An umbrella body of nomadic herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has expressed displeasure over the ban on open grazing in Southern Nigeria by the governors of the region.
The group said the Southern governors have declared war on herdsmen.
An umbrella body of nomadic herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has expressed displeasure over the ban on open grazing in Southern Nigeria by the governors of the region.
The group, which described the ban as an empty policy, said the Southern governors have declared war on herdsmen.
VAM news had earlier reported that the Southern Governors met in Asaba, the Delta State capital last Tuesday, where they resolved to ban open grazing of cattle in the region, among other resolutions, blaming it for causing insecurity.
However, the Miyetti Allah spokesman, Saleh Alhassan, while speaking on Monday, said, “We condemn it, it is totally unacceptable to us. You can’t ban our business without providing ranches.
“Let them create ranches for us, we don’t have the land, we are ready to ranch, we are ready to pay, let them create the enabling environment for us.
“The ban is an empty policy because it has no basis. You can’t ban our business, we are not criminals, let them go after the bandits and the criminals.
“We can’t comply with an empty policy. If they create ranches and ask us to go there, we will go there but they can’t wake up one day and say they are banning our business.
“If the governors are stopping us from grazing, they are preparing for confrontation. Their action is a declaration of war on the herder.”
According to Punch, when asked whether Miyetti Allah would dialogue with the Southern governors on the issue, Alhassan added, “Their colleagues in the North will engage them since it is politics.”
He further said the group would take legal actions against the Southern governors if they stopped the business of the nomadic herders.
“If you stop our legitimate business, we will challenge you in the court of law. We also have cultural ways of addressing injustice,” he said.
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I wonder whether these people maw use of their brains, at all. An average Nigerian who wants to go into a business, will uave to source for funds, rents or buy a shop or land, then sets up the business. Why is it different with cattle rearing? Why must it be States that should provide land for people’s private businesses?
And, if I have a shop, for instance, but I’m not disposed to rent it out to you, is it illegal?
Nigeria is fast becoming a lawless society.