RELUCTANT to implement the enduring panacea for the genocidal campaign of criminal herders, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has ignited a fresh controversy about one of the most divisive questions plaguing Nigeria today. Obviously toeing the thinking in some circles in the Major General Muhammadu Buhari regime, the Minister of Justice has suggested that a commission be established for the pastoralists as a way of ending their bloody carnage.
But for Malami, the constant mobility of herders across the different belts of Nigeria, violating other citizens’ property right should be backed by a federal law. As he puts it: “It is perhaps time to consider the setting up of a commission for pastoralism regulated by law. This might provide recipes for resolving protracted farmer-herder conflicts.”
Unlike the global best practices, the Federal Government has failed to separate business from politics and crime. It trenchantly promoted the resuscitation of the long-abandoned grazing routes for the herders. When that collapsed, it introduced the Rural Grazing Area idea in 2019. A tenuous concept, government was to settle the nomadic herders and farmers on land belonging to other people. It instigated outrage about the special treatment to be accorded the herders.
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