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No Free Land For Grazing Reserves- Governor Abiola Ajimobi by Opharhe: 9:48am On Apr 27, 2016 |
Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi,
has said that the proposed creation of
grazing zones across the country is ill-
advised.
He warned that it was against the spirit of
the land use act and the overriding public
interest.
The governor bared his mind on the raging
controversy trailing the alleged sponsorship
of a bill at the National Assembly for the
creation of grazing zones for cattle across
the country as a panacea to the perennial
clash between trespassing herdsmen and
farm owners.
Ajimobi spoke during the launch of the
‘AgricOyo,’ the Oyo State agriculture
initiative, held at Paago, via Iseyin, in Oke
Ogun zone of the state, on Tuesday.
At the event were investors, outgrowers,
beneficiaries, institutional partners,
outtakers, traditional rulers, and top
officials of the state.
The governor said, “This is the time to call a
spade a spade. Those clamouring for
creation of grazing zones across the
country should have a rethink. It is against
the Land Use Act; it is against the law of
natural justice to seize people’s land to
cater for someone’s cattles.
“Grazing zones could be created for those
who are traditional cattle rearers in their
areas. I’m not against that. But, you cannot
come here and tell me you want to occupy
our land for grazing zones. The land exists
in our respective states and as such the
rigthtful owners should decide what to do
with them.
“Anybody outside this zone willing to rear
cattle here will need to approach the state
to buy the land and we offer what is
available with rules. There is no free land
for grazing zones. We need to take this firm
position. It won’t happen.”
On the new agriculture initiative, the
governor was upbeat that it would create
one million direct jobs across the agric
value chain thereby taking many
unemployed youths off the streets.
Ajimobi was upbeat that the state would
become the food basket of the Southern
part of the country in the short run when
the programme commenced in full swing,
with the ultimate ambition of feeding the
country.
The governor, who said that the initiative
was aimed at diversifying the economy of
the state, assured the people that the
programme would add value to the lives of
citizens of the state across different sectors.
He said, “I am elated that the agricultural
initiative has attracted these important
dignitaries in the Agric business world and
as well as a vast majority of our youths as
beneficiaries of the scheme.
“This project will reduce over-dependence
on oil, create wealth, alleviate poverty,
encourage productivity, create jobs and
bring about the overall socio-economic
uplift of Oyo State.
“Farming is very profitable and we will do
everything possible to make it attractive in
Oyo State to diversify our economy.”
He said the phase one of the project would
focus on the production of maize, cassava,
rice, poultry, soya beans and aquaculture.
Speaking on the anxiety of farmers over
security of their lives and their farmlands in
the face of the menace of the marauding
herdsmen, the governor charged the
farmers and the entire rural dwellers to be
more vigilant and report suspicious
activities of offending cattle rearers to
security agencies around them.
He warned that it was illegal for the
herdsmen to destroy farmlands and attacks
farmers in the guise of feeding their
animals.
While welcoming the Governor and his
entourage, the Caretaker Chairman of Iseyin
Local Government, Alhaji Saheed Alaran said
that agricultural has always proven to be a
major aspect of the social and occupational
lives of the people.
He said, “This programme will benefit the
state immensely through the provision of
food and employment to our teeming
youths through the synergy between the
state and the local government
administrations.”
In her opening remarks, the Chairperson of
the State Agricultural Initiative Committee,
Mrs. Tolu Shadipe, lauded the efforts of the
state government in ensuring that the
vision became a reality, a development she
said would take agriculture back to its pride
of place for the economic benefit of the
people of the State.
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola
Adeyemi and the Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba
Abdul-Ganiyu Adekunle Salawudeen, in their
separate remarks, commended Ajimobi for
the initiative, which they said was
unprecedented since the days of the late
sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. |
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