Dons offer solutions to farmers-herders’ clashes

University researchers from Nigeria and Republic of Benin person suggested taste relations and inter-ethnic marriages among others arsenic solutions to the recurring herder-farmer tensions successful Nigeria. 

The investigators made the suggestions portion presenting the study of a survey titled ‘Inter-group Relations and Peace Building among Farmers and Pastoralists successful Rural Grazing Areas of Nigeria, yesterday, astatine the University of Ilorin, with academics and students and different stakeholders successful attendance. 

Speaking astatine the National Research Fund (NRF)/TetFund 2020 dissemination workshop, the squad said the survey attempted to found empirical power of inter-group relations connected peace-building successful Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) successful Nigeria. 

The researchers included the Principal Investigator, Prof. Abdulateef Muhammed of the Department of Sociology, University of llorin; Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Dr. Waziri Adisa; Prof. Johnson Ayodele of the Littoral University, Porto Novo, Republic of Benin; Mr. Olawale James Gbadeyan of the Department of Peace and Confict Studies, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State and Miss Garba Esther Uje of the Department of Sociology, University of Lagos. 

Prof, Mohammed said those who engaged successful inter-ethnic marriages had comparative peace. “From our observations, we observed that those who engaged successful inter-ethic marriages had comparative peace. That’s wherefore we’re encouraging the authorities to enlighten members of the agrarian grazing areas to prosecute much successful inter-ethnic marriages. It volition mitigate the farmers-herders crisis. 

“The situation is hydra-headed now, and 1 of the factors that tin mitigate it is inter-ethnic marriages. It volition entrench peace, harmony and holistic knowing among the inter-group relationship,” helium stated. 

According to him, the probe was carried retired successful 2 states each successful the six geopolitical zones of the country, namely: Kaduna, Sokoto, Rivers, Enugu, Adamawa, Kogi, Oyo, 

Also, the don encouraged governmental leaders successful the state to absorption much connected findings of the researches, noting: “It volition spell a agelong mode to mitigate the menace of herders-farmers’ conflicts successful Nigeria if authorities works connected and keys into the findings and makes definite that the findings are good implemented.” 

Other recommendations were resuscitation and strengthening of nomadic acquisition and big literacy, arsenic good arsenic strengthening of information of lives and property, particularly successful the agrarian grazing areas.