Farmers-Herders Crisis: Okechukwu Backs Malami Proposal For Commission

Director General of Voice of Nigeria and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu has endorsed the proposal by the Hon. Attorney General of the Federation (HAGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, for the establishment of a Pastoral Commission as a solution to the farmers-herders crisis in the country.

Okechukwu who spoke with journalists in Abuja Sunday, on the controversial Herders/Farmers crisis commended Malami for his idea of setting up the Pastoral Commission nationwide, as an antidote to the farmers-herders menace, which has polarised the country more than any other issue since the end of the civil war in 1970.

According to the VON boss, the crisis between farmers and herders is a ‘National Security Question’, threatening the unity of the country and must be contained as a matter of urgent national importance, to avert a possible national suicide.

He maintained that the recommendations made by Malami contained some pragmatic solutions, capable of consigning the raging menace to the dustbin of history, thereby offering the country a new lease of life. 

“May I commend Abubakar Malami SAN, the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation (HAGF) for his profound idea of setting up Pastoral or Livestock Commission nationwide. Methinks it is a pragmatic community-oriented solution, aimed at diffusing, cushioning and stopping the intractable menace of Farmers -Herders crisis in our dear country.” Okechukwu said.

“Am in league with HAGF recommendations, for it properly defines the Farmers-Herders Crisis for what it truly is – National Security Question. It is a National Security Question because it had polarised and divided the country more than any other issue since after the civil war. It has more or less rubbished all the good works of President Muh Buhari, GCFR and profiled him negatively.”

Asked of the appropriateness of federal government funding Herders when they’re private business, Okechukwu quipped, “In finding answers, one is happy to remark that the recommendations of HAGF contain some pragmatic answers.

“The query of the appropriateness of the federal government funding herders, who are private farmers, didn’t deflate this solution. For those who pose this question failed to note that the herders had dangerously disrupted crop farmers, and on the other hand farmers rustled cattle, before we count uncountable lives lost and our dear countrymen polarised and unnecessarily at daggers drawn.”

He insisted that the farmers-herders crisis is a National Security Question, which placed our dear fatherland in a cliff-hanger and therefore, as a matter of urgent national importance, must be contained.

Okechukwu regretted that the menace has subsumed the milestones legacies achieved by President Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution, Railway revolution and other infrastructural projects.

Reminded that what Malami said is Pastoral Commission not Livestock, he said, “I prefer Livestock Commission. Please consider the substitution of name to Livestock Commission in line with change of syntax, not meaning. For a careful analysis of HAGF profound speech shows that he had moved far away from just addressing Farmers-Herders Crisis from purely theoretical perspectives often devoid of reality and synchronization with stakeholders to National Security Question.”

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