Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has advised government, to create a law banning the movement of cattle from the north to the south.
The governor said this while fielding questions from journalists after he and All Progressives Congress (APC) governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state.
According to him, if the movement of cattle is not stopped, there will be no end to farmer-herder conflicts.
He stated that, his government is already constructing a Ruga settlement for herders in a forest near Kano’s border with Katsina.
Adding that, the settlement will have houses, a dam, an artificial insemination centre, and a veterinary clinic.
“We are building a Ruga settlement in Samsosua forest, our border with Katsina and we have succeeded in curtailing the effect of banditry in that area,” Ganduje said.
“So, we are building many houses, we are constructing a dam; we are establishing a cattle artificial insemination centre, we are establishing a veterinary clinic and already we have started building houses for herdsmen.
“My advocacy is that we should abolish the transportation or trekking of herdsmen from the northern part of Nigeria to the middle belt and to the southern part of Nigeria.
“There should be a law that will ban, otherwise we cannot control the conflicts between herdsmen and farmers and cannot control the cattle rustling which is affecting us greatly.”
