Senators fight over grazing land for Fulani herdsmen

L awmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly are divided along ethnic lines on the propriety of a bill seeking to create grazing reserves and routes for Fulani nomads throughout the country.

South-West, South-South, South-East and Middle Belt senators are opposed to their colleagues from the far North on the issue.

While socio-political groups in the South-West, South-South, South-East and Middle Belt oppose the bill, the far North support it, saying it will reduce constant clashes between nomadic Fulani and host farmers.

The Senate, during its July 3, 2012 sitting, was sharply divided when the bill was discussed.

Among other provisions, the bill seeks to establish a National Grazing Reserves Commission, which will have the power to acquire land that will serve as grazing reserves and routes for herdsmen in any part of the country.

Senators who opposed the bill, said it negated the Land Use Act and the principle of federalism. They argued that the matter should be left to state assemblies to decide.

One of the supporters of the bill, Deputy Leader of the Senate, Abdul Ningi, argued that the bill had no conflict with the constitution and the Land Use Act.

He said that the Federal Government had the power to acquire land for the grazing project, just as it could acquire land to build roads across states.

Senate President David Mark referred the bill to the Joint Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters and Agriculture and Rural Development for advice.

But on Thursday, the Federation of Middle Belt People opposed the bill, saying the grazing reserves and routes would create more problems for the country.

The coordinator of the group, Mr. Manasseh Watyil, in an interview with SATURDAY PUNCH, asked, “Where is the Fulani abode? Creating a grazing reserve for the Fulani is like creating trouble. They cannot be pinned down to one place.”

Also, the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, faulted the bill.

Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, told SATURDAY PUNCH in Akure that the herdsmen erred because they deliberately destroyed farmlands across the country without showing remorse.

He said, “I don’t support the bill seeking the Senate’s approval of grazing reserves for Fulani herdsmen in the country; rather, the government and their (Fulani) leaders need to re-orientate them.

“The most painful aspect is that they would not feel remorse after destroying farmlands. The tendency to destroy other people’s lives and property is in their minds and they seem to be deriving special pleasure in doing so.

“Their leaders should give them a fresh orientation. How many grazing reserves do you want to create for them? They will seek another one whenever they feel there is no enough grass again.”

Reacting to the bill, the Secretary, Ijaw National Congress, Mr. Robinson Esitei, said it was absolutely wrong and it should, therefore, be resisted.

The INC secretary said the bill would cause further divisions and crises in the country, stressing that the INC leadership would oppose it.

He said it would be inconceivable for the FG to acquire land belonging to the people for the purpose of cattle rearing.

He said land did not belong to the government, but to the people and could only be acquired with their consent.

He said, “That is absolutely wrong. Land is aboriginal to the inhabitants and owned by the people. 

“If the government acquires any land without the consent and approval of the aborigines, then the government is running an illegal system, contrary to the stipulations of the constitution.

“The people own the land and the aborigines use the land as a means of survival. And if the government wants to use it for developmental purpose, that would be their equity share.

“If you acquire a piece of land from Delta State and you want to use it for cattle rearing, how will it benefit the people? It’s another way of causing division and crisis in Nigeria. The INC vehemently opposes it.”

The President of Izumunna Cultural Association, an Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Prof. Zebulon Okoye, described the grazing reserve bill as unreasonable.

He said the frequent attacks on host communities by Fulani nomads had justified the need for the Senate to reject the bill.

Okoye, in an interview with SATURDAY PUNCH in Jos, said that the constant clashes on the Plateau were only born out of the expansionist tendency of the pastoralists.

He said instead of establishing a grazing reserve for nomads, the FG should settle them in the North, where there are large acres of uninhabited land.

Okoye advised the government to provide amenities such as water and electricity for them.

He said, “From what is happening on the Plateau, it is now clear that a law of that nature is detrimental to other parts of the country, especially the South-East that is land locked.

“If they are doing it in a land that does not belong to them, what happens if such land is legally given to them? They will drive all the people from their homes.

“If they can visit this amount of calamity on Plateau and other places where there had been intermittent clashes between them and the natives, then we wonder what will happen in the South-East.

“This is more so as the majority of the nomads are non-Nigerians, but coming from Mali, Chad, Cameroon and so on.”

He said that the Igbo had experienced the attacks going by the friction between the nomads and the natives in Nsukka area of Anambra State.

Okoye added, “It is a thing of big concern in the South-East and based on the experience we already have in Nsukka area, where they have forcibly taken over land and driven away farmers from the little land they have, we feel strongly that the law will not achieve the purpose for which it is intended.”

But the North’s socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, said the bill was long overdue.

The group noted that the creation of the grazing reserves would greatly reduce the incessant clashes between farmers and the Fulani.

The National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Mr. Anthony Sani, told SATURDAY PUNCH in Kaduna that the country needed a national policy for the development of livestock, which provides meat for consumption and means of livelihood for Nigerians.

He called for reconciliation between Berom and the Fulani in Plateau State.

Sani advised leaders of the two ethnic nationalities to reconcile and forgive each other.

“After all, the two communities had lived peacefully in the past. How they did it in the past should be repeated for common good,” he added.

A former Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said the bill was in order.

He, however, said it could only reduce the clashes between the Fulani and farmers.

Musa stated, “I support it, but there are a lot of problems. In the past, there was a provision for that and it was respected.

“There were grazing reserves and the routes that cattle could follow, but all that have now been abandoned. There is no grazing reserve for the nomads. They always keep fighting with farmers. It (grazing) would reduce the clashes in a substantial way.”

Musa added, “The clashes between the Fulani and the people of Plateau State have nothing to do with grazing. In Plateau, Kaduna and some other states, there is always the issue of political power rivalry.”

According to him, the only way to stop the clashes is for the government to muster the political will to confront the problem.

Backing the bill, the Convener/Chairman of the group of Northern Professionals, Politicians and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, said setting up grazing reserves would curb communal clashes between herdsmen and farmers.

Mohammed, in a telephone interview with SATURDAY PUNCH, accused successive governments, especially in the North, of mismanaging the land issue, using the Land Use Decree as cover.

He said, “The entire North was surveyed aerially and otherwise. And in every state and local government, there were areas set aside – we call them burtali in Hausa, where these herdsmen were allowed to go and graze their animals.

“These people were busy giving the land away. If you go through the archives of the former Northern Nigeria, you will find evidence. These things were not done off hand, they were gazetted.

“So, no one can say that this is anything new. If they don’t do it (pass the bill), they will continue to have problems.

“There was land set aside right from Niger Republic down to Northern Nigeria, I don’t know what happened in the South.

“The land had been surveyed and areas where they were to graze their animals were specified. Even the Fulani themselves know these areas.”

  • Mustiin

    Why all eyes are now on fulanis? And you representative of ifenifere or what so ever you called your godamn ass, fulanis are more oriented than any other tribe in nigeria. Continue treating them in this manner i’m sure they will soon show you their orientation whole over the africa. And for you NINGI more grease to your elbow countinue to fight those realigious, ethnic, and regional bigotes.

    • GeorgianScott

      Yes we already know their orientation, blood letting, stealing, misappropriation of state fund by Fulani leaders in Government and CBN and falsehood, not only in Africa but around the WHOLE world.

