Sentences with phrase «cattle rearers»
The phrase "cattle rearers" refers to people who take care of and raise cattle, which are large animals like cows or bulls. Full definition
Revd Luke Odubanjo, the Archbishop of Lagos, Methodist Church Nigeria, also called on the FG not to toy with the issue of attacks by Fulani cattle rearers in some parts of the country.
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He noted that his committee had settled over 6000 cases between farmers and cattle rearers in the state through ADR.
«Any Fulani cattle rearer found grazing his cows on farms would pay N1m fine or serve a five - year prison sentence,» Hussein stated.
The Chairman of Committee on Resolution of Crisis Between farmers and herdsmen in Osun, Hon. Mudashir Toogun, has said his committee had handled and settled over 5,000 cases involving farmers and Fulani cattle rearers across the state in the last three years.
There was tension on Friday, at Amagunze, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the killing of a native in his farm by some Fulani cattle rearers.
A cattle rearer should figure out how to feed his cattle without trampling on other peoples rights and lives like other animal rearers...... simple logic as practiced in other normal places of the world.
According to him, these cattle rearers have been with us for so long.
«We have an understanding with the Fulani community and cattle rearers that they should update us with names and identity of new members coming into the state and they said those arrested were not known to them», he stressed.
«My understanding is that there must have been a breakdown in communication between the two, otherwise brothers, the farmer and the cattle rearers,» he said.
They argued that the landmass in the northern parts of Nigeria is enough to accommodate the herdsmen, stressing that the federal government should build grazing reserves in the north and resettle the cattle rearers in those reserved areas.
«To find short term and long term solutions to frequent conflicts between farmers and cattle rearers, the Presidency is coming up with a conference of stakeholders on infrastructural and agricultural development to put in place a plan for immediate relief and long term plan for the expansion of agriculture in the country.
It further shows that government is sensitive to the public outcry on the activities of the cattle rearers.
A cattle rearer, Ahmed Dele, has been beheaded by yet - to - be identified persons suspected to be ritualists in Omu, Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State.