Dissenting voices have continued to grow against the President Muhammadu Buhari led government plan to revive the grazing reserve and routes across the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari had directed for the review of 368 grazing sites in 25 states.
But the Governor of Benue, Othom had quickly countered the directive, sounded loud and clear to the Federal Government that the state does not have land to give out.
Adding his voice, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Monday warned that the plan of reviving grazing reserves is not in the interest of the people.
Tambuwal who spoke in Lagos during the 63rd Birthday lecture of Mr. Richard Akinnola, a renowned journalist and author stated that it is high time Nigeria had a rethink on open grazing.
He added that open pastoralism is not in the interest of even the Fulani herdsmen.
He therefore urged the president to only resuscitate grazing reserves in states or areas where the people were interested.
But Tambuwal who delivered the lecture on “Security Challenges in Nigeria and its Implications for Sustainable Development” said stated that Nigeria should rethink open grazing.
According to him, the president should only revive grazing reserves where the people are interested. This, he noted, would curb the rising insecurity in the country.
“Why must someone from Sokoto be pursuing his cattle to Delta State?” he asked.
The governor also called for the reorientation of the herders “to bring them back to the track of modernism and development.”
