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24.10.17

Benue people will stone me if I refuse to implement anti-grazing law – Ortom

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Benue people will stone me if I refuse to implement anti-grazing law – Ortom
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that his people will stone him if he failed to implement the new anti-grazing law.
Speaking at a meeting with the leadership of Maiyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association, traditional rulers, local government council chairmen and other stakeholders in Benue State, Ortom insisted that the November implementation date was still unchanged.
He said, “The entirety of our people demanded for the law, and from the response of the leadership of the various ethnic groups in the state, if I fail to implement the law, they have threatened to implement it themselves and that means chaos and instability will set in.
“What that also means is that if this government fails to do the bidding of the majority of our people, we risk being stoned by the people who insisted that the law should come into being.”
Earlier, the National President of Maiyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Alhaji Muhammadu Kirowa, declared the support of his people for the law and the government’s move to check the recurrent herdsmen/farmers’ crisis in the state.
Kirowa said: “Initially, we thought that the law was intended to chase herdsmen out of Benue, but we have realised that it is intended to create peaceful co-existence among our people.
“We appeal to the state government to allow our group more time to get acquainted with the law and to liaise with governors of the northern states to ensure that the over 400 grazing reserves in the country are functional.”

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