Over the past weeks, attacks by Fulani herdsmen on farmers and villagers in different states across the country have increased in frequency and ferocity. Expectedly, calls have mounted for the Federal Government to quit its frustrating hand-wringing and take definitive action on the crisis. Said Chief Ogbeh: “We want to handle the issue of cattle rearing and crisis between farmers and herdsmen and actually bring it to a halt… We are talking of cattle colonies, not ranches. Why is the Federal Government sold on an idea whose effectiveness is debatable, and whose legality is dubious at best? We insist that there is no substantive difference between the current plan to establish cattle colonies and the previous one.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 15, 2018 00:00 UTC