The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Professor Suleman Elias Bogoro has explained the reason behind frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen in some parts of the country.
Bogoro, who spoke while delivering the maiden annual lecture of Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, noted that growing land pressure was the major cause of frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the country.
At the lecture were the immediate past Minster of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, IAR&T Executive Director, Professor Veronica Obatolu and former UI Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Professor Olufemi Bamiro, among others.
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With such clashes usually come allegations of insubordination, financial impropriety, abuse of office, award of contracts without following due process, non-remittance of appropriate funds to government’s coffers and other infractions.
While these ministers adduced various infractions as reasons for their ‘fights’ with heads of agencies under them, analysts, however, believe there are always more “behind the scene” reasons and vested interests for such actions.
Such altercations, according to some analysts, also affect operations of the concerned agencies, even as they erode political authority in governance across the board, with public interest suffering the most.
Two former ministers who spoke with Daily Trust on Sunday on the issue yesterday described such open confrontations as signs of indiscipline and the inability of the government to maintain a cohesive administration.
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The Minister of Education must revisit this issue quickly. If he waits till the end of the tenure of the current Chairman of Council before the University gets a substantive Vice Chancellor, it would be correctly assumed that Abuja has imposed the politics of godfatherism on the country’s premier University. The University’s alumni have also been too quiet.
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