Ganduje recommends banning movement of cattle to South to solve herder-farmer crises

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By Abba Gwale

Governor Ganduje has proposed banning the nomadic Fulani from shuttling their cattle to the central and southern Nigeria for open grazing, as a solution to the lingering herder-farmer conflicts.

He said if the movement of cattle is not stopped, there will be no end to farmer-herder conflicts.

The governor said this in a brief session with journalists at a meeting between All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state.

Ganduje said his administration is already constructing a ruga settlement for herders in a forest near Kano’s border with Katsina state.

In the settlement, the governor promised there will be houses, a dam, an artificial insemination centre, and a veterinary clinic to cater for the needs of the herders.

“We are building a Ruga settlement in a forest at our border with Katsina, and we have succeeded in curtailing the effect of banditry in that area,” Ganduje said.

“We are building many houses, we are constructing a dam, we are establishing a cattle artificial insemination centre, we are establishing a veterinary clinic, and already we have started building houses for herdsmen,” Ganduje told the journalists.

“My advocacy is that we should abolish the transportation or trekking of herdsmen from the northern part of Nigeria to the middle belt and the southern part of Nigeria,” Ganduje proposed as a solution to the recurrent conflicts.

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