Nigeria: Herdsmen Challenge - Grow Grass in Chad and Mali

12 January 2018
opinion

The murderous herdsmen are once again on the rampage; about a score of innocent Nigerian lives have been lost in the latest attacks. (Our hearts go out to the victim families in Benue State). This challenge has become insufferable; it is time we found an enduring solution to it. The unsettling incidences of foreign-looking herdsmen attacks on Nigerians on their legitimate lands are fast approaching emergency proportions, with the Federal Government seeming unnervingly clueless on how to curb the menace, even as the menace wreaks havoc on the citizenry. One finds the Federal Government's lackluster disposition to solving the herdsmen challenge absolutely condemnable.

This is all the more so because security, apart from being a principal responsibility of government, the incumbent Federal Government had made security of lives and property one of the cardinal points of its electioneering campaign. The other reason why l find the Federal Government's disposition objectionable, is that an effective check on the herdsmen menace is not as farfetched as the Federal Government would have us believe, unless there is more to the challenge than our security agencies are telling the world.

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