President Bola Tinubu has implored governors to provide land for grazing in their states in order to address the protracted farmer-herder crisis in the country.

Tinubu spoke on Monday when he flagged off the food security and agricultural mechanisation programme in Niger state.

The project is an initiative of the Niger state government. It would “focus on the deployment of technology for large-scale agro-value chain development”.

Tinubu said his administration is committed to ensuring food sufficiency and protecting local industries for sustainable economic growth in the country.

The president said if land for grazing is provided by governors, he is committed to providing a comprehensive programme that will solve the farmer-herders crisis within two or three weeks.

“We have seen the level of commitment here. We have seen leadership. The success of any leader will depend on the ability to do what needs to be done when it ought to be done,” Tinubu said.

“It is now time for us to address the challenges and make Nigeria an economy of opportunities. We must care for our people; re-orient our people. I do not see why Nigeria cannot feed all students in its schools.

“I know what it means as an economic sabotage for roaming cows to eat up the crops and the vegetation of our land. I know it is painful. But when we re-orient the herders and make provision for cattle rearing, we can address that.

“You are the governors who must provide the land; provide us the land. I, as the President, I am committed to giving you, in two three weeks time, a comprehensive programme that will solve this problem.”

The president also appealed to sub-national governments, as an immediate intervention measure, to implement wage awards in their states.

He said this will complement the efforts of the federal government in easing the burden on citizens, pending when the minimum wage is increased.

Age-long clashes between farmers and herders, especially in Nigeria’s arid northern region, often lead to communal conflict, destruction of property, loss of lives, and displacement of whole communities — further exacerbating the country’s humanitarian crisis.

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Any herder that needs grazing land should purchase it just like farmers purchased theirs....

That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

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Go and see someone who has spent barely 3months is doing in Argentina.
Tinubu has no good plan for Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5M9_HdQyQg

AllenSpencer:
That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

Lmao. You can provide them your lands in the SW.

God bless president Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Obidients/ipob, come an insult the president as usual

Gossiphub:


Lmao. You can provide them your lands in the SW.

You reaffirmed my point!

You will only castigate and will NEVER proffer solutions.

Even tinubu knows all these his talks are gazellegragra.
He just trying to bulabaloo as usual to give his online warriors what to sing about.
Nigeria does not yet have a leader. When the leader comes we will see and know it.

AllenSpencer:
That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

Maybe now it's not coming from bubu people will hear more.

budaatum:
I wonder what they've been waiting for. Bet they never supported the Livestock Transformation Development Plan that many derogatively called Ruga though that would have forced cattle rearing on to a ranch and out of the hands of the cattle rearing Fulanis.

https://www.nairaland.com/6605367/ruga-kicks-off-gombe#102768636

Are they getting the lands for free...I don't have anything against a Fulani man grazing in my hometown as long as it's land he purchased with his money

budaatum:


Maybe now it's not coming from bubu people will hear more.

Exactly!

Nigerians will complain about everything, but will still complain when you take measures!

They tell you cities lack urban planning, and when you start taking down illegal structures, same Nigerians will blame you.

They complain about street hawking, and when you try to arrest and confiscate properties of those hawkers, same Nigerians will come for your head.

The extreme is that, catch a yahoo fraudster and they will tell you the president is also stealing and the thief should be released.


A combination of Jesus and Mohammed (SAW) cannot rule Nigeria. They will return to heaven.

AllenSpencer:
That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

Is cow the only ruminant animal that is herbivorous?

Is cow the only animal?

Poultry farmers are not invading maize farms to feed their chickens with maize.


Poor people do not own cows. The owners of these cows are rich and can buy any land like poultry farmers and raise the cows within their private property.

jmoore:

Is cow the only ruminant animal that is herbivorous?

Is cow the only animal?

Poultry farmers are not invading maize farms to feed their chickens with maize.


Poor people do not own cows. The owners of these cows are rich and can buy any land like poultry farmers and raise the cows within their private property.

All you have done is complain!

Suggest a better solution to counter the menace.

Same way you promised in April 2023 that the naira will exchange for 300 to the USD in the “short term”

Stop all this, let them buy their land

A very senseless statement from my president. He should give his father's land to Fulani. Idiot

AllenSpencer:


All you have done is complain!

