The Senate will devote significant part of its time to finding a lasting solution to the incessant cattle-herding-related crisis plaguing the nation.
This came to light on Monday through the leader of the Senate, who addressed newsmen in his office in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Abdullahi disclosed that his deputy, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, who is from Ondo North, will table a motion before the house on the issue.
He said local political leaders should be encouraged to find a lasting solution to the crisis before it escalated, even as he stressed that the Federal Government also has a big role to play in resolving the crisis.
“With some kind of ethnic colouration of the herders/farmers clashes, urgent attention are required at various levels of government to prevent them from further escalation,” Abdullahi said.
“These are kind of crises that must be addressed promptly and squarely in preventing ethnic entrepreneurs from hijacking the whole situation and putting the country in danger.
“There are existential issues that have set communities that have hitherto lived together peacefully, against each other either for political advantage or political matters”, the lawmaker said.
He said insecurity generally should be tackled, be it Boko Haram or banditry, stressing that there could not be development where there was no peace.
When his opinion was sought on the appointment of the ex-service chiefs as ambassadors and whether the senate would approve the appointment, he said the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Affairs would deliberate on the issue.
“Communications for the confirmation would be read hopefully by the Senate president tomorrow and whatever happens we will pass it on to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and then the committee on foreign affairs will now do its deliberations.
“I am not one under this situation to pre-empt whatever the committee is going to decide because the committee is made up of several responsible and experienced senators who have also been ambassadors themselves so they will know exactly what are required for people to be appointed as ambassadors to represent the country in whatever country.
Abdullahi said the committee would tackle all necessary questions and table their findings before the Senate.
