The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said the farmer-herder conflicts require a real-time, practically-oriented solution. Malami said this on Saturday at the AB Dikko Memorial Symposium holding in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State. In a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, SA, Media and Public Relations, Office of the Attorney-General, Malami called for stakeholders’ engagement to resolve the protracted farmer-herder conflicts in the country. He said intensive enlightenment of livestock breeders on the need for sedentary farming and transhumance agriculture as complimentary economic process to nomadic farming was necessary. He also emphasised the need for providing social amenities, educational facilities and cattle markets at central locations to accelerate nomadic settlements.

Source: Punch February 22, 2020 23:48 UTC