Excerpts From the Paper Delivered By Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 15th Daily Trust Annual Dialogue in Abuja

"I believe we must transform the nation by embarking on deep and impactful reforms, by creating more jobs, providing social policy initiatives and building an infrastructure befitting a leading nation. 

Social services must become a reality close at hand and not a vague dream lying in the distance.

"It is incumbent on the federal government to do what past governments neglected to do. 

We must forget our age-old prejudices in order to resolve herders/farmers' problem. What we need is serious committed action. 

 "The crux of the matter is that the nomadic way of life is fast becoming obsolete. Large scale nomadic practice does not belong in this day and age. This is reality and it is inescapable. "Thus, herders have no right to cling to this way of life by killing others. 

Government must stop their violence but also offer them a viable new way of life by moving them toward more modern, non-nomadic cattle rearing. 

"Additionally, government should establish a relief and rehabilitation program for those families and communities that have been so grievously harmed."

Idowu Sowunmi