— 22nd November 2017
If reports of the three major Socio cultural groups in the
state, including the Mdzough U Tiv, ldoma National Forum and Omi
Ny’lgede of Benue State on the implementation of the Open Grazing
Prohibition law is anything to go by, the Nigerian Army may have decided
to assist in maintaining law and order with an assurance to deploy its
personnel to the state to protect the lives and property of the people
against any resistance to the law by suspected militant herdsmen.
The groups claimed Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur
Buratai, has assured to the deployment of soldiers to assist civil
police in keeping the peace in the state.
The promise came following the alarm raised by the
leadership of the three major Socio cultural groups in the state,
including the Mdzough U Tiv, ldoma National Forum and Omi Ny’lgede over
alleged threat by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore to invade the state with
herds of cattle to resist the newly enacted law in the state.
Speaking, on Tuesday, on behalf of the three
socio-cultural groups, President General of the Mdzough U Tiv, Chief
Edward Ujege said the delegation, through its advocacy had been able to
obtain a pledge from the Army chief that troops would be on standby to
assist the police in case of an invasion.
Ujege, in a chat with newsmen at the end of the groups’
second leg advocacy visits across the country, said the leaders had also
written the leadership of the Nigeria Police, the Department of State
Services (DSS), the Nigerian Navy and Nigeria Air Force, seeking their
support for the successful implementation of the grazing law.
Chief Ujege explained that the ethnic leaders had also
petitioned the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate
President over the matter, to draw their attention to the issue and also
solicit their support for the smooth implementation of the law.
Ujege, who noted that the move had started to yield
results, explained that the proactive action taken by our socio-cultural
organisations has also made the Nasarawa State Government to take
precautionary measures to hinder the herdsmen/militia from using the
state as launching pad to invade Benue State.
“The responses to our advocacy have been very encouraging
with about seven states now contemplating the passage and domestication
of similar law in their states, we therefore commend Governor Samuel
Ortom for setting a revolution that would change livestock breeding and
animal husbandry in Nigeria.”
He therefore appealed to all Benue indigenes to rally
round the Governor and give him all the support he requires to make the
mission and all his other programmes successful.
GRAZING BILL: NIGERIA ARMY ASSURES SAFTEY IN BENUE STATE.
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