Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq, the governor of Kwara State has raised alarm over rapid influx of Fulani herders into his State.
He said the influx poses security implications.
The Governor noted that the the herders now outnumber the indigenous population in many communities across the state.
“Fulanis have spread into multiple villages in Kwara, with their population gradually outnumbering indigenes,” said the Governor.
AbdulRazaq who spoke in an interview with the Vanguard newspaper blamed the invasion by the Fulani on the ban on open grazing by governors in the Southern part of the country.
He blamed the ban on open -grazing by governors in the Southern part of the country for the development.
“Security challenges are huge, especially with insecurity in the North-West and the declaration by Southern Governors to ban open grazing,” said the Kwara governor.
“Once they pronounced it and set a date, we saw a migration of herdsmen coming in, to the extent that if you go to Kwara South, Kwara North now, in some villages, the Fulani have moved in. They are more in population than the indigenes.”
Mr AbdulRazaq argued that legislation enforcing the ban could not be adopted in Kwara, explaining that open grazing is enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria.
