ABUBAKAR MALAMI – WRONG ANALOGY

My brother, that your example no work. Comparing the herdsmen crisis in the country and the suggestions by the southern governors banning open grazing with an illustrated ban on spare parts selling is a very mischievous attempt at diverting attention. It is even risky sef, in a country like this where you have a large population that don’t read and, even if they do, do not have the power to discern. That is how one street urchin seeing this statement in Kano will shout, ‘They have banned sale of spare parts,’ and another round of looting and maiming will start.

I agree with your position on the rights and freedom of movement enshrined in the Constitution and all that, but when the issue of violence associated with this movement has become rife to the extent that it is making the country divided up to the point that insecurity across the nation is the order of the day, then something has to be done.

Tying your argument with all due respect to just’ rights to movement and freedom’ in this instant is at best dodgy. The issue here is not open grazing. The issue here, sir, is the violence that comes with it. The herders-farmers crisis that is leading to other things is the issue. Can we just for once put our heads together, forget any shallow attachments, and find a lasting solution to this thing. Me, I am getting tired.