NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PRESENTS PLAN TO PERMANENTLY SOLVE FARMERS, HERDERS CONFLICT
He noted that,some of the benefits of the plan include “Expected milk output to be in excess of 200million litres by the 2nd year of the project (but the first year of productivity. Expected milk output of 700m ltrs of milk by the 4th year of the project.”
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh speaking on the plan said: “we want to bring this crisis to an end. We will begin action in a matter of days’, pointing out that nomadic herding was not sustainable and Nigeria must adopt ranching.
Ogbeh added that there has been a “strong partnership” between the federal and state governments; a view also espoused by Ortom whose Benue State has witnessed some of the most violent crisis involving nomadic herdsmen.
However, Governor Ortom, in his remark argued that apart from implementing the new plan, the federal government must ensure that perpetrators of previous killings in the state are arrested and prosecuted.
Penpushing recalled that, hundreds of people have been killed in 2018 alone in violence involving nomadic herdsmen in states like Benue, Plateau, and Kaduna, and aside the loss of lives, the federal government has said that Nigeria loses about $14 billion (₦5.04 trillion) annually to the conflicts.
