ECOWAS Should Curb Movement Of Foreign Herders – Ganduje

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has come out to urge the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take drastic steps in curbing foreign herders who are always armed with weapons from making an incursion into Nigeria.

He recently revealed this while speaking at the Stakeholders’ Parley on Farmers/Herders Conflict, organised by the Ogun State government, held at the Obas’ Complex, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta.

According to him, this kind of commercial herding is the reason for the constant clashes between herders and farmers in the country, therefore something has to be done.

He then reiterated his call on the federal government to ban open grazing and block grazing routes from the northern to the southern part of the country.

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Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR (born 25 December 1945) is a Nigerian politician and current Governor of Kano State since 2015. He previously served as deputy governor twice between 1999 and 2003 and 2011 to 2015.

Ganduje was born in Ganduje village of Dawakin Tofa local government area of Kano State in 1949.

He started his early education in Qur’anic and Islamiyya school at his village Ganduje where he became trained in Islamic knowledge. He later moved to headquarters of his local government where he attended Dawakin Tofa Primary School from 1956 to 1963. Ganduje attended the Government Secondary School Birnin Kudu from 1964 to 1968.

Ganduje attended Advanced Teachers’ College, Kano between 1969 and 1972. He then attended Ahmadu Bello University, located in Zaria, Kaduna State, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Science Education in 1975.