Showing posts with label Kachia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kachia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Why Fulani herdsmen want your land and your soul: A history class on grazing reserves and Buhari's connection

It is becoming clear to the discerning mind that the bloody push for grazing reserves outside the cattle producing states of the country is not more than a devious attempt to secure usufructuary rights to land and exploit the political opportunities that such rights may confer on the Fulani. 
The Federal Government is contemplating the establishment of grazing reserves and stock routes across the country to check the incessant bloody clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and farmers. It is also argued that grazing reserves will boost livestock production, ease herding challenges and reduce seasonal migrations of herdsmen.