Governor advocates ban on movement of cattle from North to South to curb farmers/herders’ crisis

*My advocacy is that we should abolish the transportation or trekking of herdsmen from the Northern part to Middle Belt and to the Southern part of Nigeria to conflicts between herdsmen and farmers  ─Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

As a measure to resolve the perennial conflicts between herdsmen and farmers, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to enact a law banning the movement of cattle from the North to other parts of the country.

Ganduje stated this during a media chat after a special lunch the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors had with President Muhammadu Buhari in his Daura private residence in Katsina State at the weekend.

The governor stressed having a ban on movement of herders and cattle would also address the challenge of cattle rustling, Vanguard reports.

On the Ruga project in Kano State, Ganduje said: “We are building a Ruga settlement in Samsosua Forest, our border with Katsina, and we have succeeded in curtailing the effect of banditry in that area.

“So, we are building many houses, we are constructing a dam; we are establishing a cattle artificial insemination centre.

“We are establishing a veterinary clinic and already we have started building houses for herdsmen.”

He further noted: “My advocacy is that we should abolish the transportation or trekking of herdsmen from the northern part of Nigeria to the Middle Belt and to the southern part of Nigeria.

“There should be a law that will ban, otherwise we cannot control the conflicts between herdsmen and farmers and cannot control the cattle rustling which is affecting us greatly.”