Farmers, Herdsmen Conflict: Senate to Find Solution

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has appealed to herdsmen and farmers across the country to maintain peace as the National Assembly is ready to proffer lasting solution to the perennial clashes over grazing by cattle. 

Speaking today when a group of herdsmen from Kautal Hore Socio-Cultural Association, Jigawa State branch visited him, the Senate President who described the perennial clashes between the farmers and herdsmen as unfortunate, also appealed to the herdsmen to maintain peace at all times.

No end to herdsmen-farmers’ clashes except ECOWAS intervenes – Sen. Bukar

Fulani Herdsmen

Sen. Bukar Abba Ibrahim (APC Yobe East) has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene and resettle herdsmen as the only way to curb clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the region.

In an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the senator called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the governments all other West African Countries to intervene in the matter.

According to him, all the 15 countries must be involved as if it must be effective as no one nation can solve the problem in its country since the nomads will continue to move.