The Ruga scheme is the third in the series of suggestions the federal government had broached since the killings by herdsmen became a national crisis. Nigeria
One, the temperature generated over the controversy would dip, although the incendiary rhetoric may not necessarily be toned down. Two, it would afford the federal government an opportunity to re-examine the problem it is trying to solve and find, perhaps, a less controversial approach to it. Approach is the word.
From the little I have read about the Ruga settlement plan, not many of us really know what it is all about. Is it a sound national policy designed to primarily make us safe in our country or a cynical response to a problem crying for an urgent solution? We do not quite know because the federal government did not find it necessary to let us know, ask questions to allay our fears and suspicions and satisfy ourselves that it has some merits that should make us embrace it.
The federal government has not done much to sell its idea to the public. According to the permanent secretary, federal ministry of agriculture and rural development, Dr Mohammed Bello Umar, the Ruga settlement plan seeks to address and possibly end the herdsmen-farmer clashes that have taken a heavy toll on our human and agricultural resources. These clashes have added a dangerous dimension to our cocktail of security challenges.
A well-grounded policy in a matter of this nature, properly marketed to the public, would not commend itself to a hasty retreat as has happened. The first step is to know what the problem is: its causes, depth and dimension. It is a given that you cannot solve a problem without knowing what it is.
It is easy for the opponents of the scheme to argue that it is intended to do for the cattle breeders what is not done for other farmers and thus confer on the cattle breeders unfair socio-economic advantages. The cattle breeders and the cassava farmers face different challenges that must be met each in its own way.
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