Suggest a better solution to counter the menace.

When you open your eyes, you will see the solution.
Cow owners should buy lands by themselves same way poultry farmers, fish farmers have bought lands. Any cow found in open grazing or invading another person farm will be seized.

Obiedun:
A very senseless statement from my president. He should give his father's land to Fulani. Idiot

Let’s accept he is senseless.

Can you suggest a better, sane and diplomatic measure to counter the criminal herdsmen menace?

jmoore:

When you open your eyes, you will see the solution.
Cow owners should buy lands by themselves same way poultry farmers, fish farmers have bought lands. Any cow found in open grazing or invading another person farm will be seized.

Aren’t they going to buy land in same states were they have cattle’s? And would it be logical for them to have ranches scattered across states?

That’s what the white man calls Agricultural zoned areas. So with the current menace of insecurity, you feel it is senseless to have a budget to counter such?

If you believe your notion is right, then you should not be complaining when people are killed in their farms. Afterall, if they cannot afford land, they are still free to open graze.

In same saner climes you lots compare to Nigeria, Government give farmers subsidized loans and benefits.

Most of those ranch owners you see won’t be farmers if they had the solid cash to buy those ranches. Most are government funded initiatives via low interest mortgages and subsidies

Tinubu is foolish enough to ask governors yo provide land for herdsmen while the test of us must purchase land for our respective businesses. Indeed animal in human skin putting on agbada according to Fela.

Anyway he can donate the wholesale of iragbaji to killer herdsmen for all we care but you see my state? No space for ruga

AllenSpencer:


Let’s accept he is senseless.

Can you suggest a better, sane and diplomatic measure to counter the criminal herdsmen menace?

The owners of the cows should buy lands in any state they wish to operate and restrict their cows from moving out of the land...

The government can then give them support like how other farmers get support...

Brendaniel:


The owners of the cows should buy lands in any state they wish to operate and restrict their cows from moving out of the land...

Are you still not emphasizing on same LAND

So what makes it a problem of the FG and state government pilot such initiative if insecurity has become a threat to all?

“LAND” is the subject matter and glad you mentioned it. So what is yours problem with government piloting such initiative?

Where are the cows?😁

This Ruga of a solution looks more like a problem to me than it is of a solution. Herders are business men, the government has no business securing land & planting special grasses for herders’ cows to feed.

Grazing didn’t just start during GMB’s tenure, it had been there long time ago. The question that should be asked is how did herders graze their cattle before the herders-farmers clash almost a decade ago till now?

It’s as simple as herders avoiding people’s cultivated fields.

The fear of Fulani people laying claim to government land decades from now & replicating what has been going on in Jos makes one afraid of this Ruga solution.

FG shouldn’t be asking for massive plots of land from states to set up grazing land for these businessmen. These cows won’t be sold at a cheap price in the market. It should actually be cheap since the cows will be fed from tax payers money that was invested in Ruga

Please if you want to quote me do so without insult. Let’s have a discourse. I would like to be convinced about the proposed solution called RUGA

AllenSpencer:


Are you still not emphasizing on same LAND

So what makes it a problem of the FG and state government pilot such initiative if insecurity has become a threat to all?

“LAND” is the subject matter and glad you mentioned it. So what is yours problem with government piloting such initiative?

If they give them land for their cows for free, then the goverrment will have to provide lands for, Chicken, turkey, horse, dog, and every animal farming including food farming for free in all 36 states and the FCT...

Do you support that?

Brendaniel:


If they give them land for their cows for free, then the goverrment will have to provide lands for, Chicken, turkey, horse, dog, and every animal farming including food farming for free in all 36 states and the FCT...

Do you support that?

Oh!

Let me inform you if you not aware. State governments have been leasing lands for agriculture purpose for decades.

State governments are not new to the trade. Ogun state to be specific. If you need lands, you can do your research and follow the process.

Your notion has been in the system already and not new.

First, herdmen is an archaic unproductive useless practice. It's not practiced in any civilized country.

