One of the biggest problems Nigeria is facing is insecurity, arising especially from farmers-herders challenges that have escalated and transformed to cattle rustling, armed banditry and kidnapping thereby heightening the tension in the country.
Farmers-herders conflict mainly associated with quarrels over land resources mostly between Muslim Fulani herders and predominant Christian farmers across Nigeria. However, this tussle is more pronounced in the Middle Belt/North Central states of Jos, Nassarawa and Benue.
A 2019 report by Foreign Affairs puts the death toll as a result of violent clashes at 10,000 within the span of two years while thousands of individuals were displaced. Alas, these violent economic struggles have been politicised and then reduced to ethnic and Northern Nigeria problem. But today, the south, specifically southeast and southwest states also share in the pie of these violent clashes.
The solution to herders-farmers violent clashes in Nigeria has remained subtle due to lack of consensus, especially between the Federal Government of Nigeria and affected north-central and southern states’ governments, regarding the right methodology for curbing the menace. Two recommendations that have been proffered are “ranching and anti-open grazing bill.
To completely arrest this lingering scuffle, application of conflict resolution mechanism, impacting of literacy, mass orientation and education of farmers and herders on grazing laws, confinement of cattle rearing to ranches and grazing-reserves and strengthening of grazing routes remain the viable solutions to persistent problems associated with herders-farmers violent clashes.
Moreover, the RUGA settlement proposed by the Federal Government should be piloted in some affected states in order to appraise its real potentials rather than totally rejecting it without subjecting it to any form of experimentation.
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