In the council chamber of the State House in Abuja, President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with a team led by Abdullahi Ganduje, the APC chairman.
The PUNCH learned that the attendees will provide a document with important recommendations on preventing farmer-herder confrontations nationwide, even though the meeting’s agenda is not yet known to the public.
According to a source who talked with our correspondent, the meeting—which got underway at 3 p.m. local time—requires the military chiefs’ attendance because it touches on matters of national security.
Since 1999, farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria have claimed thousands of lives as disputes over arable land resources between herders and farmers festers in the country’s North Central.
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On August 29, Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, put the total number of lives lost at over 60,000 when he opened a stakeholders’ interactive session held by the House Ad-hoc Committee.
The session was themed ‘Recurring Annual Clashes Between Farmers and Herders In Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area Of Gombe State, And Neighbouring Local Government Areas, including Other Regions Of The Country With Similar Incidents’
Abbas lamented that, farmer-herder clashes which were hitherto seen as a regional or a confined conflict have ballooned into many West African countries.
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