FULANI herders nationwide have said that the various laws proposed to ban open grazing in states across the country\ will not work. Rather it would breed conflict in the country, they said.
Chairman Miyetti’ Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Alhaji Haruna Usman who revealed this in an exclusive interview with Nigerian Pilot Weekend in Kaduna, noted that it was an impossible law which the proponents enacted to benefit their people alone.
Usman queried the rationale behind such laws, which had to do with a tribe and their only source of livelihood. He said it was wrong for such a law to be proposed against the generality of an ethnic group and in the case of Benue state which is more or else the epicenter of most Fulanis’/farmers’ crisis, a law that was made overnight. “You can’t bring up a law overnight that affects some tribes and everybody say you should comply to it.
You can’t keep cows without food. And this law will not bring anything good in Benue state except conflict” he reiterated.
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