Reserves
By Nabilu Balarabe
Kaugama (Jigawa), Sept. 13, 2018 (NAN) The Jigawa Mediation Committee on Farmers and Herdsmen Clashes, has cautioned farmers in Kaugama against crop cultivation on grazing reserves in the area.
The committee chairman, Alhaji Aminu Usman, gave this warning at a stakeholders’ meeting in Kaugama Local Government Areal on Thursday.
According to him, encroachment on the Askandu and Unguwar Jibrin grazing reserves is one of the major causes of farmers and herdsmen clashes in the area.
Usman, who is also the Commissioner for Works and Transport, said the state Cattle Routes and Grazing Land Act 2012, had outlawed such encroachment and made it punishable by law.
He said that erring farmers had no excuse for their actions because cattle routes, grazing and farmlands in the area were demarcated with trees.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Environment, Alhaji Barau Ganbasha, urged the leadership of cattle breeders present in the meeting to caution their members against invading farmlands.
Ganbasha also advised the herdsmen to always lodge complaints about perceived injustice meted out to them to the appropriate authorities and avoid taking laws into their hands.
In his response, the vice chairman of the council, Ahmed Abdulhamid, promised to give the committee maximum support and cooperation for sustainable peace and security in the area. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Nwadioha/Yemi Idris-Aduloju