Law to ban moving cattle from North to South needed – Ganduje

Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has spoken on the need to ban moving Cattles from the North to other parts of the country in order to resolve the incessant incidences of clashes between farmers and herders.

Speaking in an interview with journalists after a special lunch the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors had with President Muhammadu Buhari in his Daura private residence in Katsina State at the weekend, Ganduje insisted that having a ban on movement of herders would also address the challenge of cattle rustling in the country.

Fielding questions on how far he had gone with the Ruga project in his state, Ganduje said:  

“We are building a Ruga settlement in Samsosua Forest, our border with Katsina and we have succeeded in curtailing the effect of banditry in that area.

“So, we are building many houses, we are constructing a dam; we are establishing a Cattle Artificial insemination Centre; we are establishing veterinary clinic and already, we have started building houses for herdsmen.

“My advocacy is that we should abolish the transportation or trekking of herdsmen from the northern part of Nigeria to the Middle Belt and Southern part of Nigeria.

“There should be a law that will ban open grazing, otherwise we cannot control the conflicts between herdsmen and farmers and cannot control the cattle rustling which is affecting us greatly.”