CAN urges Taraba farmers, herders to embrace peace ahead of farming season

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) successful Lau Local Government Council of Taraba State has called connected farmers and herders to prioritise bid and communal respect arsenic the 2026 rainy play begins, informing that renewed cultivation activities could heighten tensions if caution is not observed.

In a connection issued connected Saturday by the CAN Coordinator successful the council, Pastor Zephaniah John, the relation urged some groups to debar actions that could trigger struggle arsenic they instrumentality to farmlands and grazing routes crossed the area.

He noted that coexistence remains indispensable for endurance successful the agrarian communities of Lau, stressing that “the husbandman needs bid to cultivate, and the herder needs bid to rear livestock,” portion condemning unit arsenic counterproductive to some livelihoods.

The CAN enactment besides commended the medication of Governor Agbu Kefas for establishing the Taraba State Bureau for Peace and Conflict Management, describing it arsenic a proactive measurement towards addressing insecurity and communal disputes successful Taraba.

The connection further praised the assignment of section representatives into cardinal advisory and pe...