The Governor of O do State, Rotimi Akeredolu on Wednesday said that the ban on open grazing will benefits the Fulani herdsmen in the areas of health, children’s education and livestock development.
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Akeredolu who stated this while featuring on Channels Television said that most of the states have passed laws on open grazing and it was very clear that all of them agreed that open grazing must stop because it has caused a lot of problem, particularly between the herders and the farmers.
Recall that the Governors of the Southern States issued a communique in a meeting held yesterday to foster the ban of open grazing in their states.
Speaking on the programme, Akeredolu said, “Things have changed and we must adopt a modern system of animal husbandry. At the meeting we referred to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, who is also against open grazing. The herders do not benefit from open grazing because there is no development.
“Their children are not going to school, their stocks are in danger. If we love those involved in animal husbandry in this country, then there must be a change, which is why we said that the Federal Government must deliberately assist the herders.”
Speaking further, Akeredolu said that in any state that is prepared to engage in ranching, the federal government should provide money for ranches so that the herders would adopt the modern method of animal husbandry.
“The animals will develop better and people who are interested in the stock will come and buy from them. Lagos State consumes over sixty percent of cows in this country. They can keep the cows in Kano, Kaduna where they have enough land and those who need the cows can go there to buy.
“It is the reason we agreed that states which want to have ranches should be supported. Our initial agreement was that federal government should give five million Naira to states that want to create ranches,” he said
While responding to the issue of the government supporting private business, Akeredolu said that it is optional for any state who wants to create ranches but if they do, the federal government should support it as part of the intervention programme of the government.
He stressed that five million is small for the federal government to support a cause that will create peace in the country.
Akeredolu added “It is in the light of the crisis that this programme has generated that we think the federal government should be involved.
“We know that when the issue of ranching came up initially and the federal government demanded that states provided land, open state livestock transformation office, unfortunately along the line the Minister of Agriculture hijacked it, came up with RUGA, people reacted and saw it as an attempt to give land to Fulanis and herders.
“The concept of the National Livestock Transformation Programme is different.”
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