Expansionist Fulani elders and youths are throwing tantrums, pleading, killing, maiming, kidnaping, and waiting for the Federal Government to allot them land
What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges.
Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted Nigeria’s federal government to formulate a far-reaching set of reforms for the livestock sector.
Why does it matter? The new Plan represents Nigeria’s most comprehensive strategy yet to encourage pastoralists to switch to ranching and other sedentary livestock production systems. Modernising the livestock sector is key to resolving the herder-farmer conflict, which threatens Nigeria’s
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Kagara town, where male high school students and their teachers were recently snatched by mollycoddled “bandits” isn’t spectacularly distant from Minna, the capital of Niger State. That nearness means that you most certainly meet someone who knows someone who has been affected by the abduction at the boys’ school in Kagara. Someone close to me, Dr. Kola Alabi, knows someone whose son is still missing and Dauda the Pimp recounts that the principal of the science high school at Kagara where this mass-kidnapping occurred was his ex-integrated science teacher.
Really, folks out here weren’t particularly shocked that this snatch was executed in a perfect fashion and, in their now-commonplace resigned and de-sensitised state of mind, they concluded that a conspiracy exists to keep “settling” as many Fulani criminal-gang cartels as much and as “fast” as possible before 2023 or before any unforeseen “emergency.”
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