Miyetti Allah: We Are Tired Of Open Grazing

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has said it is tired of open grazing in across the country.

MACBAN Chairman in the state, Bello Garba urged the state government to make provision for ranches as a way of putting an end to persistent crisis between farmers and herdsmen.

Garba spoke during a public hearing on a bill to regulate rearing and grazing of livestock and provide for the establishment of ranches and other related matters in Akure, on Wednesday.

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He said that the association would “support any peaceful move to address the issue in the state, and farmers and herdsmen must carry out their respective activities without clashing.

“The association has been begging the state government to register Fulani men in all the local government area of the state.”

Also, Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman, the Assistant Secretary of the association in the state said “open grazing had become obsolete and needed to be banned.”

Abdul-Rahman asked all stakeholders to embrace modern cattle rearing technique.

He said: “Farmers and herders must allow peace to reign, considering the importance of both parties to nation’s growth.”

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However, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has again appealed to South East governors to as a matter of urgency, ban all manner of open grazing in the region in compliance with the 1969 statutory law of the Federal Government that banned it.

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But, his proposition met stiff resistance from Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, who argued that though South East governors were desirous of solving the intractable farmers/herders’ clashes, the IPOB leader had no basis to issue ultimatum to the governors.

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Kanu had warned that if after 14 days the South East Governors failed to heed his appeal, and there is no firm and decisive action by them to ban open grazing in South East, IPOB’s Eastern Security Network, ESN, would step in to commence the enforcement of the 1969 Anti-Grazing Law across the entire region.

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