The National President, Kulen
Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), Khalil Mohammed Bello,
has warned that Northern Nigeria will soon soberly regret its total neglect of
livestock sector.
National President of the Fulani
Association handed down the warning in an interview with Dailypost on Wednesday in Damaturu, on issues bedevilling the livestock industry in
Nigeria.
Bello said KACRAN believes there
is nothing more shameful, sorrowful, regrettable and highly pitiable than the
way in which the Northern part of Nigeria completely neglected the importance
of the livestock sector towards providing jobs opportunities, food security and
development of the region and Nigeria by extension.
“We wonder why our northern
States undermine the great importance of livestock as per as Northern economy
is concern.
“If not, how comes the North of
healthy meat, the North of healthy milk, the North of hide and skin, the North
of supplying cattle to Southern Nigeria, the North of sufficient local
fertilizer for our farmers, the North of creating millions occupations through
the livestock industry, now resorted to be the North of conflicts and crisis
mainly between Herders and Farmers, whom were earlier living peaceful and
happily with one another,” he frowned.
The KACRAN President maintained
that it is unfortunate to note that, none of the 19th Northern States of
Nigeria has a functional cattle ranches or diary milk houses saying that these
inherited facilities were mostly converted into personal properties illegally.
“The most unfortunate of all, in
the destruction of livestock industry in the Northern part of Nigeria where
this industry is supposed to be properly taken care up and fully utilize for
the betterment of the region, Nigeria and Africa at large, as farmers and the
Northern bourgeoisies are deliberately allowed to encroached or totally blocked
the cattle routes meant for cattle rearing.
“The painful act which left the
pastoralists with no option other than to migrate to somewhere else where they
would get vegetation areas and water or sometime remain where they are and be
destroying people’s farms which always leads to avoidable conflicts”, Bello
According to him, in the process
of the Association’s research it was understood that some former Northern
governors alledgly invited their friends from other parts of the country and
illegally allocated thousands hectares of gazetted grazing reserves to them as
farms, where majority of such lands have never been captivated.
“In view of the numerous economic
and security benefits as well as ugly consequences associated with neglecting
livestock sector to the North and to the Nigeria by extension, we are appealing
to Federal Government and our Northern Governors and leaders to, do everything
possible to stop the massive declining of livestock in the North”, The President
appealed.
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