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FG Working To Resolve Farmers/Herdsmen Crisis – Yari

The Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has said that Federal Government and the state government are working to interface with the Meyitti Allah and other … Continue reading FG Working To Resolve Farmers/Herdsmen Crisis – Yari


Governor Abdulaziz Yari
Governor Abdulaziz Yari

The Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has said that Federal Government and the state government are working to interface with the Meyitti Allah and other groups to resolve the farmers-herdsmen crisis affecting the country.

Governor Yari disclosed this to journalists on Thusrday after a meeting with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and some state governors in Abuja, the nations capital.

He explained that National Economy Council (NEC) has been set up by the Vice Chairman, Yemi Osinbajo, which will be headed by the Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi with governors of Plateau, Adamawa, Benue, Taraba and Zamfara as committee members.

According to Governor Yari, the crisis has been in existence since 2007 in some states particularly in my own state, we have been battling with it. Now the states and Federal Government under the leadership of the Vice President, we agreed to have a small committee at NEC so that the situation will not get out of hand, and will not be looked at as an ethnicity crisis or religious crisis.

“So, in our discussion today, we have set up a committee headed by Governor of Ebonyi State, while Plateau and Adamawa governors are members, other people will be brought to join the committee from hotspot states – Benue, Taraba, Adamawa and Zamfara, where there is crisis so that they can interface with the Meyitta Allah and other groups to see how we can reduce this to the nearest minimum.

“Why we cannot say we can put this matter to rest is because some of them have taken this as a money-making venture, some are criminals who hide under this to perpetrate this act.

“As a government we have to take all the measures despite the fact that the Army, Police, all the security agents are on the field at the respective places, still we have to form this committee to interface with those actors so that this matter can be reduced to the barest minimum and possibly boy wipes off.

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The Vice President had earlier in the day met with the affected state governors to address the prolonged crisis affecting the country.

A committee of governors was then set up to employ technocrats, traditional and religious leaders to interface with Miyetti Allah and other groups to resolve the crisis.