PASTORALISM: KILLER HERDSMEN AND NIGERIAN FARMERS A QUESTION OF CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
"Ecological peril spawned economic conflict which descended into violence" -Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
This statement by the National Leader of All progressive Congress is a good starting point to fleshing out our discourse on a burning national issue that has the potential for the disintegration of our polity if not handled with utmost sincerity and care it deserves by those in the saddle of authority.
"True patriotism requires that you love more than the concept of Nigeria. You must love the people who comprise this nation, whether they worship in a church, mosque, and shrine or not at all" -Ahmed Bola Tinubu
Ecological peril spawned economic conflict is not peculiar to our geo-polity rather it is a worldwide phenomenon that threatens the unity and peace of the world because it has become an existential problem for most countries globally, leading to internal conflagrations, wars of internecine characters with ethno-religious coloration and demagoguery spawned by politico-religious and ethnic traditional leaderships.
The same scenario or architecture of ethnicity promoting jingoism, emotivism of people like Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is what led to the killing fields in places like India, Rwanda and Central African Republic. I am pleased that Ahmed Bola Tinubu has decided to address the fundamental climate change issues in respect of the herdsmen/farmers conundrum from a rational scientific perspective in his speech Nigeria And Challenges Of 2019: This Is Not A Game. This is the right approach necessary to finding solution to killer herdsmen and farmers conundrum rather than a video cum photo evidences wielding Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi SETTING HIMSELF UP AS AN ETHNIC WARRIOR.
Nigeria is not an exception as per the QUESTION OF CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. A united nations report warned of water crisis of global dimension with multifarious implications like wars, desertification, drought, ethnic conflicts and disagreement between farmers and pastoralist looking for greener pastures for their herds, in fact major conflict in this direction would be mostly in agro-economic related enterprises that would lead to more sub-national civil altercations.
It is common knowledge that water crisis leading to desertification, drought, not forgetting growing urbanization and the unwholesome human activities are all contributing factors to changing climatic conditions with grievous implications for human co-existence and one of such severe effects is the loss of arable lush grazing landscape for pastoralist leading them to venture into greener farmlands.
The Benue assassination is a good but negative example of killer herdsmen venturing southwards aggravating existing primordial ethnic tensions in the course of looking for lush grassland, while we acknowledge the dwindling of arable lush grazing landscape for pastoralist what we should not tolerate is the argument that herdsmen have the right to invade greener farmlands in the process of finding pastures for their cattle or the absurd argument that pastoralism is a lifestyle that cannot be changed or modernize to reflect international best practices. Any human cultural activity that is resistant to change in a dynamic geopolitical and economic environment would die a natural death. Therefore, it makes economic sense for the killer herdsmen to adopt a post modernist methodology of rearing cattle rather than carrying around AK-47 terrorizing farmers and citizens.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE IS A PHILOSOPHER.
TWITTER: PEARL2PRINCE.
This statement by the National Leader of All progressive Congress is a good starting point to fleshing out our discourse on a burning national issue that has the potential for the disintegration of our polity if not handled with utmost sincerity and care it deserves by those in the saddle of authority.
"True patriotism requires that you love more than the concept of Nigeria. You must love the people who comprise this nation, whether they worship in a church, mosque, and shrine or not at all" -Ahmed Bola Tinubu
Ecological peril spawned economic conflict is not peculiar to our geo-polity rather it is a worldwide phenomenon that threatens the unity and peace of the world because it has become an existential problem for most countries globally, leading to internal conflagrations, wars of internecine characters with ethno-religious coloration and demagoguery spawned by politico-religious and ethnic traditional leaderships.
The same scenario or architecture of ethnicity promoting jingoism, emotivism of people like Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is what led to the killing fields in places like India, Rwanda and Central African Republic. I am pleased that Ahmed Bola Tinubu has decided to address the fundamental climate change issues in respect of the herdsmen/farmers conundrum from a rational scientific perspective in his speech Nigeria And Challenges Of 2019: This Is Not A Game. This is the right approach necessary to finding solution to killer herdsmen and farmers conundrum rather than a video cum photo evidences wielding Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi SETTING HIMSELF UP AS AN ETHNIC WARRIOR.
Nigeria is not an exception as per the QUESTION OF CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. A united nations report warned of water crisis of global dimension with multifarious implications like wars, desertification, drought, ethnic conflicts and disagreement between farmers and pastoralist looking for greener pastures for their herds, in fact major conflict in this direction would be mostly in agro-economic related enterprises that would lead to more sub-national civil altercations.
It is common knowledge that water crisis leading to desertification, drought, not forgetting growing urbanization and the unwholesome human activities are all contributing factors to changing climatic conditions with grievous implications for human co-existence and one of such severe effects is the loss of arable lush grazing landscape for pastoralist leading them to venture into greener farmlands.
The Benue assassination is a good but negative example of killer herdsmen venturing southwards aggravating existing primordial ethnic tensions in the course of looking for lush grassland, while we acknowledge the dwindling of arable lush grazing landscape for pastoralist what we should not tolerate is the argument that herdsmen have the right to invade greener farmlands in the process of finding pastures for their cattle or the absurd argument that pastoralism is a lifestyle that cannot be changed or modernize to reflect international best practices. Any human cultural activity that is resistant to change in a dynamic geopolitical and economic environment would die a natural death. Therefore, it makes economic sense for the killer herdsmen to adopt a post modernist methodology of rearing cattle rather than carrying around AK-47 terrorizing farmers and citizens.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE IS A PHILOSOPHER.
TWITTER: PEARL2PRINCE.
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