The federal government has directed its technical committee on pastoralists and sedentary farmers’ conflicts to proffer solutions to the conflicts between the duo within two weeks.
The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau gave the directive while inaugurating the 16-man committee in Abuja on Monday.
Dambazau who noted that the conflict has been escalating every year with more violent proportion, different dimensions and increasing geographical spread, lamented that it has resulted to wanton destruction of lives and properties.
He also said the conflict was creating distrust amongst the ethno-religious groups in the country while also threatening internal security and socio-economic development of the nation.
Dambazau said the setting up of the committee was an offshoot of a stakeholders’ meeting held earlier in April 2016.
"This technical committee is therefore, expected to work assiduously within the next two weeks...to outline tentative strategy to deal with the conflict vis-à-vis methodology for open stakeholders' forum," he said.
The Chairman of the committee, who’s also the Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Prof. Oshita Oshita assured the government that his team will meet up with the deadline.
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