GE:
I am borrowing and adapting a strategy that has been successfully tried elsewhere. When confronted with serious problems whereas others go into deep thinking and think their way out of the problem, Nigerians go into hysteria and compound the problem with knee jerk responses that lead to further problems, abusing each other and ethnicities associated with the problem
All of what I wrote should be contextualised within an imperiled and inadequately planned nation in which problem solving re-planning and re- designing is the battle zone of the next election.
What people cannot stop is state governments putting in place the food supply chain that best provides food security and general security where kidnappers and hoodlums do not continue to take advantage of the existing supply chain.
Ranching by its nature would be a more effectively policed re- organisation. It will provide far more job opportunities and inter- state collaborative efforts. There will be no excuses for ' herders' turning weapons that are ostensibly meant to protect cows into arsenal for kidnapping, or providing cover, or unintended camouflage for criminals.
The number of weapons in the community will be more carefully monitored as in the holistic scenario I have painted before in my other posts where guns will be withdrawn from communities except for bonafide law enforcement agents.
As the groundswell of opinions have maintained state police forces will replace the federal police with the next government as this will be one of the crucial battlegrounds for the forthcoming elections ( you heard HE Obasanjo's view on the issue in the zoom interview.)
Your specific question is whether the herdsmen will not join Boko Haram. If they do then we will know where the battle lines are drawn and proper preparatiins will be made for war. That is far better than your most prominent citizens being carted away in a defenceless manner in broad daylight and being slaughtered like cheap animals.
But jobless ( bonafide) herdsmen will not be drafted to Boko Haram because their financial benefactors want to make money and cant make money in a state of war in which only a few gun runners make money. Many of the herdsmen will be retrained into cattle ranching by their benefactors to compete favourably with subsidized states controlled cattle production or else they lose their investment in cattle which no one is prepared to buy ( remember ranched cattle are better fed and robust looking than the grazed cattle.)
The British government employed similar methods to tame Asian corner shops across the UK by bringing into every city streets in the late 90s ( and by changing the Sunday trading laws) mega stores like Sainsburys and Tescos ( equivalent of JC Penny and Uncle Sams.) Owned by leading Scots and English gentry who were the main political party financiers who collaborated in the economic buy back scheme in the way I am recommending for the herder- resistant states.
They gave the corner shops a run for their money in terms of cheaper goods and stabler pricing and cleaner and modern environment. In fact successful corner shop entrepreneurs were given franchises of such shoos who ran them for good salaries and even bought shares in them. This was the British govt's way of clawing back into the economy hoarded profits from the corner shops rather send them out of the country Idi Amin style. So its a question of a visionary ruling class.
So the ball is in the courts of herder- resistant states to procure safety for their citizens through control of modern farming activities. The herdsmen ( mainly Fulani ) saw a gap for a niche in a particular market cornered it, modern advances in agriculture made it outmoded plus undesirable elements are taking advantages of loopholes in the system..The state governments of such states owe it a duty to their citizens to spearhead the introduction of a modern safer way of animal husbandry.
OAA
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From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
Date: 03/02/2021 21:34 (GMT+00:00)
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Good idea but when completely forced out of business would they not join the ranks of Boko Haram.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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The most pro- active and pragmatic way to force the hands of the federal government and the grazing cattle herders is for herder- resistant states to go into joint cooperatives and set up mega ranches across the country through credit facilities from banks such as AfDB and produce cattle at subsidized prizes that will be marketed directly to state citizens through state of the art advertising and gradually force grazing herders out of business.
The time to start such multilateral initiatives is NOW!
Im glad the bank is already working on something similar in the SAPZ projects. These should be replicated specifically for ranching so that say Ogun, Oyo ,Lagos and Ekiti can pool resources together as collateral to mega- loans for joint venture state ranches with states such Imo, Anambra, and Rivers within their states to force grazing herders to toe the line or face financial liquidation.. This goal can be achieved before the end of this administration.
They should not wait forever on the federal government exclusive leadership.
OAA
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