    • tom-tom club

      You probably feel every region is Berom that allows fulanis to misbehave.. Pls bring them to south East to mess up.. we will not only eat their cows but their meat too.. Nonsense

  • Peter2000

    This bill is going nowhere. If you cannot graze your cattle in the Northewest/east so be it. No zone in Nigeria will allow you to come rampage through their land in the name of grass for your animals. Try animal husbandry it’s 2012.

  • http://Facebook Emmanuel Ndubuisi

    Mustiin,shut up. Ur name even sound like boko haram. All eyes are on the north becaus they practice religious of violence.,they are murderers,they are socialy and culturaly backward. In fact (de facto)they behave like their cows. If i may ask u where is their abode? They are roamers useless nomads..! I thought the north have vast land mass and what hapen to it? Must they cause their religious problem all over the country? Its like u r a member of boko haram,if u try it in the south,we wil send u people back 2 nijal republic.

    • Hussaini

      softly,ndubuisi you and your ilks do not understand the logic,blinded by sentiments.

      • JPB

        Insaini oga of logic, abeg educate us as to your logic o.

      • chuka

        @Husaini, do u really blame people? They see the death party in the plateau, they see a move to confisticate and appropriate scarce land to seasonal grazers. They see a forcing of the hausa fulanis will on our collective at all cost, they see a manouvering which is blatant and forceful. You must understand that the insecurities people feel are as a result of distrust which they have come to undertsand over time. Supposing it was before a coup would have been possible and the hausa fulani are usually the king pins, therefore dont blame anyone. They see a sudden request for equitable revenue allocation with arewa shouting most, as if the past 35years when the north had predominance they didnt see it was necesary becos the controlled the center so fiercely..Now the table has turned and the norths predorminance has waned over time also our collective mumu has also stopped, we have all wisend up to the usual antics…In fact we are watchful at every skimpy move to force the will of the hausa fulani over the rest of uss, therefore my brother, whose lands will they appropriate? whose family lands do they hope to appropriate. If they find out later that the land has crude oil, will the fulani not insist that its their by right?…Husaini u can see where people are addressing their minds…The long years of domineering attitude has come home to roost

  • Peace Benson Nwaoruruaku

    what kind of nonsense is this? That someone else’s land should be set aside for another to graze his cattle on & someone is saying they’re rearing meat for us. Infact, let them remain in their place & we come to buy cattle when we need, afterall that is how it’s done. We need all the land we can get now in the South East so much that this wouldn’t be welcome here. What’s wrong with all the land in the north? Do we have to take their own land to cultivate our palm trees to produce palm oil? We’ve got much problems from them already{Boko Haram} for this to come up. They had better watch it.

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    • A Yusuf

      @ademobi and peter2000. THE BILL IS NECESSARY 4 PEACE but ONLY PPL WITH 4sight can understand. PLS URE FATHERS LAND WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.

      • GLAd

        yusuf na juju were dey your body dey worry you which peace? animal dont sleep with humans come and see what they do to were my father plant yam in my village . how can a man destroy another mans business in other to succeed for his own

  • http://rand/odre Rand o dre

    Such bills when passed is at detriments of the southern part of the country,it’s like land was forcefully acquired for the fulanis throughout the country and without proper orientation the host community is at risk of constant attack,here in the south we are nt normadic in nature,so is of no benefit to us.such bills shouldnt see light of the day,

  • Nonye

    I’m a cassava farmer and the fed.govt should also set up cassava farming commission that can acquire land for me in the north.There should also be cocoa farming reserve for yoruba people in the north,palm tree plantation reserve for Niger Deltans in Sokoto etc etc.

  • Henry

    If fulani herdsmen need any place to rear their animals, they should negotiate with the host community. The host community can give them where they know that the activities of the herdsmen will not affect their farming. And the host community will give them some of their rules and regulations so that there will be peace between them. But if the federal government give them land then, they will have more temerity, odercity and effrontary to cause more havoc to the nearby communities. Look how Jos people accepted them as brothers they latter turned against Jos people claiming the land. Giving herdsmen land should be left for the owners of the land in good faith with written rules and regulations.

  • Atoyegbeatoyegba

    This is another “Nigeria wonder”.What does dis Hausa/Fulani nomads take this country for?A country of fools or what?They should be told in clear language that trans-humans way of grazing livestock is archaic and outdated.They should be implored to develop grazing pastures for their animals within their states from the vast land they have,we are in scientific age n as such they should go and learn modern livestock breeding from America or Argentina who are the best producers of beef.The NASS should please throw out this obnoxious n antiquated bill that will bring shame to Nigeria as a country that still moves livestocks from pillar to post.What they could not achieve during the jihad days they want to achieve legitimately through “National Grazing Commission Bill”.Nooooo waaayyyyyy!!!!!!!

  • ugochukwu onyenuforo

    What kind of politicians do we have,is a billion dollar ? Bigoted minds. Are the NORTHERNERS all this selfish? Always thinking about themselves.They should wake up please this is year 2k.They should say something that is reasonable,and that could be done to cuddle all.NIGERIA is in wrong HANDS.

  • Nag

    It‘s high time these leeches started asking the southerners to move into the atlantic ocean so they can use our lands to sun-dry their peanuts or maybe build almajiri schools for their future generations.

  • Nag

    If we pay for the beef we consume, why all this silly inconveniencies

  • trueman

    The propositon of this bill shows the level of timidity of the core northern senators. The law makers should reject that miopic and backward-mentality bill,they should rather go to the desert where they will intermingle with their fugitive bros from Mali,Niger,Somali etc. Nigeria is not a home for the Fulanis, they are trouble makers,homeless wonderers and cannibals.

  • jmAn

    Useless bill they should do that in the north do to the vast land we in tHe south says no to the backward yeye bill

  • jmAn

    Useless bill they should do that in the north due to the vast land we in tHe south says no to the backward yeye bill

  • kennedy nwokedi

    it is unacceptable creating lands in south for fulani nomads.

  • Donaldson

    Dats is a useless bill

  • Peter Nwankwo (Dallas,TX)

    The Senator sponsoring this bill is just a clown. He knows that the bill is dead on arrival. The SE, SW, SS, and NC are all against it. They want to acquire other peoples’ land through the FG whereas they have the largest landmass in the nation. They can go graze in the NW and NE. Why can’t the Northern govs. establish cattle ranches for the Fulani nomads? This idea of roaming from North to South destroying other peoples’ crops and farmlands will never be tolerated!

  • albert o

    pls this is unaccetable given our land to this mad people ,hausa and fulani should go back to they people mali and niger

  • Ken

    Please lets give them land in the south. I love suya so much

  • Osifeko Temitayo Samuel

    Whaoo.. This is a bill worth supporting. Infact, its long overdue. Grazing reserves will confine the herders to a portion of grassland thus preventing frequent face-off between the Fulanis and Farm owners. As an Animal Geneticist, we see this Fulanis as a repository of indigenous Animal genetic resource (AnGR).,thus their right should be protected. However, the Ministry of Agriculture should be made to oversee these reserves when established. Enough of these ”mushroom” commissions.
    9ja will survive!!

