Nigeria: South-east Governors Decline To Donation Land For Ranching

Herd of cattles. Credit: Sara Winter Vetta Getty Images

Governors of the South-east zone on Sunday declared that the zone would not donate any land for the purpose of cattle ranching, and decried the incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the region.

Rising from a four-hour closed door meeting at the Government House in Enugu, the Enugu State capital, the governors stated that they had noted the increased challenges in the movement of herdsmen from one state or region to another with the attendant clashes with farmers.

In a nine-point communique read to journalists at the end of the meeting by the Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Dave Umahi, the governors expressed dismay over the huge sum of money they spend in paying farmers whose crops are destroyed by herdsmen.

The governors however, said, “we want to dismiss rumour being peddled around over the issue of ranching.

“We want to make it clear that the South-east has no land for ranching and nobody has requested us to donate any land for ranching.

“The Federal Government knows that the South-east doesn’t have enough land for ranching. So, we say categorically that we are not donating any land for ranching.”

In addition, the Forum reiterated that “Ndigbo stand on restructuring of Nigeria was presented to the Forum by the Ohanaeze President, based on the resolutions arising from the Awka enlarged meeting.”





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