Manzo Daniel Maigari, the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Forestry, stated this in a news conference in Kaduna, while reeling out activities of his ministry in the past 12 months. He said the state government was not thinking only of reviving the reserves, but looking at how they could be turned into commercial pasture hubs as done in other climes. According to Maigari, there was an existing committee set up to take proper records of visiting headsmen into the grazing reserves, but expressed worry that somewhere along the line, the committee had not been doing that, thereby giving room for visiting herdsmen to use the facility without trace. The commissioner said the grazing reserves would be gazetted in such a way that it would create employment opportunity for other people, apart from cattle owners. “These grazing reserves have been existing for a long time. For example, that of Kachia was established in 1944, but they were abandoned. “Now, the present government has decided to revive these grazing reserves because they have been gazetted. No community is affected by these grazing land, so the issue of paying compensation to anybody does not arise,” he said.]]>