Tinubu Reiterates Commitment To Ending Farmers-Herders Clashes
By Trek Africa Newspaper
President Bola Tinubu has re-emphasized his commitment to solving the reccurring clashes between farmers and herders that have resulted to loss of several lives.
Trek Africa Newspaper reports that violence between farmers and herders over access to water and land in several Nigerian states has put food production at risk.
According to an Amnesty International report, the conflict, adding to the decade-long insurgency by Islamist extremists who have killed many people in northeast Nigeria, has resulted in 3,641 deaths from 2016 to 2018.
According to the president, his renewed focus on driving international and local investments into the livestock sector of the agricultural value chain will end the crisis of farmer-herder clashes, eradicate hunger and poverty in Nigeria as well as promote economic prosperity.
Tinubu said this in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent between the Nigerian Government and JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally.
“What we are doing right now is that we are solving a problem that afflicted humanity in that part of Africa, clashes between farmers and migrating cows that have caused some life and bloodshed when there is a modern, civilized way to solve those problems and even bring a successful economy out of it.
“We are trying to turn a situation of tragedy, hopelessness into economic opportunity, see through problems and see the opportunity that is involved in it,” he said.
