The new Ministry of Livestock Development was established by President Tinubu, who was praised by Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, national president of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore.
Bodejo asked the federal government to help the Fulani herders in an interview with The Sun by establishing permanent settlements in the grazing reserve areas and providing them with social amenities. The conflicts between farmers and herders will be resolved, according to him.
He said, “You see a Fulani man with 33 children and they have only 25 cows to rear, how can they survive? If they were educated, some of them would go into civil service; some will go into various vocations. It will be good for them and the society. This is a simple thing. God will continue to bless President Tinubu. This good work that he has started, he should go ahead to complete it, not minding the voices of the opposition. Some uninformed people would begin to say that the federal government would start taking their lands. Land belongs to the states and not the federal government. It is the state governors that have the power to allocate land. Any state governor that wants to solve these farmers-herders clashes can just create a place to settle herders….Seē _ Morē