corruption, Boko Haram, Niger Delta militancy, fuel scarcity, lack of electricity, unemployment, herdsmen attacks are all symptoms of a non functional country.

I await to see how the current government will address the issue on the long run because unleashing soldiers on the hersdsmen is a short term solution (same for Niger Delta militancy and Boko Haram). That won't be enough.

As for OP, he is just reacting emotionally to an issue that requires a lot of level headed thinking. Any political analyste worth his weight knows that supporting PDP or APC is not even the issue here. Buhari's reaction if you're following the developments now is even swifter than GEJ against Boko Haram calling them his brothers. More people were dying daily that period

Two wrongs cannot be mutually justified and no death from violence can ever be proven worthy so partisanship is not what we should be taking about.

We should be focused on how to get to a mlre feasile solution. I'm my head, don't see how the grazing reserve wil work unless the 19 northern states come.together and agree on how to manage the reserves with staes have the final eight to opt-in or out of the reserves.

Such optional reserves will force the Fulani to become less nomadic and more domesticated thereby increasing the likelihood that he will look into alternative means of growing feed for his cattle. That should should lead to better interactions with Farmers who can sell him hay or feedstock and to modernisation of cattle rearing practises.

Just like the oil spills in the ND, soil erosion in the SE, the desertification of the North is a disaster that needs to be tackled.

Others may have better ideas. Please bring them on. APC vs PDP is not the solution.

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God bless you my brother, you are one of the few people that thinks dispassionately about this Fulani herdsmen menace instead of using it as an excuse to criticise buhari. Fulani herdsmen menace has been a problem for decades, we are only reacting now because the problem has extended across the Niger. Jonathan in his nearly 6 year reign was oblivious to Fulani herdsmen ravaging most of the middle belt states and some south eastern states, so the Fulani herdsmen had free reign during Jonathan's regime. Buhari has just been there for a little less than a year, so i expect we should give him some time to solve the Fulani herdsmen problem.
I agree that the grazing reserve proposal is a no no, no community should concede their ancestral lands to foreigners in the name of grazing reserves and besides how can you ensure the herdsmen remain confined to the invisible boundaries of the reserves. If the northern leaders want reserves for their people, they should provide it for them in the north.

Fighting nomads, with no stable abode, no family and no valuable property is very difficult. They can attack you in your sleep and disappear into the deep jungle or wilderness. Pursuing them into the jungle can be a suicidal venture because the peoples cannot live and survive in the jungle for days and weeks, while the Fulani herdsmen can. Even in the bible, the nomadic invaders almost always win the battle, because they come, burn, rape, kill and steal and then disappear.
So the governor's of all the southern states must come together and put politics aside to compel the Buhari led administration to provide security and protection from Fulani herdsmen. The governor's are powerless as far as security gives and has to rely on federal institutions like the police, army, DSS, etc for security.

LRNZH:
[b]Unfortunately, the 'Fulani herdsmen' issue has been around since OBJs government as I remember. That was when the grading reserve bill reared its head.

The issue is that the Fulani's have been migrating further south due to the encroachment of the Sahara desert over the years. Their gradual southward migration has led to more interaction with farming tribes of the middle belt and southern Nigeria and with this comes violence as they struggle to grab more land for their cattle. Some don't even return to the north anymore.

The issue like many of Nigeria's issue is a complex one and needs both short and long term solutions. Just like corruption, Boko Haram, Niger Delta militancy, fuel scarcity, lack of electricity, unemployment, herdsmen attacks are all symptoms of a non functional country.

I await to see how the current government will address the issue on the long run because unleashing soldiers on the hersdsmen is a short term solution (same for Niger Delta militancy and Boko Haram). That won't be enough.

As for OP, he is just reacting emotionally to an issue that requires a lot of level headed thinking. Any political analyste worth his weight knows that supporting PDP or APC is not even the issue here. Buhari's reaction if you're following the developments now is even swifter than GEJ against Boko Haram calling them his brothers. More people were dying daily that period

Two wrongs cannot be mutually justified and no death from violence can ever be proven worthy so partisanship is not what we should be taking about.

We should be focused on how to get to a mlre feasile solution. I'm my head, don't see how the grazing reserve wil work unless the 19 northern states come.together and agree on how to manage the reserves with staes have the final eight to opt-in or out of the reserves.

Such optional reserves will force the Fulani to become less nomadic and more domesticated thereby increasing the likelihood that he will look into alternative means of growing feed for his cattle. That should should lead to better interactions with Farmers who can sell him hay or feedstock and to modernisation of cattle rearing practises.

Just like the oil spills in the ND, soil erosion in the SE, the desertification of the North is a disaster that needs to be tackled.

Others may have better ideas. Please bring them on. APC vs PDP is not the solution.

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Typical APC! We are talking about issues that bothers on national security and you are talking nonsense. How does oil spill and soil erosion relate with herdsmen terrorism? We are talking about terrorism and Buhari's complicity Mister man