Ekiti State House of Assembly on Thursday, August 25, 2016 passed a bill to ban free [nomadic] grazing in the state.
The bill also prescribed six months
imprisonment without an option of fine for any offender of the bill that
also ban movement of cattle after 6pm in the state.
The passage of the bill followed the
submission of a report of its joint committees on agriculture and
environment by its chairman, Ayodele Fajemilehin, to the House.
The speaker of the house, Kola
Oluwawole, who presided over the plenary, said the bill would now reduce
the incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the state.
If the bill is eventually accented to by
the governor, it will now become a crime for any cattle, sheep and goat
to graze on undesignated land for ranches in Ekiti.
According to the new bill tagged,”
Prohibition of Cattle and Other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti, 2016″,
anyone found violating the bill upon conviction shall be sentenced to
six months in prison without the option of fine.
Others included, “The Governor shall by
an order designates land in each of 16 Local Government Areas in the
state in respect of which Cattle or Ruminants may be permitted to graze.
The rest are,” No person shall cause or
permit any cow, oxen, sheep as well as goat under his or her control to
graze on any land in which the Governor has not designated as ranches”
among others.
“No cattle or other ruminants shall by any means move in the night, movement shall be between 7 a.m and 6p.m”
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