Benue Crisis: Retrieve arms from herdsmen, Senate tells FG

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The Senate on Thursday urged the Federal Government to urgently check the proliferation of arms around the country and retrieve them.


This followed a motion by Senator Chukwuka Utazi, a Peoples Democratic Party member from Enugu-North senatorial district, on the high proliferation of arms in the country and the recurring clashes between herdsmen and farmers in parts of the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the red chamber condemned recent killings of farmers in the Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.

It called on the government to establish ranches and grazing reserves across the country to enable herdsmen to use modern systems of livestock farming.