Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, on Saturday cautioned herdsmen against using “careless words.”
Tinubu warned that such words would not shield herdsmen from
what he termed “relentless reality.”
In a statement he signed personally, the former Lagos State
governor said careless talk would do both herders and farmers grave injustice.
According to Tinubu: “The herder-farmer dispute has taken on
acute and violent dimensions. It has cost too many innocent lives while
destroying the property and livelihoods of many others. It has also aggravated
ethnic sentiment and political tension.
“Despite the efforts of some of those in positions of high
responsibility and public trust, the crisis has not significantly abated.
“The calamity now being faced is borne of situational
exigencies. It is but the tragic outcome when often desperate, alienated people
are left too long unattended and when their understanding of the modern
socio-economic and environmental forces affecting the very terms of their
existence is incomplete.
“An ethnically fuelled response will be to vociferously
defend the nomadic way believing this tack will somehow protect the herder and
cast the speaker as an ethnic champion.
“However, careless words cannot shield the herder from
relentless reality. Such talk will only delude him into believing that he can
somehow escape the inevitable.
“We do both herder and farmer grave injustice by allowing
the herder to continue as he is – fighting a losing battle against modernity
and climate change. In that fight, desperation causes him to flail and fight
the farmer, who too is a victim of these impersonal forces.”
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