Kicks against Benue anti-open grazing law
Calls for establishment of grazing reserve commission

Cattle breeders association under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore on Tuesday kicked against anti-open grazing legislation enacted by the Benue State government.

The group argued that they were original inhabitants of Benue valley in the State, thus the lingering crisis was a struggle for the state’s natural resources.

The National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Engr. Saleh Alhassan said during a world press conference in Abuja that it was inappropriate to treat members of the association as outcasts, adding that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) protocol even allows the Fulani community free movement into and across the country.

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Otom recently passed the anti-open rearing and grazing bill into law.
Alhassan said: “We are ever ready. We are peaceful people. What we don’t accept is for people not to welcome us and want to annihilate us. We will not accept that.

We know our history. We know our root. If you see us in the bushes, don’t think we don’t have our history and particularly in the Benue. We are challenging the Tiv people. We were there in the Benue valley before them…before they moved from Congo and settled in Cross River and later moved to the Benue valley. So they met the pastoralist there. This is a struggle for natural resources. You cannot beat us and say we should not cry, No. Even God will not be happy with that.
However, he said the nation should acknowledge the existence of pastoral farmers and provide grazing reserves to develop new breed of cattle and embrace modern technology.

“The Nigerian state must recognise that the Fulani pastoralist exists and as a socio-cultural group that has a right to the shared resources. We must be allocated land to do our cattle grazing, which systematically we can settle our families, change the breed of cattle they need and improve on the technology of cattle rearing,” he added.

Speaking on ways to end the communal clashes, he stressed that the association was partnering on experimental ranching and nomadism with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as part of gestures to provide lasting solution to the crisis.
In his remark, President of the socio-cultural association, Alh. Abdullahi Bello, described the enactment as wicked, obnoxious and repressive.
He said it was wicked to criminalise their means of survival and freedoms.
However, Bello urged the National Assembly to intervene on the issue, stressing that inter-state movement of pastoralists is synonymous to inter-state commerce.
Our association view the current attempt by the Benue State government to criminalise our means of economic livelihood of cattle rearing through the enactment of an obnoxious anti-open grazing law as the most wicked act any government can do to us and our economic interest.
“We want to state here that we reject that repressive and oppressive law and will deploy all the necessary legal means as enshrined in the constitution to challenge it,” he added.

The association vowed to mobilise herdsmen in the country to resist the law as it was a deliberate attempt to enslave their members,”through this wicked legislation ever contemplated in the history of our nation.”

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/fulaniherdsmen-crisis-struggle-natural-resources/

Any attack on Benue is an attack on omenkaLives.

Omenka

Are dey going to destroy all the villages and kill everybody in Benue? Wat kind of rubbish is going on in Nigeria?

Vacate benue coz it belong to the fulani now . Come my state

Ortom is weak and incompetent to be governor, see how the marauders have taken over the food basket of the nation. Omenka shame unto u and Ortom

chaloner:
Omenka

That impostor is not from Benue.

hammer6:
Are dey going to destroy all the villages and kill everybody in Benue? Wat kind of rubbish is going on in Nigeria?

Another Kwara State treatment loading....

Fulanis are indeed trouble makers. They just love bloodshed. Fighting is in their DNA. They are harbinger of bad news.

They are law to themselves anywhere. I think it's time we all rise up to confront their evil one on one.

Imagine laying claims to someone land.....

all of una, come to Edo state, though we have our "village" airways , it still better.

Pls they need their own Ortomatic settlement.

So Tiv people are the visitors in Benue while Fulanis are the original owners

ZKOSOSO:
Fulanis are indeed trouble makers. They just love bloodshed. Fighting is in their DNA. They are harbinger of bad news.

They are law to themselves anywhere. I think it's time we all rise up to confront their evil one on one.

Imagine laying claims to someone land.....

Now it's beginning to make sense, no wonder they keep attacking Benue people for no reason

...Interesting and a welcome developement i guess..to the grumpy and cowardly Benue-wanna be and his waste-land cohorts.

