Plateau Governor Insists Ranching Is Better Option

The Governor of Plateau State, Mr Simon Lalong, has explained the policy of ranches designed to resolve cases of clashes between herdsmen and farmers across the country.

Speaking on Channels TV programme, Sunday Politics, the Governor differentiated between the grazing reserves and ranches.

He stated the reasons behind his states’ adoption of ranching and the modalities.

“The Suswan committee (former Benue Governor) made far-reaching recommendations which include ranches or grazing reserves (and grazing routes).

“Now for me on the Plateau, it will be difficult to go for grazing reserves because the routes are not available. Although the law is there, you cannot get the routes.

“In some of the routes, you will find out that they are occupied by government buildings and structures.

“If you go to Abuja today, many of the parks you see there are grazing routes. I will even not be surprised if the structure of the Villa was also grazing route.

“So when we look at it, we look at the pros and cons – the advantages of the two, and the recommendation was that we should go for ranches,” he said.