    • concernednigerian

      @ Osifeko Temitayo Samuel. Very easy to recognise the CPC propagandists from the rufai school of political obfuscation. You’re one of them.

  • YEMI

    The president should use his good position now to allocate land for the Ijaw people along river Niger throughout the country so that the Ijaw fisher men could have enough fishing post????

  • Kayode Salman Banjo

    In colonial times land was demarcated for Fulani herdsmen to graze there cattle. it was a period when cattles were not this many, and the population was abt 36m. Now we are abt 170m where do these northern senators expect the FG to find land i such a a densely populated country, Its about time the Gov educates the Fulani herdsmen abt modern methods of animal ranching etc. Indonesia is a highly populated country like ours with an approximately the same land mass. Using modern methods of husbandry, they have been able to provide the meat required without the internecine battles btw farmers tht seems to accompany the Fulani herdsmen. A single farmer in the Shonga model farms in Kwara state, has abt 800 cattle how does he manage it,how are cattles managed in Indonesia, without strife, these are questioned that most be asked, the old school method of animal husbandry has to be eliminated and and replaced with the modernized method

    • Virus

      You idea is 100% fantastic… I love this, thanks for not being religion or ethinic bigot, Yoruba.. u pple are wise, educated, hospitality and great. Yorubas are to be called Nigeria.

      God bless Nigeria

    • action

      good talk

  • Emma

    Henry, it is better not to accommodate these herdsmen from experience. Do you think that they respect aggreement? Any community that gives them land will surely regret it. The only language they understand is violence. Of what value is human life to them? Look at the Jos experience. I believe it is enough lesson to all.

  • Afe

    ……so fulani want to introduce their religion by force, that is second coming of uthman dan fodio……

  • kadunaman

    A very useless bill 4rm de bit of hell @ mustin u jst a caword dat cannot evn spell
    Religion go 2 skol cattle rearer. De bill is dead aready.

  • Mustiin

    Well done @KEN though u re mth4cker too. They are all babbling here but when they see the suya on tray you will see them all rushing to get it… Bloody coward southerners may God kill the Bad eggs among you for maltreating northerners and trying to split the nation along regional and ethnic line. I bet you even your mumu Gej from s/south would not succeed. God bless one Nigeria and we must graze your kinsmen(animals) in their father’s and brothers region(south)

    • YEMI

      Mustiin, people pay for suya now abi no be so? no body eat free suya, so why will i give my land

  • Truth

    We may start to also set aside some portions of our waterways for the Norwegians and other countries that export fish to Nigeria so that they can come and fish in Nigeria to sell to us. Also, we need to set land aside for the countries exporting chicken and Turkey to Nigeria. I wonder when Nigerian leaders will sit down to do something that will affect the nation positively. What happens to the land in the states owned by the Fulanis or are they totally strangers in Nigeria. They should settle down in their places and stop all this roaming because it will soon get to a point when they will not be allowed to enter some states in Nigeria. It is a matter of blocking their paths to the states using all the means at our disposal. Every tribe knows how to go about protecting her own people and we shall do this when the time comes, we are still making sacrifice now, we shall demand for our own sacrificial lambs when we get there.

    • tunde7

      you are not making sense be reasonable

    • tunde7

      @ truth you are not making sense be reasonable

  • Mustiin

    Well done @KEN though u re mth4cker too. They are all babbling here but when they see the suya on tray you will see them all rushing to get one… Bloody cowards southerners may God kill the Bad eggs among you for maltreating northerners and trying to split the nation along regional and ethnic line. I bet you even your mumu Gej from s/south would not succeed. God bless one Nigeria and we must graze your kinsmen(animals) in their father’s and brothers region(south) lol.

    • chuka

      mustin. see how u used d word kill so loosely……its inborn

  • Mustiin

    @Kadunaman am disapointed in ur comment and am sure u r an impersonator or 4rm souther kaduna soon boko harams will blow ur brain out.

  • Mustiin

    @truth y do u guys always reason from your anus? We ar talking of nigeria. Do u not attend any school that tells you the right of a citizen?

  • The truth

    @mustlin, ur fulani are the major problem of insecurity in the country the best way forward is fulani xtration should be totally obiliterate in nigeria

    • tunde7

      @ truth if you ever eat cow meat again thunder will surely strike you dead bastard!

  • King size

    Pure madness, na wa o, God no allow am come 2 pass i beg o, foollany no good 2 b neighbour o, dem b blood suckers o, d heighest vampeirs, i beg papa God, all d pple wey dey support dat bill, nack dem n dem family apkako 2 their early grave 4 peace 2 raign (ameee ooo)

    • tunde7

      @ king if you and your useless family ever eat cow again mad-cow diease will kill you all.

  • saeed

    mustain well done iam behind u.

    • killer

      mustain or whatsever your name maybe , l ask do you attend school for once ,look at what you are talking about , so hopeless , useless and moreover causing problem for the nation from the way you reason , well you are a cowaed just like the fulani,s and their cattle , no reason for you not to think like a fool you are .

  • Ejiofor

    It is high time lets brake the country into North & South now b/4 the North will over run us.

  • Basiru

    yes this bill must treat with good consideration. It will over come alot.For instance in jigawa over grazing commission solve this case. For the seak of peace Senate please accept this dialogue. For you that always behind religion, regional and ethical bias you will never succeed. I wonder you’re saying some one is not oriented socially, cultural and economically. Let me tell you this Fulani are at every where in Africa unlike you only at one country at one region. Last year UNESCO said by 20 years coming there will no longer any igbo language. It will disappear ever. Do to lack of motivation from even you. And you saying we Fulanis have sociology cultural problem. Remember most of your heroes, elite and prominent people are either born or made money at north. Like Zik, Ojuku,Rochers, owunbodo and many more.

    • killer

      do u pple reason like humans or animals , is nigeria looking farward tobe great or backward tobe fools , how can this kind of bill be passed to the senate house and some hopless senators from the north is supporting it, they can think of something good so that the nation will move farward , they are there messing up themself trying to oppose a stupid law upon another section of the country so that their plan will be actualized bcoz they are good is causing harvok for a nation to be fear, nigeria need to be split off so that they can go to where they belong and past that . Basiru be wise don,t be like your for fathers that reasons through their anus ok.

  • Yusuf Lawali

    Now we know who we fighting with, some people are so myopic, self centered & stupid to say the least; how can a reasonable man oppose a bill that would ensure that the clashes between herdsmen & farmers are resolved.
    Where is the spirit one Nigeria in our subconscious mind?
    I am disappointed with the rest of you so called SOUTHERNERS, & i can’t fathom is what the MIDDLEBETTERS are doing siding with this ingrates.
    This how you SOUTHERNERS want to pays us back for not annihilating between 1967 & 1970. Don’t worry you have call the first shot, lets see how we are going to make progress in this country, BLOODY INFIDELS.

    • XTIAN

      remember this fulani are not nigerians and who and yuh s doing one nigeria thing,no one nigeria breakup is stand,foolish hausa fulani one nigeria in deed cows

  • Samuel

    What you dont have, you dont give out, however,if there is any previous Gazette by the Northern Region Govt. On the surveyed and specialised marked grazing routes for the Normads,then they should produce that Gazette and let the World for the NASS to work on. They should not set this nation on fire due to ethnic ,….

