Chief Olu Falae, secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida, has blamed the states in the north for the crisis caused by herdsmen in Nigeria.
The 79-year-old National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), explained that state governments in the region abandoned the policy introduced by former leaders to take care of herders.
He spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s Roadmap 2019, a political programme that would be aired on Monday.
“The problem of the herdsmen has been exacerbated by the failure of many of the state governments in the North to take care of the needs of the herdsmen.’’
According to him, the needs of the herdsmen were thoroughly met during the days of late Sir Ahmadu Bello – the then premier of the Northern region and Sardauna of Sokoto.
The former minister of finance recalled that during the period, there were grazing reserves while all kinds of facilities were provided for the herdsmen and their…
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