Talking after a closed-door session with President Buhari in Katsina, Katsina State, on Friday, Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema, the Chairman of ECOWAS and Togolese President, instructed newsmen that leaders of the western area o Africa will quickly deliberate on the persistent outbreak of farmers/herdsmen clashes in some nations within the area, together with Nigeria the place scores have died.
Gnassingbe who said that the violent clashes between farmers and herdsmen are usually not peculiar to Nigeria alone, additionally added that the issue is being witnessed throughout the ECOWAS member states together with his personal nation, Togo.
“It is a drawback that many nations expertise. .
I used to be telling the President (Buhari) in my nation in Togo, yearly we now have that problem between the cattle herders and farm house owners. In Benin, we now have the identical state of affairs; in Ghana we now have the identical state of affairs and likewise in Ivory Coast. .
So I feel it’s a good suggestion and the President has accepted that problem will be mentioned among the many Heads of States. Inside ECOWAS additionally it is a vital problem. .
So, it’s in lots of nations; it isn’t a non secular problem; It’s not spiritual; it isn’t an ethnic problem but it surely’s an historical drawback which (we) can resolve if we now have the braveness to debate it and attempt to discover answer as a lot as attainable,’’ he mentioned.
NAN reported that the Togolese President mentioned he used alternative to ask President Buhari to the assembly between member states of the Central African nations (ECCAS) and the Financial Group of the West African States (ECOWAS), slated for July 30.
“I additionally inform the President that we now have scheduled a joint assembly between Central African nations (ECCAS) and the West African nations (ECOWAS), and that assembly is scheduled for July 30.
“And I respectfully invited Mr President to attend that assembly. And the next day, July 31, there can be ECOWAS Summit in Lome,’’ he added.
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