  • Peace Benson Nwaoruruaku

    Mustin or what d’you call yourself, just listen to yourself. You just insulted the President & Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. You even proudly boast that your people must graze your ‘animals’ in our dormain whether we like it or not and you also claim ‘one Nigeria’. Is this not blasphemy, when you people through Boko Haram are sending conflicting signals. Well, you have to know that God has installed & anointed GED to lead & not rule Nigeria, like your people did all these years and there’s no amount of threat from you people that will disorient him, rather it’ll make him stronger. May God forgive you for abusing the people’s President.

  • Samuel

    What you dont have, you dont give out, however,if there is any previous Gazette by the Northern Region Govt. On the surveyed and specialised marked grazing routes for the Normads,then they should produce that Gazette and let the World see. for NASS to work on. They should not set this nation on fire due to ethnic ,….reasons……for somebody to regards the entire South as an ingrate is uncalled for,enough,I pray this is not the Last episode for this day, there will be seperations and better appreciate ourselves.

  • Sunday umoren

    No need to quarrel over grazing land for nomad fulanis herdmen but all those who support the bill should come together, gather all their lands give 2 fulanis in their own states and see how long they will live on earth bcos 4me sure bill is a game plan 2 intensify attacks on d rural masses

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  • Yusuf Lawali

    David Mark as a MIDDLEBETTER you know that we from the CORE NORTH supported your Presidency, so be mindful of how you hit the gavel or your impeachment will be activated & for your information we hold the key to your impeachment. Dare us by continuing licking the ass of GEJ & we will help you to commit a political suicide.

  • Peace Benson Nwaoruruaku

    Yusuf, it’s like you don’t understand what you just said about throwing the first shot. What do you want to achieve through Boko Haram if not disintegration and has there been any reprisal attacks elsewhere? What did your people not do to us between 67/70? Watch your comments.

  • suleiman gar

    @ kadunaman. I don’t know whether in katab language u have this ‘ caward’ but as far as English language is concern we don’t have this word in existence. But maybe you mean ‘coward’ which u failed to spell as u accuse mustiin of not writing ‘religion’ correctly. Religious n tribal bigot!



  • don

    i dont know why people r proud to b evil

  • Samuel-Oluwatosin

    I think it’s clear that Nigeria is never one from most of our comments. Please can someone in the NASS see this and sponsor a peaceful bill of true federalism or total separation of this country. Life is more important than any entity or country.
    Serb and Slovakia
    Ukraine and Russia
    Eritrea and Ethiopia
    Southern&Northern Sudan
    If we can have a peaceful co-existence then lets have a peaceful separation.
    60 yrs is just too much not to understand each other.
    Hhmmmmm ………. I blame the British.

  • Samuel-Oluwatosin

    Serb and Slovakia
    Ukraine and Russia
    Eritrea and Ethiopia
    Southern&Northern Sudan
    If we can’t have a peaceful co-existence then lets have a peaceful separation.
    60 yrs is just too much not to understand each other.
    Hhmmmmm ………. I blame the British.

  • Yusuf Lawali

    If this Seventh Senate succeed in throwing out this Bill, let them know that they have succeeded in opening cans of deadly & poisonous worms, Be Warned!

  • harrison isani

    Quite unreasonable,but also explicable that they are not just looking for some grazzing reserves,rather a hide out from their crises riggen region.

  • Samuel-Oluwatosin

    I love Nigeria ………. Hhmmmmm
    But I love my life more.
    I won’t be able to sleep well knowing fully well that some fulanis are grazing at my back-yard.
    Pls I don’t hate them but I saw their brutal killings and even escape it while I was a corp member in Jos.

  • IG

    @Yusuf Lawal, tell me what do you think you and your savage people can do.You are still dwelling in the past when you people were over pampered and spoiled simply because your people were in power. Am not surprise because your comments really show that you reason like a spoilt child fed with the combined milk of cow and sheep.
    Now tell me fool, which people are you threatning? For your info the Niger Delterns alone would be too hot for the whole core north to combat talk more of the South East that can give you sweet defeat without foreign intervention.Now, the Middle Belt is gradually joining the list of your enemies.You have dug your own graves, FOOLS!!!
    Unfortunately for you, you have shot yourselves on the foot by creating tension between you and the rest of the country with your dogs(boko haram) and baboon(fulani hersmen) and that has already signed your social,economic and political death warrant.

  • Frank

    When will the cattle Fulani be mad to join their town counterpart, be civil and socially integrated in the society. Our northern senators should be agitating for how cattle rearing can be modernized like those seen in th haciendas and ranches of South American countries.
    Fulani herds men in my South West village alone had committed unprintable assaults. Deliberating laws that will make any people roaming primitively in a modern world is unacceptable.

  • Ochie joseph

    With this latest development we now know the zones that truely belong to Nigeria:South-south,southeast,southwest and northcentral.But am still sceptical of an afenifere man.Gone were the days of hausa/fulani political hegemony in this country.If you take my father’s land as you have taken that of south-south and give it to an ungrateful fulani,what will happen to hausa/fulani large hectares of land in the north? These people are desparately looking for a way of perpetuating their togetherness with the rest of the country,because they think that they are doomed without Nigeria.Government should take over cattle rearing from these evil fulani tribe for generation of more revenues as they(govt) have taken over the nigerdelta oil.Both are the gifts of nature.That is the only way to drive hausa/fulani out of nigeria back to chad.

  • gboza

    Wow, are they still supposed to be Nomads in this century? The money going to the North is enough to ensure a modern approach to livestock rearing that does not include wandering about.Why cant we think well in this country. Say no to GRAZING BILL. It is an insult.

  • Northernthinker

    Western education has given many fools the privilege to see beyond their noses but they can’t reason with the brain in their heads rather they reason with the kidney in their stomach. Our Senators frm far North have gone gaga, Stupid bill. You will b killd 1 by 1 by ur frustrated Boko Haram.

  • truth-seekers

    Nigeria be wise


    Then, the fishermen from Ijaw land can do his fishing, even up to Arugungu, river unchecked; not paying tax to the states. Those that muted the idea of ”grazing without borders” must be pursuing an ethnic/selfish agenda. I think it is high time, Nigerians are permitted to carry arms, for self defense.

  • Okobia michael

    When will the hausa/fulani stop creating problems for Nigeria. Whose land in the south does Abdul Ningi want to give to the fulani barbarians?. They can do so in the north since they have large land mass. Why should Nigeria, especially the north continue to be primitive in all things?. This is the 21st century for Gods sake! Argentina , USA, Germany, Britain , Indonesia are among the worlds largest producers of beef, they do not follow cows from place to place messing up the towns with cow dungs. The senate committee should go to these countries to understudy modern animal breeding methods, establish such for cattle rearers and stop creating endless crises for Nigeria .

  • Davy Kongi

    Well our dear readers are divided along regional lines. I think the grazing corridor thing is in order. While growing up i used to see the signs “cattle routes” along highways. It was done in the 60’s and it worked. I dont agree however that we need grazing reserves for them anywhere except amongst their brothers in the far north cos anything else will be akin to taking scarce land through the back door in favour of the fulani. I also dont think there shoul be a whole commission for this. The resources in yhe surveyor generals office and other agencies can pool resources together and get this thing done by refering to the old cattle route maps as reference.

