Bello said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday.
Browsing: Cattle grazing
Tinubu had at a seminar by the The Nation and TVC in Abuja on Monday advised the Federal Government to convert unused land to grazing reserves
This was disclosed on Tuesday at a session by top government functionaries with Editors
The deputy governor directed the police and the farmers/pastoralists board to henceforth confiscate cows seen grazing at night or encroaching into farmlands and sell them to compensate the victims
According to Sule, 16 herdsmen have been arraigned and convicted by the Sanitation Mobile Court in the FCT.
He said that the AEPB and the FCT Task Team on environmental sanitation had commenced arrest and prosecution of herdsmen grazing cattle in the FCT, Abuja
He said one of the main challenges facing herdsmen in the state was a grazing land, hence the need for the state government to come to their aid
He added that it had become necessary to warn the nomads against grazing at night because they had been accused of committing all sorts of crime during the night.
Governor Fayose made this known when he visited Oke-Ako in Ikole Local Government Area of the State that was invaded last Friday by Fulani herdsmen, which led to the killing of two residents of the town
Ahia told newsmen in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that 36 farmers in the community lost cash crops, especially cassava, to cattle grazing by Fulani herdsmen in 2013.