APC lawmaker says, Nigerians are just experimenting with us - Jimoh speaks on 2019

√ Honourable Olumuyiwa Jimoh says the federal government was very slow inhandling the herdsmen, farmers' crises in parts of the country

√ Jimoh argues that even though the crises escalated, the people of middle-belt would still vote for the APC in 2019

√ The lawmaker advises the APC to consolidate on the areas it has so far won before spreading its tentacles to the south-eastern part of the country Honourable Olumuyiwa Jimoh, the deputy majority leader of the Lagos state House of Assembly and representative of Apapa constituency 1, says though the federal government's response to the herdsmen/farmers' clash in some parts of the country was very slow, the people of the middle-belt would still vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

He speakswith Eromosele Ebhomele:Benue and Taraba have been two major states hit by herdsmen in the country. What do you think can be done about this menace?It is quite unfortunate that we have to look at incidents like this to determine our political consciousness and this is dangerous for our development as a people. The herdsmen historically are from the Fouta Djallon.

They are Nomads. They move and do not have a specific place. But in the modern world, but in the modern world, cattle are not moved from one place to another. Thereis and should always be a ranch. I don't think the entire Nigeria produced the number of cattle produced by Texas as a state but they have so many ranches and curtail what could have become some excesses. Comparing with the western world is even too distant.

Let us look at our neighbouring African countries. Many of them have succeeded in managing what has become crisis in Nigeria. Imagine as a farmer, I labour to produce my crops, maybe perennial or whatever as the case may be, and under two to three hours, they are destroyed by the movement of cattle. It is very painful and nonsensical. Imagine how it has ledto killings.I think in my own opinion, the federal government reacted very late. The government has decided on measures which might be good but it came out very late. Unfortunately now, people are linking it with political developments. Political sensibility tells us to see our neighbours as ourselves. I think as a student of dialectics that the most turbulent century was the last in which we had series of Civil Wars, the two world wars and some ethnic and some ethnic issues.

I mean the century that ended in the year 2000. It should have been a new leaf instead of these carry over that we still see.

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