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OYO GOVT TO MIYETTI ALLAH; Identify your members to avert clashes with farmers
The Oyo State chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has been called upon to as a matter of urgency, begin a process of identifying its members in the state to avert future clashes between herders and farmers in the state.
The call was made in a statement issued on Friday by the Oyo State government through the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Muyiwa Ojekunle.
The commissioner made the charge while playing host to the executive members of the association at his office in Ibadan, and also noted that it would be hard for any criminal element among the herders to perpetrate crime if his or her identity is well known to the association as well as the government.
Ojekunle said; “All these hullabaloo will be a thing of the past if your members have registration method and their identity well known to you and the government. Nobody will commit any crime when he knows people can identify him or her.
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“The present administration understands and is very ready to work for unity among all ethnics and tribes in the country to move our State together. More so as the governor of Oyo State is ready to use agriculture to turn over the economic potentials of our people for better.
“Go back and preach peace and harmony to your people. Our land is open to all to thrive in business and we already have foreign and local investors who have started working on cultivation of large expanse of lands across the State and with same interest in animal husbandry as well.
“They are ready to work with you the same way we are also ready to work with all law abiding citizen of Nigeria to grow the economy of our State and the people therein. But first, you must find a way to identify and register your true members,” he advised.
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