A Fulani group, Kulen Allah
Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has urged the federal government
to as a matter of urgency review and hurriedly implement the highly
controversial RUGA Settlement, as an alternative solution to farmers-herders conflicts
in Nigeria.
National President of the
Association, Khalil Mohammed Bello, in a statement on Monday, said, “It was very unfortunate, that instead of the intended program
to serve the general purpose upon which it was metamorphosed, that is solving
the crisis or conflicts between Herders and Farmers, to guarantee food security
in the country, It was rather used as a matter or topic of critical debates
among the Nigerians elites, which brought unnecessary tribulations and serious
disunity in the country.”
He added that the most painful of
it all, was the wrong dimension that the debates have taken, which was very
dangerous to the unity and prosperity of Nigeria.
Bello noted that this has created
a situation in which whereas Northerners strongly support the RUGA programme,
their Southern counterpart, vehemently opposed and totally rejected the
implementation of the programme in their respective states.
“The most worrisome in the
Nigerians division on RUGA program was that most of the people who supported or
opposed it were doing so, not for the fact that, they understand what the
concept entails, but on sectional grown,” he said.
The association, through its
president, advised that the programme should be limited to northern states only
and attention must be paid to states that indicated interest and have enough
land.
Equally, KACRAN suggested that
the programme should be renamed, reviewed as well as reclaiming and protecting
all the existing gazetted grazing reserves and cattle ranches in the entire
Northern part of the country by the federal government as a way of preventing
possible rejection of the initiative in states which do not want to implement
it.
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