LIST OF REASONS

INTRO:   The reasons for the conflict between herdsmen and farmers are destruction of farm crops by herdsmen, cattle rustling, open grazing prohibition and ranch establishment laws, the nonchalant attitude of the federal government, environmental issues, and sexual harassment of the women of the host communities.  Herdsmen and “farmers” conflict in Nigeria has succeeded in burying the fact that the herdsmen themselves are also farmers. The pastoralists that rear cattle have launched several attacks on crop farmers in Nigeria. These attacks have resulted in the death of several thousands of people especially in Benue, Plateau and Taraba states; not to talk of the injuries, displacements and property worth billions that were destroyed. A report even has it that every state in Nigeria has recorded herdsmen-farmers clash death except Sokoto state. The conflict between the livestock and crop farmers is surprising because right from time, the duo have co-existed symbiotically. The...