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PRESS RELEASE
On behalf of the over 300 minority ethnic groups in northern Nigeria, we congratulate the President for setting up a committee to look into ways of addressing the herders’farmers’ conflict in the country.
While we hope the committee will do a good job, we are skeptical and apprehensive of why such a committee is set up in the first place and doubt if its assignment is not to execute a pre-plannedprogramme.
There are of course three submissions we are aware of.
a.    The resolution of the national conference 2014 on the herders-farmers conflict.
b.    The submission of the national security adviser 2014on the herders-farmers conflict.
c.    The demand of the Fulani herdsmenon the herders-farmers conflict.
We believe the solution to the problem of the herder-farmers conflict lies in a collective resolution of the parties to the conflict and not simply an expert document or a demand by one side to the conflict.
As we wish the committee good speed and Gods guidance with their assignment, we believe the approach of the President towards resolving the herders-farmer conflict will be a clear statement of which direction the Federal Government will take and a test of the sincerity of the statement made by the President;his ExcellencyMohammaduBuhari that he belongs to no one and that he belongs to everybody.
Meanwhile, we call on all Nigerians to cooperate with the committee by making their position known and providing the committee with relevant information to ensure it reaches an unbiased position on the issue.
CONACEDA secretariat has also instructed its national conference implementation technical committee to liase with the Committee, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the National Assembly on the issue.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Sign
Solomon Sukukum Suleman
Sec. general

CONAECDA

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