Cattles around the Aso Rock
A video exclusively obtained and posted online by Premium Times
on Thursday, shows herdsmen grazing their cattle around the Aso Rock
presidential villa in Abuja, and along a road near the entrance to the
vice president’s office, obstructing vehicular movements.
It was gathered that a journalist who stopped by to get a better
view of the animals, was compelled by security agents to delete
suspicious pictures and videos from his phone.
How the animals and their herders accessed the restricted area of
upmarket Asokoro district were not ascertained as at the time of filing
this report.
Indiscriminate movement of cattle in Abuja and other major Nigerian
cities has been a subject of concern amid rising cases of clashes
between herdsmen and farmers, as the Senate recently ordered the
slaughtering of cows found roaming in the city centre, adding that
owners of the cows should be fined N50,000 per cow.
The FCTA have also recently directed law enforcement agencies to
enforce a total ban on cattle grazing, begging, street hawking and
commercial motorcycle (Okada) in the FCT.
Watch the video below;
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