₦airaland Forum

MadCow1:
FINALLY!!!


Ekiti has done something positive worthy of News..

But scrutinizing this bill, something is off for me. According to the bill, Herdsmen are still allowed to freely herd their Cattle around the State between the hours of 7a.m and 6p.m, but are not allowed to graze on any field that isn't government approved..

Its still a halfassed measure..


Outright banning of Cattle Herding is the way forward in 2016..

I have not seen Abokees herding Nama in all the European and American Countries I have visited so why should our own be different?

MadCow1:
FINALLY!!!


Ekiti has done something positive worthy of News..

But scrutinizing this bill, something is off for me. According to the bill, Herdsmen are still allowed to freely herd their Cattle around the State between the hours of 7a.m and 6p.m, but are not allowed to graze on any field that isn't government approved..

Its still a halfassed measure..


Outright banning of Cattle Herding is the way forward in 2016..

I have not seen Abokees herding Nama in all the European and American Countries I have visited so why should our own be different?

WinningSun:
the herdmen may not afford the cost of transporting cattle from one location to another closer location. hence 6p.m. but grazing on property that is not yours has been banned.

Ohammadike:
I hope Enugu governor is watching the action governor dealing with the murderous Fulani herdsmen


All hail fayose

MadCow1:
We are trying to stop the outright movement of cattle (Herding) by walking them from one place to another.

Those Herdsmen don't own the cattle they herd. The actual Owners can afford to go pay for a patch of land somewhere to graze their cattle on.

Like I said, its a halfassed measure and there is still more work to do. These Cattle have been known to cause accidents and even disrupt vehicular movement every now and again. Speaking from a health perspective, herding the way we do can't be a particularly safe practice as a disease like the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as "mad cow disease" can be easily spread from place to place making it difficult to contain if it breaks out.

If the bill is eventually accented to by the governor, it will now become a crime for any cattle, sheep and goat to graze on undesignated land for ranches in Ekiti.

“The Governor shall by an order designates land in each of 16 Local Government Areas in the state in respect of which Cattle or Ruminants may be permitted to graze.

The rest are,” No person shall cause or permit any cow, oxen, sheep as well as goat under his or her control to graze on any land in which the Governor has not designated as ranches” among others.

“No cattle or other ruminants shall by any means move in the night, movement shall be between 7 a.m and 6p.m”

francisbiz:
Ugwuanyi where are you!
This present crop of Igbo rulers are sell-outs, they are national pretenders.

Realdeals:
Will the law also applied to those goats and sheep reared in the villages?

tomakint:
As much as I like this move by the Ekiti State House of Assembly, I wish to tag it a belated one however not too late. This is how responsive government shows interest in the security of her citizens. Enugu State government should have embarked on this rather than the Governor resorting to a direction less praying crusade in grim situation that requires frontal and immediate resolution with brutal consequences for those wasters. A stupid, timid governor like the Enugu State one deserves to be impeached for "sleeping in broad daylight" in the face of stark realities from the advancing Fulani Herdsmen bastards.

I think the Ekiti lawmakers should include "shoot at sight" to those Herdsmen roaming after 6 pm because these herdsmen are strategists who should not be taken lightly. A Southern Kaduna indigene will understand me better.

MadCow1:
FINALLY!!!


Ekiti has done something positive worthy of News..

But scrutinizing this bill, something is off for me. According to the bill, Herdsmen are still allowed to freely herd their Cattle around the State between the hours of 7a.m and 6p.m, but are not allowed to graze on any field that isn't government approved..

Its still a halfassed measure..


Outright banning of Cattle Herding is the way forward in 2016..

I have not seen Abokees herding Nama in all the European and American Countries I have visited so why should our own be different?

smellingmenses:
Welcome development

Ohammadike:
http://m.guardian.ng/news/ekiti-assembly-passes-bill-to-ban-free-grazing/?

Ohammadike:
http://m.guardian.ng/news/ekiti-assembly-passes-bill-to-ban-free-grazing/?

Originalsly:
If banning cattle herding outright how do you suggest the cattle be fed?.....and reach to market? ...and do you really believe we should follow the American way of raising cattle? @topic... this is a very good move... not only to avoid clashes between the herdsmen and farmers... but to get the herdsmen to learn how to manage their cattle on less land.

MadCow1:
Good question..

Like I told someone, if tomatoes and onions and carrots that are farmed mostly in the North somehow reaches the most remote of Villages in the South, East and West of Nigeria, then Beef will also get there even without herding. I also learnt that these Herdsmen don't sell the cattle they herd.. I gathered the Cattles are being herded in search of food for the actual owners.

Trust me when I say vanning herding will not affect beef supply.