Four people died and others were injured in a clash between farmers and herdsmen in Sabon Daga, Bosso local government of Niger State.
The clash, which started yesterday morning, was said to have lasted several hours.
A few days earlier, cattle rustlers attacked Angwa Umadi in Shiroro council, killing a Senior Secondary School (SSS) 2 pupil. Fifteen others were injured.
Police spokesman Bala Elkana confirmed the attack. He said four people died from both sides.
According to him, herdsmen who wanted their cattle to graze on the farm were resisted by Gbagyi farmers. Elkana said security agents were drafted to the village.
He added that Fulani and Gbagyi elders have been mobilised and a meeting called to forestall a reprisal.
A source, who pleaded for anonymity said the locals claimed the Fulani were the first to attack.
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Four dead in herdsmen/farmers’ clash in Niger
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Buhari, governors agree on ranches to end herdsmen/farmers clashes
To end the incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari and governors have agreed to establish ranches across the country.
This has put paid to the plan to use grazing reserves.
Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong stated this yesterday in Jos, the state capital.
Lalong spoke at the dedication of the new headquarters of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).
He said grazing reserves will not address the clashes and the killings.
“The President and governors agreed that there would be no grazing areas; ranches would be established by the government where the cattle would be kept in one place and fed.
“Government will provide facilities like medical, schools and other needs in the ranches,” he said.
Lalong said the ranches would not be for Fulani herdsmen alone but for whoever rears cattle.
He said the Buhari administration inherited a myriad of problems, saying that herdsmen/farmers clashes is only one of such problems and urged the people to be patient.
He asked Plateau citizens to pray for the state and the Federal Government as all the problems could not be solved in one year.
Senator Jeremiah Useni (Plateau South), said the delegates at the 2014 National Conference agreed that grazing reserves should be a state affair, not federal.
He said it would be difficult for farmers to support the establishment of grazing areas as they would not donate their farms for grazing.
In his sermon, Rev. Anthony Farinto, former ECWA President, called on leaders at all levels to urgently address the difficulties Nigerians are going through.
The cleric, who condemned the recent killing of a military officers, urged the Federal Government to do all within its power to address the security challenges facing the country.
“If a serving Colonel could be kidnapped and killed, it portends serious danger for the country,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Kaduna State Deputy Governor, Bala Bantex, attended the service.