Chief Temitope Ajayi, the Ambassador of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has disclosed the she and the leadership of the association had finalized a plan to launch a N200 billion fund in 2022 to build ranches for Fulani herders in a bid to end the incessant attacks on farmers and also the herders.
Speaking in an interview, Ajayi, who is called Mama Diaspora because of her work with Nigerians in the Diaspora, decried the incessant attacks on farmers in the country, adding that both groups play important roles in the nation’s agricultural sector, stressing the need to harness the potential of each group for national development.
She described the clashes as unnecessary and having a negative impact on the Nigerian food situation, adding that she would do everything in her power to end the clashes.
She said that part of her objective was to bring the herders in tandem with current international reality in terms of rearing cattle, stating that she has made them to realize that open grazing is outdated and primitive.
“Nobody does open grazing in the world anymore; they need to stay in ranches or settlement and breed their cattle; taking cattle for grazing in the bush is outdated and unacceptable in this time and age,” she said.
She stated that “My mission now is to communicate the position of the herders, which is that they want peace and want to live in harmony with other Nigerians; they are not a violent people and have been misrepresented and misunderstood.”
