Godwin Isenyo, Adebayo Ayinde, Olaide Oyelude, Maiharaji Altine and John Charles Published 1 May 2021Bandits are currently on the rampage in the northern part of the country, kidnapping schoolchildren and students at will. What started as coordinated attacks on villagers in communities in states in the region have worsened to brutal kidnap of students for ransom. From Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, Kaduna and lately, Benue State, bandits have caused.
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As state governments move to find a lasting solution to the killings and kidnapping by herders, there has been division amongst them over setting up ranches for herdsmen in each state in the country.
Officials of Oyo, Cross River, Kogi, Enugu, Ondo and Ekiti state governments who spoke in separate interviews ruled out the option of establishing ranches for herdsmen, a report by Punch states.
However, their counterparts in Zamfara and Gombe states disclosed they had begun plans to set up ranches for herdsmen.
According to the Zamfara State Director General Media, Publicity and Enlightenment, Alhaji Yusuf Idris, the state’s Ruga settlements is near completion while Director General, Press Affairs Government House, Gombe, Ismaila Misilli, disclosed that the state had acquired 130 hectares of land to kickstart the project.
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State governments on Thursday differed on ranching for herdsmen as a solution to killings and kidnappings by herders.
Officials of Oyo, Cross River, Kogi, Enugu, Ondo and Ekiti state governments in separate interviews said their states had no plans to establish ranches for herdsmen.
But their counterparts in Zamfara and Gombe states said they had begun plans to set up ranches for herdsmen.
While Gombe State’s Director General, Press Affairs Government House, Ismaila Misilli, said the state had allocated 130 hectares of land for the project, Zamfara State Director General Media, Publicity and Enlightenment, Alhaji Yusuf Idris, said the state Ruga settlements would soon be completed.