Legal frameworks on herders-farmers crisis in Nigeria

Abstract

The southward migration of herders in Nigeria is causing violent clashes with local farmers. To prevent the crisis from escalating, the government enacted some legal frameworks which have not been able to arrest the crisis. The objective of this paper is appraising the extant legal frameworks against the herders – farmers crisis with a view to determining their effectiveness or otherwise and suggesting the way-forward. This paper employs the non-doctrinal library-based research method. The findings of this paper include the fact that the legal frameworks are too weak to arrest the menace. A few of the legal frameworks are tribalistic, biased, unfair and /or poorly executed. This paper therefore suggests appropriate review of the statutes and policies. This paper concludes that effective implementation of reviewed version of the legal frameworks will arrest the crisis.