SalamRushdie:
So Tiv people are the visitors in Benue while Fulanis are the original owners

I don't pity benue since they voted APC
They deserve what they got
Especially their governor
The fulanis own every inch of Nigeria

Except land of the rising sun

You will never see that nobody called Omenkalives here

If it is about Biafra, you will see him messing everywhere

Y are fulani desperate to share border with Igbos?

Them no born una well cows.. Come and graze on Benue land and see what will happen. You guys think you have monopoly of violence.

hammer6:
Y are fulani desperate to share border with Igbos?

Gbam


You are wise to observe their plan


They are trying to isolate the Igbos

Thorhammer:
Them no born una well cows.. Come and graze on Benue land and see what will happen. You guys think you have monopoly of violence.

They are already grazing on Benue land


You guys need to find a solution fast

Thorhammer:
Them no born una well cows.. Come and graze on Benue land and see what will happen. You guys think you have monopoly of violence.

Egbe onu chapter 3:16

HiddenShadow:


Gbam


You are wise to observe their plan


They are trying to isolate the Igbos

They have just being pushing to end up on our border.


I just dey laugh dem becos we will collapse Nigeria and then have our own military on standby to engage any hostile marauding invader.


We are Igbos and war is part of our culture, check the British experience with Aro confederacy.

hammer6:


They have just being pushing to end up on our border.


I just dey laugh dem becos we will collapse Nigeria and then have our own military on standby to engage any hostile marauding invader.

They don't know what is in our mind

Their end will be disastrous

hammer6:


They have just being pushing to end up on our border.


I just dey laugh dem becos we will collapse Nigeria and then have our own military on standby to engage any hostile marauding invader.


We are Igbos and war is part of our culture, check the British experience with Aro confederacy.

I believe they fear losing the middle belt region to Biafrans


I believe they know that with time, many middle belt people will vote to join Biafra.

HiddenShadow:



I believe they fear losing the middle belt region to Biafrans


I believe they know that with time, many middle belt people will vote to join Biafra.

Fulani all the way from Guinea.

How many times does a man die? We will fight them like lions.

There will be no advantages, we will collapse Nigeria, have our state and military and dey are free to dare us.

hammer6:


Fulani all the way from Guinea.

How many times does a man die? We will fight them like lions.

There will be no advantages, we will collapse Nigeria, have our state and military and dey are free to dare us.

We will win but understand their real aim


They want all the land of Nigeria unto themselves


They fear that many more tribes will join Biafra in the future. That is why they are claiming those lands


Do you know why Buhari fell sick.? The thought of Fulani people losing this rich land to the Biafrans

Fulani people know that many tribes will later join Biafra

They are just not gonna enjoy their wànkfest in peace, as though I'm the reason why they can't get it right in their lives.

Tomorrow, the same set of screwed up scrubs would still say I'm a Yoruba man.

What a crying shame.

Fulani now claiming ownership of Benue state

omenkaLives:
They are just not gonna enjoy their wànkfest in peace, as though I'm the reason why they can't get it right in their lives.

Tomorrow, the same set of screwed up scrubs would still say I'm a Yoruba man.

What a crying shame.

He came
He saw the thread
And talked about Biafra

Who was surprised ?

HiddenShadow:



We will win but understand their real aim


They want all the land of Nigeria unto themselves


They fear that many more tribes will join Biafra in the future. That is why they are claiming those lands


Do you know why Buhari fell sick.? The thought of Fulani people losing this rich land to the Biafrans

Fulani people know that many tribes will later join Biafra

Fulani are one of the last arrivals in Nigeria. If u want to know fulani land, check for where Hausa and Kanuri territory stops.

These are the main tribe they conquered. Any other place was acquired with excuse of grazing.

Them suppose to pay rent to the tribes that live on the land they are grazing.

omenkaLives:
They are just not gonna enjoy their wànkfest in peace, as though I'm the reason why they can't get it right in their lives.

Tomorrow, the same set of screwed up scrubs would still say I'm a Yoruba man.

What a crying shame.

You never complained against your Fulani masters

I thought their youths were seriously warning Biafra to exclude dem from their map earlier today lol... Fulani don kuku com claim dem .. Benue state, d shooting practice of Fulanis