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Yoruba in Kogi reject cattle colonies

byPremium Times
January 22, 2018
2 min read

The Yoruba people in Kogi State have rejected the proposal to establish cattle colonies for Fulani herdsmen in any of their six local government areas in the state.

Rising from a well-attended emergency national congress of the Okun Development Association (ODA) in Kabba at on Saturday, the people said the idea of opening cattle colonies as disclosed by Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Audu Ogbeh, was repugnant to equity, fairness and natural justice.

The Okun people who are in Kabba-Bunu, Ijumu, Lokoja, Yagba West, Yagba East and Mopamuro local government areas of the state said any proposal to appropriate their land for the promotion of the private business interests of Fulani herdsmen would deny them their right to their ancestral land and amount be a time bomb.

They said cattle colony is distasteful, dangerous and that the controversy over the issue can snowball into a major national disaster.

In a communique issued at the end of the congress, the ODA said the cattle colony concept was a disservice to the people’s past, present and future and is therefore unacceptable.

The state government, last week, announced that it had embraced the policy and volunteered to pioneer the model.

Governor Yahaya Bello also invited the Fulani who may be facing difficulties elsewhere in the country to feel free to relocate to the state with a directive to the different levels of administration in the state to accommodate them and issue certificates of indigeneship to those among them who want it.

However, the ODA in the communique signed by its National President, Femi Mokikan, and the National Secretary, Ayo Abereoran, rejected the state government’s position which it said was not in the best interest of Okun people.

It said cattle rearing is a private business and that Nigeria’s statutes have adequate provisions guiding the conduct of private businesses.

The cattle colonies, it added, are a thinly-veiled way of subsidising the private businesses of herdsmen.

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The ODA said most of the herdsmen in Okunland had at will and usually unprovoked, launched attacks on their hosts, adding that the situation arose because of the general belief that they were emboldened by the tacit support they seemed to enjoy in certain official quarters.

As a result of such continued threats, it said Okun farmers had almost abandoned farming for fear of attacks by herdsmen.

Noting that the herdsmen crisis was real and could not be wished away, the association recalled that there were in the past ranches in Kabba, Mokwa (Niger State) and Akunnu in today’s Ondo State, and advised government to take steps to revive such facilities and encourage herdsmen to set up similar ones for their use.

Such ranches it said, would reduce tension between herdsmen and farmers, encourage the establishment of allied industries to produce cattle feeds and promote the application of modern technology.

The ODA also enjoined the state government to, in future, take into consideration, the long term overall interests of the people above other interests in its decisions and actions.

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