Tambuwal, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, stated this in Abia State during a one-day working visit to the state.
He said that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari will establish grazing reserves and ranches only in the northern states of the country, adding that no grazing reserve will be set up in the South East or anywhere in the entire South.
His words: “I am a Fulani from Sokoto and I have cattle. I know that it is better for me to rear and keep my herds in one place and provide good grass for them.
“Talking about the South East and Northern Nigeria relationship, this issue of herdsmen that has been coming up recently I believe the Federal Government is coming up with a measured response of ensuring that we have grazing reserves, particularly, with emphasis in Northern Nigeria, in states where they originate from so that they can remain within their neighbourhood, within their families and cater for their cattle in a much more better way, more organised way and more economically viable system.
“By having a grazing reserve in Sokoto State for instance, all herdsmen and farmers in Sokoto can graze within the state without moving their herds out.
“We in the northern states in particularly have embraced this very proactive measure of establishing grazing reserves in the North so that the herdsmen and their herds can remain at home.
That will give us better meat, quality milk and for the people of Sokoto and Aba leather for making shoes and other leather works,” Tambuwal said.
The AUTHORITY recalls that Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu recently said that any plan to establish grazing reserves for the Fulani herdsmen will be frustrated in the South East because there are no lands in the zone for such project.
His words: “We don’t need grazing reserves in the South East because we don’t have land for them. There is enough land in the North, so let the establishment of grazing reserves be in the North.”
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