ANTI-OPEN GRAZING LAW IS NOT TO PUNISH ANYBODY - OMOTOSO - Ben Television | Breaking - Nigeria, Africa and World Top News
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BUHARI AND ANTI-GRAZING LAWS
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Introduction
The myriad of security challenges particularly stemming from tribal and religious groups in recent times in our fatherland, is worrisome. Cattle grazing is predominant amongst those in the Sahel and parts of the Savannah regions of Nigeria, particularly the Fulani ethnic group, since livestock is crucial in their socio-economic structure. However, the nomadic nature and transhumance tradition of local herdsmen, such as Fulani herdsmen in particular, some of whom resort to militia expeditions against farming communities, have made their activities worthy of checkmate since farmers and herdsmen clashes is the most topical issue we have today. Admittedly, unregulated open grazing has been exacerbated by climate change.
The Asaba declaration is in order, writes Sonnie Ekwowusi
We live in perilous times. Like the proverbial rudderless vessel, Nigeria is dangerously drifting into the precipice with the ship’s captain and crew members completely ignorant and helpless. Anybody still finding it difficult to come to terms with this analogy in relation to Nigeria is living in a fool’s paradise. Nigeria is at war: she is at war with herself, with her different ethnic nationalities, stakeholders and interest groups which make up the country. The bullets may not be flying and crisscrossing here and there quite alright but the bandits, Islamic terrorists, Fulani herdsmen murderers, anonymous gun-men, arsonists, burglars have a far-reaching inroad into the heart of the Nigerian state and is about capturing her in order to destroy her, reminiscent of Karl Maier’s This House Has Fallen or Robert D. Kaplan’s The Coming Anarchy.