FG’s Grazing Policy Unclear, CAN Laments

The National President of the Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN), Engr. Daniel Kadzai, has said Christian youth in the country were unsure of the Federal Government’s sincerity on the implementation of the grazing policy being propagated.
Kadzai disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
According to him, the Federal Government has not addressed the recent killings by herdsmen across the country, only to come out with a policy that will favour the herdsmen.
“When you talk of grazing or ranching, the first thing that will come to the minds of the people is: what does President Buhari want to achieve with this policy?
“It has been confirmed that most of the herdsmen are not Nigerians, so does the Federal Government want to finance a programme that is mostly dominated by foreigners?”, he asked.
The YOWICAN President said the huge money that is budgeted for ranching and grazing could be channelled to education and the health sectors; emphasising that it will go a long way, as he wondered why the Federal Government was bent on implementing the programme.
“The Christian youth are worried by the policy because the money injected into nomadic education during the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo has not been accounted for.
“If you travel to some parts of the North, where the project was implemented, you will not see anything that is commensurate with what government has spent in that regard. The schools are nowhere to be found, just to say the least”, he lamented.
He said the fear of most Nigerians on the grazing reserve policy is that it is a ploy to promote a particular ethnic group, owing to the fact that the herdsmen are hostile to their host communities.