The Ruga settlement pilot scheme for Fulani herdsmen said to have kick-started in 12 states of the federation will escalate the insecurity and ongoing clashes between farmers and herdsmen, Oghenejabor Ikimi has warned. Ikimi, a Warri-based human rights lawyer and Executive Director of the Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged, (CENTREP), condemned the said programme at an end-of-month pressing briefing on Saturday. “Recently, according to the erstwhile Minister of Agriculture and rural development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Ruga Settlement programme by the Federal Government for herders is to help bring an end to farmers/herders clashes nationwide. “Herders would live and grow their cattle and produce milk in these settlements. The milk will be bought by a milking parlour, thus preventing their wives from moving about.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 29, 2019 18:56 UTC