The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, suggested on Saturday that a stakeholders’ meeting be convened to find an enduring solution to the recurring clashes between herders and farmers across the country.
Tinubu, in a statement on the crisis, said the proposed meeting should have in attendance state governors, senior security officials, traditional rulers, religious leaders and representatives of herders and farmers.
He noted that attendants must “hammer out a set of working principles to resolve the crisis.”
There should also be a follow-up meeting in each state, called by the governor to “refine and add flesh to the universal principles by adjusting them to the particular circumstances of their states.”
The statement read in part, “…I recommend the federal government convene a meeting of state governors, senior security officials, herder and farmer representatives, along with traditional rulers and religious leaders. The purpose of this meeting would be to hammer out a set of working principles to resolve the crisis.
“After this meeting, governors of each state should convene follow-up meetings in their states to refine and add flesh to the universal principles by adjusting them to the particular circumstances of their states.
“In addition to religious and traditional leaders and local farmer and herder representatives, these meetings shall include the state’s best security minds along with experts in agriculture (livestock and farming), land use and water management to draw specific plans for their states.”
