Don’t export banditry to South, Akeredolu replies El-Rufai

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Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has urged his Kaduna State counterpart

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The governor, in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure, yesterday, by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Donald Ojogo, said the comments of the Kaduna governor on anti-grazing laws not being implementable was unfortunate.

Akeredolu implored his Kaduna counterpart not to externalise banditry, declaring, without mincing words, that the anti-grazing law would be vehemently implemented to protect the people of the South, especially in Ondo State. According to him, “it must, however, be noted that the anti-grazing law, especially in Ondo State, has come to stay. It shall be zealously guarded and conscionably deployed to protect all residents of the state, notwithstanding their ethnic and religious biases. Those who have nothing evil to perpetrate have nothing to fear as regards the law.”At the moment, the ban is in place in Ebonyi, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Delta, Akwa Ibom and Osun states.

On anti-open grazing law, the governor said: “Is it working? I think the question is whether it is working or not. I will tell you that we have done something different; we are not going with the crowd on the anti-open grazing law. If you sign the anti-open grazing law and the law is not working, is it worth it?

THE Osun State government, yesterday, warned Fulani herdsmen against violating the new anti-open grazing law. Speaking at a stakeholder meeting with Fulani leaders and herdsmen in the 30 local councils of the state, in Osogbo, the Special Adviser to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola on Civic Engagement, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, enjoined them to obey the law for the harmonious relationship to continue.

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