Kogi West Rejects Establishment Of Cattle Colonies.

It is not surprising that the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, will quickly but strangely meet with the Minister of Agriculture in order to make our dear Confluence State as a Pilot State for the proposed Cattle Colonies in the country.

The governor's latest shenanigans is not surprising in the sense that money is involved.

The Federal Government will definitely make funds available to Bello to kick-start the pilot scheme in Kogi State.

Therefore, as a true representative of the people of Kogi West senatorial zone and on behalf of my constituents, we warn in strong terms that our soil, land, water and air cannot be used for cattle colonies.

Let it be clear to all the insensitive people behind the idea that Kogi West will resist the establishment of any cattle colony within our domain politically, spiritually,traditionally and with any means available within the ambit of the law.

DieBuhari:
One of the few Yoruba men with balls.

Thankfully there aren't too many Yoruba muslims in Kogi west, they are 90% Christian

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that mostj people have been advocating for.

porka:


Then they will have their own government and their own legal system (Sharia) huh?

seunmsg:


I really don't like insulting people but if you don't stay away from my mention with your nonsense comment.

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

limeta:



Then stop writing nonsense

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

seunmsg:


A cattle colony is just a bigger cattle ranch. Just like any other business organisation, the colony/ranch will be subjected to the laws of the state and federal government. Most importantly, the land for the colonies will be purchased from willing land owners and not hijacked by force. I am open to all options that will end the killings in as much as it doesn't trample on anybody's right or property.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, said on Monday that the federal government planned to carve out grazing reserves as part of measures to end the clashes between farmers and cattle rearers. These clashes have resulted in the killing of hundreds of people. Shehu said troops had been deployed to some communities that had recently witnessed such bloody conflicts to try to maintain security.

“The president took the matter to the National Council of State where the governors sit with the vice president to solve problems of security,” Shehu stated. “Their decision was that they will go back to all the ideas that had been there before, which is to carve out grazing reserves for cattle rearers.”
He said, “With that, there will be a clear difference between farmlands and grazing land, because it is when cattle are driven into farmlands” that the trouble arises.
“As a long-term policy, ranching will be there. But do not forget that ranching also has its challenges in so many ways.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/24/president-buhari-standing-rooted-to-the-spot-with-grazing-reserve-disaster/

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Fulani herdsmen crisis is as old as Nigeria itself.

Buhari also said that his government would develop the capacity to keep Nigeria united.

He made the comments while speaking to journalists during a recent trip to London.

Excerpts from The Cable below:

On a permanent solution to the herdsmen crisis

The problem is virtually as old as Nigeria itself. Culturally, the herdsmen don’t stay in one place. They move with the season. Normally, harvest is completed much earlier in the north. Then they have to move southwards for green pasture. In the first republic, there was what they called cattle routes and grazing areas.

They were marked. Infrastructure were put in terms of windmills, earth dams, even veterinary clinics. Now after first republic, people turned these places into farms. And if you have 500 cows, if they don’t eat for 24 hours, or need water, you can’t stop them [from moving around].

What they used to do then is that if anybody went outside the cattle route, or outside the grazing area, he would be arrested, taken before an alkali’s court, fined. If he can pay, okay. The money is taken and given to the farmer. If he can’t pay, the cattle is sold and the farmer is paid. People were behaving themselves.

So when people came and took away the land for the cattle route, for the grazing areas, you find out that from Kaduna to Bayelsa, Nigerians are fighting cattle rearers now. But when I was in the Petroleum Trust Fund, we made a comprehensive study of cattle routes and grazing areas throughout Nigeria. I am referring the governors’ forum and the minister of agriculture and rural development to the report. Let them see what they can do and save the situation.

http://www.pulse.ng/news/local/buhari-fulani-herdsmen-problem-as-old-as-nigeria-itself-president-says-id5037501.html

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

ModsWillKillNL:


Do you have sense at all

Please change your moniker. You are abokki.

EarthXmetahuman:
except that we have not seen any igbo man speak against cattle colony or Fulani herdsmen.

seunmsg:
I am not really against the idea of cattle colonies in as much as the federal government or the herdsmen will purchase the land for the colonies from willing land owners. From the explanation I have read so far, cattle colonies will be a bigger version of cattle ranches that most people have been advocating for.

angels09:

Go and tell Owa Ooye that he should as a matter of urgency dismiss the Fulani he accommodated along the Esa-Oke route.

seunmsg:


Go to his palace and tell him now.

WhoBeThisMan:
If cattle should get colony in every state, I think it's fair that we also have chicken colony, goat colony and also pig colonies too.

After all they all have rights too