The Federal Government has said that it is planning a meeting with key Fulani leaders to seek their support for its plan to establish grazing reserves of herdsmen.
The grazing reserves according to government will end the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe made this known in Abuja during a retreat on livestock and dairy development.
“We are in trouble. Every country gets into trouble from time to time, even the most developed. But that’s not an excuse for where we are. However, we are in trouble, our economy is down, our earnings are low, we have all kinds of conflicts and we are also hungry. As Mr. President said when he signed the budget this year, he said, ‘I feel your pains,’ and we can truly feel it.
“The cost of food is high, it is difficult to pay school fees, power supply is epileptic because of destruction of gas supply facilities and there are many more concerns. But whenever you are in trouble, that’s the time to think. Lamentations don’t help, which is why organized programmes like this are meant to fix some of these problems we have.
“In the next few days we shall be meeting key persons among the Fulani and we will talk to them to get their buy-ins into the programmes that we have as part of addressing these concerns.
”Some of those herdsmen are people looking for or rearing the herds for some of us who probably are not even Fulani and in so many cases who are not Fulani. So I believe that with the constructive engagement of the herdsmen and herds owners, they will get a better understanding and appreciate the policy of the Federal Government.”
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