President Bola Tinubu has reiterated his administration’s commitment to solve the reoccurring clashes between farmers and herders that have claimed several lives.
Violence between farmers and herders over access to water and land in several Nigerian states has put food production at risk.
The conflict, which adds to the decade-long insurgency by Islamist extremists who have killed tens of thousands in northeast Nigeria, has resulted in 3,641 deaths from 2016 to 2018, according to an Amnesty International report, the closest to an official tally on the casualties.
Tinubu said his renewed focus on driving international and local investments into the livestock sector of the agricultural value chain will end the crisis of farmer-herder clashes, eradicate hunger and poverty in Nigeria as well as promote economic prosperity.
President Tinubu said in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent between the Nigerian Government and JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally.
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