Governor Ayodele Fayose of
Ekiti State, has
insisted that there is no land
for grazing in
the state, noting that power
to assign land
belongs to the governor.
Fayose who spoke during
the May edition
of ‘Meet Your Governor’ his
monthly media
chat, said the rampaging
Fulani herdsmen
who have been terrorizing
communities in
parts of the country would
meet their
waterloo in Ekiti if they dare
attack anyone.
He said: “If you bring your
cow to come and
eat up my farmland, I will
put Gammalin 20
inside the water that they
will drink from.
That is what I will do to
those destroying
our communities and raping
our wives,” he
said.
“I heard that 83 cows have
been killed since
I made the statement. If you
come to Afao
and eat up my palm tree, we
have set traps
for grass cutters and
rodents and the trap
will catch them.
“There is no land for grazing
in Ekiti state.
Power to assign land
belongs to the
governor. Tell them that
there is no land for
grazing here because it is
my right to sign
the certificate of
occupancy.”
Fayose was apparently
reacting to the
National Grazing Bill which
has
purportedly scaled through
second reading in
both the Senate and the
House of
Representatives.
The bill was sponsored by
Senator Zainab
Kure, Senator representing
Niger South
Senatorial District.
If passed and signed into
law, "the bill seeks
to provide for the
establishment of national
grazing reserves and stock
routes. The Bill
proposes to establish a
National Grazing
Reserve Commission
(NGRC) for the
country.
"The NGRC will be charged
with the
responsibility of using funds
received from
the Federal Government to
forcefully
acquire farmlands from
Nigerians in all the
36 states of the country,
develop same at
government expense
through the provision
of bore holes, water
reservoirs, etc; for the
exclusive use of nomadic
cattle rearers.”
Meanwhile, commenting on
reports that he
was billed to be picked as
the running mate
of Senator Alimodu Sheriff
in the 2019
Presidential election,
Governor Fayose said
he is qualified to be the
running mate of the
presidential candidate of the
Peoples
Democratic Party in 2019.
Fayose, who is known to
have influenced
the emergence of Ali Modu
Sheriff as the
national chairman of the
party, said Sheriff
will continue to preside over
the party till
the next general election.
His words: “Senator Ali
Modu Sheriff is the
PDP chairman and he is
going to continue in
office. If he gives me the VP
slot, it is a
good thing for Ekiti people
even though, you
cannot set out to say you
want to be VP.
“But you people should not
worry yourself
about 2019 because nobody
knows who will
be alive in 2019 but
mentioning my name for
VP is good for Ekiti.
“I am qualified to be VP if it
is the will of
God. God is taking me to a
higher place,
how, I don’t know.”
Source: http://www.allnaijahints..co.ke/2016/05/we-have-no-land-for-grazing.html?m=1