In a renewed effort to check incessant clashes between nomads and farmers across the country, 10 state governments have allocated land for grazing of cattle to Fulani herdsmen.
Niger State which is among the states,
reserved 30,000 hectares of land in Bibi town in Maria Local Government
Area of the state.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello who made
this known when he received the national leadership of the Mayetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association led by its President, Alhaji Mohammed
Kiruwa, said government was still searching for land in other local
government areas to be used as grazing reserves by herdsmen.
Bello who decried the frequent clashes
between farmers and nomads, expressed the hope that the gesture would
bring to an end such ugly incidents.
The governor who said the grazing
reserve in Bibi town was capable of accommodating all the cattle in the
state, added that government would establish a veterinary clinic in the
grazing reserve, promising that the necessary drugs and manpower would
also be provided.
Responding, the National President of
MACBA, Kiruwa, said the association was working towards ending the
incidents of cattle rustling through a collaboration with stakeholders
in the cattle business.
He said the association was already
collaborating with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW)
and cattle traders to identify the real herders as a way of curtailing
the rising cases of cattle rustling.
source: thisdaylive
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