I will add that cattle rearing should not be ethnically defined or designed. The cows will eat grass, grow and give birth, regardless of who is rearing it.
I am also worried that we are conflating the frightening security challenges in the Southwest and South East in particular with herdsmen-farmer clashes. This is simplistic and unfortunately that is the official tone. For those who will like to hear the truth, Boko Haram terrorists and their affiliates ISWAP or ISIL might just be launching the first phase of their attacks in the South.. The sheer number of kidnappings taking place, the humongous amount that the kidnappers demand from each of their victims, the sophisticated coordination and the lethal nature of their weapons could bear out this argument. We neglect this danger at our own long term peril.
Rather than treating this issue as an ethnic one, as some commentators like Prof Jibrin Ibrahim would have us believe through facebook posts, we should see it as another looming disaster that could have long term implications for the peace and corporate existence of the country.
Shaking my head in apprehension
Femi
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:42 PM Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
--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
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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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