S/Kaduna Joint Peace C’ttee Urges Farmers To Open Cattle Routes
The Southern Kaduna Joint Peace Committee has urged farmers in the region to open all cattle routes as herders will be returning for grazing as they approach the dry season.
Professor Benjamin Gugong and Dr. Ahmad Yande, the co-chair of the Committee, gave the advice during a courtesy visit on 12 chiefdoms and emirs in Southern Kaduna.
While at Agwam Bajju Palace in Zonkwa, the headquarters of Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State and at the palace of the chief of Kagoro in Kaura Local Government, the committee disclosed that one of the major remote causes of the herders/farmers clashes that need to be immediately addressed is to ensure all cattle routes are open for herders, who will be returning for grazing during the dry season.
The committee also urged the Chiefs to help talk to their subordinates who will also assist the local farmers at the grassroots about the cattle routes to ensure peace is totally restored in the areas.
Responding, the Agwam Bajju 1, His Highness, Mal. Nuhu Bature commended the committee for their tactfulness and for working for peace in Southern Kaduna.
The monarch, however, appealed to the committee to help advised both the farmers and herders to stay away from the Kurmin B Forest, which has been reserved for history.
“The Kurmin B Forest has been there before we were born for almost 400 years and we must not allow it to be tempered with,” Bature said.
The committee, which was inaugurated by the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, is expected to finish its mandate on Friday and to hand over their reports to Governor Nasir El-Rufai for implementation.
