By Political Animal.
If SAMBISA FOREST is six hundred and eighty six
(686)square kilometers as said , which means6.8 million hectares or sixty-eight (68) million plots of land at hundred (100) feet by hundred (100) feet,having five (5) cows per plot,it can take three hundred and forty (340) million cows
Three hundred and forty (340)million cows is eighteen (18) times the current number of cows in Nigeria.
Based on the above we don’t need the presence of cows in major streets and cities ,let alone communities. “HERDSMEN” may not be flooding the villages and clashing with villagers.
The problem is leadership.This has been on for years.It did not start today.
Because of lack of visionary leadership,both herdsmen and the villagers are perishing.
Each side is employing self– defence ,to solve a problem that the Government should solve.Since waiting for government to solve the problem means till eternity ,no party wants to know how the other feels.
Unfortunately,we all need cow meat.
We know how cheap the meat has become for sometime now.You can ask our mothers and wives who are almost spending hours negotiating prices with meat sellers or butchers.
Even if we have a leader whose credentials include the ” lover of cows” there is nothing wrong with his passion.
That he is the president does not mean that he should quit his passion.
Remember that before this time he was the spokesman for the cattle owners when there was a dispute between them and certain people in particular zone in the country.
For him to raise or own one hundred and fifty (150) cows is not a small achievement.
Afterall ,how many do you have? .Maybe we should give honour to whom honour is due.Abii?
Since we all eat cow meat,since the prices went up how many cows have you reared yourself,at least on subsistence basis, to enjoy with your family during seasons.
At least that should save our wives the saliva they keep pouring on meat sellers.
Sometime in 2018 twenty-cows were executed on the street of Tehma in Ghana.
They were butchered for a street feast because the cattle rearer flouted the order of the government.The cattle rearer ran away very fast to avoid being converted to a human barbecue.
Since that time , you can hardly see cows on the streets of Accra Ghana.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
It looks like the quickest way to get cows off our streets and the villages.
The Political Animal 