A CHIEFTAIN of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, says he is optimistic that herdsmen menace across the country will be over soon with massive rejection of plan for establishment of grazing colonies in various states.

“People have rather shown preference for establishment of cattle ranches, which ought to be operated through private arrangement of individual entrepreneurs,’’ Ezeonwuka said this at Oba, near Onitsha.

He blamed the federal government for failing to take pre-emptive measures to stem farmers’/Fulani herdsmen clash.

According to Ezeonwuka, a member of the Board of Trustees of APGA, the FG has not done any tangible thing to forestall future recurrence of such clashes.

“It is sad that it is only in Nigeria that we place more value on lives of cows’ than on human lives.’’

He blamed leaders from a section of the country for encouraging the mindless Fulani herdsmen that had been pursuing their selfish interests and goals at the expense of farm owners and members of their host communities.

Ezeonwuka, a proprietor of Rojenny Sports Centre, recommended that the herdsmen who slaughter people should be punished to serve as deterrent to others.

– Jan. 25 2018 @ 16:16 GMT