Gombe State Government has inaugurated a high-level White Paper Implementation Committee on Grazing Reserves, Forest and Game Reserves, and Cattle Routes in the state.
The committee is expected to engage relevant stakeholders and roll out practical strategies for the seamless and effective implementation of the White Paper policies, in line with the state government’s commitment to security, food sufficiency and sustainable development.
Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya while inaugurating the committee, said his administration has developed a comprehensive and forward-looking framework, captured in the White Paper, to stem the tide of farmer-herder conflicts, banditry and related security challenges in the state.
He added that the findings and recommendations of that assessment have since been approved by the State Executive Council and articulated in a White Paper.
“The committee’s inauguration follows the earlier work of an Assessment Committee set up by his administration to examine challenges associated with grazing reserves, forest and game reserves, as well as cattle routes, with a view to proposing practical and sustainable solutions.
“The initiative is aimed at dismantling archaic and unregulated grazing practices, strengthening security and legal frameworks, and preventing farmer-herder clashes, while guaranteeing food security and peaceful coexistence across the state,” the Governor said.
According to him, the committee is composed of security experts, legal practitioners and geospatial technology professionals, and is tasked with translating the government’s policies into concrete, enforceable actions.
Responding on behalf of others members, the Chairman of the Implementation Committee, AIG Babaji Sunday (Rtd), assured that the committee would work assiduously, deploy modern technologies and align with best security practices to faithfully deliver on its mandate.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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