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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has condemned how the Southern Governors banned open grazing in their region, stressed that the North protected them during the civil war, but they are paying back by maltreating the herdsmen in the south.

Ganduje stated this while receiving the Emir of Kano Aminu Ado Bayero on a Sallah traditional Hawan Nassarawa at the Government House in Kano State.

He further explained that open grazing is an outdated way of rearing cattle which has bred poverty and it’ s no longer accepted but the way the Southern Governors approached the issue is not acceptable.

He said, ” It is true that the oldest mood of cattle movement from one end to another, rather breed poverty and is no longer tenable.

” However, the way and manner Fulani herders are been subjected to untold maltreatment and agony in the Southern part of this country are not acceptable and this should change because they are equally Nigerians, who have rights of living anywhere.

” I recall how late Emir of Kano Ado Bayero, protected none indigents during the civil war, and for those who fled Kano living behind their properties everything was duly protected by the Emir including rents money realized was given to them when they returned back. “

Recall that the Governors from the Southern part of Nigeria have been attacked by many politicians after calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to ban open grazing in their region due to the security challenges caused by the herdsmen.
According to the Senate President, the Governors should provide solutions to the problems in their respective states before accusing the federal government of any wrongdoing.
He said, ” We are all leaders and we are in this together, the solutions must come from us regardless of what levels of leadership we are– whether at the Federal Level, State Level or even at the Local Government level.
” I also want to take this opportunity to say that we have diminished the local government system. I think we can attribute the security issues to the absence of a Functional Local Government System. “

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Paris, France, called on European countries and global financial institutions to consider debt relief for African countries.

He said this would assist in reducing the devastating effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on the countries.

The proposition by President Muhammadu Buhari seems rather ironic as the President has written to the Senate to approve the borrowing another $6.1billion from bilateral and multilateral organisations to fund the deficit in the 2021 budget.

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, read the letter during the plenary session of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday.

Using the $1 to N379 exchange rate, the new loan will amount to about N2.343 trillion.

The 2021 budget has a deficit of N5.6trillion.

Mr Buhari disclosed that the National Assembly already approved the borrowing of N4.6 trillion in the 2021 Appropriation Act.

He noted that the new borrowing of N2.3 trillion will part-finance the deficit in the 2021 budget.

“The 2021 Appropriation Act provides for N4,686,775,885,696.00 as New Borrowings (item No. 328) to part-finance the 2021 Fiscal Deficit, of which 50% or N2,343,387,942,848.00 (about USD 6,183,081 ,643.40 at the Budget Exchange Rate of USD1.00/N379) is specified as New External Borrowing,” Buhari’s letter reads in part.

Buhari while making a case for debt relief in France said ; “It is in this vein that we solicit the support of the French government with its influence in the European Union to lend its voice to the efforts being made to mobilise additional resources for developing economies most especially Africa in order to strengthen the quantum of investments to our economies.”

“This financial support should also be extended to the private sector.”

According to him, many African countries were already experiencing debt distress and the Debt Service Suspension by France and G-20 does not go far enough, adding that there was a need for more sustainable and affordable financing solutions, including debt relief and further debt restructuring.

On the Paris Agreement for Climate Change, President Buhari noted that African countries would need financial support for green energy investment and COP-26.

He said Nigeria will refocus on gas while adopting a Strategic Revenue Growth Initiative.