Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has stated that despite the threat by the Miyetti Allah (cattle herders association) against the anti-grazing law, its implementation would take effect from November 1.
The governor made this statement at the State House, Abuja, where he met with the President.
He also demanded the arrest of leaders of Miyetti Allah for vowing to thwart the Benue State anti-open grazing law.
Ortom charged security agencies not to watch Miyetti Allah members reverse the peace in the people of the state by making it ungovernable.
According to him, “the law is not targeted at any particular group but meant to protect both farmers and herdsmen, who he enjoined to take up offers of land for ranching.”
He also said, “the state could no longer continue with a monthly wage bill of N7.8 billion and has begun the process of reducing it to an average of N4.5 billion.”
Recall that Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural association has faulted the Anti-Open Grazing Law in Benue State, describing it as obnoxious and a recipe for anarchy.
The National President of the organisation, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, who made the position of the herdsmen known, said the Land Grazing law of 1960 is subsisting and that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue should learn from a former Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau who tried to decimate the Fulanis for eight years but failed.
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