Contrary to the position of her colleagues and fellow senators from the Northern part of the country supporting the establishment of a Desert Control Commission Senator Grace Folashade Bent (PDP, Adamawa South) and chairman of the Senate committee on Environment and Ecology is opposed to the establishment of the commission.
At a public hearing jointly organized by her committee and that of Establishment and Public Service gathering views on the Bill, Bent said there was no doubt that desertification is a menace that has attracted both national and international attention with adverse impacts which have direct links to poverty and threat to national security. "Farmers and herdsmen are in constant war for the grazing land which is in shortfall occasioned by the movement southwards as a result of desert encroachment.
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