CREATION OF RANCHES , BEST WAY TO SOLVE HERDSMEN AND FARMERS CLASHES - SEN. HEINEKEN LOPOKBIRI
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lopobiri, told the Senate on Tuesday that most of the herdsmen involved in killings and destruction of property in different communities are not Fulani.
He said some of the herdsmen arrested do not speak any Nigerian language.
Senator Lopobiri made the revelations at a Senate investigative hearing on the perennial clashes between herdsmen and farmers.
The mayhem caused by herdsmen in different communities across the country, living a long trail of death and destruction, is a problem which the lawmakers and concerned Nigerians are trying to resolve.
He made some recommendations, which he hoped would address the problem.
“The best way to solve this problem will be the creation of ranches. If we create ranches, we will provide what the Fulani man is looking for,” he said.
Some other persons that gave their opinions on the issues kicked against the enactment of grazing bill into law and stressed that the creation of cattle routes and creation of ranches should not be the business of the government, insisting that it is a private sector driven business.
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