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\nMusa <\/p>\n
\nMusa <\/p>\n
By Bose
\nKindly share:<\/p>\n
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has said that to end clashes between farmers and herders, Nigerians must control movement of their animals.
\nMusa made the remark on Wednesday, while briefing newsmen on the forthcoming Maiden African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit slated for August 25 to August 27, in Abuja.
\nHe said that Nigerians must embrace ranching as part of efforts to fight insecurity, adding the old practice where there was understanding between farmers and herders had been eroded.
\n\u201cWe must stop killing animals. Traditionally, what we have done before is, if an animal strays into a farm, we arrest it, then the owner comes and pays fine and he takes it back. If we do that, we will have peace.
\n\u201cBut it is important that we get areas where we can keep these animals. They are better off when they are kept in a ranch.
\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to call it ranching, call it whatever it is, but provide an area where they don\u2019t need to move around.
\n\u201cI want us as Nigerians to look at this so that we can deal with this issue. Because one of the big security challenges we\u2019re having is this issue of farmer-herders,\u201d he said.
\nThe CDS emphasised that ranching had a lot of advantages to the owner of animals, hence should be something that should be embraced without hindrances.
\nAccording to him, once animals move around, they spend energy. They are smaller, they don\u2019t produce so much milk for you.
\n\u201cWhy don\u2019t you do that? Why don\u2019t you ranch them? You get the best out of them. So it\u2019s a win-win to all of us,\u201d the CDS said.
\nMusa condenmed insinuation in some quarters that he encouraged government to take people\u2019s lands because he was advocating ranching.
\n\u201cSome people felt that we are encouraging the government to buy farms and ranching is a business.
\n\u201cI think anybody that is interested in ranching should also do that. Again, if state governments are interested in their own regions, they should do that.
\n\u201cThey can also show model ranch farms for people to do but what we are saying is for us to address this security situation, we must stop animals going into farms,\u201d he added. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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