We need to stop herdsmen from roaming around to avoid clash with farmers – Garba Shehu
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has advised how the herdsmen and farmers clash could be resolved.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television, Shehu who reacted to an allegation of President Muhammadu Buhari grabbing lands to dole out to herdsmen, blamed the actions of the herdsmen on the drying of grazing lands in the north.
The presidential spokesperson noted that these herdsmen drive their cows to farmlands to eat up crops, leading to clashes with farmers and in order to halt these clashes, the herdsmen need to be stopped from roaming around the country.
He said;
‘This country has a grazing problem because the herders are mostly Fulanis. The challenge is from these places they had practiced, you know, the encroachment by desert leading to drying up of a lot of grazing lands in the northern-most parts of the country.
“This has put pressure on the herders who have been looking to the south-west green grass so that their cattle will eat and also have water to drink. It’s a global climate situation which is unfortunate considering what has happened along the lake chad basin.
“I’m glad that governors of the north are coming together to say let us resolve this problem of grazing because we have to stop these herders from roaming and eating up our crops all over the country.
“They drive their cattle into farmlands and eat up the crops. The farmers fight back and the killings follow. The country cannot continue in this way.
“The president has no plan to fish for a land other than the one he has inherited from his father. Some of them have even be donated for community purposes but I think we need to get our facts right when we speak on some of these issues.”
The thing has been long overdue, is it today that farmers and herders are fighting one another? this is bad.
Are you just waking up from your slumber? Most of these people are the one responsible for kidnapping and so on.
Is it because other regions have settled out their security outfits that is why you just open your mouth and said this, talking without work toward is rubbish.
Since when the herders have been killing farmers, you ought to have done this before and if care is not taking this may lead to famine in the nearest future.
What you suppose to have done so long, by now that already too late… which they have killed a lot of Nigerian. Anyway it still left with the useless President muhammadu buhari to apply with what you have said. Because you know President muhammadu buhari is part of the hardsmen..
It is long overdue since these herds men are supposed to be put in one place as it is seen in other sane climes
How can these herders be allowed to be roaming about the whole place with their cows causing havoc and menace in the society
They dirty the whole places, damage people’s farms and kill people for no just reason
Not just that but also make sure they don’t cross into geopolitical zones that doesn’t belong to them…….