{"id":43800,"date":"2021-05-25T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=43800"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:43:29","slug":"grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom","title":{"rendered":"Grazing reserves: Buhari\u2019s presidency has hidden agenda \u2013 Ortom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the Presidency of \u201ca hidden agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortom made the remark while faulting President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s insistence on grazing reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that the Federal government\u2019s insistence on grazing reserves in the country was a misplaced priority.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Garba Shehu, Buhari\u2019s spokesman had said the Federal Government would next month commence rehabilitation work on grazing reserves in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, the governor said: \u201cWe read a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu in which he said the Federal Government will commence rehabilitation work on grazing reserves in the country next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find the move not only shocking and curious but also a misplaced priority. At a time the country is worried about the worsening security situation and many Nigerians are calling for national dialogue to address the fundamental issues that have led to the present state of affairs, the Federal Government considers the reopening of cattle grazing routes as the only solution available to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now clear that there is a hidden agenda which only the Presidency knows. Otherwise, all the regions of the country have accepted the fact that open grazing of animals is no longer fashionable and should be banned to pave way for ranching, yet, the government at the centre is insistent that grazing reserves\/cattle routes must be created across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On February 9, the Northern States Governors\u2019 Forum (NSGF) met and agreed that the current system of herding mainly by open grazing is no longer sustainable, in view of growing urbanisation and population of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum consequently resolved to sensitize herders on the need to adopt ranching as the new method of animal husbandry.<\/p>\n<p>The 17 Governors of Southern Nigeria rose from their meeting in Asaba on May 11 also this year, with a ban on open grazing in the entire region. The Southern Governors equally adopted ranching as the alternative method of rearing animals.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ortom added: \u201cAs it stands, the Presidency is the lone hand pushing for the continuation of open grazing and the return of cattle routes of 1950s and 60s. The Presidency has, by its endorsement of open grazing, emboldened armed herders who lay claim to all lands in Nigeria as belonging to Fulani, hence their invasion of farming communities and killing of original owners of such lands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the Presidency of \u201ca hidden agenda.\u201d Ortom made the remark while faulting President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s insistence on grazing reserves. The governor said that the Federal government\u2019s insistence on grazing reserves in the country was a misplaced priority. A statement by Garba Shehu, Buhari\u2019s spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,4312,254,379],"class_list":["post-43800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-grazing-reserves","tag-nigeria","tag-ortom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grazing reserves: Buhari\u2019s presidency has hidden agenda \u2013 Ortom - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the Presidency of \u201ca hidden agenda.\u201d Ortom made the remark while fault ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grazing reserves: Buhari\u2019s presidency has hidden agenda \u2013 Ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the Presidency of \u201ca hidden agenda.\u201d Ortom made the remark while fault ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-25T16:08:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1af858509.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Grazing reserves: Buhari\u2019s presidency has hidden agenda \u2013 Ortom\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-25T16:08:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\"},\"wordCount\":424,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60ad1af858509.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Grazing reserves\",\"Nigeria\",\"Ortom\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/grazing-reserves-buharis-presidency-has-hidden-agenda-ortom\",\"name\":\"Grazing reserves: Buhari\u2019s presidency has hidden agenda \u2013 Ortom - 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