    A long term solution is a change in lifestyle of the fulani which wouldnt happen over night so this has to be a stop gap measure while the fulani are educated on shedding this normadic lifestyle afterall must of us were not born this way.


    I am sure this is an agenda by the boko harams and their cohorts/sponsors, to penetrate all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria. They better be advised that Some Nigerians are smarter than they think they are. This bill must mot even pass any reading stage. Otherwise, Nigeria is trying to” hold and press the tail of a cobra”. Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • osondu ekene

    Fulani people HAVE NO RIGHT AND SHOULD HAVE NOT RIGHT TO LAND EXCEPT IN THEIR STATE AND NORTH.They should be given land in Hausa land and in the north ALONE.THEY HAVE NO RIGHT FOR ANY PORTION OF LAND OUTSIDE THEIR NORTHERN STATES.How can A SANE PERSON ASK FOR FULANI TO BE GIVEN RIGHT TO PEOPLES LAND?It is absurd and shameful for socalled senator to ever bring such proposal in the first place. Gone are the days of following animal in the cow like Fulanis are doing.It is symbol of BACKWARDNESS AND IGNORANCE AND NIGERIANS MUST EXTRICATE THE NATION FROM SUCH DEHUMANIZING BEHAVIOUR.There is no room for any portion of land to be given to Fulani people outside the homes in nothern Nigeria.It is okay for the whole bnorth to live with them. WE IGBOS DPO NOT WANT FULANI THEY SHOULD PLEASE VACATE ALL EASTERN STATES.THEY RAPE WOMEN IN THE BUSH AND DESTROY FARM CROPS.The raped women in the bush in Imo state and women protsted and blocked Enugu PH express way.The raped women again In Enugu state and boys fought them, THESE PEPLE ARE PESTILENT FELLOWS AND IMMORAL.WE IGBOS DO NOT WANT THEM.

  • Kalu J. Okafor

    Wonders shall never end. You mean a useless, coconut head senator, called Abdul Ningi woke up from the left hand side of himself and brought cow droppings to the senate as a bill? This is a so-called senator that must have traveled to so many countries including the main exporters of beef and other animal products. In how many of those countries are people asked to give away their land for herdsmen to graze their animals for free. Do the land owners not buy beef and other animal products from the cattle owners and butchers with money they make from farming on their land? Do Fulanis share beef for free? This is an insult that reconfirms the hidden agenda of these Hausa/ Fulanis. Conquer Nigeria to the Atlantic ocean. They are doubtful about achieving this through Boko Haram. Hence, another laughable ploy. Please teach Fulanis how to rear their animals in ranches as is done in all responsible countries. There is enough land for them to develop into ranches in the far north. They can now send those Nigeriens and Chadians among them back to their countries. The north is scarcely populated with large land mass. Merge some of the northern states and give the freed areas to the Fulanis.

  • Concerned citizen

    It is unfortunate that everything whether laudable or otherwise in this clime is viewed poltically. With the over abundant fallow land in the northern part of the country why making issue like this a NASS issue. For God sake this is something states lagislator can handle successfully without blowing it over.

  • DR VET

    As a southerner,living in the north for three decades now,I think the bill (may be good intention ed) . However,the realities of 21st Century makes it a rather ridiculous Bill! The solution is Simple,The Fulani should be reorientated , they should restrict their nomadism to within d 19 nothern States. If they like they may sell one cow 1million naira,that’s their business. But to expect any one from the south to give up land just because some nomads REFUSE to indulge in MODERN animal Husbandry practice is abosolutely and utterly WRONG. the senators are only playing to the gallery. Instead they should encourage these men to MODERNIZE. All their arguements are just crap. Would they give up their lands assuming the case was reversed? I think not.

  • Ochie joseph

    Serves the southern nigeria right since they don’t want to speak with one voice, despite their level of “sophistication” and “volume” of oil.

  • http://cylla'sworld cylla

    My question is this, why is it that anywhere fulanis are there is always troubles and killing . The worst thing is that federal government is backing them up. that give moral to kill at will. Since the federal government always back them up and not the interest of the whole nation @ heart. I think is high time we answer our fathers name

  • ola

    this show the type of people that is elected to the national assembly. The hole world is moving with large scale agriculture and they are traying to take us backward.
    cant they learn mordern day of breading animals?? must they move around with the animal from one place to another? ok the nigerian land mark is favourable to the north why did they need more land in the south?? very soon they will take up arms and demand that we provide lands for them through out the country.

  • Inlo2k2

    I jst pray that the SW,SE,SS nd MB senators will stand their grounds nd refuse any form of enticement to betray the ppl of their regions………The desert encroachment in d north is as a result of overgrazing by these normads. Now they have finished d grasses in d north nd want to head south with their troubles……..i suport the bill on the basis that the reserves will be created in the core North………….

  • frankprof

    This bill is already dead on arrival cos no human being with sound mind dat wil give his/her land 2 dose blood sucking demons called fulani herdsmen.Those sponsoring dis bill r doing so out of selfishness & they should ve their heads re-examined.

  • Abdul-aziz

    w have many colleges of animal husbandry,plant and crop science and faculty of animal science in many universities in nigerian i wonder why we still have nomadic way of life,if the fulani cannot educated due to their ignorance then the government should empower graduates of animal husbandry by giving them land and resources rather than this useless bill they are proposing

  • naekwu

    D bill is rubbish. We wil nt let dem steal 4rm peter 2 settle paul(fulani). To give them education, u wander afta them, to treat their cattle u sill follow them. It’s time they make some sacrifice nd learn modern methods of animal husbandry. This northern expansionist idea wil not work!! We wil not create a base 4 boko haram.

  • Mutiu

    This is simply the re-birth of the expansionist agenda of their forefather,Othman dan Fodio.This is how one of the many Books I have read about the Fulani People describes them‘‘….. they are a very vicious and dangerously cunning tribe‘‘ My People don‘t let us cry over a split milk! There are thousands of ways to drive out a Fulani Man in your area without firing a shot or confronting him ! I promise You he will simply run away if You know just one of these ways. Earthworms can never survive in salty water ! It is impossibe.

  • Camp Israel

    Useless northern politicians! They tried it in my hometown and we forced them out. Let them go and search for land elsewhere…thieves!

  • jmAn

    Yusuf u are a coward wat will the north do useless people parasites lazy idiots

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  • Ochendo

    I will always fault the foolish arguements by our ‘brothers’ from the far north.most of their reasonings are premised on religion.hear ningi-the same way federal govt acquire lands for building roads.let me ask – whose land would be acquired.well the senate should not waste their time passing any bill that will not be enforced.sponsors of this bill must know that fulani cattle rearers are engaged in their personal economic enteprise and therefore another man’s land cannot be given up to promote fulani trade.they settled in jos on their own and today mayhem everywhere.what will happen when they are told the federal govt has ‘willed’ certain lands to them.if this is done I can tell you that if a fowl in the host community enters the grazing land these fulanis by their orientation will start killing people.the truth that must be told is that they do not deserve to be anybody’s neighbour period.

