Improved Water Management Needed for Fulani Clashes
An Abuja-based water and disaster management expert, Dr. Joachim Ezeji, has proffered a solution to the rising wave of conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria, which he attributed to poor water management practices across the country.
In a statement on Friday, he stressed: ‘’Where economic growth is impacted by rainfall, episodes of droughts and floods have generated waves of migration and statistical spikes in violence within countries’’.
He argued that in a globalised and connected world, such problems are impossible to quarantine, adding that “where large inequities prevail, people move from zones of poverty to regions of prosperity which can lead to increased social tensions as is currently the case with herdsmen from the north moving southwards’’.
Josh Townsley