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Dickson<\/p>\n

By Publisher<\/p>\n

Kindly share:<\/p>\n

Senator Seriake Dickson has charged the Federal Government to urgently consider making ranching compulsory for herders\u00a0 \u00a0to end the recurrent herders\/farmers clashes, which has claimed several lives in the country.<\/div>\n
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The former Bayelsa governor was reacting to the recent killings in some communities in Benue and Plateau States caused by clashes between farmers and herders.<\/div>\n
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While condoling\u00a0 with the governors of Plateau and Benue over the killings, Dickson described the dastardly acts as massacres.<\/div>\n
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“I have spoken with my brother and friend, the Governor of Benue State, H.E. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, as well as officials of the Plateau State Government, to offer my condolences on behalf of my family and the good people of my Senatorial District, and on behalf of all Nigerians of goodwill, over the dastardly and callous massacres that occurred recently in communities in those two states,” he stated.<\/div>\n
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“Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Southern Kaduna, and some other states in this country have borne the brunt of criminality, lawlessness, and brutality in a genocidal magnitude and frequency. Not only are armed gunmen terrorising and ransacking hapless communities, and committing mass murders in these states, but the level of banditry, kidnapping, and killing has affected many other states as well, almost to the point of eclipsing the Boko Haram insurgency that bedevilled the northeastern part of our country years ago.<\/div>\n
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“At this point, the leadership of this country and the topmost hierarchy of the security architecture need to really sit down and have a frank and honest conversation about what to do, and do it fast.”<\/div>\n
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Dickson highlighted some of the factors responsible for carnage in the land.<\/div>\n
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“There are many factors involved in this national security crisis, such as competition for resources leading to farmers\/herders clashes, activities of illegal miners, criminal displacement of indigenous people for land acquisition, and\u00a0 activities of criminals, kidnappers and bandits, climate crisis, etc.,” he said.<\/div>\n
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“While there are elements of banditry and sheer criminality that have nothing to do with competition for resources, there is also a well-known angle that has to do with perennial clashes between herdsmen and farmers in communities across the country.<\/div>\n
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“The time has come for everyone to see this problem as an existential Nigerian issue of national security that needs to be addressed, devoid of ethnicity, religion, politics and sentiments that normally colour national discourses. This was why at the floor, while contributing to a motion on this, I urged the Senate to resolve to implement mandatory ranching, support and orientation even for the herdsmen, followed by the prohibition of open grazing nationwide.<\/div>\n
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“Using the newly established Ministry of Livestock, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance, the CBN and other institutions, we must create a mechanism and funding for compulsory ranching and support policy for livestock, herders, aquaculture and all other agribusinesses across the country.<\/div>\n
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“Then a plan must be made to strengthen all the security agencies and community leaders to work together to combat and flush out all bandits and criminals from our rural areas and forests and enforce prohibition of open grazing throughout Nigeria. The Senate adopted the motion. We must do this as a national imperative without politics or sentiments.<\/div>\n
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“It is not acceptable in this country or any other, for people wherever they are to be attacked, maimed, killed, and communities ransacked at will without consequences, while the rest of the country and the world move on. It is the clearest evidence of state failure and collapse.<\/div>\n
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“In the coming days, I hope to raise these issues with the relevant authorities.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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