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The Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Mr. Anu Ibiwoye said the Federal Government and the State have devised strategies towards combating the incessant clashes between the Fulani herdsmen, farmers and their host communities in the Country.
“The Fulani herdsmen menace is not peculiar to Kwara State alone, it is a general problem. Beyond all the losses to crops, there are also incidences of communal clashes that have led to genocide, so it is a problem that both States and Federal Government are tackling and as for us, we are focusing on ways to reduce it to the barest minimum after which we intend to eradicate it completely via holistic approach.
“You would recall that the Federal Government has created a grazing zone and as i speak the State has been communicated on the need to follow the same line hence the 5,000 hectares of land being proposed by the state government. There would also be importation of grasses from Brazil to grow there so that Fulani Cattles can be confined and water would be provided so that their Cattle can feed adequately within their restricted areas,” Ibiwoye noted.
Ibiwoye further noted that the nomadic tendency would reduce when feed and water source are made available for them at certain location and there would also be reduction in the damage that they leave in their trail as they move around.
“The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MANR) in the State has also confirmed from empirical evidence that Cattles that are confined produces more quality meat and healthy milk than the roaming ones,” he added.
It would be recalled that the State Government had earlier met with the Fulani Community representatives, host community leaders, and security agencies in the state as a way of educating them on the implication of their activities on the economy and the after effect of the attendant communal clashes.
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