28th April 2014 We read minutes of the previous meeting, some few amendments were made and we moved on to the next agenda.
We were presented a paper from the University of Technology, Akure: a win-win solution for herdsmen and farmers clash.
They started by saying the clash between farmers and herdsmen is neither religious, ethnic nor tribal.
The sudden disappearance of green vegetation from their natural habitat forces herdsmen to move southward seeking grazing lands; food and water for their flock and without a well-defined routes, animals end up in people's farm. This basically, is the cause of the crisis.
They suggested the need for the production of fuel ethanol, and cultivation of sorghum which can be used for animal feeds and an agro industrial solution to address the problems of herdsmen.
Global warming has caused unemployment, poverty and youth restiveness.
We also had a lecture by a Dubai based German company - Bio Tech company that major in cleansing oil spillage. Be it in food or land, it can be sprayed using a plane or jet from a distance, The product is made of biodegradable enzymes.
Don’t want to get you bored reading about enzymes, chromosomes, environment degradation and what not, so…
After the exciting lecture, we splitted to our various sub committee to deliberate...
A meeting was called in the evening for chairpersons and their vice which I was supposed to attend but I had to oversee the committee while the chairperson went for the meeting.
She came back with a report that some committees were having issues; the chair and vice chair and so on. Some have no plans yet of a report and seek indulgence of the Conference Chairman to extend the committee work time, but he has no such powers, he said.
And also they spoke about the World Economic Summit which will start early May and the possibility of it distorting the conference time table due to restriction of movement.
Well, off my committee...
The committee of devolution of power seem to be on different pages...
Some part are for 100% resource control, others are saying noooooo.... Well this is going to be a long drag.
The Committee on National security I see have invited some security men - Them Oga at the tops. Oops, civil defense and the army officers to discuss security challenges raping the country.
Well, things are going the way they should in my committee. So far so good.
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