One dead, several injured as herdsmen migration to Nasarawa state leads to fresh crisis

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- Due to the enactment of anti-open grazing in Benue state, most herdsmen have moved to Nasarawa and neighboring states

- The massive influx of herders to Nasarawa is giving farmers in the state sleepless night

- So far, a young farmer have been reportedly killed in his farms while several others were injured

The enactment of anti-open grazing in Benue state by Governor Samuel Ortom, has led to the influx of herdsmen into Nasarawa, a neighbouring state.

The Sun reports that the massive migration due to this new law has sparked fresh crisis in Nasarawa and a farmer has already been found murdered in his farm.

Moses Gagah from Akunza Maigiri, Jemkwe area of Obi local government area of the state was murdered in his farm on Saturday, December 9, while several other farmers sustained various degrees of injuries.

The migration of herdsmen into Nasarawa has already heightened security tension in some local government where 75 percent of farmers there are yet to harvest their crops.

The chairman of Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigerian (MACBAN), Nasarawa state chapter, Alhaji Muhammed Hussaini, while addressing the reating to the crisis on Tuesday, December 12, condemned the violence caused by Fulani herdsmen.

Alh Hussaini, who express worry over the activities of the Fulani herdsmen to ceaselessly wreak havocs on the produce of farmers in the area, warned the herders against taking laws into their hands and direct the security agencies to arrest and prosecute any herder found destroying farmers crops

He said: “We are not here to cause a crisis or to accuse anyone, but to call a spade a spade and proffer sustainable solutions to the problem of nomadic cattle rearing, this issue is not just ravaging our farms, but gradually and steadily turning into assault, robbery and other forms of criminality.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, December 11, commenced a series of national consultations with all relevant groups designed to find a lasting solution to the farmers-herders conflict in parts of the country.

The first in the series of the meetings was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and had in attendance the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II; the Lamido of Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Musdafa; elder statesman, Mallam Ahmed Joda; and other leaders of the Fulani communities.

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