The Federal Government has been advised to compel cattle owners to establish ranches where their cattle will be kept to permanently end the incessant clashes between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the country.
Sam Onuigbo, member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency, Abia State at lower chamber of the National Assembly, who gave the advice in Umuahia, noted that the menace of herdsmen was a national issue that required a national solution before it metamorphoses into something else.
He maintained that government should make it compulsory that cattle owners should own ranches where they should be grazing their cattle instead of leading them into farms to destroy people’s crops.
The Abia lawmaker also noted that his party, PDP was engulfed in real crisis which members were trying to give a lasting solution.
“We want a situation where people will be united through fairness and equity so as to have good opposition in the country,” said Onuigbo.
He expressed the optimism that PDP would come out of the present intra-party crisis rocking it.
On his assessment of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government, the lawmaker said: “They did a wholesale change. They should have retained some old hands to assist. PDP was able to deepen and nurture democracy for 16 years to enable others come in,” he said.
Onuigbo disclosed that PDP lawmakers at the National Assembly supported the ruling party because they had a responsibility to see that things went well in the country.
