The Senate on Wednesday asked the Minister of Defence, retired Colonel Mansur Dan-Ali, to withdraw his comment on anti-grazing laws passed by states across the country.
Dan-Ali had on Tuesday in Abuja advised the Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to suspend anti-open grazing law in Benue, Taraba and Ekiti States.
The Abia State House of Assembly passed the same law on Tuesday.
According to Dan-Ali, suspending the laws would reduce tension, while negotiations for safe routes for herders would commence.
However, coming under point of order, Senator Barnabas Gemade, who informed the Senate of the killings of seven people in his Senatorial District in Benue State, expressed dissatisfaction with the statement of the Minister of Defence at the Summit.
Gemade stated that governors have power to make laws through various states legislatures, adding that this not the first time the Minister will make such statement in the media.
Speaking in support of the point of order, Senator John Enoh said the killings have been on for the past seven years, therefore passing of anti-grazing is not the reason behind the killings in some parts of the country.
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