Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers
Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), a Fulani group, has raised 11 points as
conditions for the restoration of peace and stability in northern Nigeria and
called for the implementation of these points for a prosperous country.
A statement issued Wednesday in
Damaturu by the National President of the association, Khalil Mohammed Bello,
said the continued escalation of violence in the north was as a result of the
failure of state governors to develop and harness the abundant natural and
human resources endowments of their respective states.
The National President recalled
that the wave of insecurity became more alarming in Nigeria and north in
particular when armed robbery, kidnapping, armed banditry as well as terrorism
started rearing their ugly heads at different points in time in the national life.
He added that all these
culminated in the present reality that is characterised by pervasive security
challenges rocking the northern region and parts of the country.
The Fulani association,
therefore, suggested that for peace to be sustained in north and other parts of
the country, there is urgent need for the 19 northern governors to: guarantee
the security of the nomads and their livestock, establish special schools for
the nomads, preserve and develop grazing reserves.
Others issues raised by the
association that could lead to lasting peace in the region include:
establishment of functional of veterinary for livestock services, funding of
annual mass animal vaccination, provision and distribution of livestock feeds
as well as provision of water in nomads’ settlements among others.
The pre-conditions for peace as
enumerated by the Fulani Association’s National President Khalil Mohammed Bello
are as follows:
1. Security for the Nomads and
their livestock across the Nooks and crannies of the entire Northern States.
2. Special Schools For the
Nomads.
3. Total preservation and
development of grazing reserves across the Northern States of the Federation.
4. Establishment of functional
veterinary and livestock services with personnel trained to teach Pastoralists
modern livestock practices.
5. Fund adequately annual or
retune animals vaccination services.
6. Support Nomads with livestock
feed enduring the Lean month of March to June.
7. Provide all Nomads settlement
across the North with portable water for human and livestock consumption.
8. Building the capacity of young
Pastoralists of modern and lucrative/profitable livestock rearing to prevent
them from engaging in a criminal act of human kidnapping.
9. Introduction of massive
empowerment program for the pastoralists especially those who no longer own
livestock as an alternative source of living.
10. Re-demarcation of all cattle
routes that were not blocked as a result of executing developmental projects to
prevent herders from destroying farmers’ farms.
11. Making peace and dialogue
between the aggrieved parties across the Northern States.
“We wish to emphasize, that the
above are some of the measures that KACRAN is of the strong view that, if
properly and judiciously taken by our humbled Northern governors, peace and
harmony would be restored in the entire Northern region and our beloved Country
Nigeria, as well as enhancing our Nation’s economic potentialities,” the
association insisted.
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