Olalekan Adetayo, AbujaThe Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on Thursday described the blockage of grazing routes across the country as the remote cause of recent killings especially in Benue and Taraba states. He also identified the implementation of anti-grazing law in some states as the immediate cause of the killings. Look at this issue (killings in Benue and Taraba), what is the remote cause of this farmers’ crisis? Finish!”Asked if he was justifying the killings because of the blockage of the routes, the minister said, “I have told you that the remote cause is part of the grazing law. In those killings you are talking about, there are also militias that did the killings.

Source: Punch January 25, 2018 23:03 UTC