Killings: ‘We are not bandits’, herdsmen reject profiling, demand dialogue

*Want 30% of agric budget for Livestock ministry
*Demand immediate gazette of 417 grazing reserves
*Seek pilot ranches, fodder production in six zones

By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Pastoralist groups have rejected the profiling of Fulani pastoralists as bandits and called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately declare a national dialogue on farmer-herder conflicts, following what they say are the killings of hundreds of pastoralists in recent months.
At a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, President of Kautal Pulaaku Fulbe Association of Nigeria, Dr. Huseini Buzaye, who signed an address on behalf of the Confederation of Pastoralist Non-Governmental Organisations CONPA, said the gr...