The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has reiterated the call that the migration of Fulani herdsmen from the North to the Southern part of the country should be banned.
Ganduje said banning the migration of Fulani herdsmen from place to place would bring peace to Nigeria.
The governor, who was in Sokoto State for the wedding fatiha of Ibrahim Khalil, the son of Senator Kabiru Gaya, an ex-Governor of Kano State, spoke while responding to questions from newsmen at the Sultan Muhammad Abubakar Sa’ad III International Airport, Sokoto, yesterday.
He lamented that Fulani have been wrongly labelled, stressing that resettling them in a particular place, with all facilities provided for them to graze with ease, remained the best way out.
The governor also stated that the issue of RUGA settlements should not be forced on any state, rather states that can cater for the Fulani should willingly domesticate the policy.
He said: “No better way to improve their lives if you don’t prevent their migration from the north to the central and southern parts of Nigeria.
“That movement should be banned otherwise Fulani would continue to suffer and the security problem in the country would continue.
“There is no better way to resettle the Fulani other than RUGA. But we cannot ask a state to implement RUGA where the indigenes are not Fulani. RUGA should be for states who can cater for the Fulani and improve their herdsmanship (trade).
“That is why we are developing grazing area, or RUGA, in Kano State so that Fulani can be in one place and enjoy all the social services like other people of the state, so that the type of herdsmanship they are doing will be improved so that they can produce more cows, more milk and more economic prosperity to themselves.”
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