Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has inaugurated a 17-man Conflict Prevention and Resolution Committee, towards ensuring peaceful coexistence between farmers and herders in Kogi state.<\/p>\n
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Ododo, speaking at the inauguration on Thursday, charged them to check, regulate and monitor the movement of herdsmen and their livestock along the stock routes, to prevent farmers\u2019\/herders clashes.<\/p>\n
The committee has the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Food Security, Timothy Ojoma, as chairman, with members drawn from the traditional institutions, including the Attah of Igala, among others.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the ceremony organised by the Kogi Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project, Ododo, represented by the Kogi L-Pres State Project Coordinator, Dr Olufemi Bolarin, said the committee had the responsibility of enlightening farmers and herders on the importance of peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n
Ojoma lauded Ododo for emphasising food security, adding that the committee could not have come at a better time than now.<\/p>\n
He said food security was key to food sufficiency, as he reiterated the huge spending by the present administration on agriculture, to sufficiently feed the people.<\/p>\n
In a presentation, Director, Emergency and Risk Alert, Dr Gbenro Olajuyigbe, titled, \u201cDialogue in pursuit of peace between farmer-herder communities,\u201d recommended the setting up of local government community platforms, maintenance of conflict diaries as well as the need to set up early warning systems to check conflicts.<\/p>\n
He also called for the establishment of a national peace dialogue committee and the formation of inclusive security architecture, to strengthen the capacity of security agencies to curtail conflicts arising from farmer-herder clashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has inaugurated a 17-man Conflict Prevention and Resolution Committee, towards ensuring peaceful coexistence between…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1226,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-11781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ahmed-usman-ododo","9":"tag-kogi"},"yoast_head":"\n