Tambuwal Cautions President Buhari on Grazing Reserves
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to force grazing reserves on states that do not need them.
He said in Lagos on Monday at the 63rd Birthday lecture of Mr. Richard Akinnola, a renowned journalist and author, the president could resuscitate grazing reserves only in states or areas where the people were interested.
He advised that open pastoralism is not in the interest of even the Fulani herdsmen.
While delivering a lecture on “Security Challenges in Nigeria and its Implications for Sustainable Development” Tambuwal stated that Nigeria should rethink open grazing.
According to him, the president should only revive grazing reserves where the people are interested. This, he noted, would curb the rising insecurity in the country.
“Why must someone from Sokoto be pursuing his cattle to Delta State?” he asked.
The governor also called for the reorientation of the herders “to bring them back to the track of modernism and development.”
The question of open grazing has been a raging one in Nigeria, and majority of state governments have expressed their opposition to it.
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