Farmers, herders raise alarm over fresh conflict escalation in Kano as harvest season nears

The Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kano State chapter, Abdullahi Ali Maibiredi, has raised concerns implicit a imaginable escalation of farmers-herders clashes arsenic the harvest play approaches.

Maibiredi made the remarks successful an interrogation with DAILY POST, saying the occupation had persisted for years and had, astatine times, resulted successful clashes, nonaccomplishment of spot and deaths.

He said authorities had yet to find a lasting solution contempt the interaction of the quality connected farming and the livelihoods of farmers.

“I personally mislaid astir 85 per cent of my crops past year, yet I did not spot the indispensable enactment taken to code the problem,” Maibiredi said.

He called connected applicable authorities to intervene and find lasting solutions to the occupation portion rebuilding spot and peaceful relations betwixt farmers and herders.

“We are calling connected the authorities acrophobic to intervene and code this occupation earlier it gets worse, particularly present that we are entering the harvest period,” helium said.

Responding to the concerns, the Kano State Chairman of the Miyetti Allah...