Fayose inaugurates marshals to enforce anti-grazing law

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose on Thursday inaugurated the Ekiti Grazing Enforcement Marshals to enforce the anti-grazing law earlier passed by the State.

Fayose had signed a grazing law entitled, “Prohibition of Cattle and Other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti, 2016″ on August 29.

The governor said no set of people had the right to take away the source of livelihood of others.

‎”We have a right to life and to survive and holding things for our survival especially peasant farmers, whose means of livelihood are taken away by cattle feeding on their crops.‎ If a man is helpless and is depending on peasant farming and the gains of the farming are taken away in a jiffy, that is condemnable.‎

“I’m going to stand in the gap to bring to a permanent end, the situation whereby some people take away the means of livelihood of others.

“It is only when you have peace that your business can be peaceful. Police can only do a bit if they have information.

“We have taken it upon ourselves to champion this course of grazing control because no responsible leader will sit back and watch when his people are being killed, their wives and daughters being raped and their sources of livelihood being destroyed under the guise of cattle rearing.

“Some people go as far as grazing in the night when farmers are no longer in their farms.‎ Any cattle found grazing after the time stipulated by the law will be confiscated by the government. Such cattle will be slaughtered on the spot ‎and shared to people as part of our Stomach Infrastructure programme,” he said.

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