Secondly, Anyone who wants to go into livestock farming need to fund himself. It's a personal business. There are several people that rear livestock , including pigs rearer yet the pig rearers are not disturbing anyone. Infact, the core North have enough vast land to build ranches to rear livestock if they really wanted to rear livestock and are not useless murderous criminals!

Thirdly, Every State have their own indigenous people and if a state is to invest in livestock ranches, it's the indigenous people in that state who should be involved. The indigenous people also have heads and deserve to benefit from their own state investment.

AllenSpencer:
That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

don't be a quim, the cause of the clash is not about land. The north is twice or more than the south so they have more than enough for ruga, even up to creating a grazing state. So tinubu should do that instead. Any south east gov who give even a plot For that shit will answer to Biafra

AllenSpencer:
That’s it!

Ruga is the solution!

Circle them up and know anyone grazing openly is a criminal.

People shut down Ruga without proffering sane and diplomatic solutions.

don't be a quim, the cause of the clash is not about land. The north is twice or more than the south so they have more than enough for ruga, even up to creating a grazing state. So tinubu should do that instead. You will see that when they graze the ruga finish they will still enter people's farm. We all know the problem with the header. So Any south east gov who give even a plot For that shit will answer to Biafra

AllenSpencer:


Oh!

Let me inform you if you not aware. State governments have been leasing lands for agriculture purpose for decades.

State governments are not new to the trade. Ogun state to be specific. If you need lands, you can do your research and follow the process.

Your notion has been in the system already and not new.

I am a farmer, leasing of lands is also allowed if they want to, as long as they pay for that land they are using, I have also done that in the past with Ogun state gorvernment and I am from the south east....

I also bought lands too, the reason I am advocating for them to either acquire or lease the lands they want to use is so that the government can filter those of them that are serious with following the laws of the land wherever they are operating.

Once that is done the government can then give them all the support they need, I am an advocate for government support in farming, subsidized healthcare for the animals, improved and advanced food production for the animals, low and long term interest loan facility, subsidized equipments for high production of meat and milk from the cows, training programs for the herders and so on.

But first you must adhere strictly to the land use and the government laid down policies to benefit all these.

Let the government try this and see if there will not be competition in cow rearing business both from the south and the north without all these crisis going on....

Fighttillvictory:

don't be a quim, the cause of the clash is not about land. The north is twice or more than the south so they have more than enough for ruga, even up to creating a grazing state. So tinubu should do that instead. Any south east gov who give even a plot For that shit will answer to Biafra

Are you going to give the above response of such question was thrown at you in a public space of intellectual minds? …..smh

You only buttressed my point and thanks for doing that. When constructive reasoning is demanded, your kind would never be found a thousand nautical miles from there.

Redhot111:
Tinubu is foolish enough to ask governors yo provide land for herdsmen while the test of us must purchase land for our respective businesses. Indeed animal in human skin putting on agbada according to Fela.

Anyway he can donate the wholesale of iragbaji to killer herdsmen for all we care but you see my state? No space for ruga

I don't think our state governments would read Tinubu's "give" as free land. And I don't in fact think Tinubu himself meant free land.

He would after all never have given free land in Lagos to anyone, so why would he now be requesting free land for cattle.

He needs to provide more details to avoid the concussion I guess

Brendaniel:


I am a farmer, leasing of lands is also allowed if they want to, as long as they pay for that land they are using, I have also done that in the past with Ogun state gorvernment and I am from the south east....

I also bought lands too, the reason I am advocating for them to either acquire or lease the lands they want to use is so that the government can filter those of them that are serious with following the laws of the land wherever they are operating.

Once that is done the government can then give them all the support they need, I am an advocate for government support in farming, subsidized healthcare for the animals, improved and advanced food production for the animals, low and long term interest loan facility, subsidized equipments for high production of meat and milk from the cows, training programs for the herders and so on.

But first you must adhere strictly to the land use and the government laid down policies to benefit all these.

Let the government try this and see if there will not be competition in cow rearing business both from the south and the north without all these crisis going on....

Now you talking….

Those are the ideas I was demanding from you earlier.

With good, transparent and strict measures, the trade can be curbed within fences and boundaries.