Sentences with phrase «anti-open grazing»

The attacks, which spilled over to Tuesday, came on the heels of the implementation of the anti-open grazing law, which the Fulani herdsmen considered detrimental to their means of livelihood.

Speaking after the State Security Meeting in Makurdi, Ortom said that no matter the level of intimidation and killings by the herdsmen, the anti-open grazing law would not be reversed or repealed.

«The command only heard that there are movement of Fulani herders from the neighbouring Benue State into the Awe LGA of the state following the anti-open grazing law enacted by the Benue State Government,» he stated.

Also reacting to the anti-open grazing law, the state chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Muhammed Hussine, said if the issue at hand was not addressed as quickly as expected by the Federal Government, it would usher in a fresh crisis.

The MACBAN Chairman, Alhaji Muhammed Hussein, said this in an interview on Thursday in reaction to the anti-open grazing law enacted by the Benue State Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom.

The movement of herdsmen affected by the Benue State's anti-open grazing law is causing a lot of tension in border communities between Nasarawa and Benue states.

The anti-open grazing law enacted by the Benue State Government recently has forced massive movement of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle into parts of Awe, Keana and Obi local government areas of Nasarawa State, UMAR MUHAMMED takes a look on how the massive migration is affecting farmers

A top government official who did not want his name in the print told Saturday PUNCH that the anti-open grazing bill became imperative because it would put to an end persistent crisis which had claimed scores of lives between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers.

Chief Kuza explained that if the anti-open grazing law in Benue was intended to ensure lasting peace between farmers and herdsmen and if the herdsmen are comfortable with the law, they should embrace dialogue rather than trying to cause mayhem in Benue and Nasarawa states.

They used government machinery under the guise of anti-open grazing law without an option to the thousands of displaced Fulani herders in Benue.

He, however, called on the residents of various border communities between Nasarawa and Benue states to go about their normal daily business as the implementation of the Anti-open grazing law by the Benue state government takes effect.

The zonal chairman affirmed that a larger percentage of Fulani herdsmen were unaware that their traditional method of rearing cattle had been proscribed by the anti-open grazing law, threatening that any attempt to impound their cattle would spark a crisis in the state.

The police boss, who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent on Friday, also explained that about 70 herdsmen had been arrested for violating the state's anti-open grazing law.

«Benue State Government should have a rethink over the anti-open grazing law in order to avert any crisis that might erupt in the state.»

Three herdsmen; Iliya Garba, Hassan Abdullah and Lamhark Lonfak were, penultimate Friday, sentenced to one year imprisonment each for violating the anti-open grazing law by Magistrate Lillan Tsumba.

These same people of Benue state have continued to go through series of armed attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen who had protested against the passage of the anti-open grazing law by the Benue state house of Assembly.

Those who commended or justified the killings and condemned the Benue State Government for enacting the anti-open grazing law were branded patriots and pampered with a studied golden silence.

In his remarks, Ayokunle said they were in the state to identify with the people, expressing support to the anti-open grazing law.

The statement revealed that Mr. Buhari had been advised to challenge the constitutionality of the anti-open grazing law passed by Benue and Ekiti States, a suggestion he rejected.

It is on account of this he brushed aside an opinion that the federal government should challenge the constitutionality of the anti-open grazing bill.

All the bishops agreed, the divine coincidence of this is that it was May 22, 2017 that the anti-open grazing bill was passed by the state assembly.

Iorapuu said the date of the funeral, which was chosen during the bishops» conference in Rome, coincided with the date the anti-open grazing law was passed by the Benue State House of Assembly.

Let me emphasise here that we in the state are not at war with any ethnic group, the enactment of the anti-open grazing law was to ensure peace in the state.

Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.

Dan - Ali had also said that the implementation of anti-open grazing law in some states was the immediate cause of the killings.

That must underscore the Lalung claim that he «warned» Ortom against the dangers of the Benue anti-open grazing law.

Ekiti's anti-open grazing law, against rampaging herdsmen, was a great hit, with many an editorial comment recommending it to others.

But the same dynamics that make the Benue anti-open grazing law so dangerous also doom the so - called «grazing colonies», which the Federal Government is currently floating.