  • Mr nwabueze

    The bill goes a long way to show who are the sponsors of Boko haram and the fulanis

  • kemi

    What we are. Experiencing now is as a results of gowan mistake in first instance we shouldn’t have become one with this Pple. ,they are. Pple with. Special need they don’t reason like us. They are not social ,they have no value for human life ,even if u are desame religion with it doesn’t matter. So long. U are not housa /fulani pls. is high time to allow this pple to be on their own so they practice their butchery. On their family or their cow so that innocent. Lives can be spared

  • Dayo

    I think all the state Governors in the south should set up their own Cattle Ranches, and pass a law that will make it illegal for anybody to keep cow in the bush or within the enviroment. With this all the fulani problems of killing people b’cos of cow will stop. Nobody keeps cow in the bush or street of developed countries.

  • Musa

    Give fulani one acre of land in one year theyr become one milion and one milion problems to the community. Reference to what is happening in JOS. Normal human being should have community that he/she can believe and trust. Where is the peace in Jos and what is the factor. Beware, your house may be next target.

  • Yusuf Lawali

    @IG, Stop deluding yourself & giving your ass Dutch Courage cos when the chips are down we’ll know who would be left standing. For your information, there is no single trust among you stupid three zones; The South-east do not trust the South-west, neither do The South-west trust The South-east, The South-south with their Crude oil do not trust both The South-east & South-west cos they know that your sole interest in them is because of their Crude oil, you cannot rely on The Middle-belterns cos when the chips are down they will run back to their Master & Benefactor with their tail between their legs for protection & patronage.
    So you see in actual sense you are alone.
    As for the rest of you making stupid statements about; going to Argentina, Netherlands etc to learn how livestock are being reared in the 21st century, is it only the livestock rearing you wants to copy from the Western worlds, how about their other infrasstructural facilities & their entire civilize monumental achievements? FOOLS! wake up & face reality cos you are still living in Eldorado.

    • abiodun johnson

      @Yusuf Lawali,
      Your empty threat will be tested when the real chip actually falls, is it you, a twitted northerner that should insinuate doom?
      Remember the civil war?
      The northern army with all the benefits and backing of Nigerian military hardware couldn’t defeat less armed Biafrans,
      I can only blame Ojukwu for drawing the south west into the war only to end the war.
      What the north couldn’t achieve in 3 years came to an end within months of west involvement.
      Your thinking is obsolete and deluded.

  • Akanimo Edet

    Just imagine! They have taken our oil. Now they want our land for grazing!!!

  • Watchful Eyes

    Yes, grazing area only in the North and not only that they should be restricted only to grazing in the North, all this their misadventure to the South MUST be stopped NOW. The bill is in order only if it has the above stated clauses in it, otherwise away with it….utter rubbish, so they now want to colonise and legally extend their killing and destrucive spirit on those in the South in the name of reserved land. Fa fa fa cattle, sorry fowl!

  • ikon2030

    I met one hausa/fulani man in GHANA ,I had a chat with him about NIGERIA
    He said the will never allow IGBOS /YORUBAS to come together because the intend to
    rule over us and control the resources in the south.
    so my advice to southern tribes is this,Let us come together as one family forget about our
    differences that is the only way southerners can survive in nigeria
    this problem between YORUBAS/IGBOS is design by hausa/fulani to rule over us and enslave us and our children’s
    I beg IGBOS /YORUBAS to come together for the sake of our future generations at list we are not killing each other in the south,we cohabit together in peace
    Hausa /fulani is killing our people creating problems for our future

  • Okobia michael

    Hear the fulani fool yusuf lawali talk of not copying civilized achievements front the advanced countries, north and south nigeria who is making more effect to copy civilization? .who has more universities, factories, film actors, modern musicians, medical doctors, engineers, professor? Is it not the south?. The southerner want to advance to the 21st century world view, while the primitive hausa/fulani want to move back into the 7th century Arabian sharia world!. Here now the southerners are suggesting modern animal husbandry practice but you want to remain backward as always, following cattle about.

  • augustus

    One wonders what our brothers in the core North take us for in the South. Fools!
    They will always want to have the best of two worlds. Are Southerners allowed to live in peace without let or hinderance in the North? Are the Southerners not hounded, killed, maimed, and their properties destroyed from time to time by their hosts? Yet, Northerners are allowed to live without let or hindrance in the South and they still behave with impunity killing, stealing the land of their hosts in the name of grazing land, and destroying properties.
    Everyday, the need to have a national conference or dialogue stares us more and more in the face as a nation, unless we want to deceive ourselves. Issues like some people forcibly trespassing on some other people’s land for grazing of animals make the need urgent more than ever before.
    Nigerians need to discuss and agree how the various ethnic nationalities want to live with one another. This would guarantee lasting peaceful coexistence.


    This is the last straw that may break the camel’s back.This may the spark that will ignite the already fueled inter-racial situation.

  • Uk

    Hussaini or whatever u call urself, what logic?

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  • Uzo

    Stupid proposal from stupid ppl. If d entire core north can not contain dem let dem go bk to Chad an Niger where they came from. If they allow dat bill no cattle will be reared in SS/SE unless SW.

  • wise

    Why are creatting problem for ourselves? these pple are not nigerian they are from chad, niger, somalia etc. The only thing our leaders specialist to do is to steal nigeria money to esterblish in anoder country as they esterblish refinary in niger. They will not think of how to move nigeria forward. Send them back to their country b4 they destroy our country.

  • Miller

    Mustin and co may thunder strike u down and perish in lake of fire and ur cow. Animal in human skin people

  • Uk

    Augustus, u are on the right track. Fulanis, graze ur cows in ur northern states. You are very troublesome. In Enugu, Ebonyi, Cross river, Benue, Oyo, Plateau states etc, fulanis have caused a lot of havoc. The north have a large expanse of land, d shld limit their movement to the north.

  • omot cadet

    To hell with the north and ur animals . I think it’s time for this country to break up . Nigeria is a fail project bcos noone can force his culture on anyother person .

  • Otitoju

    Cry as much as you want in the South, the Hausa / Fulani oligarchy seems to have more sense and proactive on what they want than all of you Yorubas and Ibos put together. Your forefathers think Hausa/Fulani are mumus, but later events are proving otherwise. This forward-thinking Hausas/Fulani tribes know that oil wells will dry up, they are preparing for the future of their livestock industry which can, with the vast irrigated arable land in the North (for commercial farming) sustain them. After all; past and present Nigerian governments have killed the manufacturing sector.

    Instead of empty noises, persuade their leaders to embrace modern husbandry practices where animals are curtailed and good pastures provided for in their neighborhood.

    It is high time other tribes also developed their agricultural and mineral resources within their domains using the apparatus of their state and local governments instead of everyone competing in how to loot the government treasuries.

  • objective

    It is easy to see why meaningful discussions are hard. The northerners support the bill, the rest of the country oppose it. So much sentiments and we loose sight of the essence. The only professional in that field Osifeko Temitayo Samuel’s expert opinion was dismissed by almost all the readers.

