{"id":174079,"date":"2025-08-13T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/chief-of-defence-staff-proposes-solutions-to-clashes"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:52:25","slug":"chief-of-defence-staff-proposes-solutions-to-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chief-of-defence-staff-proposes-solutions-to-clashes","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Defence Staff Proposes Solutions to Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has said to end clashes between farmers and herders, Nigerians must control the movement of their animals.<\/p>\n<p>Musa stated this on Wednesday, while briefing newsmen on the forthcoming Maiden African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit slated for August 25 to Aug. 27, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said Nigerians must embrace ranching as part of efforts to fight insecurity, adding that the old practice where there was understanding between farmers and herders had been eroded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop killing animals. Traditionally, what we have done before is, if an animal strays into a farm, we arrest it, then the owner comes and pays fine and he takes it back. If we do that, we will have peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is important that we get areas where we can keep these animals. They are better off when they are kept on a ranch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to call it ranching, call it whatever it is, but provide an area where they don\u2019t need to move around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us as Nigerians to look at this so that we can deal with this issue. Because one of the big security challenges we\u2019re having is this issue of farmer-headers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CDS emphasised that ranching has a lot of advantages for the owner of animals, hence should be something that should be embraced without hindrances.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, once animals move around, they spend energy. They are smaller, they don\u2019t produce so much milk for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. 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