Nigerian govt fueling farmers, herders’ crisis – Herdsmen
A Fulani herdsmen’s association, Kullen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, said failure by the federal government to involve the right stakeholders in the formulation of agricultural policies and programs has incapacitated the sector to grow to it full potential in Nigeria.
The National President in the statement said in drafting most of the agricultural policies, government usually considered farmers as critical players while neglecting pastoralists, a situation which had for long created enmity between the two inseparable brothers. “If not all, most of the federal government’s agricultural policies, though, we are not in doubt that they were introduced with good faith to develop the agricultural sector in the nation, but are unilateral due to fact that the pastoralists were neither involved in the policy formulation nor their representatives contacted to give some inputs on the policies more especially when it is perceived that such policies are detrimental to pastoral occupation.
“KACRAN viewed the above singular act of the federal government as an unfortunate action and of naked injustice to Nigerian’s pastoralists, because instead of allocating the FADAMA places between farmers and pastoralists, but the entire FADAMA palaces were handed over to crop/irrigation farmers to the detriment of pastoralists”, he lamented.
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