Senator Uba Sani, the governor of Kaduna State, has identified climate change as not just an environmental issue, but also a significant danger to national stability, widening disparities and increasing the likelihood of war.
Speaking at the start of a regional conference on climate change-induced conflicts in Northern Nigeria, which included representatives from the 19 Northern State governments, religious leaders, and various agencies, he stated that rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and extreme weather events are no longer distant threats.
The governor cautioned that desertification, which has rendered once-fertile regions barren, as well as decreasing rivers and rapid deforestation, are strong evidence of the need to act in response to the recent floods in Nigeria, particularly in Kaduna.
According to him,
“These environmental changes are severely disrupting livelihoods, displacing communities and intensifying competition for scarce resources such as water, arable land and food.”
Senator Sani added that as natural resources grow scarcer, tensions will undoubtedly rise, and farmer-herder disputes will continue to demonstrate how environmental stress may lead to violence.
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