  • Uk

    Ken, u are simply a glutton. One day, u’ll eat one of their poisoned. To hell with their cow & their suya, beef, kpomo, shaki etc.

  • Uk

    Ken, u are simply a glutton. One day, u’ll eat one of their poisoned suya. To hell with their cow & their suya, beef, kpomo, shaki etc.

  • Okobia michael

    The governors of the south should stop paying lip service to agriculture and seriously take up the hausa fulani challenge . They should establish cattle ranches all over the south, inport high breed cattles from Argentina ,USA, Brazil, Britain etc and employ the numerous graduates of agriculture ( animal husbandry) that abound in this region to man these ranches.. These imported cattle would serve as the parent stock for more cattle that they will breed.. With the practice of this modern method, the south in a little time will be self sufficient in its cattle need. How can civilized people depend on the fulani savages for their beef supply?. The south south can supply the nations rice needs by taking swamp rice farming seriously. Desert people can not beat lush, evergreen forest people in agriculture!.the south is already self sufficient in palm oil, cassava,melon,, okra plantain, orange etc , , it should branch out to other crops.

  • Dapo Akilo

    We need to create Ijaw fishing settlements in Argungu and Lake Chad??

  • Uk

    Mustiin, all eyes are on d fulani cattle rearers cos d are bloodsuckers, troublesome, tresspassers, rapists etc, u must be a MORON if u don’t know that. GOD WILL JUDGE U ALL(d sponsors & supporters of d nonsense bill)

  • Fahad

    Isn’t dis better 4 d developmnt of our country in term of security

  • Hellary

    The SW, have you seen what Ojukwu saw four decades ago. Gidieon Orka was another visionary person that saw the need to remove the core north from Nigeria but the rest of the south didn’t buy their ideas. Now you can see that this northerners know what they are doing. It will become increasing difficult to remove this sore wound from the rest of the healthy body.

  • suleiman gar

    @ okobia. It seems u are ignorant of what farming is. For ur information conducive weather and good climatic condition are paramount in successful agriculture which d south lacks. Furthermore, where is d land in d south? You are indeed lacking abundant land for farming and husbandry.

    • JPB

      so don’t come to our small land abi!

  • Dapo Akilo

    @MR Suleiman do not talk about what you don’t know The UK where I live is about the size of the Western Region and produces several times more cattle than all of Nigeria put together. Even in sub zero temperatures they still produce well.The secret is KNOWLEDGE and TECHNOLOGY not ignorance and DOGMA. Cattle are mammals just like human beings and will do well in similar conditions.The main threats to cattle in the south are vector borne diseases which have largely been conquered in Argentina and Brazil similar weather conditions to southern Nigeria.As we speak the Amazon forest is being cleared daily for ranches. In fact because of greater water security in the south it is better if correct measures are taken to tackle zoonoses such as trypanosomiasis and Foot and Mouth disease.

  • Dapo Akilo

    Genetic modification and enhanced breeding techniques can produce a variety of cattle and sheep varieties that do well under different conditions.e.g Norther goats do not do well in the south and easily succumb to tetanus after minor injuries or bites while the native goats have natural immunity.There is no law that says cattle farming in the south MUST use breed from Northern Nigeria

  • Dr. Greg

    The truth is that the fulani herds men have betrayed the trust of previous host communities, they’ve gone many steps above the initial guidelines being allowed them, they expanded their hold and went further killing the children of those ancestors who innocently borrowed them parts of their farm lands for grazing purposes for an agreed period of time just because there were no legal (written) documents to these agreements then. The people of plateau and Bornu have learnt a lot from this, also, others all over Nigeria and even worldwide have come to realize the dangers involved in being too kind, though some people appreciate those who’ve ever helped them, but the Fulani,s indeed bit the same fingers that fed them even when some other middle belters refused to concede any part of their land to them then, they forgot too soon or maybe their fore fathers never really explained to them well. The present lack of trust is as a result of the present blood letting and sucking terrorizing regime of the fulani people who fail to realize their origin (Mali, Niger, Chad) and begin to push further into the mainstream of the Nigerian economy. Moreover, grazing has overtime been phased out of animal husbandry techniques as population and expansion theorists have pertained, modern methods needs to be practiced and we can borrow a clue from Australia and New Zealand. I strongly believe that the Fulanis would stop these attacks if and when the govt provides a genuinely lasting solution to their grazing needs since they are very emotional with their animals and they can do ANYTHING for the sake of these beasts, but honestly, this bill should be discouraged in totality.

  • Wale

    I guess I should quickly own some cows so they can give me some land in the North. Who ever initiated that bill has a foresight problem, people are turning to mechanized farming you are there promoting chaos. Instead of educating them on modern ways or rearing cattle you want to create grazing reserve for them and to compare it to the federal govt allocating land for road is poor thinking… How does a grazing reserve helps the host community?

  • Asherubote

    This is a disguised way by the fulanis to expand and legitimise their evil hegemony on Nigerians.The rest of the country must come together to defeat this bill.One shouls ask the fulanis:are cattle not reared in europe,america,asia etc?Do cattle rearers in these places constitute themselves into nuisance as the fulanis do in west africa? The fulanis should stop leaving in stone age .They sholud mordernise their way of doing things.In any case if any should be reserved for them it can only be in heir geo-political zones.

  • Okobia michael

    Suleiman Gar, you are an ignorant fulani . How many states have you visited in the south?. From lagos to calabar, a distance larger than many independent countries is mostly virgin forest. In the first republic when the oil madness has not come, all the regions depended on agriculture , today one of the largest rubber plantations in w Africa is in delta sta,te, the same with oil palm plantations. The cassava, plantain, ,oranges, grap, melon, okra, pineapple , yellow yam consumed in the country, do they come from the north,? You sit dawn in you desert village and say that there is no farming land i the south! . The s south alone has enough land to flood the whole Africa with swamp rice if our govenors can be serious. Can the southern climate not be condusive to modern cattle farming as i suggested, then why are the fulani looking for grazing land in the south?. Travel is part of education, visit the south and see for your self if you desert people are better farmers!.

  • Dapo Akilo

    quite simple if the south is not conducive we do NOT need this legislation??

  • josef dan

    Are the fulanis looking for where to establish their emirates or grazing land?Don’t they have grazing land where they come from in nortwest and northeast?
    what they are asking for can they do it for anybody?These are people who do not tolerate others.
    whoever that moved this motion is not in tune with morden reality,this is business,if you want to feed your cattles you have to buy fodder for them or you buy a pice of land for them and pay tax to the state govt.
    I dont’t blame these people but our so called elite who do not think but have allowed these blood thirsty people to kill our people b/c of fulanis cattles.
    State govt make laws banning the grazing of cattles on peopl’s land,if you want to rear cattles you must have a cattle range and pay tax,b/c this is pure business.
    these fulanis are cheat and insentitive,instead of condeming their demonic act,they are looking for free land for their fellow men to feed their cattles.BASTARDS.
    I hope Gowon and Awolowo have seen their mistakes,GOD BLESS OJUKWU whever he is.

