Hon.Justice Adewale Thompson’s 1969 Judgment on Open Cattle Grazing - Suit no AB/26/66. "It is repugnant to natural justice....... to require a farmer to fence his farmer without a corresponding requirement on herdsmen to fence their cattle from damaging crops planted.".

Hon.Justice Adewale Thompson: 17th April,1969.
Suit no AB/26/66 at Abeokuta Division of the High Court.

"I do not accept the contention of Defendants that a custom exists which imposes an obligation on the owner of farm to fence his farm whilst the owner of cattle allows his cattle to wander like pests and cause damage. Such a custom if it exists, is unreasonable and I hold that it is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience and therefore unenforceable... in that it is highly unreasonable to impose the burden of fencing a farm on the farmer without the corresponding obligation on the cattle owner to fence in his cattle."

Sequence to that I banned open grazing for it is inimical to peace and tranquillity and the cattle owners must fence or ranch their animals for peace to reign in these communities."

Please share to create awareness since am sure nobody appealed against this decision, so it's law and any open grazing is a violation of the law.

It is obviously a primitive practice that an only thrive in hunter gathering and scarcely populated age. Not in this jet and over populated age that there are barely enough resources to go round.

If the fulanis can't adapt to the changes and learn to maximise the limited resources available, then they are inevitably bound for extinction.

Fulanis knows what is right to do but knowing that their people are top shots in Nigeria leadership,they decided to treat others with impunity.
But this will no last forever.