President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting a delegation led by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, at the council chamber of the State House, Abuja.
The attendees will present a document with important recommendations on preventing farmer-herder conflicts nationwide, even though the meeting’s objectives are not yet known.
According to a source who spoke with our correspondent, the meeting, which got underway around 3 p.m. local time, requires the service chiefs’ attendance because it touches on matters of national security.
A dispute over arable land resources between herders and farmers has festered in Nigeria’s North Central since 1999, resulting in thousands of deaths.
When he began an interactive session with stakeholders hosted by the House Ad-hoc Committee on August 29, Nigeria’s House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas estimated that more than 60,000 lives had been lost overall.
Recurring Annual Clashes Between Farmers and Herders in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State, And Neighboring Local Government Areas, Including Other Regions Of The Country With Similar Incidents” was the theme of the session.
Abbas bemoaned the fact that farmer-herder conflicts, once thought to be local or isolated, have now spread to many West African nations.
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