Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said that the crises bedevilling the country can be linked to the ducation that herding deny the children involved.
According to him, the greatest evil of leading cattle from North to South and elsewhere isdenying children involved education.
In an interview with ‘The Vanguard’, Ganduje said,
“Trekking from the northern part of this country to the middle belt or central part of this country or to the south, to me, is not acceptable.
“The children will not be able to have education, which to me it is criminal.
“Will the education system follow them along the routes from north to central to southern parts of this country? Can any educational system agreed with that?
“That is why at the Dansoshiya Forest here in Kano we creating the Ruga system where we provide water, housing, markets, veterinary clinic and educational system for the children so that they can also be enjoying social development like any other person in Nigeria.
“I was once in China and I asked my driver, a Chinese man, ‘I have not seen cows crossing the roads?’ He said ‘no, no, no, the cattle rearers are in one zone.
“‘Anybody who wants to rear cattle will be in that zone. That is why you cannot see the cows here and there’.
“That is planning. That is what we should have.
“The greatest crime in migrating from North to South for grazing is lack of education for the children. As far as I am concerned, that is the greatest crime; you denying somebody education.
“No Islamic education, no western education, nothing whatsoever; that is why we are in these problems now.”
