Adamawa State Government has tasked traditional rulers to take active steps in curtailing perennial clashes between herders and farmers in their domains.

The government asked the chiefs and emirs to constantly call meetings between herders and farmers around them with the intent of preventing clashes between them.

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri gave the directive on Monday during a state security council meeting in Government House, Yola, according to the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Awwal Tukur, who briefed newsmen after the meeting.

Tukur, who said the council focused mainly on issues of farmer-herder clashes during the meeting, said that as part of measures to curtail clashes between herders and farmers, the government had resolved to increase investment in agriculture and reestablish grazing reserves.

The SSG disclosed that, also at the Monday meeting, the state security council identified the need for increased training conferences with traditional rulers and their subjects to stop influx of transborder herders into the state.

Herder-farmer clashes: Adamawa directs traditional rulers to secure domains