What has really happened that, in recent times, news and images emanating from normal loving and peaceful pastoral farming show the negative?
On today series in Let’s Talk, we would like to hear your experience with Herdsmen in Nigeria. I don’t know what it’s like but here is a little experience from someone that knows:
I had a great time chatting with an old friend of mine who lives in Edo state and also has a farm there. We got talking about life and farming basically, that to my greatest surprise he wasn’t interested in nothing more but spoke bitterly on the problems he has been facing with Herdsmen in Edo State.
He spoke about the failure to care for the cattle coupled with the killings and kidnapping of people by the herdsmen, and how his farm was grazed by cattle, leaving a trail of destruction. They destroyed his crops and almost shot him when he tried to intervene.
So sad!
In the course of our discussion he mentioned why farmers and herdsmen in the community have in the past had their fair share of misunderstanding that required the intervention of traditional institutions and security agencies.
This made me curious as to know what other experiences people have been having or have had with Herdsmen in Nigeria and would like to know how grazing reserves work for the herdsmen in the past?
@Everybody…Let’s hear your experiences with Herdsmen. What do you think should be done to them?