The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has held a closed-door meeting with state governors.
The aim of the meeting is to address the Farmers/Herdsmen crisis affecting the country.
A committee of governors was set up to employ technocrats, traditional and religious leaders to interface with Miyetti Allah to resolve the crisis.
The Zamfara state governor who briefed journalists after the meeting stated that the committee will invite technocrats to visit the affected states such as Benue, Adamawa, Zamfara, and Plateau to find a lasting solution on how the crisis can be resolved.
He further explained that the intervention might not stop the crisis but will bring a lot of respites.
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The Presidency had on January 15, 2018, denied reports that Governor Samuel Ortom had earlier warned the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, against the killing of innocent citizens in Benue State by suspected herdsmen.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, said this in a statement signed by him on Monday.
According to the statement, Governor Ortom, had written to Professor Osinbajo who was Acting President on June 7, 2017, to protest a report in which the leadership of Miyetti Allah purportedly stated that it was opposed to the anti-open grazing law in Benue and that they would mobilise to resist the law.
Meanwhile, the Miyetti Allah had written to the vice president on June 5, 2017, on the same law to protest several sections of the law.
The governor had also called for the arrest of the leadership of Miyetti Allah for allegedly using words such as “wicked, obnoxious and repressive,” to describe the grazing law, and describing them as “utterances that are capable of undermining the peace.”
The implementation of the anti-open grazing law has been accompanied by several attacks on some communities in Benue, including the recent ones which led to the death of dozens of people.
