Fulani Herdsmen Table Fresh Request To End Killings

The Fulani herdsmen socio-cultural group, Daddo Pulaku, have asked the Bauchi State government to give them four per cent of the total land area of the state.

This was disclosed on Wednesday in a memorandum handed over to the Bauchi State Administrative Committee of Inquiry into Land Disputes, set up by Governor Bala Mohammed to look into farmers/herders crisis in the state.

The Fulani herdsmen group, through its State Chairman, Muhammad Aminu Tukur, urged Governor Bala Mohammed to ensure the full implementation of the Cattle Routes law of Bauchi State, 2018 which enforced the non-cultivation of both sides of all major roads in the state by 30 meters from the drains.

According to the Fulani group, herdsmen are constantly being attacked on a daily basis.

“The most pertinent thing being the fact that all those challenging our right to live and choice of occupation are the most gluttonous protein (beef) eaters and addictive milk consumers. Nomadic communities all over the world are never known to be parasites but major contributors to the economy of the nation,” the memorandum read.

The group said herdsmen had ‘serious challenges’ in all the 20 local government areas of the state with the most cases common in Itas/Gadau, Ganjuwa and Bauchi LGAs where some village heads along with land officers are apportioning grazing reserves and cattle routes to themselves and selling to individuals.

“It is a fact that our people suffer most in the hands of village heads, district heads and greedy lands officers in the LGAs. It is our opinion that for a permanent solution to the escalating conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria as the most pressing security challenge of our time which has the potential to degenerate into more violence and bloodshed, government at all levels must step in and address the issue squarely no matter whose ox is gored,” it added.

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