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The Joint Security Committee of the Senate for three days have been investigating the causes of the Fulani herdsmen clashes with farmers along the borders of Nasarawa and Benue states.
Aside from meeting the government of both states, the committee visited some of the communities
The Joint Security Committee of the Senate for three days have been investigating the causes of the Fulani herdsmen clashes with farmers along the borders of Nasarawa and Benue states.
Aside from meeting the government of both states, the committee visited some of the communities
affected by the violence.
While in Nasarawa State, the team held a closed door meeting with the State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, who presented the committee with three volumes of previous government white paper on insecurity.
The Governor said that all the necessary information had been provided for the committee to aid its investigation.
Speaking with Chat212 afterwards, Governor Tanko Al-Makura said, “The issue about this skirmishes, insurgencies, fighting among ourselves or getting people’s houses destroyed, getting people killed are things that will not do us any good.
“Unless and until we find solutions to them, we will be putting our children’s lives into jeopardy and the future might be elusive for all of us.”
He solicited support for the Senate Committee towards achieving the target of getting to the root of the matter, but also advised that community based conflict resolution remained the best approach to solving crisis.
“The issue of bringing about peace should be everybody’s business”, he said.
Chairman Senate Joint Committee on Security, Mohammadu Magoro, also revealed that the issues of establishing grazing reserves had been raised but a decision had not been made on it.