  • ugbede

    No long thing, the bill is very good. let these grazing land be alloted to them in their states. why the fuss? Apart from kwara states we dont have fulani in any state starting from plateau down ward. To me, what those senators that are opposed to bill should do is to seek amendment to the bill on where and where this land should be given. let me ask this question, how are the cattle rearers in Niger and sudan surviving? Do they need to go to Benue or plateau to graze for survivals? No. These fulanis should learn to use the land in their states and see whether the so called Hausa crop farmers would allow them destroy their land.

  • puri

    This is like giving these poeple license to rob nigerians, the fulanis have the largest population of armed robbers in nigeria, they dont just graze farmlands they attack innocent travellers who are unlucky to cross thier part while traveling.


    These FULANIS’ herdsmen are business men just like any other Nigerian doing his legimate business and earning incomes. Why should Federal Government concern herself with issue of providing grazing zones for their stocks at the expense of other Nigerian farmers doing their businesses. I think Government get rid of this excess lagguage on governance just pilgrims welfare boards and host of others. If the FULANIS’ herdsmen really want to remain in business, let them buy expanse ariable land in the middle belt and culivate to feed their cattles without encroaching on another persons property. Enough is Enough. Thank you.

    • tony are

      Well said. All hausa/fulani know is grant or subsidy not a decent day work !

  • Kunle

    This is just a legal way of introducing BOKO HARAM across d country, every region have its agricultural products wch shud be develop in d region and den exported to d oda regions.

  • Amb. Ogunlade Sunday Sope

    Creating grazing land for nomads the south is like creating training ground for BOKO HARAM in the south.

    • tony are

      Kai, Ambassador! U can say better than that

  • tony are

    If these NASS northern members can get their heads from their rear ends they will know that there are better effificient way of cattle rearing. They should start modernizing these blood thirsty fulanis farming method. They can farm grass and take the grass to the cattle not the way around they are doing now.

  • Simeon

    I doubt if the Nigerian Senate is actually in the 21st century. I want to believe that this bill was allowed to be discussed at all to allow the proponents have freedom of speech. Now that the proponent’s name has been publicized, I believe the Senate now knows that:
    1. It’s time this bill should be rephrased to be in line with a 21st century perspective.
    2. That selfish and parochial bills should never ever be brought to the hallowed chambers.
    3. That simple Economics explains that the entrepreneur sources the resources needed to establish and maintain his business.
    5. That should govt intervene in subsidizing resources, it shouldn’t be at the detriment of the original owners and so Peter must not be robbed to pay Paul especially the Southern lands that are fully occupied, making farmers to cultivate them yearly instead of 7years of fallow. This has made output so low that it cannot support the farmers for basic need for food and shelter not to talk of selling the produce to have money for speculative/precautionary purpose.
    6. If the southerners have been scavenging as the nomads are roaming uncontrollably, the South would have had more chaos than is presently seen in Jos.
    7. That these herdsmen need to devise ways of rearing cattle in the reserves created for them in the vast uninhabited lands of Northern Nigeria using improved ways of managing ranches to reflect a 21st century way of rearing cattle.
    8. That the illicit manner and pleasure herdsmen derive in seeing their cattle graze in people’s farm and destroy food crops is the reason they are not welcome by other communities. Putting a law in any manner is to justify their callous behaviour.
    8. That if they have refused to live in harmony with their neighbours in Jos, granting them access to other peoples’s farmlands is a call to carelessly spread violence, the nature of the herdsmen accross the southern states.
    8. With the degradation already going on in the oil producing and money generated from the same being used to sustain the north, additional insult should not be added to injury by contemplating this bill which shows that these senators are yet to give the security of the country a good thought. As these herdsmen are allowed to carry weapon which they use to unlease mayhem on host communities, everyone would be pushed to having weapons for self defence, an incidence that have made even the army to be unable to restore peace in the Plateau and other northern states. The northern senators must therefore seek more modern ways of rearing cattle as scavenging is a forgotten history in d 21st century man.

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  • Dapo Akilo

    Let them tell us whether they will create WALLOWING RESERVES for Pig farmers in Sokoto

  • Dapo Akilo

    Or relocate Ijaw fishermen to ARGUNGU

  • joseph

    The solution is very simple because land belong to individual family in the country. State government local and private should embark in husbandry modern means of breed livestock. The few northern lawmaker propose the bill should be ashamed . What stop the bill to pass all these years the simple answer was that the bill was senseless, and lack merit in many ways. Personally, i dissagree the notion that all northern polititician agreed with this unpopular senseless bill proposing southern land should be given up to Hausa/ Fulani was an insault on the south and those northerner lawmakers involve should apologize to the south. It does not matter if the whole northern lawmakers support the senseless bill. What the northern law maker need to do. firstly, gave up all the land in the north to the so call fulani to breed herds or embark on modern way of husbandry and stop rearing livestocks across states frontiers.Over the years the federal government budget on agricultural development mostly goes to the north and should had not been used the resources very wisely. Nigeria claim to be giant of Africa some times you woder the irrelevances of coverage in the national news and debate .Somtimes i read other African news Ghana Government as an example always debate how to progress and move the country forward not to mention other african countries like South Africa, Senegal. I call on the Northern politicians to disengage from pulling the country backward and engage on something that would harmonised the coexistience of the country. Hanging on to Polititcal offices had done more harm to the north than any part of the country and the northern lawmakers should seat back and let the best qualified candidate run the country and this was what democracy meant for.The era of corruption and hand out is coming to an end in the country. .Zoning political offices is very detriment to nigeria development.Its time Nigeria learn from the past mistakes . No Nigerian with rightful mind think the current unslaught in part of Nigeria had anything to do with the senseless propose unpopular bill which would not pass anyway. The law maker and government should be addressing how to create condusive environment to jobs creation.

  • tunde7

    all of you that are talking rubbish if you ever eat cow from the north again thunder will strike you dead try it and see! ungrateful idiots.

  • Dapo Akilo

    we eat so many things apart from cows and all those who produce them use their own land so why is cow special??.
    Nation building is about discussion and debate not invoking thunder to strike people.Perhaps the challenge of civil debate is overwhelming for your cognitive infrastructure?
    Why not stick to your comfort zone

  • Edwyn1 Nigeria

    @youself(Yusuf), you are just an idiot and a big fool at that.Through all your comments you have been sowing seed of disintegration and breakup.

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  • joshua

    So this idiotz ve finished destroying peoples farms,killin innocent pple,now they even ve the mind to tell nigerians dat dey need land for breeding dia herds….wat nonsense,the fulanis r trouble makers,giv dem a lil breathing space nd you will 4 ever regret it…am a notherner nd a living witness of dere destructions….dey invaded my village wit guns nd frm oll indication, dis assholez were hired by sme1 nd to God be d glory,non of dem excaped… r jst lukin 4 mre pple to kill nd mre states to cause chaos pls beware….

  • Ddon23

    The simple truth is that the fulanis should be thaugth the modern way of animal hunsbandary. This will totally stop this their inhuman and barbaric behaviour.since they will nt roam about again. Stop d bill it useless an it will cause more crises.

  • Simeon

    I am sure the sponsors of this bill are those that bring irrelevant arguments to the floor of d senate. Any enlightened person from these herdsmen should go and enlighten them as they have caused too much havoc to the country at large for that group to exterminated from the Nigerian entity.

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