*Bemoans farmers encroachment upon old colonial paths for cattle
*Says ranching across states better solution
By KEMI KASUMU, General Editor
Former Director General, Project Development Institute (PRODA), Enugu, Nigeria, Engr. Edmund Kaine, has revealed the real reason agelong herdsmen/farmers clashes have defiled solutions in the country.
Kaine, who posted this on his Facebook social media wall on Tuesday picked by The DEFENDER, said people who make noise or hype the problem beyond proportion succeeded in providing no solution but causing the nation a great deal of security issues resulting from ethno-religious coloration and sentiments being mischievously read into the simple and resolvable problem.
In listing the blameable elements, the advocate of technology transfer via industrial development mentioned international terrorism, banditry and bad politicians’ infiltration of the agelong occuring strifes in the West African sub-region.
“People are not offering solutions to farmer/herder clashes, could be because international terrorism, bandits and bad politicians have infiltrated the long occuring West African strifes,” Kaine, the ex-PRODA DG said.
In proferring solutions he challenged businessmen and governments of Southern Nigeria states to take up responsibility and guided them on how to go about taking such responsibility.
“The solutions are: Business men in the South to take up cattle ranching with the help of their Governments. State Governments to demarcate cattle paths like the colonial Governments did; farmers have encroached upon the old colonial paths,” the Enugu based septualgenerian said.
